The National tribune., 1906-06-21

Committees .M the House. or of your
knowledge iosthe English language, ETC.,
1t is not NECESSARY to make any answer.
You state that II 1 or my advisers will
point out specifically wherein the biil
fails to accomplish my purpose, 1T will
be promptly femed;ed.' / am happy to
tell you that IL have to-day seen men,
ber of your Committee, Mr.. Adams see
ing him by request OF the Speaker. and
l went over with him. together with Mr..
McCabe arfdsMr. Reynolds. the various
points in which the bill as you have re-
ported 1t Jfails to accomplish our pur-
pose. and made the specific recommen-
dation necessary in each case to remedy
the failure; and In each case Mr.. Adams
stated that he personally would accept
the alterations we proposed. He agrees
with me that the cOurt-review PROPOSE
ton should be excluded. He agrees as
to the dozen other changes which we
think should be made.
"If these changes which Mr.. Adams
says he thinks should be adopted are
adopted, your amendment will become
as good as the Beveridge amendment
in Mr.. McCabe's opinion. somewhat bet
ter than the Beveridge amendment is If
unchanged. l care not a whit for the
language of the amendment. what L
am concerned with is to have 1t accom-
plish the object I have In view. namely.
a thorough and rigid. and not sham,
inspection. In my Judgment the amend
ment as reported by you fails to accom-
plish this object; whereas the Bever-
idge amendment. and the House amend
ment with the changes which Mr. Ad-
ans has stated he will gladly accept,
both substantially accomplish the pur-
pose / have in view. L will accordingly
gladly accept either. or accept any al
teration of either or of both, which VIII
accomplish this end.
Yours truly,
Theodore Roosevelt.
''Hon James w. Wadsworth. Chairman
Committee on Agriculture
The President seems to have the ad-
vantage In this last letter in his insist
ence that a special provision for review
by the courts is unnecessary and dan
gercus. AS The National Tribune has
held from the first. specific provision
for court review seems always super
erogatory. An appeal to the courts Is
a matter of indefeasible right to every
American; it goes without saying in all
legislation, and it can never be taken
away from him.
We repeat that all this friction and
bad feeling was absolutely unnecessary
and avoidable, and proper tact and
MANAGEMENT would have secured the
passage of an entirely satisfactory in
spection bill without any disagreeable
show of hot blood.
Representative Wadsworth left for his
home in New York. and further confer
ences with the President were taken up
by Representative Adams, of Wiscon-
sin. This duty probably devolved on
Mr. Adams instead of the members who
ranked him on the committee because
he was the only one that favored con-
cessions, while those who were his sem
iors stood pat upon their own bill. Mr..
Adams went over the bill with the Pres
ident line by. line and noted every OBJ
lection that he had. After most ex-
haustive comparison of views the points
of difference narrowed to only three:
First, the .excision Of the court review
provision,
Second the relnclusion of the provi-
sion for dated labels on canned meats.
Third, a provision making the Secre-
tary of Agriculture the final judge Of
the fitness for consumption of meat pro-
ducts. 4o1osi
Now the heated but wholly unimpor-
tant question is which side has come
down? The partisans of the President
insist that the committee has come up
to his mark. while those of the House
of Representative assert that he has
come down from his perch upon finding
1t untenable and accepted their bill
This is irnmaterial to anybody outside
of the parties to the dispute. since all
that the country wants is a proper bill.
The authorship of the same can be dis
puted over at leisure.
The only real matter of dispute now
is as to who shall pay for the inspection.
Speaker Cannon is quoted as saying that
he was opposed to the creation of
special fund for inspection. but would
willingly see an appropriation made
sufficient to cover the entire cost. If
$2,000,0D0 was not sufficient he would
make 1t s3,000.000, or large enough to
avoid any possible failure. The Presi-
dent is thought to be coming round to
accepting the committees plan of put
ting the cost upon the Government with
the Cowan provision that If the appro-
priation should not prove sufficient the
packers should be assessed to make up
whatever was required. So almost GER
tainly we shall have a bill passed
promptly to relieve the distress occa
stoned by the turmoil. but we reiterate
in closing that the turmoil was almost
wholly unnecessary and the legislation
could have been secured without a deci-
NAL part of the bad feeling and the in
jury to great material interests in the
country.
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