Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-06-07
PRESIDENT NOT TO Be
lEN|ENT W|THPACKERS
Insists That Beverage Bill
Must Pass at This
Session.
REAL PROTECTION POLICY
II Conserves the Health of the Meat
Eaters at Home as Well as Abroad
-Neili Report Held Up
Temporarily.

Washington. May 30.-Serator Cul-
lom, Speaker Cannon. Representative
Loriner and Representative Madden,
all of Illinois. called at :he White House
IN behalf of the Chicago packers. The
packing interests insist that the Bev-
eridge bill is too stringen and should
be modified in some of its provisions.
The president not only refused to
make the concessions, but insisted upon
the passage of the Beveridse bin at
this session of congress. The Illinois
senators and representatives, are un-
willing to go or recor as opposing the
inspection of the packing house prod
ucts, but felt that it was their duty
TO present the wishes of constituents
who represent such tremendous bust
ness interests. senator Beveridge gave
an interview after the visit of the Hi
nois delegation To the White House,
further urging the necessity for the
passage of the bill. Senator Beveridge
asserted With some show of heat thai
it was just as essential to protect
Americans from impure foods as to
protect the foreign trade OF the pack
orS.
Won't Tell About Ncill Report.
Nobody knows who is willing to tell
JtSt now fflli4It'lN tllt .NtIlI report
goes into the sanitary conditions of
the Chicago packing houses. The pres
ident has not given a binding promise
to keep this report from the public.
All that h has told many of the del
egations which have called on him in
the interests of the cattlemen and pack
crS is that a correction of abuses may
render it unnecessary TO publish the re-
lc.t. The only senator who is posi-
lively known to be in possession of the
essential facts in the report is Du-
hois. of Idaho. and it is extremely sig
niticant that Dubois first became in
terestrd in the case through the urgent
representations of the cattle interests.
h president saw that the Idaho SEN
ator was honestly trying to protect in
tereStS of the cattlemen and with char
aotcristic candor told him just why he
thought il imperative to secure the pas
sage of the Reveridge bill. From the
nc the Idaho senator was ac-
cuainted with the facts he became most
insistent on the passage of the bill.
When Informed that a point of order
might be raised against the bill on the
ground that it WAS new legislation. he
threatened to make Il speech and inti-
mated that HI he would tell the
country would be backed by Il message
from the president.
To Protect Americans, Too.
\ facts which have developed have
caused public men TO hin more deeply
on the subject of American trade than
Yer before. 1t was because of the
strict sanitary regulations of Germany
that American meats We're first OBJ
jected to in that country and it was to
meet the foreign conditions thai the
government inspection was provided.
The Investigations of the agricultural
department have shown that 1T was
Imperative to protect Americans
against the cupidity of American
tradesmen of all kinds and recent revel-
atoms have brought acutely to the
front the necessity for the most string
ent regulations of all food products.
There is no disposition to impose ex-
cessive burdens on the packers. but the
government is desperately in earnest in
the matter and it will not stop r-itil
it has provided regulations which mako
it absolutely certain that Ar,eric.r
consumers of American products ava
not imposed upon. The government
also takes the position that it will he
Infinitely better for the cattle interests
ana the packing interests as Well 40
for L , whole world to understand tb,t
only pure iood products can come from,
American houses.
The president has sent copies of the
Neill lcnort to the managers of all
packing houses and asked them To
point out amy miSStatenlentS.