The Mena weekly star., 1906-06-21
PRESIDENT D|yAPPROVEy
Not Pleased with the House Substi- tute for the Beveridge Meat
 Inspection Bill.
ANOTHER LETTER TO MR. WADSw0hIH
MT. Roosevelt Declares that Almost Every Change Proposed is for the Worse and That if Enacted into Law Would Mini mize the Chance of Rooting Out Evils in Packing Business.

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 in Packing Business.
 Washington, June 16-A careful ex- animation of the substitute proposed by the committee on agriculture of the house for the meat inspection amend ment of Senator Beveridge to the agri- cultural appropriation bill was made Thursday afternoon by President Roosevelt. The president. it can be said, is opposed to the house substitute in it's entirety. He may not go so far as to veto the bill, but he has made it clear that he does not deem tha house provision at all adequate.
 Representative Wadsworth of New York. chairman of the house commit tee on agriculture, conferred with the president and the president told him frankly that he could not approve the house provision. The president pointed out that the failure of the committee to provide for inspection at all hours. either of the day or night was defect which he could not pass and he urged urgently disapproval also of the court review clause. The pres ident did not lay special stress on the proposition of the committee that the government should pay the expenses of the inspection although he feels that if the government is required to do so the law will be less effective.
 After his conference with Chairman
 isworth, President Roosevelt wrote I letter to him stating his objection in a definite and formal way in order
 at his position might be of record following summary of the letter:
 'In the letter to Mr Wadsworth the president stated that almost every change in the proposed house amend ment was change for the worse as compared with the senate amendment and that no matter how unintention- ally, it was, in the presidents judg- ment, so framed as to minimize the chance of roofing out the evils in the packing business; that the president felt it would doubtless suit these pack CTS who objected to a thoroughgoing inspection but that he also felt it would in the long run be heavy blow to the honest stocl, raiser and the honest packer; that the proposed amendment would gravely hamper the secretary of agriculture in doing the work appointed him to do and would simply defer the day when We could restore the foreign and interstate trade xl. | setf,, ,,1fr. position. The president has explained verbally that he is far less concerned with the question as to whether the packers or the government should pay for the inspection than with certain other features in the bill"
 An informal conference of those members of the house committee on agriculture whose votes authorized the report on the sub-meat inspection bill o which the president objects was begun at il:30 o'clock Friday. No regular meeting of the committee had the presidents objections will first be considerable in detail by the members favoring the substitute in an infor- nal manner before action will be at tempted Minutes of the informal ses- sion will be made by an official sten- ographer.
 Chairman Wadsworth, of the house committee on agriculture says he shall make no statement whatever regard ing the presidents criticism of the meat inspection amendment.
 Other members of the committee who attended the informal conference say that tn committee will stand pat on the substitute.
 After the conference with mem- bers of his committee who voted for the substitute, MT. Wadsworth dis cussed the matter with Speaker Can non
 It is pointed out by Representative Adams (Wis.), Brooks (Colo) and Lorimer CID members of the commit tee that the lack of night inspection to which the president calls attention as being a fault of the substitute, is provided for In two paragraphs of the substitute bill In one place the language is "said inspectors shall have access at all times to every part of said establishment"
 In another, referring to the inspec- tion to be made the language is dur ing the night time as well as during the day time when the slaughtering of said cattle. sheep, swine and goats or the preparation of said food pro- ducts is conducted during the night time"
 Chairman Wadsworth has written a letter to President Roosevelt in reply to that received by him from the White house Thursday night