The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-06-22
Committee.

Washington, June 81 move TO
suspend the rules, discharge the COM
mittee of the whole house on the state
of union from the consideration Of the
senate amendments to the agricultural
appropriation bill, disagree to all the
amendments except No. 20 (the meat
ms, ectiOn amendment), to concur in
amendment No. 20 with the amend
ment recommended by the committee
on agriculture, and ask for q confer
ence with the senate on the disagree
ing votes"
Interest was shown in every part OF
the house today when Mr.. Wa1sworth
made the above notion.
The reading of the meat inspection
amendment was begun, nearly every
member present following the read
ing. with bill in hand.
Mr.. WadswOrth in explaining the
changes made in the substitute, said
that The changes were mostly in vcr-
biage and then took them UP seriatim.
He called attention to the elimination
of the court review clause, and date
Of inspection.
Mr.. WadswOrth hen facetiously
took up small changes i'm the verbiage,
inadvertently saying they inserted' in
n OF two cases, but amid laughter
changing the statement to eve in
serted. eff it sOOthes the feelings Of
certain individuals l am perfectly will
ing that they shall all go in" said he.
He explained that the civil service
clause was put in in the original house
mill To nvnn6ita thu uoOrD HIT ~ uor+
out because it was not thought neces-
Sary. Continuing, Mr.. Wadsworth
said:
THE paragraph in the original SEN
ate amendment made the judgment of
the secretary of agriculture mandatory
n final. That clearly was unwise
n injudicious if not unconstitutional,
n the committee, in order to make
matters entirely fair and just, inserted
in the bill a clause giving the right 10
the courts, which the ablest lawyers On
the floor claimed is granted under the
constitution and the existing general
laws. Therefore, I say, the clause was
eliminated and the packers and slaugh-
terers in Chicago, if they consider any
of the rights of their property are in
jured in any way by the operations of
this law, car invoke the jurisdiction
of a United States judge in Chicago,
and l knOW of no difference between
the honesty and integrity of a United
States judge in st. Louis, Kansas City,
Fort Worth, st. Joe or any other place
where these slaughtering and canning
establishments are located. CAP
plause).
In conclusion, l want to assure the
fhOIISo on hoho1f of tho com if fQ0 on
agriculture that the provisions of this
bill will insure the public a rigid meat
and food inspection law" (A~pplausej.
Mr.. Lamb, of Virginia, the ranking
member of the minority on the agrl-
cultural committee, insisted that the
bill was defective in that the govern
ment was obliged to pay the cos- OF
inspection. 1t was his opinion that
the cos should be borne by the pack
ers.
Mr.. Williams, of Mississippi, enliv-
ened the debate by calling attention to
the differences of opinion between
two sons of New York. (The presi-
dent and Mr.. Wadsworth). Nov is
the winter of our discomfort been made
a glorious summer by this son of New
York" said Mr.. Williams, which
caught the humor of the house.
In a semi-humorous vein Mr.. VIII
liams continued:
I'VE must, under the rules of the
house, vote this proposed legislation up
just as it comes to us nursed by the
speaker and the president, and approx
ed of by the committee, because the
committee on agriculture could not
well do anything except approve at
ter these two great ruling authorities
had spoken; we must vote it up or
vote it down. There has been some
laundering in the index at the other
end of the line that was not followed
up, but we must remember, Mr.. Speak
er, you and /, even you much more
than I, that men of iron, like other
products of iron, are subject to ex-
pansion and contraction by the effect
of the weather. applause and laugh
teri. AS a broad general principle,
Mn. Speaker, all sanitary legislation
ought to be paid for by the public. The
reason for that rule is that nobody is
as a rule responsible for unsanitary
conditions.
Now, I wish to add this: There has
been some muck raking that has been
going ON in connection with this mat
ter, and I want to pay my individual
tribute to a member of this house. /
think that in this particular legislation
he has been mistaken, especially upon
the point of not making the evil doors,
pay for curing the evil condition
Brought about by their own action.
There has been some muck raking in