The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-06-14
REPORT ON SMOOT
SHOWS SENATE
HYPOCRISY
MUCH WAS MADE OF ENDOW.
MENT OATH WHICH DIS
QUALITIES HIM.
TILT OVER MEAT BILL
House Committee Agrees That Gov.
ernment Should Deffay the Cost
of Inspection With Attached
Labels to Products.

! Washington, D. c., June 13.-The
majority report against Smeot Of the
committee, published Tuesday, reeites
! the reasons against his being per-
mitted to take his seat Much Is made
of his "endowment oath, which is sup
posed to disqualify him from serving
his country by reason of superior OBJ
| Hgaticn to serve the Mormon church.
| There are many members of this
body who have also taken-if not an
oath, at leas, a secret promise to
serve, not he state, but the corporate
interests that are preying upon it,
Whatever oath Smo't may have
taken, the utmost injury that could re
sui frcm it to the community would
be less than nothing in comparison
with the injury which the corporation
Senators perpetrate many times dur
ing every session of congress. No
gain would be derived from his eX-
chlsion. but only the harm that re
suits from deck & ourselves in the
robes of false vir ue
First TIKI Over Meat Bill,
Various reports are heard of the do
lings of the agricultural committee
with the meat bill An effort Is being
made to compromise between the
| packers and he people. So far as pos
slble, the seeming ef the Eeveridge
amendment is to be sustained, while
1.-THE spirit OF il is to be Ell ufinate,i
| OF course. the subject has not yet
| formally come up in congress. This
afternoon an allusion TO II slipped
lunpremeditatedly (as il seemed) out
of the elias ic lips of Mr.. Lodge of Mas
sachusetts, and instantly there was
the beginning of conilagration
which might have consumed the capt.
lol. had not Senator Patterson diverted
the flames, and aver;ed the peril for
the time being. But enough was said
to- ghow us what may be expected
when the matter really gets TO the
center Of he stage.
Lodge was talking about conveying
cattle by freight; should they be kept
thirty-six hours in transit without in
PERMISSION, as the new amcldmenl
provides. or only twenty-eight? The
cnator frcm Minnesota had contend.
cd that enlightened self interest as
well as human ty, would prompt the
ca tlemcn TO ask for the most favor
able condit o1s for their property;
and the cattlcmen wanted thirty-siX
hours.
Lodge Flags Packers.
"Enlighte7ed self interest is a delu-
sion and q mare" cried Lodge. sudden
ly becoming arsrnsed. Doe enlight-
ened sclf.iHtcersl prevent a man from
healing his wife? And what # the en-
lightered selrinlerest Of The Chicago
packers. who. with incredible stupid
Iity. are fighting the only legislation
that can possibly save them from de-
struction?'
Then Senator Hopkins OF Illinois.
he confidential and ngenial friend
and champion fthc Chicago hank
wrecker. Walsh, spraug upon his desk
aad cried ont that % per cent OF the
Chicago product was admittedly per
feet: that the packers were not fight
ing irspection-lhey were clamoring
for g.. that the wild statements circu.
lated by a debased press were respon-
sible for all the mischief: that tine
epidemic of hy-teria that Was spread
ing ever he world took no note Of
facts.
But Il was no use. Lodge reiterated
his remarks. and the fat would have
been in the fire IN another minute
but for Patterson.