Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-06-17
Executive Says it is Unnecessary and
Makes Law Cumbersome.
DOZEN ALTERATIONS ARE PROPOSED
These Will Make House Provision as Good
as One from Senate.
ADAMS WILL APPROVE SUGGESTIONS
Wisconsin Representative ON Agricul-
turaI Committee of House willing
to Accept Changes Proposed
at the white House.


! WASHINGTON, June Is. - President
Roosevelt has added another chapter TO
the literature of the meat inspection con-
/ troversy. 1t was not through any desire
of his that the correspondence between
! himself and Representative Wadsworth,
chairman OF the House Committee on Az.
riculture, was published I'm it's entirety In
asmuch, however, as Chairman Wadsworth
deemed 1t desirable that the letter should
| be published and gave them to the public,
! the president regards It as proper to COM
plete the correspondence thus far ex-
changed by the publication of his reply
to Mr.. Wadsworths letter
| In his letter. the president while ad-
mitting his error in stating that the
house substitute contained no provision
for the making of inspections of packing
houses at all hours of the day or light.
| says the substitute still is Inadequate to
meet the requirements of the situation.
Adams VIII Alter Bill.
| The president says that after a confer
ence with Representative Adams of Wis
consin, member of the Agriculture COM
| mittee, he is convinced Mr. Adams will
| accept the suggestions made to him re-
garding the bill. He says that Mr.. Adams,
in each case stated that he personally
would accept the alterations proposed.
! These changes include the elimination of
the court review proposition and a dozen
other alterations.
In the opinion Of the president the suR-
gested changes would make the House
subcommittee amendment "as good as the
| Beveridge amendment" The president
adds that he Is not concerned about the
language of the amendment but with the
accomplishment of the object in view,
with thorough and rigid. and not
! sham inspection"
Text of Letter.
Following is the text or the president9
letter to Chairman Wadsworth:
THE WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON
| ID. C., June l5, 1s06--My Dear Mr. Wads-
worth; In the first place | wish promptly
letter In which you are In the main right
was IN error IN the statement which
tthene was no provision for making the
plants accessible al all hours to the in
spectors. The provision was put In in an
other place; but It is not as good as the
original provision. The court provision Is
the one to which most object, although
ject; It is one of many. AS regards this,
wish to repeat that II deliberately designed
to prevent the remedying of the evils COM
plalned of, this is the exact provision
which the friends of the packers and the
packers themselves would have provided
provision is needed. Why have you not
put such a provision in the postoffice law
1t affects fraudulent entries of homesteads,
etc? Congress cannot take away the con-
Stisutional ton 6ight OF 1.-the the packers or OF any
But such a provision as that under con-
sideration does not represent a desire to
secure the constitutional rights OF any
man. 1t represents, doubtless, in some
cases. an honest though wholly mistaken
conviction; In other cases it represents a
deliberate purpose TO interfere with ef-
fective legislation by trying to provide
that the courts shall in reality do admin
first to assert their inability to perform.
Limit Power of OmCerA.
II the bill, as you reported it from the
committee, were enacted into law, you
would have the functions OF the secretary
be purely ministerial; and when declared
a given slaughter house unsanitary, or
given product unwholesome, acting on the
Judgment of the government experts, you
would put on the Judge who had no
o te o moi tbs san sne
retary right, In Chicago for instance,
you would make any Judge whom the pack
perts of the Department Of Agriculture,
The man 70 decide on any question
Thought it S worth While While to dispute. You
may possibly remember the recent judicial
decision in Chicago In which the packers
were concerned L wish 10 repeat tnat this
provision Is, in my judgment, one which, II
enacted into law, will nullify the major
Z part or the good which can be expected
| from the enactment Of this law. You as
sert that the packers insist upon having
! rigid Inspection law passed. # they
sincerely desire rigid inspection law
they will insist upon this provision being
taken out Leaving II In IS Incompatible
with securing a properly efficient law.
. TO so much Of your letter as speaks of
, my having made innuendos about a COM
mttee OF the house or OF your knowledge
: of the English language etc, Il IS not
> necessary TO make any answer. You state
that II / or my advisers will point out
specifically wherein the Dill fails TO accom-
!
/ remedied" am happy 60 tell yoH that
haye toSay seen an sss,ns eI,qoe & ~ your To0Ss Tom
D of the speaker. and l went over with him
the ground, with Mr.. McCabe and MT.
bill as you have reported It. fails TO ac-
cOmplsh our purpose, and mace the spe-
10 remedy the failure; and In each case
MI Adams stated that he personally
! would accept the alterations We proposed.
He agrees with me that the court review
proposition should be excluded. He agrees
as to the dozen other changes which we
think should be made. II these changes.
D be adopted, are adopted, your amendment
! win become as good as as the Beveridge
e somewhat better than tile Beverldge
E amendment is, unchanged.
| care not a whit for the language Of the
: amendment. What l am concerned about
4 Is to have Il accomplish the object l have
1 in view, namely, thorough and rigid, and
, not a sham. inspection. In my judgment
3 the amendment as reported by You fails
? to accomplish this object, whereas the Bev-
4 eridge amendment and the house amend
. ment, with the changes which Mr. Adams
has stated he will gladly accept, both sub
view. / will accordingly gladly accept
, / either, OF accept any alteration OF either or
I / OF both, which will accomplish this end
Your truly. THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
/ Hon. James WadswOrth Chairman Com
mittee on Agriculture.
Effort 10 Get Together.
An EFFORT Is to be made today by men,
bers OF the house committee on agrlcul-
ture who signed the majority report for
the house substitute for the Beveridgs
: meat inspection amendment TO make GER
tain notifications in the substitute in
. tended 10 meet the objections Of President
: Roosevelt TO that measure.
u While Representative Adams does not
q feel az liberty to make public the sugges-