The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-20
TEr MEAT BILL
 TN CONFERENCE Inspection Amendment
 Adopted by House, EXPLAINED BY WADSWoRTH
Says the Committees Alterations
 Are Mostly in Verbiage.
MT. Williams of Mississippi Intects Some Humor Into Debate by Ref erence to trouble Between
 wadsworth and Roosevelt.

appropriation was today adopted Dy the House without division.
 The agricultural appropriation bill was then sent to conference. There was some disagreement over tine se- lection of the minority members of the conference.
 The Speaker first named Messrs. wadsworth (N. Y.), Scott (Kas.), and Lever tS. O. as conferees but with drew them upon a protest by Mir. Will | Hams. the minority leader who object | ed to passing over Messrs. Lamb fVa.) and Bowie (Ala.) Subsequently the | conferees were named being Wads- worth Scott and Lamb.
 Mir. wadsworth of New York today reported to the House the agricultural appropriation bill with the compromise amendment relating to meat inspection. | The bill was referred to the commit | tee of the whole House to De taken up later.
 T move to suspend the rules, dis charge the committee of the whole House on the state of union from the | consideration of the Senate amendment | to the agricultural appropriation bill, disagree to all the amendments ex- cept number 2s (the meat inspection l annendment), to concur in amendment number 2s, with the amendment rec commended by the committee on asrl- culture and ask for a conference with the Senate on the disagreeing votes. Interest was shown from every side of the House today when Mfr. Wadss worth made the above notion
 Mr. williams (Miss.) soughtstc have the time of dehate extended to forty minutes for each side instead of twenty under the rule. Mir. Wadsworth said he regretted he could not comply with the request and the reading of the meat inspection amendment was begun.
 WadawoFth Explains Changes.
 MT. WadswoFth, in explaining ths changes made in the substitute for, the original meat inspection amer 1r- er' said that the changes were n l yerbiage and then took them 80 s7~-- 1 tim. He called attention to th tr5t- nation of the court review ciaiis- tH1 the date of inspection.
 Mir Oln1stead calling attention section of the amendment pro that on and after October 1. 1906, no person. firm or corporation shall trans port or offer for transportation and no carrier of interstate or foreign com merce shall transport or receive for transportation from one State or Ter ritory or the District of Columbia "any carcasses of meat or meat food pro- ducts unless marked inspected and passed" and in another portion of the amendment the provisions of the act re- quiring the inspection shall not apply to animals slaughtered by any farmer on the farm and sold and transported as interstate or foreign commerce." He wanted to know how these two sections harmonised
 Mr. wadsworth replied that the com mon carrier need not inquire. He knows when a farmer gives him a carcass for shipment that the inspec- ton feature of the amendment is waived. MT. wadsworth then face tiously took up small changes in the verbage inadvertently, saying "they amid laughter changing the statement to I've inserted" If 1t soothes the feelings of certain indiyiduals, am perfectly willing that they all shall civil service clause was put in the original House bill, to expedite the work but 1t went out because 1t was not thought necessary.
 Continuing Mr. wadsworth said:
 Unwlse and InJadiciOus.
 The paragraph in the original Sen. ate ate ssmendmsnt made nd:l, the judgmsnt of and final. That clearly was unwtse and injudicious if not unconstitutional, and the committee in order. to make matters entirely fair and just. inserted in the bill a clause giving the right to the courts. which the abIest lawyers on the floor claimed is granted under the constitution and the existing gen. eral laws. Therefore I say the clause was entirely eliminated and the pack CTS and slaughterers in Chicago. if they consider any of the rights of their property are injured in any way by the operations of this law can invoke the Jurisdiction of 6 United States judge in Chicago. and I know of no difference between the honesty and integrity of a United States judge in St. Louis. Kansas City, Fort Worth, St. JoseIh or any other place where these slaughtering and canning estab- lishments are located" (Applause.)
 "In conclusion. I want to assure the House on behalf of the committee on agriculture that the provisions of this bill insure to the public a rigid meat and food Inspection (Applause)
 MT. Lamb. Va.) the ranking mem
 Der of the minority on the committee
 insisted that the bill was defective in
 that the government was obliged to
 pay the cost of inspection, It was his
 opinion that the cost should be borne by the packers.
 Mir. Williams. (Miss) enlivened the debate by calling attention to the dif- ferences of opinion between two sons
 Wadsworth) Now Is the winter of | our dIscontent made glorious summer by th!s son of New York" said Mir.
 Williams, which caught the humor of ] the House.
 Tn A semi-humorous vein Mir. Will | jams continued:
 We must under the rules of the House vote this proposed legislation l just as 1t comes to us, nursed by the | speaker and the President and approv- | ed of by the committee because the i committee on agriculture could not | well do anything except approve sf- ter these two great ruling authorities ] had snoken; we must vote it up or | down.
 ThunderInE Not Followed Up. ''There has been laundering at the other end of the line that was not fol- lowed up. but we must remember, MT. Speaker. you anal. even you much more
 than I. that men of iron like other
 products of iron are subject to expan-
 sion and contraction by the effect of the weather (Applause and laughter
 As a broad general principle. Mir
 Speaker, all sanitary legislation ought