Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-06-12
Responsibility Of Present Agitation
Charged to Packers-House Com
mittee Continues Meat Inspection
Strings.

IN state OF uncertainty. want to
suggest that the committee get through
with the matter as soon as possible.
Every day this thing is continued the
stockman is losing money"
lis not the packer entirely respon-
sible for this condition." asked Repre-
sentative Haugen Qa.), and, contin-
uing, he said: II believe he is. Last
week In my office saw number of
kilograms from stock yards banks to
banks In my section Of the country,
asking them to telegraph Immediately
all of their members of congress.
believe they are responsible for the
agitation"
Representative Davis (Minn.) read a
telegram from the South st. Paul live
stock exchange and live stock board,
voicing unalterable opposition to hav-
Ing expense placed on the packers be-
cause 1t would inevitably come out OF
the stock raisers.
Mr.. Wilson represented the packers,
corroborated this conclusion.
Stock Raisers Would Stand Expense.
S. H. Cowan, of Fort Worth, Tex,
attorney for the Texas Cattle Raisers'
association, was next heard. He de-
tailed the extent of the Texas cattle
industry. Mr. Cowan said while the
raisers had their differences with the
packers and had not got the best of
them yet, in this question the interest
of the raisers and packers was iden-
teal. If there was an additional ex-
pense someone would have to pay It.,
and the man who can name the price
of the thing he sells can put the addi-
ttonal expense where he pleases The
stock men believe the packers could
put this expense on the stock raisers
He read telegram from John T..
Lyle. president of the Cattle Raisers'
association. Of Texas, which read:
Present agitation has seriously de-
pressed cattle business. Universal i'm
preston that cattle values will suffer
from "a to IS per head decline"
Another from M. o. Mckenzie, man
ager Of the second largest cattle ranch
in America, in Colorado, estimated by
wire that by fall the price would be
81 per 100 pounds less.
Asked by Representative Adams
(Wis.) II the packers did not dx the
price paid for cattle, Mr.. Cowan said
this was an impossibility under or
binary conditions. Neither could the
cattle raisers by combination fix the
price. The reason was that when cat
tie got into condition they must be
sold.
Representative Haugen (Ia.) asked
Mr. Cowan II he had read the presi-
dents message which estimated the
cost OF inspection at eight cents a
head.
He had, he said. "But we do not
want to pay it-that's our reason" re-
piled Mr.. Cowan. "But rather than do
without the law we would be glad to
levy the cost on the CATTLE" he con-
tinued.
Want Government to Pay.
Mr.. Haugen said every member Of
the committee 80 far as he knew was
In favor of the government paying the
cost. This cost has been estimated
from 100000 to $4,000, 900 annually,
and congress, he said, at most would
probably not appropriate more than
$4,000, 10000. In view Of this he believed
1t might be better to assess the cost
on the packers.
Mr.. Cowan took issue with the posi-
ton OF Representative Crumpacker
that the federal government had no
right to interfere with the police pow
ers OF the states by making sanitary
regulations. Mr.. Cowan would have
the law provide that no meat shall be
allowed to enter into interstate COM
merce unless It bears the label Of in
spection, and this label shall not be
given unless the product IL put up in
accordance with sanitary regulations
prescribed by the secretary of agricul-
ture.
Several members OF the committee
at once assented that such a provision
would be good law.
Congress Wants All Information.
Representative Fulkerson, of Mis-
souri,, has introduced resolution call
Ing on the president and the secretary
OF agriculture to Immediately make
public any and all information that
may secure from the great army of
meat inspectors employed by the gov
eminent" or from any other source
that will tend to credit or discredit
the product Of any plant where meat
products are prepared. The resolution
also calls upon the secretary of agri-
culture to Immediately give to the pub
lie his opinion Of the sanitary condi-
ton Of the plants and the healthfulness
of the products coming from the va
Iious plants.
Girl to Be Liberated.
New York, June s.-Decision was
reached at the Office OF the district
attorney Thursday to discharge 10.
sephine Terranova from custody on
Monday. She will not be held for trial
on charge Of killing her uncle,
Gaetano Reggie. Last Friday jury
acquitted her Of the charge Of killing
her aunt. Mrs. Concetta Reggie.