Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-07-27
From Washington.

shall cover all slaughterlng, pacing,
meat canning, sailing, rendering or sim
liar establishments whose meats or meat
products, in whole or in part, enter 'u'
to interstate or foreign commerce, I'll less
exempted from inspection by the Secre-
tary of Agriculture. The sanitation reg
ulations require the establishments In
which animals are slaughtered, or meats
and meat food products are prepared,
cured, packed, stored or handled to be
suitably lighted and ventilated and to be
maintained in sanitary condition. All
work in such establishments must be
performed in a clearly and sanitary
manner. Managers OF establishments
will not be permitted to employ any per-
son affected with tuberculosis 10 any OF
the departments where carcasses are
dressed, meats handled or meat TODD
products prepared. The provision re-
lating to dyes, chemicals and perserVa-
tives is stringent Special provision is
made for the destruction for food pur-
poses of all carcasses and parts of car
cases and meat food products which,
under inspection, prove to be unclean,
unsound or otherwise unfit for human
food. Running through the regulations
is carefully prepared scheme which
will efectuslly prevent the entrance In
TO sausage, curing, canning and other
cbopped meat establishment OF any car
cases which we're not inspected and
passed by federal inspectors at the time
OF slaughter.
Action was begun this morning IN the
local police court by the government OF
the United States against alleged viola
tors of the federal eight-hour law. In
formations were fled charging the Dis
trict Construction Company with working
its men on the new Connecticut Avenue
million and.a half dollar bridge longer
than the permitted eight hours, and the
PENNSYLVANIA Construction Company,
which is building the Piuey Branch
bridge. with the same oflense. sum
monses were Issued for wofkmen OF both
concerns who have testified before the
District Attorney that they had worked
more than ten hours a day on these
structures. The informatiOns were filed
by Assistant District attorney Easily
Smith. These prosecutions are the first
to be brought by the government. If
successfully conducted, they will be
followed by similar proceedings In
yarious cities of the country, where gov
ernmeut contractors are reported ID have
ignored the law. The penalty is 81 900
fine for each conviction.
The bureau of insular affairs of the
War Department. announces that the
81, 500, 600 Philippine temporary certih-
Gates of Indebtedness maturing septem.
Der lst will be retired by the issue Of
81 900, 900 four per cent. certificates run
ming for one year and the payment OF
the remainder in cash. The new issue OF
certificates are exempt from all taxation.
The Secretary of the Treasury ap-
thorizes the statement that they will be
accepted at par as security fer public de-
posils should further deposits be made.
Bids will be received q. the bureau of
insular affairs until 2 p. M, August 2S,
1906. 1t is expected that the issue an
nounced will sell above par.
The lard Office today received a tcle-
gram from Fargo, n. D., announcing
that the Huidekeper brothers, owners
of the Little Missouri Horse Co., and
w. A. Clark, their manager had plead
ed guilty to the illegal fencing in of &c.
900 acres of government lands. The case
has been fought in the courts for five
years, ahi The outcome is particularly
gratifying to the government. Sentence
will be pronounced later 10 the day, so-
cofdiaS to the telegram.
A brief and argument in support of
the application for reheArihe tie case OF
Joseph Ral phi Burton, late Senator from
Kansas. under prison sentence for alleged
abuse of mis- senatorial prerogatiyes, has
been filed in the Office Of The CLERK OF
the Supreme Court of the United States
by Mr.. Burton's attorneys The argu
meut js directed in the main to two
points-th6t the court erred in not hold
ing as unconstitutional Section 1882 un
der which Mr.. Burton was convicted
anti that the defendant was improperly
tried on the charge of receiving and
agreeing to receive compensation for SER
vices rendered the RisltO Company IN
connection with a fraud order pending
Ia TIE P0stotice Department.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
today issued It's first general order to
the railroads of the country growing ont
of the recent enactment Of the Hepburn
railroad rate law. In circular letter
Chairman Knapp calls attention tn sec
ton of the act Rhich provides that all
railroad schedules shall be Kept open to
public inspection and which authorizes
The commission to determine and pre-
serbs lie form 10 which these schedules
shall be prepared and arranged.
A cablegram was recsiye9 by the Stale
Department this morning from United
states Minister Merry, who is now nj
Acsjutls, stating that tho disarmament
of the Guatemalan aud Sslvadorean
troops would be completed by tomorrow.
The U. 5. gunboat Marblehead has
been ordered to leave the scene OF the
recent Central American war and return
to Panama.
The State Department gas informed
today by cable from the United Ststes
Legation 10 Havana that an uncondl-
lional pardon was granted yesterday by
the Cuban government to Miss Mile
Brown and her two associates who we're
arrested in the Isle of Pines for violating