Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-06-18
Effort to Prevent Express Com
panies From Transporting
Money May Fail
PIES" WIN OUT
Patent Filler Variety Must Not Parade
as Home Made Article - Browns
vile Inquiry Dragging - Contraot
Let for DereIict Destroyer - Wash
ineton News.

Washington, June 1S.-The fight
which the American Bankers asso-
cation is making against the express
companies. to prevent the latter from
doing a banking business, is an old
one.
The first brok,, out during the Span
ish war when the bankers tried TO
compel the express companies to pay
the same war tax on exchange as the
bankers had to pay, but at that time
the express companies were too strong
~ fortified.
Now the bankers are attacking the
express companies thru the Interstate
commerce commission. and hope 10
force them to quit sending money
about the country in competition with
the banks. The grounhof their protest
against the express companies as II Is
understood here, Is that as common
carriers express companies have no
business to be carrying anything out
merchandise.
1t is regarded as somewhat douotrul
whether the banks can make any mead
way in the matter, as the TRANSMISSION
Of money may be held to be one OF the
legitimate functions OF corenon car
rier.
II i, a violation Of the pure food law
for maker of pies to advertise MS
wares as "home made" when as mat
ter of fact the pie filings were made IN
Boston and the work of putting them
into the crusts is done in Washington
or In Minneapolis or in some other
place.
A local concern. 1t was disclosed at
the pie filling hearing, gets its film 8
for home made pies in Boston. me
filings are loaded with benzoate OF So
da or any other preventative that the
manufacturer Of the filling finds cheap
est
Pies are not put up IN labeled pack
ages. wherefore the label section OF the
pure food law does not apply. But pies
are carried around in wagons In WASH
ington. The wagons carry printed
legends claiming that the pies are home
made The customer is deceived into
buying, which in this instance performs
a service similar to the label on the
bottle of catsup. Catsup made In a
factory may not be called home made.
The same rule, 1t is believed, will be
made to apply 10 pies, at least made
here.
The Brownsville inquiry has been
dragging along at the capital, and 1t
cannot be said that there is much more
light on the mysterious event of last
August than there was when the in
quiry first opened. There has been
cloud of witnesses on both sides. and
they have fatty contradicted each 9th
er, even the army officers being di-
vlded as TO the guilt or innocence OF
the men, tho there was more unanim-
ity of opinion among the civilian wit
nesses that the soldiers of the Twenty
fifth were guilty of shooting up the
town.
One of the most entertaining wit
nesses of the whole hearing was on this
week He was Gen. Andrew S. Burt,
retired, who had been for ten years
colonel of the wenty-ffth. He came
principally to testify to the general
good character of the soldiers as he
had known them and to say that Mingo
Sanders in particular was in his opin-
ion entirely innocent, both in knowl-
edge and deed. Only those who are
familiar with the negro in his conf
Dental relations with his white Off
GERS in whom he really trusts, can
know just what sort Of weight must be
given to Mingo's private assurance to
his old colonel that he knew absolutely
nothing about the whole affair.
Gen. Burt is Andrew S. on the army
register, but he is known all over the
country. and especially in the west, as
ANDY" and the bulk of his acquaint-
ances probably would hardly know him
by his longer and more dignified name.
He has always been a great advocate
of athletics among the soldiers and or
ganized the, first regular army base
ball team. He used to play on it, too,