Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-15
This Session of Congress, it Is
Believed, Will Not Vote the
S5OO,0OO,OOO Asked.
FUND FOR CIVIL PENSIONS.
Supcrannuatcd Clerks and Employees
In Government Departments to be
Given Consideration il Present Pln
Especial Correspondence }

Washington, DC, Dec. 10.-The prop
osition of the national rivers and har-
bors congress that the government issue
$500, ,0o0 900 worth of bonds for the ere
alton OF fund to inaugurate and carry
to completion a great waterway policy
will hardly carry at this session. but
the enthusiasm of the delegates to the
convention and tho evident enthusiasm
for waterway policy in every section
of the country is a straw which points
to the direction OF tho wind and 1t In
dicates that in spite of the enormty
OF the amount which Will ultimately DO
required the sentiment In favor OF
g. complete system of interior water
ways has taken such hold on the peo-
pie that 1t Will eventually be adopted
This $500. 900. coo is,. however. but a
drop in the bucket compared with the
proposition which was introduced in
Congress some years ago. Someone
was induced to present bill backed by
petitions, signed by the Wage Workers
Political Alliance" which had for Its
object the digging of canals in all sec
tions of the country. north and south.
and from east 10 west, in fact the Wage
Workers Political Alliahce proposed
gridiron of canals which would make
the inhabitants of Mars exceedingly
jealous if the plan should ever be car
rled out Someone had the curiosity to
look into the Wage Alliance and see
what il amounted TO. 1t was found to
consist OF a clerk in one of the depart
nents named James Seldcn Cowden.
He proved to be the president, the sec
retary. treasurer, general manager, and
fn fact the entire Wage Workers Politi-
a CQr
of The BILL but one surprising thing
about it was that he should have found
any member OF Congress willing to
stand sponsor for any such absurd
Twenty-Five years ago the Bureau
OF Animal Industry was first estab-
lished with DR.. Salmon as its chief.
A careful examination of all the cattle
in and around the District of Colum-
bia was made with the resultant dis
covery of hundreds of cases of pleuro-
among the herds which sup
piled the milk to the Inhabitants of
Washington. Those herds were
by wholesale and appar-
entity this vicinity has been free of
cattle since. But within the
past few days the veterinarians of the
of agriculture in connec-
ton with the health authorities of the
district, have discovered that the milk
of Washington Is tainted TO a
very large extent caused by the pres
cnce OF tuberculosis among the dairy
cattle. The census figures show that
there are in the District of Columbia
itself about 1,500 dairy COWS and 1t
has been demonstrated that at least
one third OF these are afflicted with bo-
vine tuberculosis to such an extent that
they are being slaughtered by whole
sale, Tho same condition is said to
exist on the farms of Maryland and
from which the milk supply of
Washington is largely drawn and In
there is scare among the
Vigorous efforts are be-
ing made to stamp out the disease and
to prevent the sale of milk from infect
ed cattle. Tho highest medical author
tiles hold that bovine tuberculosis can
be communicated to human beings
through the consumption OF milk and
dairy products and that is especially
true in the case of Infants and small
children.
WHITE PLAGUE HOSPITAL.
There has been recently opened in
this district a we'll equipped hospital
for the sole treatment of patients suf-
fering from the white plague" and
1t is natural, therefore. that the efforts
10 cure the disease should be supple
mented by rigorous preventative
The tuberculous germ
makes itself manifest in It's early stage
in the udder of a milch COW and 1t Is
known that the germ multiplies and
spreads more rapidly in the richer por-
tlons of the milk, particularly In the
T-A L. L.x
simple mechanical process without the
aid of heat naturally follows that
butter made from the produce Of an
COW is even more deleterious
to health than the fresh milk. But
butter may come from any portion of
the country. In fact, the largest sup
ply used in all the eastern cities comes
from the great dairy farms of the
west and 1t is proposed to extend
the investigation which has just be-
gun in the District of Columbia to all
the dairy sections of the country and
through congressional legislation to
prevent transportation of dairy prod
ucts through interstate commerce
from any herd which shows signs of
disease. The agricultural department
has succeeded in stamping out the
hoof and mouth disease which broke
out i'm Pennsylvania and New York
little more than a year ago and the
department has just issued a bulletin
raising the quarantine from n number of
southern states formerly afflicted with
the disease bearing cattle tick and the
statement is made that since the be-
ginning OF this work of determination
in 1906 over 5000 square miles of terri
tory have been freed from ticks and
released from quarantine. 1t is the
intention. therefore, to attempt the
much more difficult task of exterminat-
ing tuberculosis in cattle. and to this
end the necessary amendment to tho
interstate commerce law will be urged
with vigor during the present session.
There can scarcely be a subject of more
vital interest to the community at
large than this.
OBJECT OF ORDER.
There was passed around to the vari-
Gus departments short time ago an
executive order prohibiting clerks,
chiefs of bureaus and divisions from
giving any Information concerning
the business of various departments to
members of Congress or others without
direct authority from the head of the
department. This executive order was
the outcome of a great mass OF mis-
information which was sent to Congress
during the recent tariff debate. On
one occasion three different senators
arose and made three different state
ments concerning the same thing which
were In direct variance with each 9TH
er and yet each senator declared he
had obtained the information from the
treasury department
The order which Is now in effect will,
OF course be modified otherwise 1t will
be Impossible for anyone to obtain any
information whatever concerning cir