The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-06-27
BILLS BEARING ON
TOBACCO TRUST
II Is Claimed Monopoly Resorts
to Unfair Methods.
CIGARETTE COUPON QUESTION
Has Trust Right to Include Pictures
and Coupons In Packases?-A Sena-
tor Who Is a Farmer-Guarding the
Emergency Curreney-Troubleso Over
Pure Food Law.

tor Who Is Farmer-Guarding the
Emergency curreney-Troubles Over
Pure Food Law.
Washington, June 25.-TSpecial.l-
Several bills have been introduced in
congress this session and will be press
ed at the winter session preventing the
use Of coupons in the sale Of cigars
and cigarettes. 1t is charged by the
competitors of the big tobacco trust
that this is scheme to destroy COM
petition by the use OF coupons. At one
time congress prevented the use of
coupons. but later in amending the law
it was decided by the internal revenue
bureau agents that the giant company
had the right to put the pictures and
coupons in the cigarette packages. and
it has been done ever since 1902 1t is
alleged that they are put only in what
are known as the fighting brands of
the trust and that the independent
concerns through the coupon and 9TH
err devices are driven out Of certain
are annually forced into bankruptcy.
tuberculosis In Hogs Increasing.
The bureau of animal industry has
reports gathered from the various
meat packing centers of the United
States showing tuberculosis in hogs to
be on the increase and causing heavier
loss to raiser and packer alike than
any other disease. Statistics show
that a year ago there were over So
O00.000 hogs in this country, and their
value at that time was approximately
S339,000,00O. Federal inspection at the
abattoirs indicates that 2 per cent of
the hogs slaughtered were affected
with tuberculosis. Reports from Eu-
rope show a far more widespread in
lection, as it runs as high as 5.5 and
10 per cent. Hogs from Arkansas
Oklahoma and Texas are remarkably
free from tuberculosis. due to the
methods of caring for them. In those
states they are not restricted to feed
lots, where disease is commonly found.
but roam over large areas.
EXIT SImPlified Spelling.
President Taft has gone back to the
old way Of spelling in the messages he
sends out from the White House.
Thru is no longer written for
through nor tho for though as
was insisted upon by former Presi- |
dent Roosevelt. The latter kept it up |
in the face Of the fact that congress
declined to adopt the simplified form +
OF spelling so ardently advocated by /
Mr.. Roosevelt and others. It not only
made confusion at the government {
printing Office. but was heavy extra /
for congress would not per.
nit the new method to be used in it's
printed communications.
Not Influenced by Occupation.
Il am a farmer" declared Senator
Warren OF Wyoming in the first SEN
ence of an unusually long speech on
he wool question. But he further in
ormed his legislative associates and
he country that, contrary to the gen
raj belief, he did not own sheen. a
'oW or a steer and that in the way of
i've stock one horse was his only pos
ession at present. He admitted he :
leld stock in corporations owning big
anches in the far west He deemed Z,
necessary to make this explanation
ecause some of the opponents Of the
arH bill had been charging that vari.
US senator's were interested directly
n industries for which they were !,
irving to secure extra protective if
OF prohibitive duties.
Emergency Currency Well Guarded.
The largest and strongest steel vault
q the. world has been completed at the
United States treasury. It was es- !
ecially built for the keeping of the !
alf billion of emergency currency au- &
horized by the Aldrich- Vreeland bill /
assed at the first session of the Six
leth congress 1t was begun while
George 8. Cortelyou was secretary of !.
he treasury and intended to defy an
rmy of burglars in the improbable
vent they could get to it. The roof {
f the vault is twenty-five feet under
he surface of the street and can only
e reached from an elevator running n
rom the division of issue The vault i
) of steel throughout and is flfty-seyen
eet long and eighteen feet high. The
teel inclosing it is eight inches thick
omething like the armor plate of a
attleship. Seventeen miles of wire
J wound around the vault. and it is i
ot possible TO touch the exterior with a
ut setting off an alarm. The act of o
ongress required that the currency be /
laced in such vault !,
Pure Food Law Troubles. :;
President Taft is having no end of !,
worry over the fights that are being
aade to have the pure food law strict
7 construed. He is still wrestling
With the question = What is whisky" 9
nd now a lot Of organizations are t
ending delegations to him 10 deter t
1ine whether Lensoate of soda should
e used by manufacturers as al pre- q
ervatiye Of food st1lffs. The conten-
ions are such between tie rival or
anizations that some who IRE not :,
atisfied withs the existing coaditiensI
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