Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-20
BILL WILL BE PASSED BY CON.
GREss WHEN TEMPERATURE
NEARs 100 DEGREES.
WHAT HAS BEEN DONE
AND is YET TO BE DONE
Probable That Bill Will Pass Senate
About July 1, and Will Then Go to
House for Acceptance of Amend
ments-RIeached Flour Ruling to Be
Tested in Court.
Especial Correspondence

~ oiii pdSSSu.
Perhaps few statistics as to just
what has been accomplished will help
in approximating to an answer. Ev-
erybody is asking the question. The
answer commonly IS. when the
weather gets above 95 as a regular
daily diet"
The bill reached the senate April 10
and was reported back from the
finance committee April II. 1t has since
then been read a first and second time,
and is now in process of the third and
last reading The first two readings
are formal; the third for consideration
and action paragraph by paragraph
and line by line.
1t was agreed when the third read
ing began that such paragraphs as de-
veloped contention might, by consent,
be passed over for later consideration.
AS result of that agreement, twenty
five paragraphs have thus far been
passed over in the third reading, and
the reading has covered only small
part of the bill. There are 1853 para
graphs already marked off, in the re-
mainder of the measure. as passed
over on the second reading every one
of them certain to develop more or less
serious and protracted discussion.
OF late the consideration has been
getting thru about paragraph day.
Besides the items already indicated as
having been passed over in the duti-
able lists. there are thirty three para
graphs in the free list which are
marked and laid aside for special con-
sideration.
Finally, the committee on finance has
not itself laid the entire bill before the
senate. The hide tariff is still to be re-
ported by the committees; presumably
it is being held back for trading stock.
The oil schedule is yet to be reported
by the committee, and however it is
adjusted in the report, it is certain to
cause long and probably an acrimon-
ious contention. The income tax pro-
vision is expected yet to absorb good
deal of time. The administrative feat
ures of the measure are to be perfected
by the committee and then discussed.
doubtless at much length, by the sem
ate. The drawback and reciprocity pro-
visions will require indefinite time
but at best good deal of it. The tar
if commission feature will not be dis
posed of, from present indications
without a deal of conversation. And
so on.
It doesn't look as IL the bill could be
passed by the senate as early as June
Is. unless the hot weather accelerates
matters most decidedly. Take the tex
tile schedule. for instance. 1t will be
the subject of a protracted fight, for
the opposition to Aldrich is determined
not only to change it, but to defeat the
organization on it. Aldrich is willing to
make some concessions, but it is re-
garded as utterly impossible that he
will make enough to induce his oppon-
ents to accept what he offers without
a fight. That schedule alone is likely
to take up week, ten days, or pos
sibly two weeks. judging by the
amount of preparations members are
making for it's consideration and the
earnestness with which both sides are
I committed to the idea that this is the
cruX of the whole contest.
When the bill gets thru the senate
and it looks now as if 1t would be
nearer to July 1 than to Aug 15-it
must go to the house for consideration
of the senate amendments. The house
will take I'd an amount of time which
nobody can now estimate, because 1t
! is impossible to judge under what sort
| of rule the measure will be considered.
4 The house will promptly enough dis
agree to the senate amendments and
! send the bill to conference; confer
ence will last, basing estimates of ex-
perience with other provisions and on
/ the temper with which this one is be-
ing made, two weeks or more; more
likely more. Then the conference re.
port will be the subject of more con-
sideration in both houses, the duration
of which is matter of mere conjecture
4 Anyhow, the idea Of an adjournment
before Aug. is rapidly fading out OF
/ the minds of the best Informed states
men.
One more decision of the pure food
authorities is to be subjected to the
adjudication of a higher authority
This time it is the bleached flour de-
ClSlOu, WHICH Is 10 De maze the SUB.
ject Of test lawsuit which will be
commenced at Omaha Just as soon as
the arrangement can be perfected.
/ Attorney General Wickersham today
notified Senator Brown, Of Nebraska
of this determination. The Nebraska
milling interests have been leading in
a determined fight to overturn the reg
ulation of the secretary of agriculture
held that the bleaching of -four, in or.
der to give the appearance Of pure
wilderness to hours made from the
softer grades Of wheat, was violation
of the food law.
The Nebraska people entered a Wig.
orous protest, maintaining that tn.
biea ching process used by them, ant
generally used, is entirely harmless
that 1t neither takes from the flour an,
desirable element, nor puts into 1t any.
thing undesirable. The millers made {
strong effort to induce Secretary VIII
son to reopen and reconsider the mat
ter, but he declined, and the miller.
then had recourse to legal proceedings
Attorney Ed p. Smith, Of Omaha
came here in behalf Of the western
millers and took up the matter witt
President Taft and the attorney gen
eral. He asked that arrangements b,
made for test suit, and the attorne,
general took the request under con
sideratipn.
The, decision Just announced is tn
result A shipment OF unlabele'