Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-11
STANDS BY ORDER
Hearing on Bleached Flour Only
Serves to Make Him More Set.
ONLY RECOURSE NOW TO COURTS
south Dakota Delegation in Congress
Is Pulling Together HarmoniOusly
for the First Time in Sew
eraI Years.
(From a staff Correspondent.l

tFrom a Staff Correspondent.)
WASHINGTON. March 10-(special Tele-
gram. l-Senators Burkett and Brown failed
utterly in their efforts today to bring
about notifications of Secretary Wilson'S
order regarding bleaching of flour. The
secretary Ia convinced that his ruling was
right, and told the Nebraska senator's so
in few words. Mr.. Wilson said he had given
a full hearing to persons interested in
bleaching flour by electricity last fall, five
days having been devoted to exhaustive
consideration OF the case in all its phases,
and he is more than ever convinced. that
artificial bleaching Of flour is
to health, and that a stop must be put uron
IT. Two conclusions MIR. Wilson reached
by reason of the hearing last fall. First,
that the treatment by electricity precipi-
! tates a nitro which. while infinitesimal,
when gathered in large quantities is in
furious 10 health, and second, that bleach
ing is a fraud on the people which is pro-
hibited by the pure food laws.
Mr.. Wilson said that the wheat of Ne
braska makes the best flour In the world,
but all of the hard wheat that stands win
ter's cold and summers drouths leaves n
t'nge OF yellow which the millers are now
selling as white flour. The secretary of
Agriculture laughed at the idea that the
"a &c n oSNtbNSA ~ ttAAN NNSNNO
on the wheat of Nebraska and Kansas, and
that the millers had taken advantage Of
this reduction by selling flour made from
Nebraska wheat at a price equal to flour
made from the spring wheat of the Dako-
tas and Minnesota.
''The only people interested in having
the ruling changed" said Mr.. Wilson, ARE
the manufacturer who make electric ma
chinery for bleaching and the millers who
have nut machines in their mills. Ny ruling
protects the wheat producer and the flour
consumer"
Secretary Wilson minated to the sena-
tors that II the persons desired, they could
go TO the courts for review, and they would
more likely secure consideration of the case
much sooner than they could expect a
commission OF chemists to pass on the
merits of the case,
Burke for ways and Means.
There IS well defined rumor that Repre-
sentative Burke of South Dakota will AXE
the place on the ways and means commit
tee made vacant by the retirement of Rep
resentative Bonynge Of Colorado.
The South Dakota delegation is working
together in harmony for the first time in
years. The feud between Senators Gamble
and Kittfedge was somewhat relieved by
the defeat of Kittredge by Governor Craw-
ford. Senators Crawford and Gamble are
in harmony They called on President Taft
today to talk generally with him. They
have obtained his promise that he will
send to the senate next week the nominal
ton OF f.. f Wagner as United States
attorney for the state, Senator Gambls
could not put Wagner through while sens-
tor Kittredge was in, but now believes
there will be no trouble in that direction,
Representatives Burke and Martin of the
same state were formally consulted on
state patronage matters and have given
their assent to the Wagner appointment,
although the ,wo senators do not seem to
have bothered themselves whether this
assent was obtainable.
Land. for Dry Farming.
BY an order of the Department Of the
Interior about 5000. 900 acres of land in the
counties along the eastern border of Wyom-
ing are to be thrown open at once to home
steaders. who are to be allowed 10 take
either 100 or $50 acres. The land cannot be
irrigated and will be OF use, therefore, for
dry farming only. Those who take the full
800 acre entries must make an attempt to
cultivate the land. while those who go in
on the smaller holdings will not be com
PEELED by the law to do so. The throwing
open OF this land is somewhat In the nature
of an experiment to see what can be done
with such land.
Minor Matters at Capital.
CONGRESSMAN HInshaw has received the
designations OF the following postmsstsrs,
Nathan B. Wilson. Malmo; r. V. Mengel