Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-12-27
TO REGULATE
FOOD STORAGE
Senator Hepburn Of Idaho VIII.
Take Up Bill Right After
The Holidays.
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MEAT PACKERS NOT OPPOSED.
MEAT PACKERS NOT OPPOSED
Congress In Mood to Enact l'ras'ic
Legislation Upon Much Abused
Industry.
lspeelal Correspondence

washington, D. c., Dec. 22.--1mme-
tiutcIy after the holidays. Senator Hey
burn of Idaho chairman of the com
mittee on manufactures In the senate
Will endeavor to secure action upon
his bin to control and govern the cold
storage of foods in the United States.
The cold storage problem IS one
which has created great deal OF conf
ment since public attention has been
so graphically called to the high cost OF
living. All sorts of demands have been
made upon Congress to enact leslsli-
ton for the regulation of cold storage,
and many wild and chimerical schemes
have been outlined. Much to the APP.
parent astonishment of everyone. the
packing houses and other owners OIL
cold storage plants have not. up 10 the
present time, shown any very marked
desire to antagonize these bills. One cold
storage man from Kansas, who was
here day or two ago and who says
he annually handles three million
pounds of chickens and almost as many
dozen eggs. insists that no cold storage
warehouse will care to carry food prod
ucts longer than IL months. for the rea-
sons: First, that Il longer period than
one year would not be profitable; sec
ond, that after a year animal foods
rapidly lose weight, and, third that
men having their money invested IN
such foods cannot afford to tie up their
funds for Il longer period. he says that
any act OF Congress providing Tor the
control of cold storage plants should.
first of ALL provide for the examination
of all foods when they are placed IN
storage. with a view to ascertaining
their whoesoneness, as it Is only those
foods which have begun to decay that
arc iniilr'ouslr affected by storage.
There Is no doubt whatever that Co
greS, iS III the MOOD at present 10 ell
act radical legislation upon this sub
jcct, and the danger lies IN the fact
that with such an antagonistc feel
ing toward stored foods, which now eN-
lists throughout the country, the lcgts-
lation enacted may be far too radical.
While there has been little done in
the way OF campaigning for the Of
fees Of the house up to the present
time, 1t Is quite likely that Immediately
after the holiday recess a number OF
gentlemen. who have served their
country faithfully as members In the
house In the past. will appear on
the scene to try to convince their
former colleagues that they arc the
best qualified to hold the hour impor
tant offices under the house organiza-
ton. Former congressman Livingston.
of Georgia, Trimble of South Carolina
and w. Fl. Ryan of Buffalo, New York,
are regarded as the most likely candi-
dates to be chosen for three of the
Important house offices. Mr.. Livingston
is willing to accept either the clerk
ship or the sergeancy alarms or the
tloorkeepership. while Mr., Ryan and
Mr.. Trimble are understood to be
candidates only for the clerkship.
Ryan Is a man. who III his ten years
of service. secured the warm friend-
ship of everyone with whom he came
in contact. and 1t Is understood that
the New York delegation will be
unit for him for the position which
he seeks. in which event 1t Is almost
n moral certainty that the clerk OF
the house. to succeed Mai. Mcdowell,
will be MrsW. II. Ryan. of Buffalo.
NEW DoORKEEPER.
Frank Ryan, OF New York. has
served as doorlsecper longer than any
other man who ever held the office
before. He has made good one. he
has avoided nntagonisms and has sue
ceeded IN distributing the patronage
under his office to the general salts
tactic Of everyone. OF course, he VIII