Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1911-09-01

Va * their influence felt more
NTTNl markedly within the dec
nv ade than perhaps ever
before in the history OF
the country. AS re-
suit Of this members OF both houses
have been at times forced to sno"
plainly whether their sympatnies
were with the masses or with the
great controlling interests. It mas
been hard for them to counterfeit
loyalty to the peoples interests Some
of them have attempted 1t and nave
been found out, and are now 10
private life. The conditions have
been such as to make congressional
actions within the last few years OF
special interest. certainly to the on
locker in Washington.
After the Beverage beefinspection
amendment had. been tacked-it was
hoped securely-upon the agricultural
department appropriation bill the sen
ate awaited house action on the
amendment with manifest anxiety
Now there were some members OF the
senate who It was supposed from the
very inception of the matter had held
that Che measure was altogether too
drastic and was In its very nature an
invasion Of the right Of private COM
panies to conduct their business as
they saw fit. provided It was not con-
Quoted in a manner manifestly mimi
cal to the public welfare.
The upper house had sent the
Beveridge amendment to passage
quickly. quietly and without a dis
senting vote. but the feeling held
nevertheless that some Of the mem
bers voted as they did simply be
cause they felt Obliged SO to vote.
One of those who in the public mind
Il was held had cast his vote In favor
C. the beefinspection law rather un-
willingly, was none other than Sen
ator Lodge Of Massachusetts,
Possibly Il was Mr. Lodges well
known bent toward conservatism and
the old ways that impelled people tc
think that he was In mind II not in
heart opposed to carrying government
inquiry into the business Of private
concerns to any greater lengths thar
they had been carried
The house changed the meat In
spection measure by transferring thu
cost OF the work from the pocketbool
of the packer to the pocketbook o
the government and by striking on
the clause which made obligatory thu
placing OF the date upon the inspec
ton stamp. When the measure cam'
back to the senate in Its changes
form one Of the first senators to &c
upon his feet for the purpose OF de
nouncing the changes was Senate
Lodge of Massachusetts. and th'
sl-eech that he made upon a subjec
matter no loftier than the dirt upol
a packing-house floor and the conse
quent duty OF the government to fore
the hand Of the packers to lay hol
on the broom OF cleanliness has bee
declared since to be the creates
speech made at the first session Of tn
Fifty-ninth congress. and when thi
statement was made by those VIII
have passed judgment the speeches G
Bailey. Knox and Spooner upon tn
constitutional question involved in tn
railroad rate measure were not los
to sight nor to memory.
There are often sneers at Mass;
chusetts. because, as the rest of th
country has II, she arrogates to he
self a certain scholarly distinctio
denied unto the other commonwealth
Of the country. Possibly the spet
Mt times is justifiable. because tn
old Bay State not only holds herse
distinguished above all others in ma
tiers intellectual. but she is too fon
OF letting the conceit spread into OF
err fields where she stands not eve
second. nor yet perhaps twentieth
Massachusetts,. however. general
does send big men to the senate
the United States. and In the ma
big men to the house Of represent
tives of the nation. In the hearing
such a speech as that of Henry Cab
Lodge upon the Beverage amendme
to the agricultural bill the livil
sheer of the dead and gone Ma
hanna expends itself Intellectual
Hanna said that ~in Henry Cab
Lodge a good historian was spoiled
make a poor statesman"
Mr.. Lodge was talking about Z
pork packing industry, of corn be-
of sausages and of bob veal. and y
this man rose to the heights of
great orator. His speech was
whitening as contempt for dishones
in business methods. coupled with
mastery OF the language Of irony a
scorn and biting satire. could make
While the senator from Mass
chusetts was speaking not colleag
moved In his seat. not whisper W
heard. nor was one Of the papt
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