New Britain herald., 1914-04-25
PUSHING FOOD SUPPLY BILL
Wants All Radons for Forces IT,
 SpeCleG- Capital Gossip.
Special to the Herald, ],


 Washington, D. C., April 25.--Be- lieving an "an ounce of prevention is better than pound of cure" Con- gressman Lonergan is actively push ing his resolutions looking to an ade- quate inspection of all food supplies furnished the navy and army forces that have been or may be called upon to carry on the war in Mexico. These resolutions, which call upon the sec retary of war and the secretary of the navy, to furnish the house of rep resentatives copies of all orders and regulations pertaining to the inspection of food supplies for the army and navy Tn time of war, have been referred to the house committees on military and navy affairs, respectively.
 Congressman Lonergan has been in consultation with Chairman Hay of the military affairs committee and Chairman Padgett of the naval af- fairs committee, urging that the com mittee give the resolutions prompt approval. MT. Lonergan has recalled the troubles with tainted beef' which followed the Cuban campaign or the Spanish war and he urges the passage of his resolutions as the proper preliminaries to prevent a rep etition or such conditions in the Mexi- can trouble.
 MT Lonergan has also been looking up the regulations and he finds many safeguards have already been put into force. In the specifications and conditions for subsistence stores of the United States army, it Is found that there are regulations providing that no articles will be purchased by the quartermaster corps which are objectionable under the acts of con gress--the pure food and drug act and and the meat inspection law and that government inspected meat is to be purchased wherever practicable. Packages containing smoked and canned meats purchased by the department must bear the stamp for inspected meats provided by the secretary of agriculture.
 Officers of the quartermaster corps and veterinarians of the department of agriculture must inspect beef, corned beef, roast beef and hash put up in tins for the use of the army and other subsistence supplies are to be inspected by the proper officer.
 Inspect P. O. Site.
 Congressman Lonergan went this morning with other members of the house committee on post offices to in- spect a site proposed to be purchased for an addition to the federal build ing at Richmond, Va. The site ad~ joins the present federal building and a large corporation desires to purchase the. ground if the United States does not purchase it. 1t is urged as a good buy for Uncle Sam, as looking to future enlarge ment of the federal building in Rich- mond and the senate has passed bill providing for the purchase.
 There is some dispute whether the site ought to be bought now and the members of the house committee in charge of the measure decided the best way to decide the question was to visit Richmond and see the sight
 Col. Murphy a Visitor.
 Col. Timothy l.. Murphy of Bridge port is a visitor in Washington and has called at several of the congress sional offices. He is with a party of friends from Philadelphia and New York. Col Murphy attended the hear ing on the proposed repeal of free tolls on the Panama canal for Amer ican coastwise vessels before the sem ate interoceanic canals committee yesterday afternoon and had watched several of the debates in the two houses of Congress.
 Senator Mclean has introduced bill to grant a pension of $s0 per month to Mrs. Wealthy l.. Kelsey of Clinton, widow of Evelyn Kelsey, late musician of the Sth Connecticut vol- unteers, and to give a similar pension to Mrs. Ella P. Hines of Stratford, widow of Thomas J. Hines, late of the 14th New York Volunteers.
 National Committeeman Homer S. Cummings of Connecticut is a visitor in Washington and has talked with several members of the Connecticut delegation.
 Owing to the death of the postmas- ter at Granby, the post office depart ment is to hold a civil service exam ination of applicants to fill the place. The date of the examination is not ann nounced.