Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1906 — END OF THE DISPUTE [ARTICLE]

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President and House Agricultural Committee Agree on a Meat Inspection Bill. COURT REVIEW IS LEFT OUT But So It the Fiat of the Secretary at Agriculture. • Speaker Cannon Takes an Unusual Activity in the Matter—Points Where the Bill Haa Been Changed. Washington, June 18.—The basis of a complete agreement on the meat inspection legislation between President Roosevelt and the house committee on agriculture has been arrived at through a conference at the White House. Speaker Cannon represented the committee in this instance, and subsequently spent some time explaining the situation to the committee in Its room at the Capitol. The bill was practically completed when the committee adjourned. Court Review Is Eliminated. It Mill authorize an annual appropriation of $3,000,000 to pay the cost of inspection, and will contain no provision for the levy of an assessment to make up any deficiency in the amount available for this work, as suggested by Cowan, representing the Texas cattle growers, and later urged by tlte president. The court review provision 'will not bo contained in the measure. This action meets the suggestion of the president The words “in the Judgment of the secretary of agriculture” will not be inserted as suggested by the president, and this conclusion now meets Roosevelt’s approval. Date on the Label Goes Out. , . The section waiving the civil service law for one year in the selection of inspectors will go out of the provision. also one of the president’s recommendations. With these changes made the president has indicated his entire satisfaction with the measure. There is to be no dnte on the label of the packing of the meat food product In this the president yields to the committee. The language which gives inspectors the right to the packing plants lit all times is amplified by the words “whether the same be in operation or not.” Guarantee of Eights “Goes.'* The guarantee of the constitution to every mau t.» have bis grievances heard before a court was presented to the president forcefully ns to why tiie decision of the secretary of agriculture should not be made final, as would be the case should tiie words “In the discretion of the secretary of agriculture" lie inserted throughout the measure. In tills argument, it is said, the president acquiesced on tiie ground of it containing a fundamental principal of guaranteed rights. Why Cannon Was Active. Ordiarily Speaker Cannon does not take such active part in legislation as he has in tiie present instance. It baa l>oe» explained, however, that lie regards the passage of an adequate meat inspection bill with all possible speed as vitally essential to the welfare of many Important industries throughout the country.