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VOLUME XV.
ALBANY, GA;. MO.NDAY AFTERNOON. JUNE 4, 1906.
NUMBER 191.
DRASTIC INSPECTION
OF PACKING HOUSES
IS WHAT PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT URGES IN
SPECIAL MESSAGE.
Conditions Shown to Exist In Chicago Stock Yards
Revolting — Inspection for Meats Shipped to Foreign
Countries, But No Protection of People in This Coun
try from raffic in Diseased or Spoiled Meat.
Washington, D. C., June 4.—Presi
dent Roosevelt today sent to Congress
a special message concerning condi
tions in the stock yards of Chicago
and transmitting the report of James
Bronson Reynolds and Special Com
missioner Charles P. Neill, who made
investigations into conditions in the
stockyards by the President’s ap
pointment.
The President’s message follows:
The Senate and House of Representa
tives:
I transmit herewith the report of
Mr. James Bronson Reynolds and Com
missioner Charles P. Neill, the special
committee whom I appointed to in
vestigate into the conditions in the
stock yards of Chicago and ■ report
thereon to me. This report is of a
preliminary, nature. I submit it to you
now because it shows the urgent need
of immediate action by the Congress
in the direction of providing a drastic
and thoroughgoing inspection by the
Federal Government of all stock yards
and packing houses and of their
products, so far as the latter enter
into interstate or foreign commerce.
The conditions shown by even this
short inspection to exist In the Chi
cago stock yards are revolting. It is
imperatively necessary in the interest
of health and of decency that they
should. be radically changed. Under
the existing laws it is wholly impos
sible to secure satisfactory results.
When my attention was first di
rected to this matter an Investigation
was made under the Bureau of Animal
Industry of the Department- of Agri
culture. When the preliminary state
ments of this investigation were
brought, to my attention they showed
such defects in the law and such
wholly Unexpected conditions that T
deemed it best to have a further im
mediate investigation by men not con
nected with the Bureau, and accord-
Mill Supply
Department:
Genuine Gandy
Belt,, Atkin’s Cir
cular and Cross
Cut Saws, Marsh
Steam Pumps.
Implement
Department:
Harvesting Ma
chinery, Thresh
ing Machines in
stock, all sizes
Gasoline
Engines,
Towers
and Tanks
AIL any
Machinery
-Co.
ingly appointed Messrs. Reynolds and
Neill. It was Impossible under the
existing law that satisfactory work
should be done by the Bureau of Ani
mal Industry. I am now. howevor,
examining the way in which the work
actually was done.-
Before I had received the report of
Messrs. Reynolds and Neill I had di
rected that labels placed upon any
package of meat food products should
state only that the carcass of the
animal from which the meat was taken
had been inspected at the time of
slaughter. If inspection of meat food
products at all stages of preparation
is not secured by the passage of the
legislation recommended I shall feel
compelled to order that inspection
labels and certificates on canned
products shall not be used hereafter.
The report shows that the stock
yards and packing houses are not
kept even reasonably clean, and that
the method of handling and preparing
food products is uncleanly and dan
gerous to health. Under existing law
the National Government has no pow
er to enforce inspection of the many
forms of prepared meat food products
that are daily going from the pack
ing houses into interstate commerce.
Owing to an inadequate appropriation
the Department of Agriculture is not
even able to place inspectors in all
establishments desiring them. The
present law prohibits the shipment of
uninspected meat to foreign countries,
but there is no provision forbidding
the shipment of lunlnspected meats In
interstate commerce, and thus the hve-
nues of interstate commerce are left
open to traffic in diseased or spoiled
meats. If, as has been alleged on
seemingly good authority, further evils
exist, such as the improper use of
chemicals and dyes, the Government
lacks power to remedy them. A law
is needed which will enable the in
spectors of the General Government to
inspect and supervise from the hoof
to't.he can the preparation of the meat
food product. The evil seems to be
much less in the sale of dressed car-
.casses than in the sale of canned and
other prepared products.
In ray Judgment the expense of the
inspection should be paid by a fee
levied on each animal slaughtered. It
this is not done, the whole purpose of
the law can at any time be defeated
through an insufficient appropriation-
and whenever there was no particular
public interest In the subject it would
be not only easy but natural thus to
make the appropriation Insufficient. If
it were not for this consideration I
should favor- the Governmen! paying
for it.
The alarm expressed in certain
quarters concerning this feature
should be allayed by a realization of
the fact that in no case, under such a
law, will the cost of inspection exceed.
8 cents per head.
I call especial attention to the fact
that this report is preliminary, and
that the investigation is still unfin
ished. It is not yet possible to re
port on the alleged abuses in the use
of deleterious chemical compounds in
connection with canning and pre
serving pieat prodrictB, nor on the . al
leged doctoring ill this fashion of
tainted meat and of products returned
to the packers as having grown un
salable or unusable from’age or from
other reasons. Grave allegations are
made in reference, to abuses of this
nature.
Let me repeat that under the pres
ent law there is practically no meth
od of stopping these abuses if they
should be discovered to exist Legisla
tion is needed in order to prevent the
possibility of all abuses in the future.
If no legislation is passed,-then the,ex-
cellent results accomplished by the
work of this special committee will
endure only .so long as the memory
of the committee’s work is fresh, and
a recrudescence of the abuses is abso
lutely certain.
I urge the immediate enactment Into
law of provisions which will'enable
'the Department of Agriculture ade
quately to Inspect the meat and meat-
food products entering into Interstate
commerce and to supervise' the meth
ods of preparing the same, and to pre
scribe the sanitary conditions under
which the 1 work shall be performed.
In Cotton Acreage Over Last Year, De
clares Government Report.
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 4. — The crop esti
mating board of the Bureau of Statistics, Depart
ment of Agriculture, finds the total area planted in
cotton in the United States this year to be about 28,-
886,000 acres, an increase of about 1,686,000 acres, or,
6.2 per cent., as compared with last year.
The average condition of the growing crop May
25 was 84.6, as compared with 77.2 on the same date
last year, 83 in 1905, and a ten-year average' of 84.9.
SMITH AND HOWELL
IN JOINT DEBATE.
TWO ATLANTA CANDIDATES TO MEET IN AT
LANTA NEXT FRIDAY NIGHT.
Special to The Herald.
Atlanta, Ga., June 4.—Hoke Smith
and Clark Howell will have a joint de
bate in Atlanta next Friday night. Mr.
Smith accepted Mr. Howell'B challenge
this afternoon, his letter to that effect
being sent to Mr. Howell by Reuben
Arnold, chairman of the Smith cam
paign committee, of Fulton county.
Mr. Smith will not let Howell share
the expense of the Auditorium rental,
but proposes to regard. Howell as the
guest of the evening.
Challenge la Delivered.
Just as Mr. Smith stepped from the
train at the terminal station about
12:30 o’clock Sunday morning Mr.
Howell’s challenge was handed to him.
Later, Mr. Smith authorized the state
ment that he would give a definite
answer this morning. The following
Is the challenge:
"Hon. Hoke Smith, City.
Dear Sir: I notice from today’s
press reports that you are to speak ir.
Atlanta next Friday evening at the
Peachtree Auditorium. This being our
home city and neither of us having
spoken here, I will be glad to divide
time with you on that occasion, each
speaking an hour and a half, under
the same division as agreed upon at
Columbus, except that, as I had the
opening and conclusion there, I cheer
fully concede the same to you here.
I assume that it is not nepessary to
name any committee to arrange any
details of the meeting, for whatever
you have done In the way of engag
ing the auditorium will be satisfactory
to me and I will cheerfully pay one-
half of the expenses. I would sug
gest that each side agree upon an
equal number of friends to occupy
seats on the platform, you to Indicate
the number. This-will be given to
the press tomorrow morning, and I
will be glad to furnish with my letter
a copy of your reply, for simultaneous
publication.
“Very truly yours,
. , "CLARK HOWELL."
"June 2 ,1906.”
Mr. Smith spoke at Senola Satur
day, and it was stated that he had se
cured the auditorium on Peachtree
street, next to the Aragon Hotel, and
would speak there next Friday. When
he read this announcement, Mr. How
ell, who was in Atlanta, tried to reach
Mr. Smith over the long distance
'phone, to make arrangements for a
Joint debate, but was unable to do so,
Then he prepared a formal challenge
In writing and had it delivered to Mr.
Smith the moment that gentleman
stepped from the train at the terminal
station.
While Mr. Smith declined to give a
definite statement at the time regard
ing the matter, his manner indicated
that he would accept.
On January 10, last, Mr. Smith and
Mr. Howell met In joint debate at Col
umbus, where Mr. Howell formally
opened his campaign for the governor
ship. , _
While the auditorium here is said to
be able to seat about 4,000 persons, it
is likely that fully 5,000 will hear the
debate. -Each candidate has a large
following in Fulton' county and the
lines are sharply drawn. Both claim
the county.
ITi
CALLED FROM NORTH CAROLINA TO A COL
LEGE AT NORTHAMPTON, MASS.
A PITCHED BATTLE
IN OHIO MINES.
STRIKING MINERS ATTACK HIRED GUARDS
AT MINE NEAR STEUBENVILLE.
I
COLUMBUS, O., June 4.—Sheriff Voorhees, of Jefferson county, has
wired for fifteen soldiers to bo ordered immediately to the scene of a
Bhootlng near Steubenville. A bulletin from there today says that five
hundred shots were fired by striking miners on one Bide and hired mine
guards on the other. No one was killed.
The armed guardB of the mines of the United States Coal Company
were ambUBhed by striking miners at 12:30 o’clock -this morning, while
they were marching over the hills from Glenns Run to Coal Rollo. Four
of the guards were wounded.
SENATOR ARTHUR PUE GORMAN
CLAIMED BY DEATH THIS
THE SENATOR, THOUGH ILL FOR SOME TIME,
HAD BEEN IMPROVING LATELY.
Charlotte, N. C., June 4.—John Spen
cer Bassett, Ph. D„ professor of his
tory in Trinity College, Durham, N. C.,
has resigned to, accept a similar chair
at Sdith College, Northampton, Mass.
About two and a half years ago Dr.
Bassett wrote an article for a maga
zine in which he asserted that with
the exception of Robert E. Lee,
Booker T. Washington was the great-
Washington, June 4.—Senator Ar
thur Pue Gorman died at 9:30 this
morning. The end came suddenly, as
the senator had been improving lately.
Heart trouble caused his death.
Senator Gorman was born in 1839.
While he had been ill many months, he
had shown some improvement lately.
Senator Gorman has been a notable
figure in the national congress for
twenty-five years. He first took his
seat in the senate in 1881, serving
continuously for eighteen years. He
Trouble Between Miners and
Mexican Rurales Is Re
newed— Five Riot Lead
ers Executed by Rurales.
Lob Angeles, Cal., June 4.-—A dis
patch from El Paso, Texas, says that
renewed trouble broke out at Cananea
last night between employes of the
Greene mines and rurales under Col,
Ifosterlltsky. Flvo rioters were killed
and thirteen injured. The riot broke
out shortly before the arrival of 200
Mexican. soldiers from Hermasillo.
Many women of the higher classes
of Mexicans are quartered in Colonel
Greene’s home, which is under guard.
A dispatch from Douglas, Arizona,
reportB the execution of eight leaders
of the Cananea riots by Col. Koster-
litsky yesterday. The rioters were
lined up in front of a stone mill and
killed by a volley by the rurales.
NEGROES FIGHT ON
EXCURSION TRAIN.
est man the South had produced in a
hundred years. The article attracted
considerable attention throughout the
country and was the object of some
adverse criticism at the time. Dr.
Bassett tendered his resignation to
the college authorities, but they de
clined to accept It
I therefore cojnmend tc your favorable
consideration and urge the enactment
of substantially’the provisions known
as Senate amendment No. 29 to the
act making appropriations for the De
partment of Agriculture for the_ fiscal
year ending June 30, 1907, as passed
by the Senate, this amendment being
commonly known as the Beveridge
amendment. .
THEbDORE ROOSEVELT.
The White House, June 4, 190/
ANNUAL MEETING
OF RURAL CARRIERS.
Special to The Herald.
Atlanta, Ga., June 4.—J. A. Giles,
president of the Rural Latter Carriers’
Association of Georgia, who resides at
Elberton, is in the city arranging for
the annual meeting of the organiza
tion, which will be held here July 4.
MINERS IN OHIO
RETURN TO WORK.
New York, June 4.—The Southern
States Immigration Committee, com
posed of representatives of the South
ern states appointed by the governors,
met here and organized today. Seven
states are represented, besides rail
roads and other industrial institutions.
Georgia is represented by David Rob
inson. Edmond Brown, of Albany, is
also present.
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBU8
GATHER.AT.NEW.HAVEN
s
ome
Brushes
e are showing
a beautiful line of
bristle goods, includ
ing
Hair Brushes,
75c to $4.
Tooth Brushes,
10c to $1.
Nail Brushes,
25 c to $1.
Thirty Thousand Strikers Returned
to Their Places Today.
Springfield, O., June 4.—About 30,
000 miners who have been on strike
for the past two months resumed
work today throughout the state. The
remainder of the mines will open dur
ing the week.
Will Be In 8esslon All Week—Cardi
nal Gibbons Arrives.
BURTON DECIDES
TO RESIGN SEAT.
Topeka, Kan., June 4—U. S. Sena
tor Joseph R. Burton, after consulta^
tion with his friends, placed his resig
nation in,the hands of Governor Hoch
today.
New Haven, Conn., June 4.—The
national convention of the Knights of
Columbus will be held here during
the entire week. Thousands of visit
ors are expected and many have al
ready arrived. Interest today centers
about the arrival of Cardinal Gib
bons, who will be an important figure.
There were about 160 negroes that
came in from polntB on the Georgia
Northern today. Just what attracted
them today isn’t dear.
It’s only a short time until the first
cotton bloom will be reported.
Shaving Brushes,
25c to $1.50.
Clothes Brushes,
25c to $1.
Bath Brushes,
75c.
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Hilsman-Sale
’• r\ 'i&\&
was chairman of the executive com
mittee managing the Cleveland cam
paign which resulted in his election in
1884. He was out of the senate from
1899 to 1903. Upon-, his return to the
senate he at once reassumed leader
ship of his party. He vigorously op
posed the acquisition of the Philip
pines, fought the ratification of the
Paris treaty, and voiced the party
views that less money he spent for
big shipB and more for river and har
bor improvements.
Special to "The Herald.
Atlanta, Ga., June 4.—Negro rioters
on an incoming train of the Atlanta &
West Point road caused great excite
ment at East Point Saturday night and
were instrumental in calling out the
entire county police force. The ne
groes were members of an excursion
returning from Newaan. The negroes
began fighting among ‘themselves and
considerable blood waB spilled. They
tried to take possession of the train,,
but the conductor and crew prevented
this. Seven of the 'rioters were locked
up. >
