KNOWN THROUGHOUT THE METROPOLIS FOR
HER GENEROSITY TO THE UNFORTUNATE
Mrs. Thomas Fortune Ryan, One of the
Most Philanthropic, as She Is One of
the Most Wealthy, New York Women
Who Devote Their l>ives to Doing Good
to Others.
SPENDS A MILLION DOLLARS YEARLY ON
HER VARIOUS CHARITABLE SCHEMES.
Wife of Wall Street Baron, She Lives Plainly,
Builds Churches, Helps Hospitals, and Spends
All Her Spare Moments Making Baby Clothes
for the Poor—Gives Without Ostentation, and to
All Who Are Worthy and Unfortunate.
Day in and day out she sits and
knits and knits and knits, with a
steadfastness of purpose that ruled
the fingers of Mme. Jacobin. But the
stitches she takes are not the record
of evil destinies. They mean succor
for the sick and heavy-laden, work
for idle hands, bread for the hungry,
enlightenment for the untutored.
Gentle, sympathetic, intensely pious,
a home-lover and a home-maker, is
this woman—this mdther In the old
fashioned meaning of the word, the
wife of Thomas Fortune Ryan.
The characteristics of Thomas Ryan,
money-making prince and Wall street
baron, in a way also rule in the life
of Mrs. Ryan, builder of churches,
hospitals and schools, and the little
known but enthusiastic cooperator in
every move making for the betterment
of the human kind. It has been said
of her husband that he has had a fin
ger in every big financial pie in the
last decade. She has had a hand in
nearly every philantbropical work in
New York. Virginia, the District of
Columbia and the southwest in that
time. She is now giving away more
than $1,900,000 a year.
This woman, of whom the world
knows practically nothing, has built
more churches, hospitals and schools
and endowed more places for the wor
ship of God than perhaps any other
living person. She gave $1,000,000
last year alone to the churches and
schools of Virginia, her native state.
Publicity is Mrs. Ryan's bete noir.
To give without ostentation is the only
way to give, according to her belief.
There is no difference between Mrs.
Ryan of 30 years ago and the Mrs.
Ryan of to-day. It was of no moment
to the public then what she did or did
not do. She cannot understand why
it should be interested now. She
counts herself as doing no more than
the wife of a poor man who gives of
a slim purse to others. She gives
from a richer purse, that's all.
Old-Tashioned as Mrs. Ryan Is. she
is a woman combining ail the business
qualities and foresight demanded by
the tim^. She is a woman of affairs,
yet her home life comes first.
A glimpse into the favorite residence
of Mrs Ryan—the old Minturn house,
on the northwest corner of Fifth ave
nue and Twelfth street—is a mental
hath after the glitter and glare and
garnlshness one usually meets in the
homes of the rich, declares a writer
In the New York Times. You enter
through a high-ceilinged hall draped
with soft garnet hangings. A paint
ing of the master of the house has a
place of honor there, and on the walls
are a few good engravings. This hall
is like those found in all the fine
old southern mansions. On the first
floor are the library, drawing-room
and smoking bail.
But it is up a wide staircase to the
second floor that one must go to find
a room about 20 feet square, furnished
with chintz-covered chairs, hung with
pictures, such as have long since been
consigned to the fashionable and
wealthy to dusty attic corners, and
strewn with sewing tables, chests, a
tea table and a music box. Everything
is old-fashioned, with one exception,
and that is an up-to-date desk, with a
telephone attachment, which stands
unobtrusively in a corner. This is the
room, with its windows filled with
red geraniums the year round, where
Mrs. Ryan plans her good works,
which the wealth of her husband exe
cutes.
There is never an idle moment when
Mrs. Ryan is in that sitting-room of
hers. No visitor is so important, no
conversation so interesting, as to ab
sorb her entire attention. She has
a sympathy for the comfort and in
terests of the friends who go to her
there, but always begins the visit
with:
“You won't mind my gcftg on with
my knitting, will you?"
Not very long ago. when Cardinal
Gibbons called upon Mrs. Ryan, his
eminence was shown to the sitting-room
where Mrs. Ryan was busy, between
telephone calls, knitting a baby’s pink
and white sack. After a formal salu
tation to the churchman, her fine
white fingers began to ply the yarn
in the weave again.
"You will pardon my doing this,
your eminence.” smiled Mrs. Ryan,
"but if I worked only when alone some
babies wouldn't be as warm as I like
thqm to be."
"And whose baby are you working
so hard to clothe?" asked the card
inal.
"Oh. a poor dear little girl who will
appreciate it." and then the subject
was changed, out not the thoughts ef
Mrs. Ryan.
A few friends who have been in the
sitting-room many times can tell of
dozens of packages of baby clothes
made by the nimble fingers of the
rich Mrs. Ryan. And besides, she
keeps a corps of sewers making chil
dren's garments, which are delivered
to her resident* and by her given in
person to that most unfortunate of all
the classes, the proud poor, who will
not ask at the doors of charitable in
stitutions or clothing bureaus for aid.
Mrs. Ryan tails that person her friend
who tells her of such people in need.
There is a score of families, rem
nants of broken-down aristocracy,
whose sole support lies in the fine
needle-work which Mrs. Ryan gives to
women otherwise unfitted for the bur
den of self-support.
Over in the south corner of the sit
ting-room there is a big chest with
many drawers, each carrying some ab
breviated label. In this chest are kept
exquisite al*er linens, the making of
which has been the liberal support of
families in need. As fast as these
supplies are accumulated they are
sent out to poor missions or heavily
mortgaged parishes where the people
are unable to contribute such things.
There is another chest full of baby
i things, and. dearest of all to the heart
of Mrs. Ryan, a well-filled medicine
chest
“I don't believe you look well." said
Mrs. Ryan to a little needlewoman re
turning a package of fine linen one
day. "How do you feel? Do yon ever
cough?" And in the end the woman
went away with three bottles of hypo
: phosphites, whlrtt would have cost her
1 as many dollars.
Mrs. Ryan s life has not been whh
, out cloud and bitter grief. Death and
long illness have weighed heavily on
the mother-heart, and that great flood
of sympathy given her by nature is
ever wide to a fellow sufferer. Long
and intimate acquaintance with illness
has given her practical knowledge,
and she knows more about medicine
than many a man with a license. Two
j of her boys have been stricken down
with lung trouble, and the great white
plague holds greater terrors for her
than any other physical affliction. She
has given of her financial and personal
aid toward the cure of those afflicted
with this disease.
"I am more afraid of a sneeze than
of a sprain, and a cough than a broken
bone.” she said one day. "Oh. I just
can't talk about it. It breaks my heart
to think of the flower of the manhood
and young motherhood of our eountrv
| being cut down by this terrible curse.
When I think of other mothers who
have seen their young sons lie down
in their youth before their life work
had begun, victims of this disease. I
long to do something, anything, to help
find a cure for it all."
A tear dropped on the ivory knit
ting needles and the usually placid
features of the kindly face set in an
expression of suffering.
A ring of the telephone bell and the
knitting was put aside.
"Oh. is that you. Mary? Now. don't
assume that coldly polite manner and
say nice things about appreciation and
all that business. It's purely a busl
ness deal. You are not fit to work. >
and you know you are not Suppose
you die, who’ll take care of the1
mother?
"Oh. oh. oh, that cough! Now, look
here, little friend of mine, you do as
I ask. or you will make me very, very
unhappy. What good would any
money of mine do me if I thought
people I am interested in and like j
would die rather than let me help
them? Now, look hare, you go up into
the mountains until you get well and
strong again, and then you can come
back and pay me back, if you want to.
some day. Let me look out for things
for awhile—
“Lose your position? Good thing!
I’ll get you a better one. Now, I am
busy knitting. You tell your chief to
night you won't be there for a couple
of months, and come around here to
morrow morning at ten o'clock. I am
going to put some things aside and
wait for you. Good-by, and God bless
you!"
If you wandered into the big sit
ting-room any day you would bear
many talks like that.
Mrs. Ryan Is a great traveler, and
owing to the ill health of one of her
boys, who has been compelled to spend
so much of his life in arid lands of
the southwest, she frequently takes the
six-days' journey from New York to
the Painted Desert in Arizona. During
these trips she always travels in her
private car “Pere Marquette.” which
includes in its furnishings a conse
crated altar and all the fittings for the
celebration of mass. At such services
her car te always thrown open to any
in the villages who may wish to at
tend.
It was because of her son's ill-health
and necessitated stay in the southwest
that Mrs. Ryan interested herself in
the missions to the Indians. She has
built 11 churches throughout the
southwest and she has done much for
tuberculosis sufferers in that region.
There are tent villages outside of
Phoenix, Tucson. Mesa and a score of
other desirable places where con
sumptives find Nature’s cure, which
has been furnished and supported by
Mrs. Ryan for afflicted men and wom
en whose means made such measures
impossible.
Mrs. Ryan's faith in humanity is
only surpassed by her faith in Al
mighty God. She is a lover of her fel
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common, everyday, homely charities,
which the average philanthropist fails
to heed, Mrs. Ryan's thoughts have
not been found wanting. There are
two beds at St. Vincent's hospital, for
instance, reserved especially for sick
and worn-out telephone operators. The
chief operators of every telephone ex
change are notified regularly that such
provision has been made for the care
of the telephone girls, and when the
two beds are fun, Mrs. Ryan's purse
is ever open to supply more if needed.
If Mrs. Ryan hears of a boy or girl
who has shown any talent and has
not the means of developing it, her
handsome, motherly face brightens
with one of her happy smiles as she
says: “I am so glad I can do this
little thing for some other mother's
boy.” It is always “a little tiling"
that Mrs. Ryan does, whether n be to
build a church, a hospital, a school,
or help the ill in body or mind. It's
always "a little thing" for the hands
which give a million dollars a year
for good work to spend long heurs
making baby clothes for some little
one whose mother finds life a poorly
fed, overworked, back-breaking prob
lem. It's "a little thing" to take a
worn-out shop girl away from fcer
drudgery for a month or two of rest
and comfort where God's air is pure
and undeflled. It's a little thing" to
send some young boy with a hard
cough and red spots on his cheek bones
out Into the eternal sunshine of the
southwest for a new lease ef life. It’s
"a little thing" to go out personally
and hunt employment for the support
er of some family, to provide com
forts and necessities for families in
want, to make employment for men
and women unfitted for the responsi
bilities which have fallen upon them.
It’s “a little thing” to educate ambi
tious boys and girls, and to do all these
“little things, with just one stipula
tion: “You won't say anything about
it, except sometimes remember me in
a little prayer.”
In the big public subscriptions
where donors’ names are advertised
for what they have done. Mrs. Thom
as F. Ryan's name is never seen.
Avoiding always publicity, she is the
same quiet, retiring, great-hearted
woman who came to New York the
girl wife of Tom Ryan, a clerk with
nothing but a babj and a genius for
making money, 34 years ago. There
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Although a devout Roman Catholic,
her aid goes out to any good cause, ir
respective of creed. But first and fore
most in the interests of her life is the
welfare of the mother church. She
has the privilege granted to but few
laymen, of having a private chapel in
her residence, and she has the distinc
tion of owning the only traveling
chapel in the country, there being only
one other in the world, that owned by I
the qneen of Spain.
But it Is not only in the far west
and to such charities as ride on a pub
lic wave of sentiment that Mrs. Ryan's
heart and purse are ever open. In th^
are women in the old Jesuit parish on j
Sixteenth street who still remember
the sympathetic little woman who
lived there a quarter of a century ago,
and who helped many an unfortunate
from the earnings Thomas Ryan
brought home on Saturday night.
Labor Unions in Holland.
Every department of labor is united
in Holland and all other departments.
So the other night the spectacle was
seen at the Amsterdam opera house'
of a crowd of bootmakers and cob
blers wrecking the performance of an
opera for which nonunion choristers
had been enlisted.
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By MAGISTRATE DANIEL E. FINN.
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The human vam
pire is a terrible thing,
and v;e see him in the
police court in all his |
hideousness.
It fattens on the
immorality of men and
women, puts its claws
in the pockets of the
push-cart humanity,!
which, wretched and low as it is, is infinitely superior to the thing that 1
profits by its ignorance.
It will take money dripping with blood and reeking with the
WO' st there is and laugh at you while it is doing it.
'Hie greatness and brutality of man’s inhumanity to man and the
whole world’s wolfishness toward woman, as seen from a police mag
istrate’s bench, sometimes shakes our belief in the things learned at
Sunday school.
The love of money has got the world in a frenzy, and nothing
counts against it.
It kills the love of home and family; it makes repulsive, ugly,
slimy things out of men and women who seem fair enough to look at,
until you hear them open their mouths in a yawp that has only money
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for its theme, and you see that the only motive that is propelling the
living thing is the unholy, rapacious, vulture-like desire to gain a dol
lar or two or to keep from letting one go.
The insolence of people who feel the power of money thev possess,
gotten by foul or fair means, is as bad in its wav of decencv on the :
part of those poor creatures who are trying to get it by any of the t
means that have as incidents in the getting oi it frequent appearance !
in the police court.
The insolence of money goes to turn the socalistic spirit of the ig- :
norant into anarehv.
The man with money and the power that it gives him, who uses j
it to do good things in modesty, is about one in a hundred of the other j
kind.
The man with the automobile and the insolence of a new fortune,
who shouts Hi! Hi! at the pedestrian, tries to break a policeman
when he s arrested for speed-law infringement and shows his con
tempt fbr people in court, is one of the best cartoons on the insolence
and growing aristocracy of money that any man tbrild create:
The world follows the fashion because so few individuals can
think for themselves, and it’s the fashion to reverence the man who
gets the money. Reverence for the man who gets the money leads to
the utter obliteration of the human feelings.
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_ BY PISSING IMPORTANT MEASURE]
KATE, MEAT INSPECTION AND
PURE FOOD BILLS HURRIED
THROUGH THROUGH BEFORE
ADJOURNMENT — RESUME OF
WORK ACCOMPLISHED.
Washington. — Congress completed
Friday the execution of its legislative
programme and adjourned Saturday.
On the eve of adjournment the dif
ference between the house and senate
on the important bills pending were
adjusted. As a result of the action
taken the following measures were laid
before the president for his approval:
The railroad rate act.
The agricultural appropriation bill,
including the meat inspection amend
ment.
The pure food act.
The president signed the railroad
rate bill at 11:45 Friday night. It goes
into effect in 60 days.
New Epoch in Legislation.
Had rothing else been done this con
gress these measures would stand out
as monuments to the present national
administration. In emphatic manner
they mark the beginning of a new
epocb in federal legislation—govern
mental regulation on corporations and
the invocation of the police power, so
to speak, to stay the hand of private
greed and protect the pocketbook and
the health and general welfare of the
mass*.
In the end the bouse has had its
way mostly regarding the railroad rate
bill. Oil pipe lines remain in the meas
ure as common carriers, but the com
modity provision of the bill has tieen
fixed so as to make the prohibition of
an alliance between transportation
and production apply only to "railroad
companies." The railroads cannot own
coal mines or transport their own
products but Standard Oil and the in
dependent oil companies can pipe their
own product. The senate yielded on
this point because the house refused
to give in by an overwhelming vote,
and otherwise the whole bill would
have died.
Senator Tillman contented himself
with a severe “roast” of the Standard j
Oil influence, and then as the one in
charge of the measure voted to accept
the conference report. The senate
gained a part of its contention in a
readjustment of the anti-pass feature
of the bill which prohibits free trans
portation to every one save certain
excepted classes, including rail read
employes and their families, and the
officials, attorneys, surgeons, etc., of
the companies.
House Victory in Meat Bill.
The meat legislation was a complete
victory for the house. The senate
agreed to the conference report and
the boose formally ratified it There
were two points in controversy—the
payment for inspection service and the
question of putting dates on the labels
of cans and packages of meat prod
ucts. The government will pay the
cost of inspection, instead of the pack
ers. and labels will not require the
date ot inspection or canning of the
contents.
In announcing the failure of the sen
ate conferees to win on these disputed
points. Senator Proctor said the bill j
accomplished a great deal, inasmuch!
as it provides for thorough inspection I
of all meat products and the sanitary !
regulation of packing plants, and that'
the conferees felt they could not lose
everything by holding out for distinc- i
tive features which the public would
not accept. He paid his compliments 1
to the packers in strong terms and
charged them with having engineered
the si heme ttat created sentiment in
favor ot making the government pay '
the cost of inspection. Other senators
entered their protest against the con
troverted provisions of the measure
but finally the conference repnrt was
adoDted.
In the house, acceptance of the re
port was a pure formality. One im
portant new feature of the measure
as it passed both houses is an added
appropriation of $900,000 to the $3.
OoO.OOO for inspection provided in the
house amendment. This was brought
about by combining the amount orig
inally appropriated to the bureau of
animal industry for inspection under
the old system with the new perma- j
nent appropriation.
Pure Food Bill Criticised.
The conference report on the pure
food bill was adopted by both bouses
without any change. In the opinion
of Dr. Wiley and other officials of the
agricultural department, it is a good
measure as far as it goes, but Mr.
Mann, of Chicago, who had charge of
the conference report, says that it was j
not as good as had been hoped for. I
It is weak in that it does not provide
a standard by which drugs, foods and
drinks can be measured to determine
whether they comply with the law.
That important question is referred to i
the courts, which under the bill as it 11
will become law must add to their j
already great burden the consideration
of cases raising the issue as to wheth
er certain articles of food or drugs
contain harmful ingredients, are mis
branded or because of their labels vio
late the pure food law.
Canal Type Is Fixed.
With the adjournment of congress
it is possible to make a survey of the
entire field of important legislation
enacted during the session. The three
most prominent measures already
have been referred to, and their gen
eral provisions are well known to the
country. Next in point of interest
perhaps comes the Panama canal act.
The house first declared In favor of
the lock canal, by providing that no
portion of the money appropriated in
the sundry civil bill should be ex
pended on a sea level project. A ma
jority of the senate committee report
ed in favor of a sea level canal, but
after a vigorous debate the president's
recommendation in favor of a lock
type was approved by a vote of 36
to 31.
A joint resolution was passed by
congress requiring the purchase of
supplies and materials for the canal in
the American market unless the presi
dent shall determine that the bids of
domestic producers are extortionate or
unreasonable.
Congress appropriated $42,500,000
for continuing work on the canal.
$16,500,000 being deficiency appropria
tions and $26,000,000 being for work
during the fiscal year 1907. In addi
tion to these appropriations steps are
being taken to issue the canal bonds j
authorized by the Spooner act. which
may be issued “from time to time"
to the extent of $130,000,000. During
the present session congress provided
that these bonds should have the
rights and privileges of other two per
cent. bonds of the I'nited States and
the tax of one-fourth of one per cent,
imposed upon bonds deposited to se
cure national bank circulation was im
posed upon the canal bonds when used
for such security. It was also pro
vided that the deficiency appropriation
should be returned to the treasury
from the proceeds of the sale of the
canal bonds.
Statehood Issue Settled.
The admission of Oklahoma and In
dian territory as a single state was
accomplished by the act approved
June 16. The act also admits Arizona j
and New Mexico into the union as a j
single state, provided that a majority
in each of the territories shall vote
for joint statehood, “and not other
wise.” This bill was the subject of
bitter contention, as it had been in
former sessions. It passed the house
in the form of a bill admitting the
four territories as two states. The
senate amended the bill by eliminat- j
ing all provisions relating to Arizona
and New Mexico, in conference the
conditional admission of these ter- 1
ritories as a state was agreed upon. ■
and after vigorous debate in both i
houses the conference report was
agreed to.
After several years of effort on the
part of the state department congress
at this session passed an act reorgan
izing the consular service. The con
suls general end consuls are grouped
by classes, and provision is made for
an inspection service consisting of five
consuls genera! at large, with a sal
ary of *6,000 each. No officer in the
consular service receiving more thar.
$1,000 is permitted to engage in busi
ness or practice law. All fee6 are to
be turned into the treasury. Origin
ally tue bill prvided that the higher »
offices should be filled by promotion
only, but this provision W3S elimin
ated and the promotion system has
been established by the state depart- t
meir without further enactment.
Boon in Alcohol Bill.
A most important piece of legisla
tion is the removal of the tax upon
denatured alcohol. It was strongly
opposed by manufacturers of kerosene '
and gasoline. In the debate it was !
alleged that, with the tax removed
alcoho! could he manufactured and
sold cheaper than either kerosene or
gasoline and that it would enter into
universal us<^ for illnmin.rin; axitive
power and otherwise.
A national quarantine law. provid
ing for uniformity of administration 1
and giving the federal government
power to establish quarantines in
port cities and supersede the local and
state authorities, has been passed.
An employer's liability bill, to m«v;
the demands of the trainmen of the
t'nited States, has been placed upon
;he statute books after years of effo" ’
Greater Aid for Xilitia.
Among the acts affecting the mili
tary establishment were those ia
reasing the efficiency of the ordnance
iepartment of the army and incress
ng the appropriation for the nrlliv
'rom $’,<>00.'*oo t£> j-;,*v,.00e annual'<
Congress took a new tack in :h»
laTal aprpopriation bill instead o
luthorizing the construction of the
tiggest battleship afloat, as firs; pro *
vided by the house, the bill as Anally:
passed authorizes the preparation of
plans for such a vessel, to be submit
ted to congress. The naval act of this
year makes small provision otherwise
for the increase of the navy. >
A bill was passed defining hazing
and providing for the punishment of
midshipmen guilty of the offense.
General legislation during this ses
sion included an act prohibiting in
terstate commerce in spurious or
falsely stamped articles made of gold
or silver alloy, an act providing for
the marking of the graves of confed
erate soldiers and sailors and an act
providing for the disposition of the
five civilized tribes of Indians.
The principal legislation affecting
the Philippines was an act postpon
ing the operation of the coastwise
laws until April 11, 1909: another re
vising the Philippines tariff, and a
third authorizing the purchase of coal
claims by the secretary of war.
An important measure to cattle in
terests is that changing the 2S-hour
law so that cattle may be kept in cars
36 hours without unloading.
Immigration Bill Fails.
Among the important measures that
have failed the immigration bill de
mands first consideration. It failed
because a conference committee was
not appointed to settle the disagree
ment between the two houses. After
a spirited fight in the house, in which
Speaker Cannon participated, the im
migration bill, originally a senate
measure, was passed, with a substitute
for the •'educational test." which re
quired immigrants to possess the abil
ity to read English or some other lan
guage. The house substituted a sec
tion providing for a commission to in
vestigate the subject of immigration.
The bill will command attention when
congress reconvenes in the fall.
The bill to prevent contributions by
corporations to campaign funds was
started in the house. It was forced
through the senate by the indefatig
able efforts of Senator Tillman 1'he
house leaders refused to let it come
up there, although it is understood
action will be permitted at the next
sesssion. The Democrats charge that
the Republicans want to lay it over
until after the congressional elettions,
in oruer to get one mare chance at ’he
corporation barrel
The Philippine tariff bill is still an
other notable failure. It was one of
the features of the origina’ adminis
P.on programme, was whipped through
the house after a celebrated tignt with
the insurgents, and eventually landed
in the seclusion of a senate 'ommii
tee-room. It has been allowed to be
forgotten for the present.
The immunity bill, designed to pre
vent the recurrence of fiascos such as
attended the prosecution of the Chi
cago beef cases, passed the house and
in amended form was reported favor
ably from the senate committee on ju
diciary. Ever since then eff irts io get
it up have failed owing to the objec
tion of some senator or other.
It has been a bard session for treat
ies. The Santo Domingo convention,
much desired by the administration,
has oeen kept down by the hostile mi
nority in the senate. No action has
been taken either on the Isle of Pir.es
or Algeciras treaties.
Fate of Labor Bills.
Bills, most of whith were deman led
by 'he leaders of organized labor, have
met their fate as follows:
1. The anti-injunctijn bill—dead 3
the judiciary committee
2. The eight-hoar bill, reported from
the ctmmittee on labor, but not a:'ed
upon.
3. The election of senators :a con
gress by direct Tote of the peotxe—
dead in committee.
f The publicity of campaign ex
penses bill, recently reported to the
house, but not acted upon
5- The letter earners bil.—dead tn
committee.
6 The bill to regu.ate the hoars cl
ral.w iv trainmen—deau ;a com mi : ee
<• The bill for the relief of the Sk*
cum snrTivors—dead in nuittN
S. The bill to prevent con»Kt-n....!e
goods from competing with the gtvv.
manufactured by honest labor—dead 3
committee.
Oats-de the line of actual legislation,
the present session will be hist rx
throuua having aaihoriied the jnw
that has led to the railroad-,-: ::,
’res. Another resolution ado;:-2
by th* senate will cause an iavesuca
ik-n ot the alleged grain trust and
railroad-elevator combine in the west
that } tomises to be equally if n ;
more stasanonal.
What Congress Has Spent.
The following is given as prartica >
in accurate statement of the disburse
ments authorized from she public
reasttry:
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LEADING FEA TURES OF THE THREE BIG Eli I
GENERAL PROVISIONS—The railroad
rate bill requires all interstate carriers to
make through routes and reasonable joint
rates. It makes oil pipe line companies,
express companies, and sleeping car com
panies common carriers and subject to
the law. Railways are forbidden from en
gaging in any other business than trans
portation. Pipe lines are excluded from
this prohibition.
PRIVATE CARS—While permitting rail
ways to use private freight cars, it re
quires that all incidental charges arising
from refrigerating and other service* be
incorporated in the transportation charge
PUBLIC RATES—It require* publica
tion of all rates, fares, or charges, and
forbids changes save on Jc days' notice.
Jurisdiction is conferred upon the inter
state commerce commission to hear com
plaints of unjust and unreasonable rates,
and to fix rates that are just and reason
able.
REBATES—Rebates and other discrim
inatory practices are forbidden and sub
let to penalties •
COURT REVIEW—A limited review or
ardefs or requirements of the commis
sion may be made by the courts, but no
Injunction, interlocutory order, or decree
suspending or restraining the enforcement
it an order of the commission shall be
granted except after hot less than five
lays' notice.
NO PASSES—Free transportation is
limited to certain specified persons.
The interstate commerce commission is
Enlarged to seven members, whose com
pensatioa is fined at HfifiK annually.
BEEF.
..HMT «IBM»»TrWt8- Before
ue. sheep, sv.-,pe. or puts are taker
any establishment 'or stanchfe- -s a .
preparation for market ihe\ -- .;«•
■tiutnai ati.V aloe for an s en of r >
<aise and tf su.-h are 'o .r.t no .
ise slaughtered soparateii and il e , »r
.-asses given a special examination
<1Kr**"** oarpffiK
1> in spited and ;f w:r,d hcaUhf;?; * d
ttt for hunun ftwl vdll l*» t&jts*d ■ r.
opeettd and pmH and ,f m>? w
'tn^ t^d anti condkmirw*d. and
in the latter case must he ii**t*Y>v*d n the
presence of lies government in spec! or
88COXD IN8PEXTIO.N After tt.s first
inspection another inspection .if carcasses
cr part* of car'asses s.aj he had to see if
the meat ha* become unfit for human
f»od since the first inspection
THIRD INSPECTION-An inspection
ntust also be made of ail meat fed pryvf.
•»* *»>« ir.spe.tioe will foBosrthe
pnMQCt into th*? can. rot, caavaa. »>r AfW
wra« ;u&r ~~ * |
UABSI.B ON CANS—A ay meat or meat |
fiiod rrcslucts put into car., pot. can las
oir other receptacle, must have a label at
tached to it under the supervision ot a
rieernment inspector. which shall state
»w cowtwt^
,.SAN'tTART RRlJl IRKMKNTS- AH ec»
pti^wte meat foe In
1!2T commence must be in
WSUV. P^t sT^JSSETt?:
bTttaf provided
PURE EOOD.
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1 ■> ..bi. ~>i Mv.tera.eu tti : < ’rr^.
;x •54 »>!»«•* a «e*5?
5i, •**,**> ' ’>'»»twa «f the U» it ev
* A}' £^TtSS7» ^VTa r *
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v\v«toe CtoMrjr %-*>« ^ ilwliai >. i
it it owtiia ar<y 'r.tr^lm-! *.
» h^tw‘*,tW £m^ntrt
PRKSRRVATlVto I^hixcitb~\*» *»..
he aryttea erteraalty *hSTd;?£^a,~i
the.r remora) are pnctect on the park*$>
l.APKLS-Pnjft or fvVsts w " Se J -
StS^iT4 if r*:**ly hf^hT?
Chy««s m pa.kages js V-nr a
ktatenteat oa the labels oft he A
prstfvsrtHm «rf aloobot.
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