Current Mention

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 21, 1906

— A Christian Science church building costing $2,000,000 was dedicated in Boston, June 10. Members of that denomination to the number of 40,000 had come to Boston from all parts of the country to be present on the occasion.

— The beef packers have won a victory in Congress by defeating that clause of the meat-inspection bill which provided that the cost of inspection should be paid by the packers. The bill now provides that the government shall pay the cost, which it is estimated will be about $2,000,000 annually.

— According to press statements, positive steps have been taken by the Interstate Commerce Commission preliminary to extending the scope of the coal and oil investigation, being made by order of Congress, to include every railroad in the United States. To this end circular letters calling for important information and requiring that this shall be furnished by July 15 were sent to the 848 railroad companies which operate the 213,940 miles of line comprised in the railroad system of the country.

— Recent political demonstrations in the West in favor of W. J. Bryan are considered by some persons in close touch with political matters to be part of a plan by certain political leaders to prevent the nomination of W. R. Hearst for the presidency in 1908. The latter’s demonstration of political strength in New York has made him feared by representatives of opposing interests. Mr. Hearst is especially strong with the labor party, and it is believed this party, if it goes into politics as President Gompers has threatened, will control 2,000,000 votes at the next election.

— Four large meat-packing companies of Kansas City, Mo., Armour & Co., Swift & Co., Cudahy & Co., and the Nelson Morris Packing Company, were found guilty in the United States District Court at Kansas City, June 12, of accepting concessions from the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad on export shipments on packing-house products. Under the law the companies can be fined from $1,000 to $20,000 each. The law provides no jail sentence. Sentence was deferred by the presiding judge to the coming week. The trial of the C. B. & Q. railway company was begun the same day.

— Tuberculosis has made its debut into politics. A plank of the recently adopted State platform of the Pennsylvania Republicans states: “Modern science has demonstrated that consumption is a curable disease, and that this great scourge of the human race, at once so communicable and so deadly, may, by resort to proper treatment and by education in the laws of health, be almost wiped out as the terror of mankind. It is the duty of the State to do its part toward this beneficent end, and we hereby commit the Republican party to the establishment and support of dispensaries, hospitals, and sanitariums for the treatment of the consumptive poor.” Possibly this may be intended to catch the consumptive vote.