Show MISCELLANEOUS Events Which Tran plrnl Tester day In WAShIngton TIle Florida Flo-rida Assassination GREEN AND MRS MCREA REACH ENGLAND General George Crook Jletnnu from lib Trip Throngh Indian Territory By Telezrarh to the Xcwa WANIIIXUTOV SKITS The 1I0ne Committee on Acrlenl Inrr Hie lorlln taomslnalbaIl WASHINGTON Feb 19 The House Committee ou Agriculture today began a hearing on the legislation legis-lation lirofoswl by l the Conger anil liuttvnrorth lilllx to regulate the manufacture and role of compound lard anil taxing the production thereof the taxes to be collected by tho internal revenue bureau WV Conger of Iloston representing tile advocates of the Conger bill antI Alexander W t derburn and Colonel lirlgham representing the National Urauge Iatrons ot Husbandry spoke In favor of the passage of the bJUIctor Victor E Pollctt of Penn il vaula a member of the legislature committee of the National Grange clairol the hearing In liehalf of the advocates of the bill and George II Webster of Armour Co oticiied the COMJ lor the opponents lie as rerietl that compound lard is not an adulteration but nil economic and meritorious mingling of lanl uith otherpure subetancea Tlie ingredients ingredi-ents are prime strom haul cotton I seed oil and beef etearine Ills firm > uts compound lard on the market L clnu r1 branded by its projcr name He said there WOe not enough jmro lard made In the United States to meet the demands of the people ° He do not ask for legislation and we predicted that if it It enacted into a law 11oct11 operate as has the oleomargarine oleo-margarine law Tile manufacture of the article was Increased while the price of butter was never eo low legislation of this character charac-ter was to be i > atcil hu favored Faulkners bill In the Senate for a pure food dlviMou of the Agricultural Agricultu-ral Department Heury C liutchcr entlng the Southern Cotton Seed UiICom panysiid the efTectof lie bill would be to kill the manufacture of compound com-pound lard Unless it can be shown that compound lard Is composed of deleteriouH sultaiicif injurious to tho public health theie ii I no reaton for pLiclng U under goWrnment control As a mMtcr of fact corn lound Lard is Ics likely to be tainted by animal dkcasex tliau lure i lard Lcgblation of this character is dangerous dan-gerous In tendency resulting in the building up of one Industry at the expense of another The bill would dctlroy the demand for cotton cot-ton teed oil placing I a double bur den upon the liopleofthetectlonin which that article was produced Adjourned till next Wednesday rcssioN rolL AIUIV Tre5rs Tho Senate bill reporting favorably favor-ably on granting pensions to army nurses in I amended to make the lean lIon S13 a month instead of Sf3 TUB FLORIDA KILLING The report of United States Mar slial Jlitellof Florida regardIng the recent killing of a deputy marshal in that State was made public today to-day It is substantially the same story as given in these dispatches on the night of the killing being In substance that Saundurs was invited invit-ed out to drive by two men named IcFarlln and Mitchell the former of whom he had before had trouble with overthe setting of writs In the afternoon Jlltchtll brought back Saundera dead body but would not make any statement as to who did the killing beyond raying that it was not himself McFarlin had disappeared Mlzel had heard In the morning a report that an attempt would be fe i n rt1 I titI made to kill omo > of the party and had warned Saunders not to go out After tho murder he received an Intimation thai it would be well for himself and Ijanford to leave town and they did fo that night The AttorneyGeneral told this afternoon that no ttept would be takrn in the matter until the President Presi-dent returned from Alleghany WTOUINO LAND OFFICES The house committee em public lands has unanimously agreed to report favorably a bill to repeal the I Umber culture law A favorable report was also ordered on Careys bill to establish land ofllces at Sun Dance lender and Douglas Wyoming Wyo-ming tile Stat named to be known as the Platto ULtrict CIVIL SERVICE INVESTIGATION Tho threo civil pervico cominl slonem Frank llatton editor of the Washington Jlotl which made charges against the commissioners and a number of other gentlemen were present when the loupe committee com-mittee on reform in tho civil service this Tuolng began Its Investigation Investiga-tion Commissioner I yman testified that brotherinlaw A C Comp 111 had recciveil 1 several promotions promo-tions one of them in April 1STO when witness was the sole commls iouer Camobell did not IKUS an examination for iiromotlon rom missloncrs clerks not being required to do so In January February Commissioner Oberly called wIt ntcs attention to the fact that examination ex-amination < UestIoii3 were being funiihed outsiders Next day he iIiccaereU that lIttle Questions were in Campbellii handwriting and at liners sucgestton the chief examlnermade investigation found tho questions had not been used Campbell acknowledged that he had fecureU copies of them for nay laZy friend in the pension oflicc who land come to him for asUtance in passing an examination for promotion Campbell 11110 met witness wit-ness that he told this lady he did not know of any way to help her except that he might give her n ret ofqucstlons formerly used which would embrace tho subjects included in-cluded in dm examination for promotion pro-motion Witnchs placed the tWItter tWIt-ter in Oberlys hands as it would I have been manifestly Improper for wItness to act In the case With nrpcit to the criticisms growIng out of witness daughter making an application to take u rlvll servlc examination before she had reached 1 a legal age lymau said his daughter hail acted l wltliotit consulting him HI daughters application was made before that nile vancing the nge of applicants irhta adojdrtl l Lut lie examination did not take place until after Ihe change had been made In resjor 10 n member of tho commilteeI < yman told that Oberly alter Invitigaling the charge agiat CampMI Hated that it was merely an otlVnso against the technical tech-nical discipline of the office involving in-volving no turpitude and a reprimand t month would be sufficient punishment punish-ment Commissioner Roosevelt said that when he learned of the Campliell matter CommivIoncrThomnsannnil himself had concluded anlnqulry into the matter and after hearing Olcrly had continued Campbell in oCtets They had concluded that they would not be justified in re opening tho case Iloosevilt railed attention to editorials tlie Wash ington Fctt containing charges against the commissioner and said as far as they affected the present commission they were unqualified falsehoods CommlFouer Thempson corroborated corrobo-rated the fcuiiementa of Roosevelt concerning Campbell Thn committee adjourned fublert to call ortbo c11a1rmul I |