The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-29
BARTLE TO BE BOUNCED.
TWO EXCHANGES OF ST. LOUIS
DEMAND his SCALP.

The Live Stock Exchange Sends
Communication to Chairman Hatch
of the House Agricultural Committee
A Red-Hot Denunciation by Mem
bers of the Merchants Exchange.
ST. LOUIS, March 2S.-At a meeting of
the st, Louis Live Stock Exchange, held at
the National stock yards yesterday, the fol
lowing report of the committee was unani-
mously adopted and sent to w. II. Hatch,
chairman of the House Committee on Agri-
culture:
We solemly affirm that the pork packers and
butchers of this city are particular to exclude
all bruised or lame hogs, or any hogs showing
any symptoms Of any ailmeut or disease what
ever; that the grade OF hogs bought
by t and packers are healthy Il or ana aa
hog cholera; that all dead or smothered hogs
received by the National Stock Yards are sold
10 rendering companies and are
oy them rendered into grease.
We find that the statements reported
to have been made by William q. Bartle who
acknowledged that he knowingly slaughtered
diseased hogs for human food, are wholly I'M
worthy of credit and utterly false. A transcript
OF Mr. Bartle's testimony has been sent for by
the pork packers of this city, and if it is found
70 agree with the reports already made public,
specific charges will be made against Mr.. Bar
tie and his expulsion from the Merchants Ez-
change will follow.
CHARGES PREFERRED.
The following explains itself:
To the Board of Directors of the Merchants En-
change of st. Louis:
We, the undersigned, members of the Mer-
chants Exchange of St. Louis, do charge VIII
ham q. Bartle, also mealber of the exchange,
as follows:
CHARGE /. An act of a criminal nature, in
this that said William G. Bartle did, while
i'm ~,,1is with "a H.
ern trade. use cholera hogs and put them into
Iood products, and that ne did cut hogs into
hams etc, knowing them to be diseased. This
charge we expect to prove by his own public
confession. We charge this only on his own
confession, and we believe he lied when he con-
fesSed it.
CHARGE }. An act of bad faith and of a crimi-
nal nature in this; that said William G..
Barte did testify before committee of Con
gress, and, in violation of the faith reposed in
all witnesses before that committee
to tell the truth. did reply to
the question of the chairman, did you, while
packing hogs in st. Louis with large South
ern trade, use cholera hogs, and put them into
| food producty" and answered: Il did and so
does every other pack err and did further tes-
tify before that committee that he had cut
hogs into hams, etc knowing them to be dis
elsed just as every other packer did, which teS-
| tlmony Is Wllfully false. either in whole or IN
part, and an infamous libel upon every pork
| packer in the Countrywide act Of an Anarchist
| toward trade.
III dtCpTudOCt WIFI lIllt Y. StCllOu o. Vi Jue
rules, regulatio and bylaws of the Merchants
Exchange we hereby call upon the board of di
| rectors to examine these charges and take such
action upon them may seem their duty in the
case, upholdlng the honor of our market and
our city. JOHN WHITAKER.
L. A. DAVIDSON,
Of East st. Louis Packing and Provision Co.
ID. c. QUIRK.
MICHAEL MCEENIs.
WILLIAM SCHROEDER.
CHARLES WIsMARTH, JR-
JOSEPH B, AIMS.
LOWS GRUENsFELDER-
+. g. COCHRAN.
POLITICAL ISSUE.
WASHINGTON. March 2S.-The fight over
| the bill to tax and stamp all limitations of
| lard has now become so hot that it is prob
| able no bill on the subject will pass The
| bill might have gone through if so much
| had not been said in its favor as to draw
all the opposing interests into alliance
| against it and to bring out all the argu-
ments against it. The controversy is becom-
| ing personal one between the members of
| the House Committee on Agriculture, and
| threatens to affect the reelection
| of some members of it. The
| opponents of the bill have APP
parently made mistake in their latest
step, namely, the publication of pamphlet
entitled 'Servicps of the Hon. w. H. Hatch,
of Missouri, in behalf of the prime steam
| lard of the Chicago and Boston hog pack
| ers,n which concentrates all the fire upon
him as chairman of the Committee on Agri-
culture and author of the bill in question.