The Portland daily press., 1888-03-27
what Mr.. BartIe Said.


ture of lard is utterly false and libel"
what Mr.. BartIe Said.
In the hearing on the lard question before
the House Committee on Agriculture Will
liam G. Bartle of st. Louis, testified that he
had been in the pork packing business for 40
years. He had recently been in Kansas
City and examined the stock yards and pack
ing houses there AT Jacob Dale & Sons he
found them slaughtering great many
diseased hogs, mostof them suffering from
what was known as cholera. One of the
firm told him that but little white grease
was made now, and that his foreman had re-
Gently bought 200 smothered hogs, which
were put into the tanks and went into prime
steam lard. The with ess said that he went
out of the business because he could not pur-
sue his business any longer and deal honest
ly. He said that while he was in the busl-
ness he necessarily packed cholera hogs be-
cause they were mixed in with other hogs
1t was very difficult for man in purchasing
1000 or 5000 hogs to detect the cholera hogs.
The stock yards were filled with cholera
hogs today. He had cut hogs into hams,
ETC., knowing them to be diseased, just. as
hog was not in his judgment poisonous. Ii
the meat of cattle suffering from Texas fever
was poisonous half the people in st. Louis
would have been dead long ago.
The chairman Did you, while you were
packing hogs in St. Louis, with large
Southern trade, use cholera hogs and put
them into the food products?
The witness-I did, sir, and so does every
other packer.
Carl Dreir of Fairbanks & Co., declared
that refined lard, made from refined or purl-
fiod hog fat, pure beef fat and pure cotton.
seed oil, was a nutritious, wholesome food
product, which he considered as good in
quality as most of the lard made from the
hog His firm used no other products than
these, and they were of the best obtainable
quality. The process of manufacture was
careful and clean. If any deleterious sub
stance was to be found in refined lard the
article would have been tabooed long ago.
As long as foreign governments admitted re-
fined lard as an article of commerce there
could be no foundation in the trumped-up
charges of injurious adulteration. In con-
clusiOn Mr.. Dreier earnestly protested
against any legislation which would single
out refined lard for taxation unless the same
shackles were placed on all refined fats.
BY the Peoples Votes.
The subcommittee of the House on the
election of President and Vice President,
have reported favorably to the full commit
tee the joint resolution proposing an amend
ment to the constitution looking to the elec-
tion of the President and Vice President by
the direct votes of the people.
Clerical Opposition to Utah.
Rev. M. W. Montgomery, representing the
Home Missionary Society Of the Congrega-
tional church, addressed the Senate commit
tee on Territories this morning in opposi-
tion to the admission of Utah, and in favor
of legislation to suppress the evils of Nor
monism. He said eleven million Protestants
and six million Catholics of the country are
a unit in condemnation of Mormonism
They ask that Congress shall break the de-
lusions under which the Mormon people
stronger than the United States government,
that Christ will himself appear on earth and
work victory in their behalf.
Rivers and Harbors.
The river and harbor hill, which will come
in this week, will probably be between $15,-
100000 and $20,000,0O0.
The Pacific Roads.
The special Senate committee, to which
was referred the report of the Pacific rail-
railroad commission, resumed its hearing to-
day. Greed Hagmond, counsel for the Cen
tral Pacific, continued his remarks, and SEN
ator Stamford submitted brief address.
He said he desired to emphasize the single
all vituperations which had bee cast on the
builders of the road. This was that the
Central Pacific had fulfilled every obligation
to the government and people imposed upon
it by the acts of Congress creating it. In
not a single instance is 1t derelict.