Omaha daily bee., 1888-03-25
LARD FROM CHOLERA HOGS.
An Ex-Pscker Makes a Clean
Breast of It.
REPRovED BY HIS CONSCIENCE
This Man Quits the Business Because
He Couidn't Deal Honestly and
Succeed-The Texas cleo
ton Contest.
Revolving Disclosures.

WASHINGTON, March 24.-The lard hearing
was resumed before the house committee on
agriculture. Representative officials of Fair.
banks & Co., testifying at length, defended
refined lard as a pure and wholesome food
product. Prime steam lard had been shown
TO be so vulnerable that further attacks upon
it became unnecessary 10 prove. its inferiority
when compared with refined lard. William
Bartle, an ex-packer of st. Louis, continued
his testimony.
He repeated the statement that in most Of
the packing houses smothered hogs, preg-
nant sows and hogs suffering from cholera
were used indiscriminately with good hogs to
make prime steam lard. He thought the in
vestigation ought to begin at the root Of the
matter and show from what truck the refiner
was compelled to make his refined lard owing
to the prevalence of disease among hogs at
the stock yards. He could, as q pork
packer and experienced farmer, verify
all the statements he had heard
about the manufacturers Of
prime steam lard. He had only gone out Of
the business because he couldn't pursue it
longer and deal honestly. When he was In
the business he necessarily packed cholera
logs because they were mixed with other
hogs.
He had cut hogs into hams, etc, knowing
them to be diseased, just as every other
packer did.
The meat Of cholera hogs was not poison
GUS. One of the crying evils of the time was
the shipping of diseased hogs and pregnant
sows to market by m He was in favor
of a law which would prevent a packer from
using cholera hogs. The man would immor-
talize himself who would frame legislation
which would prevent refners and packers
from acting improperly in the manufacture
of food products. The witness stated that
mt of n por1no1 nf ctytu animals fhn ntlfnhar
of boars, stays and pregnant sows would
sometimes be none, but at times would run
from five to twenty head. He did not think
the farmer had any guilty knowledge of the
use to which his diseased hogs were put.
The Texas Election Case.
WASHINGTON, March 24-The senate COM
mittee on privileges and elections met this
morning to investigate the alleged Texas out
RACES. Senator Spooner said to Senator
Evarts that it seemed to have been fairly
tried by the United States district attorney
in Texas, but Kirk was acquitted. 1.-THE
clerk" said Senator Spooner, 'has brought
what purports to be a transcript Of the stem
ographic report of the trial. 1t bears the
affidavit of the stenographer, who swears
that the appended 240 pages are a true copy.
of his notes. Thu testimony produced, how
ever, is only ffty-three pages, being through
out the testimony Tor the defendant. 1t
shows, however, that there was important
testimony for the prosecution. What shall
be done under the circumstances"
Senator Evarts rejoined with emphasis
that the committee should bring all parties
to Washington.
The other senator's had not arrived and
hearing began. Clerk Hart, of the United
States district court, at Austin, said he had
been unable to find the missing pages of the
stenographic report in his office. His APP
pointment was subsequent to the trial. SEN
ator Pugh understood the entire report was
in the attorney generals office. Among the
papers, which the witness submitted was a
message-said to be the original-from l..
Kirk to D.. B. Bolton, at Courtney, saying:
''Things here look doubtful. Do your
work" This is the message about which the
committee tried in vain to get some informa-
ton last year.
Several other witnesses were examined.
One asserted he had met Judge Kirk on the
evening of election day at Gabriel precinct,
the place where Kirk, when before the com
mittee, swore he had not been.
Ed Durfee, formerly telegraph operator at
Burton, produced a copy of a telegram re-
ceived by him addressed to b. Larcey and
signed by Robert Sloan, saying: "Grabelle
has gone against peoples (Kirk's) ticket 4 to
/, What must we do2 Flewellyan over
flowing against u.s."
These are two of the voting places where
alleged frauds were perpetrated in the inter-
est of Kinks ticket.