Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1895-03-09
OUR EXPORT BEEF
Secretary Morton's Opinion of
the Foreign Exclusion.
AMERICAN BEEF HIGH GRADE

All the Cry Against Our Meats Inspired
by the Landowners OF France and
Germany Frances Prohibition of
Our Live Cattle.
WASHINGTON, March 2. - Secretary
Morton has prepared the following state
ment for the press regarding the meat
trade of the United States with certain
foreign countries:
export American beef is of such a
high quality that a parliamentary COM
mittee in England in 1893 reported that
in some of the most fashionable and
aristocratic markets in London it was
frequently sold as prime Scotch and
English meat In some of the large
meat-selling establishments in the aris-
tocratic West End of London there was
practically no other than American meat
sold. Yet it was called English and
Scotch The prices of American dressed
beet, per 100 pounds, at the Central meat
were as follows:
american beef, killed in England,
$10121a per hundred to $l0.S719; re-
frigerator American beef, $1l.121a to
$l2121a per hundredweight for hind
quarters; for forequarters, $3.50 and IS.
1T is claimed by the United States
international dealers in meats that all
the cry against the edibeness of Ameri-
can meats, and all the charges against
the sanitary condition of American live
cattle sent abroad are inspired by the
land-owning protectionists OF Germany
and France. They desire, it is said, to
make cattle and meat higher in German
and French markets by making cattle
and beef scarcer. The herds of the
United States are in splendid sanitary
condition. There has not been case OF
pleuro- pneumonia in any of the United
States or territories in the last three
years. There is no contagious, infec-
tious or communicable disease prevalent
among the domestic animals in any
state or territory of the Union. There
has not been, and will not be, shipped
to any European port any animal or the
products of any animal which has not
been inspected and declared healthy.
wholesome and edible. The United
States will continue to furnish all meat
less Europe with the best and cheapest
pork ana peer IN Cne WOrlu.
FRANCES PROHIBITION.
PARIS, March. 2.-Contrary to cabled
reports received here, United States
Ambassador Eustis has not received in
structons to protest against the French
exclusion of American cattle. 1t seems
there is a misrepresentation in the
United States in regard to the scope of
the decree which applies only to Ameri-
can live cattle, and which does not af-
feet the timed or dressed beef. The
exact wording of the decree is:
considering that contagious diseases
which do not exist in France are preva-
lent in the United States among ami
mails of the bovine species, and that
cases have been established among ami
mails imported into Europe from that
country, it is necessary to take measures
to prevent the introduction of these dis
eases into our territory. Accordingly,
upon the advice of the consulting COM
mittee on epizootics, and on the report
of the counselor of state, the director OF
agriculture DEGREES that the import into
or transit through France of all animals
of the bovine species from the United
States is prohibited both by our land
frontiers or by sea, until otherwise or
dered. Animals shipped before Febru-
arv "a will be allowed entry if healthy"
1t is learned that France took this
step with the greatest reluctance. NJ.
Hanotaux, the minister of foreign
affairs, says:
81 myself was greatly opposed to the
issuance of the decree, and it was only
done after the minister of agriculture
had assured me that there was positive
evidence that the disease among the
cattle landed existed. l am not willing
to agree to any step which could be con-
strued as unfriendly to the United
States, but Germany, Belgium and Eng
land have already taken exactly the
same precautions, and we were the last
n tioD to do on