New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-03-20

change the law of August 80 1880 and the same IS
true as to the act Of March sD og prevdes for
careful Inspection of sailed pork ana nsg0h
tended for exportation with view sound 10 and nj FOR
human food whenever the laws rssHla' cointfy
a which Ei s teS o or bacon is to be shall
require inspection thereof relating 10 sne rhaneyer
ton thereof into such country, and also Whenes
any buyer. seller or exporter of such meats IN,
tended, for expectation shall request 'nSpe''''"
In his annual report for 1888 Secretary Mo,.o on
said that the meat Inspection nas ,rch na 1891
but he added that THE extent of the microscopes
nspeeton has been s ge1 70 producs in
tended for direct export 10 countries exactns tm
@aGs in Hs sspot cork from o pounds IN
to 100000 pounds in 1895 ana cohciuoeo MS 'e
the microscopic inspection cost the Goyernme,n EN-
81. per cent the value OF the meat soId 10 the
comparison between the amount Of meat SO IN
ected and sold in 1892 to those r%
inspection has not Increased our foreign safes anu
This sentence clearly defined the attitude Of the
Democratic Secretary Of ASrcUtupe bcb his his
o ofHri oath bound him to enforce and which he
had taken the liberty to amend. 1t may be parti-
fsms and G pork from the tinted states Germany
alone according to the official to the Tress-
cess Of the total given by Secretary Morton for
a.! European countries which required microscope
inspection as a necessary condition 10 ADMISSION
His annual report for ls9i again Iufnlsheu an.
crusade AGAINST the producers and exporters OF the
United states. Economy" still the watch
word, and hostility 10 the laws or August ~. ioso;
and March g. 1891, was even more clearly sxniolted
than il had been in the preceding year The Sec
The cost of microscopic inspection has been d.
mnshed during the year 1894 from eight ana three,
one-haf cents per capita. This indicates rednc-
ton Of nearly % per cent The cost or Inspecting
mcroscopioa.y the pork sold in Germany ana
France mo other European countries demanding
sich inspecti0n) by the United States in the year
1893 was Si72 36I 0S But during the year 1874 me
Quantity so Inspected was increased ioVUoVo pounIs
and the cost OF inspection was IN tne same Twelve
months reduced 10 sSS.922 10
SECRETARY Morton then went on to recommend
that the law be go amended as ITO compel the
owners of the meat Inspected 10 pay tne Sost .,
't IS only equitable that those ray for the inspec-
ton who are directly, pecuniarily benefited there
by and he continued: 80 H.. ,o.o
las long the Government pays Tor ncr III
scouic meat inspection many establishments VIII
demand inspection which have neither interstate nor
export trade II the Inspection Is worm any 1n'g
cured meats they should pay for H. AS the law ex-
lists to-day any s.aughterlng establishment no mat
ter how insignificant. which declares II mas or ex,
poets 10 have foreign trade In meats nis lega!
right to demand governmental Inspection ana GER
tidcation Il costs individuals nothing When the
killers packers and dealers demanding me inspec.
only that Inspection will be called for which IL
necessary for the faclitaton OF foreign trade. No
Inspection viii be asked merely TO give employment
10 nicroscopis,s and others at the expense or the
Treasury of the United States. 1t Is temptngly
easy To be benevolent and generous at pubic cost
Congress did not approve or a1opt uIt pectt
corporl;ed in the Agricultural Appropriation Law
which was approved March 1885, provisions de-
signed to make the act Of March J. 1877, more
stringent and effective.