The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-08
MEAT INSPECTION BILL
Agrarian Features Have Been
Eliminated.
A DIFFICULT PROBLEM
The Method of Inspection Simplif1ed and
Unif1ed-There Will Be One Inspec-
ton Only-Trade With the
United States.
Copyright 1898 by Associated Press.

| most SUBJECTS discussed pN German
| newspapers. This measure early in the
week was finally passed by the Prus-
sian cabinet, and has gone to the bull
desrath, which, it is understood, will
make short work of it, as each Ct the
federal governments has already cen
| sidered it and the present shape If the
| bill is virtually the result OF mutua,
| concessions made by the several gov
ernments. From an authoritative
source it is learned that the task Of
| agreeing to its final form proved very
| difficult to the south German govern
ments, especially Wurtemburg and Ba-
| varia, which originally opposed any
| such legislation. since, thus far, they
| have not been saddled with trichinoss
inspection and saw no reason why The
| whole empire should be saddled with
an expensive meat inspection merely
| because Prussia wished it. 1t was in
| Difference to these south Ter nan votes
| that the Prussian cabinet gradually cut
down the demands and a number If the
| agrarian features of the original draft
| bill We're eliminated. Two important
notifications are the dropol 1g of he
| clause providing for state remunera-
| ton for all cattle and meat d eclared
| unfit for sale and the inserting of a
| clause enforcing the inspection Of all
cattle and swine slaughtered for lri-
| Nate consumption.
The correspondent of the associated
| press here interviewed a hisn P'us-
sian official concerning the measure,
| who said:
For America the most vital AMI IL
| teresting features are that it simplifies
| and unifieS the method of inspection
| and that there will only be one IN
! spection. There will be no prohibition
against any class of American meat,
| though very strong pressure was
| brought to bear on the government to
exclude certain kinds of meat, especial
| ly sausage, canned meats and lard.
| The bundesrath, however, is given full
powers under the bill to make in case
| of necessity decree declaring against
| any and all kinds of foreign meat. hut
| such action will not be taken Unless
there is the strongest reason for il.
"A difficult problem is the treatment
of American sausage, which is LEFT 10
the bundesrath and the richstag.
! Nothing in the whole bill is devised
with the view of impeding or prevent
| ing of American imports. Tha whole
bill is fair and it's methods came. &c
! impugned even in America
| The foregoing, statements were SUBJ
santially corroborated by an American
| expert in Berlin. to whom they were
| communicated. He said: The tenor
| of the bill shows that the
imperial government means to
treat American meats fairly
and on their merits. The option
| was given to the bundesrath to treat
| American meats with greater severity
and correspond with similar power rest
| ing in the secretary of agriculture en-
| our side regarding certain German i'm
ports. But the enforcement of the ops
| ton will require specific proof that
| American meats are injurious and that
| is out of the question. The bill will
| not be an unmitigated evil for Amer-
can interests. Hitherto in Germany
| there has been no confidence in our
| meat inspection, but there is al
| most sacred confidence In Ger
man imperial inspection. Henceforth
any American meats exposed for sale
will be known to have been officially
| approved and the result will be a cor
responding increase in business, prob
| ably doubling our sales. The only para
| graph in the bill which is capable of
mischief if unfairly applied, is the one
| which sets forth that all imported
meats must come in certain cuts and
parts. We cut our meat differently
from the Germans, so mischief may
turn in that paragraph, However, l
! feel confident that the German govern
| ment will not apply the bill unfairly, as
| it fully realizes that there will be no
| wisdom in such course, seeing that V e
hold trump cards in retaliation"
Another fact is that the Prussian
veterinary experts to whom all sam
| pies of American meats, sausages, etc,
suspected of being affected with trichi-
nosis or other diseases have
been submitted have thus far
been unable in any case to confirm the
suspicious. The government announces
that several loads of American fruits in
spected for the San Jose scale were re-
Gently seized at Hamburg and Stettn.
| In each case. however, the scales were
| dead. The German chambers of COM
merce and industrial associations, in
their annual reports this week, have re-
ferred more or less freely to Germany S
trade with the United States. A ma
| jority of them express the hope that
| commercial relations will become closer
| and more friendly. The Leipsic chamber
| of commerce, one of the most import
| ant in Germany. deplores the present
uncertainty of the commercial relations
| with both the United States and Great
| Britain, and says it trusts the govern
| ment will strive to the utmost to re-
establish permanently the best relations
| with Doth countries. The Bunder In
dustrellen, the Rhensh manufacture
ing association, however, urges the gov
eminent to adopt prompt and ener-
getic retaliatory measures against the
United States, in view of the palpable
violations Of the treaty"
Inc bundesrath is now discussing the
government bill, the so-called leix heinz
framed to suppress certain features OF
public and private immortality 1t also
affects literature and art. The bill is a
weakened copy of a measure repeated.
ly introduced in the reichstag by cen.
trists and defeated. The center which
is the dominant faction of the reich.
stag, published through it's main organ
the Cologne NolksZeitung. it's intention
of lighting the two leading government
/ measures the anti-strike and military
bills. At the same time it condemns tn,
constant Increase in lese majeste trial
and impugns the motives underlyint
most of these cases, saying it deplore
the growing espionage which is bre(
thereby.
Weyler's Banquet