Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-03-23

nted beef was unit 60 eat, and that he
could not do anything with his modi-
cineH 20 hong ms they were compelled
70 eat u; he also condemned the canned
beef.
w. Clark Marshail said he had been
n specialist In meat provisions since
lsis. although he had not been In any
Of the establishments In seven or eight
years.
please explain the nature and char.
aotcr OF your experience with reference
to canned meats. more particularly
canned roast beef. so-cailcd." said Mai.
Lee.
FIBER AND FAT.
II have investigated and experiment.
cd In the matter since 1873. The pro.
cess OF canning meat today RIBS the
meat Of all its nutrition. leaving moth
ing but fibcr, fat and Reiaiine In the
can. consider II entirely unnt for
human food. In the packing houses
this matter ~ insolublc matter would
come under the hcnd Of taninFc. aud
would he used az "a fertilizer. There
colleges. known TO all scientists, u
show that animals fed with II will
stnrvc 10 death. earned corned beef"
Col Dnvla--1 object To- any testimony
from this witness which does not re-
latc strictly TO the objects Of inquiry.
MAJ. Lce-1 believe that at times the
questions have gone outside this In
qulry. ! wish the witness, Of course.
to keep within bounds.
SICK CATTLE SLAUGHTERED.
In reply 20 Mai. Lee. the witness
said that he knew whore O'Mailcy'a
slaughter house used to be located. Ito
also knew Of n herd OF thirty or forty
condemned cattle being driven there
NftN II. Il q
cattle the next day IN n city market.
He knew Of the cnrcnancs being after
ward taken 20 a canning establishment.
He would not give tho name OF the
concern unless the firm denied u. The
cattle had plcuru- pneumonia. This oc-
currcd eighteen months before Dr
bcvooc took charge ~ tho bureau OF
animal Industry at the stockyards.
How long viii canned roast beef
kocp?"
III properly canned, II wifi keep Tor
twenty years" The witness stated
that the present process robbed the
meat OF its nutrition and the sterilizing
feature Of II generated n gas which
tainted the meat.
is fresh beef prior to or during ship
mcnts directly or Indirectly treated
with any chemicnls7"
~ man would be- "a fool " he ala not
treat II chemically under ordinary re-
frigcrntlon, because meat going from
here In London could not he sent there
under the ordinary temperature OF an
icchousc without having on its arrival
n deposit 81 atmospheric germs. nni
the meat would be unstable In Lon-
don" Witness did not think there
was any harm In 80 treating beef n II
We're done intclllgcntly.
Capt. H. r. wainwright ~ the First
United States cavalry. said that IN
Cuba there was no complaint by his
men about the H1-callcd canned roast
beef. II wnH generally eaton By them.
There was general Dissatisfaction.
however. with Il on account Of itr un-
palatnblenoHa.
The last witness examined IN Chicago
was Lcwia II. Wilson. who served with
the Seventh company volunteer signal
corps IN Porto Rico. lie stated that
at occasions the men complained pf the
canned roast beef a. nauscating. an
paintnhlc and entirely unnt 10 rnt No
moro than 10 per cent n That issued
TO his company was consumed,
The members ~ the court lest for
tho East tonight. and win meet IN New
York nt n O'Clock Saturday morning.