New-York tribune., 1901-12-21
MEAT INSPECTION TO co ON
SECRETARY WILSON DENIES THAT HE
HAS ORDERED IT STOPPED.
Inv TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.


Washington Dec 20-Secretary Wilson denies
| IN emnbatio terms that the Agricultural Depart
| r,ent has ordered the microscopic Inspection OF
export meat stopped at Chicago or other pack
| Ing centres. He is at complete loss 10 hiio"
how the report that he had done so gained such
currency as to be scattered broadcast over the
country and the world in press dispatches from
Chicago The fact that Germany was SO reaoy
! 70 shut out all uninspected American meat is
| considered by Secretary Wilson a suspicious CIR
cumstance which possibly accounts for the re-
mort IT appears from the cable dispatches to-
dav that Germany had all the machinery ready
| for action against meat importations from the
! United States just as the report OF the Asri-
| cultural Departments alleged new policy was
| enormously announced from Chicago ana tha'
| as consequence the prices Of German pork were
| Immediately raised in the Kaiser's realm two 10
| three cents pound.
Mr. Wilson thinks it barely possible that the
| Chicago story was based recent intmation
| at the Agricultural Department that unless Con-
gress makes an additional appropriation
to be available as soon as it is authorized, for
carving on the work of meat inspection, that
| important work will have to be suspended uhtl
the regular appropriation bills for the expenses
| cf the government are passed, which Will not
| be done until late next spring or early in the
| summer He complains that the last Congress
| did not allow MS department dS hIu'h ch' nv
| asked for the use Of the Bureau of Animal In
dustry under the supervision Of which the work
| of inspecting export meat is done, and as re
| suit the fund appropriated for this work IS
nearly exhausted
II have been at the head Of the Agricultural
Department now more than four years, ana L
have never yet called upon Congress to meet d
deficiency incurred in the necessary operations
| of the department" said Mr.. Wilson to repre-
sentative of The Tribune to-day, and L nave
determined that I never will do 1 always
cut nv cloth to suit the case, but the last Con-
gress was so niggardly with US that l find 1t
impossible to pull through this time with the
amount of money allowed for the inspection OF
meat. There is just about enough OF the 1und
left to carry on this work until Congress comes
to our relief In a special bill. Meantime we
shall continue to inspect every pound OF meat
intended for export, and to place upon 1t the
certificate or tag that entities it 10 the foreign
markets The German Government seems to
have gone to great pains to find some excuse
for putting up the bars against American meats;
but our good friends of the fatherland Will nave
to get some better excuse than the claim thdI
we have ceased to subject our meats 10 nlicro-
scOpical inspection. Our forces or expert lnspeC-
tors at the various packing centres are just as
busy and Just alert and falthful to-ddy do
they ever were. and they will continue at theI
work as though the fund from which theY are
maid was not nearly exhausted am gIdu OF
This opnortunity to present the urgency OF our
need TO Congress- and hope all the newspapers
will call attention to II, so Congress Will De SuIe
TO act in time TO prevent what Would De d Na9N
injury to the meat interests Of the United states
or course we will lose our meat trade in Ger
many IL we should have TO abandon our micro
scopical inspection system.