Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-11
MUCH FOOD ADULTERATED
Barry Commissioner Collects Information
for the Legislature.
PRINTERS COMPLAIN OF THE GOVERNOR
OmciaI Reports Cut Down to So Great
an Extent that IL Lops on Much
of PROFIT In the state
Contract.
CFrom a stan Correspondents

DIES MONIES, Dec TO- - Especially -
State Dairy Commissioner II r. Wright
will present TO the legislative committees
to which are assigned the pure food bill
vast amount of information on butcher
products. He has secured from the state
chemist analysis of meats and meat
products taken to him and secured from
the butcher shops of this and other cities
of the state. 1t has been discovered that
the packing companies manufacture two
brands of sausage. One they call ''regu-
lar and the other pure food sausage.
The names of the brands are not for the
public, but used by the firms. Analysis
of the regular sausage has disclosed that
1t contains all sorts OF meats and parts
of the animals that are not ordinarily
fit to eat. There is a liberal amount of
formaldehyde to preserve the meat and
a considerable amount of coloring matter.
The butchers buy the regular" because
1t is cheaper keeps longer and by the
color sells better. 1t has been discovered
through Mr. Wrght's investigation that
a vast amount OF adulterated lard is sold
in this state. 1t has been learned that
good pure lard cannot be made and sold
for less than about u cents a pound with
any profit and yet there is being ex-
three pounds for % cents.
Cuts Down state Reports.
Governor Cummins has continued to
cut down the size of the reports of state
officials till the public printer and binder
are making objection. The last report
that went through the hands of the gov
ernor would not have been recognized by
its author. 1t is alleged. The curtailing
of tha e{1 nF ha &c in, he
interest of economy and because the gov
ernor claims the reports are being bur-
dened with material that is of no value
to the public and is put in merely to
make big report. But by lessening the
size of the reports the compensation of
the state printer and state binder is cut
down and these officials are objecting.
strike May Reach Legislature.
1t is possible that the strike OF the
employees Of the Iowa Printing company
may come up in the legislature in some
| form. The legal rates for printing were
fixed by the legislature a number of
/ years ago, when the rate of wages was
$12 a week and the hours ten hours a
4 day. Since then the wages by degrees
nave been raised to $40 week and the
Aours have been cut to nine a day. The
| printers now demand in the new con-
| ,ract eight hours day and SIS a week.
! The state work, according to the legisla-
i've enactment, must be done in this city.
! rhe work is done under contract for the
state printer by the Iowa Printing COM
pany and the claim is made by both the
state printer and the company that the
present state rates will not permit of a
further increase in wages ,or a decrease
in hours. 1t is possible that the labor
unions will make a demand on the legis-
lature for a law requiring the state work
/ be done by union labor and this will lead
| TO a demand for an increase in the legal
rate Cor state work.
Court COnvenes Tuesday.
The supreme court will convene Tuesday
| morning at o'clock for the fourth and last
period of the September term. Cases from
The Seventeenth. Eighteenth md Nineteenth
districts will be submitted at this period
| These districts are in the eastern part OF
the state.
Figures for Census.
State Accountant G. c. Heer was sent
| to Ames to secure the total amount ex
pended for the maintenance of the
| agricultural college there since it's organi
| zation, from all sources. The figures were
| also secured for the state normal and the
state university. The support fund from
the state for the state agricultural con