The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-07

UHCHhg FNlGbabid lNVNSfiOt NNo' VI ing house." he said. And any man doing it would be instantly discharged.'
 The only dyes used were those to color the castings of the sausage, and not for meats.
 As to the character of the employees MT. Wilson denied that they were the refuse of humanity, or that the recent strike had made any change. Ninety-fve per cent of those employed since that strike were union men. He denied that girls were compelled to stand while work ing, saying there were places for them to sit down. Rooms were provided in which the employees might eat and all of the big packers furnished coffee to their employees for 1 cent cup.
 q think he said that the people employed in the stock yards are more healthy than the average class There are very few cases of tuberculosis, per- haps some who do not know it
 Representative Scott asked if MT. Will son had ever investigated packing houses abroad.
 He had in England. but said American methods were far superior.
 Have you had any difficulty prior to this agitation with your foreign mar kets." asked MT. Scott
 "We are having a great deal of trouble now" replied the witness.
 Asked again about times prior to the present agitation, he mentioned that some trouble was had with Germany, but he did not regard this as based on the quail ity of American meats
 MT. Wilson then took up the Beveridge amendment
 we should very much prefer" he re- tba data Ofn fba lahpls of cans might be omitted"
 He also suggested that some carcasses might be found unsound and at the same time be fit for food or some portion of them. He wanted the language to con- demn carcasses only when the earcasses "are found to be unfit for human food V
 To illustrate he said a carcass might be bruised on the shoulder and other wise be all right.
 Opinion on Unsoundness.
 pr. Melvin was asked for an opinion and said that as applied to q live animal it might be unsound, but fit for food" !" but applied to a dead animal a carcass that was 'unsound" might not be fit for food.
 Mir. Wadsworth said the whole thing was whether the animal was or was not fit for human food
 whats the use of hurdening the law with a lot of adjectves such as sound, healthful etc." said MT Wadsworth.
 Mr Wilson made the same objection to the use of words impure" ''unsound.' .' "unhealthful," etc, wherever they quail fled the character through the amend ment and the committee spent some time in discussing the question. He said that in pickle four ounces of salt peter was used on 100 pounds of meat. The meat perhaps used up two ounces of salt peter
 t,.{, ..f1 al hnI Ierh under the amendment an inspector might condemn meat to which this pickle had been applied. There would be no objec- tion he said to a sanitary regulation as strong as practicable. He admitted that the names of their products did not de- scribe the article. As an example he said his firm sold oxford" sausage which was pork sausage sold under the name oxford" Another article named brown was simply a beef stew.
 Representative Lorrimer added that Brown" contained beef, pork potatoes, carrots, etc.
 Only Chicken and Turkey.
 "As A matter of fact" asked Represent tative Scott. lis anything you put up called potted chicken which is not chicken?'
 NO, sir. our potted chicken is made en- tirely of chicken and our potted turkey is made of turkey
 MT. Wilson objected to the shipping re- striction which he believed would prohibit re responsible merchants from a branch es- tablishment. Also he did not want juris- diction left with any common carrier as to whether the act had been complied with He did not object to the restriction that the common carrier might refuse shipments unless they contained the regu- Iation stamp, but thought the restrictions .fa ftara nd nnf Ba axtandad to the sanitary condition of the packing house as provided in the Beveridge amendment.
 At this point the committee adjourned until tomorrow morning.
 The Wordsworth substitute for the Bev- eridge amendment which has been in the course of preparation for some days. was made public today. The substitute differs from the amendment of the Senate. first in that 1t leaves the matter of inspection discretionary with the Secretary of Az r,culture Ii omits the adjectves descrip- tive of meat fit for human food these adjectves being sound" 'healihful,' etc. The substitute provides that the courts shall review any grievance in the matter of the enforcement of the regulations when applied to.
 If places the cost of inspection upon the government instead of upon the packers If exempts the preservative requirements as to food intended for export, and sim plifies the common carrier provision by allowing railroads to accept for shipment goods marked inspected and passed without the further restriction that the common carrier may refuse to take the shipment if the packing or slaughter house from which 1t comes is unsanitary.
 So far as Mr. Wilson, representing the hackers had covered the Beveridge amendment in his testimony before com mittee, it was apparent that the Wads- worth substitute met the exact objec- lions he raised regarding the Beveridge amendment.
 Cantajn Caldwell Is Acquitted.