The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-19
WANT AGE OF MEAT
BRrrONs DEMAND DATE OF GOODS
 MANUFACTURE.
Chicago Tfnned ProviaIons Again Under Dfscmwsfan In British House of Characterization For Min-
 aster of War.

London, June 1s-Chicago meat again formed the subject of several questions in the House of Commons today. Mir Hicks Beach. conservative son of the former ciancelfor of the excheuuer. asked War Secretary Haldane what quantity Of Chicago canned meat was supplied to the troops in South Africa turin gthe late war, and what propor- ton of enterie deaths ought more prop eriv to have been described as due to ptomain& pDisoninE.
 The secretary replied that rather more than half the canned meat sup piled to the British troops in South Africa during the late war came from the United States. He could not say how much of this came from Chicago. The war office knew nothing of my cases of enterlc fever which could be classed as ptomaine poisoning.
 Mir. Lea. Liberal, wanted to know, whether, in view of the fact that ehe committee on agriculture of the United States House of Representatives had omteed in drawing up the meat inspee- tion bllf to stipulate that the packers stamp the date of manufacture on each article of food sold, the war office would not issue an army order reauir- ing every can of meat supplied to the army to be plainly stamped with the date of manufacture.
 The secretary reassurred Mr. Lea, in- forming him that 1t had long been a condition of the ordinary war ofice contracts that tins of preserved food stamped visibly inside t5e tins. Reply Ing to a question based on the discov- cry in the dining room of the House of Commons of a box marked "Armour's" est. Louis, Chicago and Kansas City) chickens" Mir. Jacoby, chairman of the kitchen committee. assured the House that no food of any kind used In the House of Commons comes from Cbt- cago.
 Mir starkey. Conservative. asked If, in view of the fact that several per- sons died recently at Hull, after eating Argentine meat. and the unsanitary conditions under which American meat was prepared the president of the Board of Trade would not take imm" diate steps to have each consignment of foreign meat. timed or otherwise inspected on arrival
 The president of the Board of Trade. however said he was not in a position at present to take the coure suggested but he added that the Board was con sidering the question of obtaining fur ther powers for dealing with imported food.
 To another question War secretafv Haldene said that he was only aware of one case In the last twelve months fin which troops had refused to eat ration, of canned meat. a sample of which was now under examination of an anaiylst As the total discontinuance of timed meat rations in peace times MT. Hal dene said that stucks of such meats were kept in reserve for war purposes I. had been the practice periodically | to issue thees to the troops. thus turn | ing over the stock and avoiding any | loss to the public. If the practice can b econtinued consistently with the fore most consideration, namely. the health | and well being of the troops. 1t would 1 be continued. but not unless investiga i tion shows that no danger is to be ap- preehnded.