Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-06-04
CONDITIONS ARE REVOLVING.
Method Of Handling and Prepar-
ing Food Products UnCIeanIy,
Dangerous 10 Health.
Under Present law no Method Of
stopping the pociorins Of Jnsal-
able or Juusablc Meats.

message Of President Roosevelt coz
cesuins conditions IN the Chicago stock
yards was sent TO Congress today.
The Senate and House Of Representa-
tyes-l transmit herewith the report
or Mr. James Bronson Reynolds Ar1
Commissioner Charles p. NELL the sps-
clal committee whom ! appOmoted 10
investigate into the conditions IN the
stockyards OF Chicago, and report
thereon 10 me. This report Is OF a ore
liminary nature / submit IL 70 y0a
now because @ shows the urgent need
Of immediate action by the Congress
IN the direction Of providing a drssti,
and thorough going inspection by tie
federal government Of all stockysids
and packing houses and OF their pr1-
ducts 80 far as the latter enter into
interstate or foreign commerce The
oond lions shown 10y even this short
inspection 10 exist In the Chicago stock
yards are revolving n O. imperatiyc'y
necessary. Zoo The interest of decencg
that they should boz radically changed
Under Tho existing lsW IL is wholly inn
possible 90 secure satisfactory results.
INVESTIGATION ORDERED
When my attention was first directed
'o This matter an investigation was
m'dp under The bureau OF animal m.
oirtry NJ ihe department Of agriculture.
When tho preliminary statements 90
tils investigation were brought 90 my
attention they showed such defects An
The la" and such wholly unexpe-ted
conditions that ] deemed n best TO
lave further immediate investigation
ty men not connected with the bureau
Gnd accordingly appointed Messrs
REYNOLDS ana Neil u vas impossible
uncef The existing ls7 that satisfactory
work should be done by tho bureau
o. auimal industry. am nov, how
ever. examining The way n which the
work actually was done.
PRESIDENT MAY ACT.
Before ! had received the report 4
| Mys-rs. Reynolds ana Nell ] had d.
rc-,0d THAT labels placed upon any
/ package u meat food products should
{ sitte only that ghs carcass ~ the amt
/ NAL from which the meat was taken
had ,leeu Inspected 40 tine lime of
slaughter ~ Inspect. on OF meat fool
ilo11cts 90 ail stages OF preparation
- not secured by the passage Of legls-
latcu recommended. shall feel com
PEELED 10 order tHat Inspection labels
aud certificates on canned products
shall nof be used hereafter
FILTHY sTOCKYARDs.
The report shows that the stockyards
and packing houses are not Kept even
reasonably clean, and that the method
of handling ana preparing food pro-
ducts is unCleanly aud dangerous %
health. Under existing law the nation
al government has no power % enforce
inspection OF the many forms Of pre-
pared meat food products that are daily
going from the packing houses into in-
terstate commerce Owing 90 an mad
cquate appropriation the department ~
agriculture Is not even able 20 place
inspectors iB an Embellishments dosir-
ing that Present law prohibits the
shipment OF uuiuspected meat 90 f0r-
eigu countries. but there Is no provision
forhIddiug the shipment " unlnspectsd
meats Boz interstate commerce. and thIs
the avenues of Interstate commerce are
le0 open 90 traffic 900 diseased or spoil
I'd meats. IT, as has been alleged on
seemingly good authority further
evils exist such as the improper use ~
chemicals and dyes the government
lacks power 90 remedy them. 4 is- Is
needed which win enable the Inspect ,rs
OF the general government 90 iaspsct
aud supervise from the ho0f 20 me can
the preparation Of meat food products.
The eva seems 90 b. much less IN the
sale OF dressed carcasses than IN ne
sale OF canned and other prepared pro-
ducts
FEES FOR INSPECTION
Iu nay Judgment the expenses o. ne
nsre, tiou should be paid by fe.
levied ON each animal slaughtered. II
this is not done. The whole purpose %
the law can a. any time be defeated
through an insufficient appropriation
au. whenever there was no particular
interest Co. the suhjec. % would not b.
only easy bot natural thus 70 make
the appropriation insufficient. n II we're
not for this consideration ] should IA
loe the government paying for H.
Tile alarm expressed boz certain quar-
ters concerning rHs feature should b.
alsyed by realization of the fact
.thl. IN no case under such a Law.
will the cost of Inspection exceed eight
cents por head.
REPORT Is PRELIMINARY.
I.sli special attention % the fact thst
t1l- regor Us preliminary. ana that the
investigation 10 siiil unfinished % -
not SET possible to report on the al
'pgal abuses 40 the use OF deicterious
chemical compounds Ia connection
ri.h canning and preserving meat pro-
CI.fs. nor on The alleged doctoIlng in
tlis fashion ~ tainted meat and OF
products returned 60 the packers a.
having grown unstable or uDusaoia
from q e. or tr0m other reasons Grave
.H NHs $1,000 -
abuses ~ this nature.
SO WAY 40 STOP ABUSES.
let me repeat that under Tho pres
ont Iaw there practically Is n0 method
of stopping these abuses n they should
Do discovered % exist Legislation =
needed iu order % prevent tho POSSIBLE
ity NJ an abuses in The future II Uo
legislation Is passed. then the excellent
results accomplished by the work -
this special committee win endure only
90 long as the memory 81 the commits
tres work s fresh. and recrudesceuls
Of the abuses is absolutely certain.
URGES LEGISLATION
urge the immediate enactment int,
law u provisions which win enable tha
department % agriculture adequately
o. INSPECT the meat and meet fool
products entering into interstate CONS
rerce and tr supervise The methods %
pfcparlag 'hc same. and % prescribe
the sanitary conditions under which The
Vork shall be performed therefore
commend 70 your favorable considero-
ton and urge the enactment % sub
siantially the provisions known az SEN
ate amendment No. - 20 The act max
Ing appropriations Tor the department;
Of agriculture for the hscal year and