The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-14
GOVERNMENT IS
STUCK FOR FAIR
Meat inspection All Right but
the People at Large Will
Have to Pay.
BEvERIDGE DOWN AND OUT
HooSlER SENATOR ONCE MORE
IN THE RUcK.

/ Washington, June 13.-The question OF
+ who shall pay the cost Of meat inspeC-
/ ton, the government or the packers, is
the only remaining one unsettled by the
house committee on agriculture All 9th
[ er provisions of the inspection amend
ment to the agricultural appropriation
bill have been agreed to and the measure
will be presented TO the house before ad-
iOuTnment today if the committee. which
seems pretty evenly divided on the qUes-
ton of placing the cost, can agree on
the provision.
The sanitary inspection required by the
Beveridge amendment is retained in the
bill with slight notifications which tend
to strengthen rather than weaken the
rightly of this inspection The secretary
Of agriculture is given authority TO create
his force of inspectors without reference
to the civil service regulations, this rule
to apply for year.
In this respect the precedent set in the
administration of the free alcohol law
was followed and this feature constitutes
one Of the amendments to the sanitary
feature of the bill
The label on the cans of food products
is not to state the date of the manufac-
/ tuTe of the articles This IS a change
from the Beverage amendment. The
question of allowing personalities in
meat products has been left to the dis
erection of the secretary of agriculture
The bill has been limited to continental
. United States. and is not applicable TO
the Philippines or other possessions
Small Fellows Not Included.
The small butcher and packer are not
10 be included within the jurisdiction of
the inspection law.
The division Of the committee on the
question Of placing the cost of inspection
indicates that there is likely TO be q con-
trOversy on this question in the house
when the measure reaches the stage of
discussion in that body
The bill as completed by the committee
was made public tonight The sanitation
provision reads as follows.
The secretary of agriculture shall
cause 10 be made. by experts In sanitation
or other competent inspectors, such in
SDectiOn of all SlaUghtering, meat can
ming. sailing, packing, rendering or SINH
lar eSta bliShmentS IN which cattle. sheep
swine and goats are slaughtered and the
meat and meat food products thereof
are protected for interstate or foreign
commerce as may be necessary to in
form himself concerning the sanitary con-
ditiOuS Of the same and to prescribe the
rules and regulations Of sanitation under
which such establishments shall be main
tanned and where the sanitary COndi-
tons Of any such establishment are such
that the meat or meat food products are
rendered UnsoUud. unhealthful, UnwhOle-
some or otherwise unfit for human food
ne shall refuse TO allow said meat or
meat food products to be labeled. stamped
or tagged as inspected and passed
THAT the secretary of agriculture shall
cause an examination and inspection Of all
cattle sheep. swine and goats. and the
food products thereof. slaughtered and
prepared in the abliShmentS heTeinbe-
fore described for the purposes Of inter
state or foreign commerce, TO be made
during the night time as well as in the
day time when the sIaughtering of said
cattle. sheep, swine or goats or the prep
aTatiOn Of said food products is conducted
during the night time.