The Forrest City times., 1906-06-08
President Accompanies It With a Special
 Message.
ROOSEVELT SAYS HEALTH
 OF COUNTRY AT STAKE
The Report Was Prepared By Charles p. NeilI, Commis- sioner of Labor, and James B. Reynolds. of New York.

Washington June 4.-The president, on Monday, transmitted to congress the report of the Neill -McReynolds commission accompanied by special message
 THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
 The Senate and House of Repre- sentatives: | transmit herewith the re- port of MT. James Bronson Reynolds and Commissioner Charles P Neill, the special committee whom appoint ed to investigate into the conditions in the stock yards of Chicago and re- port thereon to me This report is of a preliminary nature. l submit it to you now because it shows the urgent need of imm ediate action by the con- gress in the direction of providing drastic and thoroughgoing inspection by the federal government of all stock yards and packing houses and of their products, so far as tie latter enter in to interstate or foreign commerce.
 ''The conditions shown by even this short inspection to exist in the Chi. cago stock yards are revolting. It is amperatiyely necessary in the interest of health and of deeency that they should be radically changed Under the existing law 1t Is wholly impossible Co secure satisfactory results.
 When my attention was first di. rected to this matter an investigation was made under the bureau of animal industry of the department of agricul. lure When the preliminary state ments of this investigation were brought to my attention they showed such defects in the law and such who'll 1y unexpected conditions that l deemed 1t best to have a further i'm. mediate investigation by men not con. nected with the bureau, and according ly appointed Messrs. Reynolds and Neill. It was impossible under exist ing law that satisfactory work should be done by the bureau of animal in. dustry 1 am now, however, examining the way in which the work actually was done.
 Before l had received the report Of Messrs. Reynolds and Neill I had directed that labels placed npon any package of meat food products should state only that the carcass of the ami nal from which the meat was taken had been inspected at the time of slaughter. If inspection of meat food products at all stages of preparation is not secured by the passage of the Legislation recommended l shall feel compelled to order that inspection la bels and certificates on canned prod ucts shall not be used hereafter.
 Not Even Reasonably Clean.
 The report shows that the stock yards and packing houses are not kept even reasonably clean. and ;hat the method of handling and preparing food products is unelemlg and dangerous to health. Under existing laws .he na- uonal government has no power to en force inspection of the many forms Of prepared meat food products that are daily going from the packing houses into interstate commerce. Owing to an Inadequate appropriation the depart ment of agriculture is not even able to place inspectors in all establishments desiring them. The present law pro hibits the shipment of uninspected meat to foreign countries, but there lS no provision forbidding the shipment Of uninspected meats in interstate commerce, and thus the avenues of in ferstate commerce are left open to traffic in diseased or spoiled meats. If hs has been alleged on seemingly good authority, further evils exist. such as The Improper use of chemicals and dyes. the government lacks power to remedy them 4 law Is needed which will enable the inspectors of the gen eral government to inspect and super. wise from the hCof to the can the prep aration Of the meat food product. The evil seems to be much less tu the sale oi dressed carcasses than in the sale of canned and other prepared products and very much less as regards prod ucts sent aboard than as regarda those used at home
 In my judgment the expense of the inspection should be paid by q fee