The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-08
had to prepare him to make the in-
Of Average intelligence.

had to prepare him to make the in- quiry.
 Of Average Intelligence.
 T simply claim to be man of aver age intelligence" he replied. He said he had worked in Chicago packing house for six months in a University settlement.
 You are a specialist along economic lines?-
 "Modesty forbids me tc say replied MT NeIll He said he was and had been for year and half commissicEss Ess CT of labor. Mir Neill then relatedS parting interview with MT. Dyson. /. sulting veterinarian in Chicago, D. resenting the packers. Mir. Dysov he said, suggested that Neill and aey- holds go to Washington make no re- port. but inform the packers of the con ditions found and suggestions for rem edies; then to walt thirty days and come back and see if conditions had not been bcttered This he indicated was t, prevent injury to the trade. MT. Ncill said he replied that he was not authorized to make any trade or deal. that he did not know what the Presidents plan was. but believed Il was to secure adequate Legislation. Mfr Neill followed this statement with a letter he had received from MT. Dyson In which was suggested a sanitary committee and that It be given thirty days to accomplish improvements pend- ing which no report should be made. Mir. Dyson. he said, had the next day submitted another letter with the ex- planation that the language Of the for mer letter looked like a trade on account of the promised improvements in consideration that no report he | made. It stated he was authorized to speak for the larger Chicago packers, In this letter he emphasized the dam- age that would result to the farmers of the country oy discrediting the san itary conditions ol the packers. The letter gave assurance that the reforms would be made.
 Mir. Neill said he submitted these letters. that Inc whole chapter might be complete and for the further reason that Mir. Wilson had made the repeated statement that the packers would well come legislation.
 Discouraged Chicago Trip.
 MT Neill rather discouraged visit to Chicago at this time as many of the conditions complained of were due to negligence and could have been rem edied immediately.
 Mir Neill denied the statement of Mir. Wilson that the floors were scrubbed daily. The dirt in some of the rooms was caksd on the floor and had not been washed for weeks.
 Was this in any of the houses rep resented by MT Wilson," was ask ed
 Yes, sir"
 Mir. Neill said he at first began mak- ing daily notes of the conditions but after several days seeing no change in conditions from day to day he aban- doned tho practice. He felt justified in saying that the dirty floors was q common condition. There were some clean rooms but a clean room seemed to be accidental and gave the impress sion that sanitation was not matter that was looked after. in those plants. This included all the large plants,
 Again Mr. Neili was asked You take direct issue with MT. Wilson on the fact that these rooms were not cleaneds" s-f
 @Yes. sir. ' do.'s
 There were floors there that were black: There was no ventilation, There were rooms not chill rooms. These without exception. were the most sat isfaetory part of the plants, and, nc fault could be found" said MT. Neill.
 But you did not mention anything creditable in your report" remarked Chairman wadsworth. Were you there simply to find fauit?'
 No; we understood that we were to ascertain conditions that needed legis- lative remedies" answered Mir Neill.
 MT. Haughen (Iowa) wanted to know the objections to artificial light. "We are working in this room with arti- ficial light and. have fifty others right in this capitol"
 My opinion is." replied MT. Neill. that no one should be required to work eight hours a day by artificial light"
 The Unwashed Rooms.
 Representative Lorimer brought the witness back to the unwashed rooms . DO you mean to say that you saw rooms where the canned meat Is put up that were not washed every day?'
 1'I can't remember exactly the cam ming rooms but there were rooms where food products were being put up that were not clean. In one particular room I remember there were pools of water on the floor and the girls hed to stand on boards. I am not prepared to say were not washed
 How about the cooking rooms?' ask ed MT. Lolimer.
 Mir. Neill said he remembered in par ticular one cooking room was dirty and he rememberej walls, particularly in the entrances. that were sticky with dirt and pillars that you could scrape I rooms with rafters from ceilings which had not been whitewashed in months
 MT Lorlmer asked number of ques- tions to find out if MT. Neill ever saw meat Tn transit from the curing vats to the cooking vat But MT. Neill would not answer this directly.
 '1 do not follow the meat in that way" he said, We came upon meats in all stages not knowing where it came from or where 1t was going"
 In the boning room Mir. Neill said he had seen dirt. In this connection he took issue with MT. Wilson's state ment yesterday. One instance he re- membered specifically in the Nelson Morris house He saw one of the men who had just finished his boning walk over the dirt in the floor to a pile of meat on the floor. climb onto the pile with his feet. knees and hands, pick up a piece and throw 1t fifteen feet on the floor to his bench and as the dinner signal sounded at that time he saw men climb upon their tables, get their lunches and sit down on their tables to eat. This he said was directly under the eye of the superintendent.
 Mir. Neill said the papers heralded their arrival In Chicago and their presence in the packing houses was known daily
 Asked about the bone conveyor by MT. Lorimer, MT. Neill said tho con veyor was covered with grease and black with dirt He was not prepared to say that that particular conveyor was used in a particular place
 SbOveled Into Rotten Boxes.
 Chairman Wadsworth took up the statement nthe report, We saw meat al.- NAA 1N..k..