The San Francisco call., 1906-05-30
System in the Packing
Houses Denounced
as Farce.
Flaws Picked in the Law
Proposed in the
Senate.
Municipal Abattoirs the
Remedy, Declares
Expert.
speelal pispatch 70 The call.

KANSAS CITY. May 2s.-'Govern-
ment inspection of meat is a farce, so
Tar as the home consumer is concerned.
have taken diseased meats bearing
the Government stamp from wagons.
The small Independent packers have to
be watched more closely than others.
In order TO make it pay they deal in
Grips and 'downers' If an independ-
ent butcher will start on the Missouri
side of the line I will give him local
inspection that win insure good meat.
But the solution of the meat problem
is the municipal abattoir. where butch
ers can do their own killing.
The foregoing statement was made
today by Dr. w. P. Coulter. for several
years a Government bacteriologist and
inspector in the Kansas City packing
houses and AZ present City Food In
spector of Kansas City.
4 have stood six hours alongside one
carcass in d Kansas City packing house.
! did so to make sure the carcass
reached the tank.
one day in another packing-house /
and one Of my taggers were going
through a line of hogs in the export
side We found a trichinal carcass.
Put il over on the American side said
the tsgger. and over il went. There is
no law requiring trichinae inspection
for home trade. That's how Govern
ment inspection works, and what does
a plumber or q steamfitter know about
tuberculosis You'll md them inspect
ing cattle and meat The men are few
and every impediment is thrown in
their way"
DR.. Cutler said that under the present
system and the bill now before Con-
gress the meat of animals killed and
sold within the same State does not
have to have Government inspection. 1t
applies only for meat for interstate and
foreign commerce.
They say it will drive the small in
dependent packers out of business -
said DR.. Cutler. 1t would not hurt if
il did-some of them. They can't make
il pay against the. big packers except
by killing inferior cattle, Grips or
those with broken limbs; and down
ers. those that fall from exhaustion or
are trampled in transportation
8 There is a regular speculation in
that class Of stock. AS far as local in
spection goes we. have no law. any
more than a general measure of food
inspection. Under that I viii provide
inspection for meat killed within this
cannot compete with the packers If
he could save the expense of plant
and Kill his cattle in q municipal abat-
toir he could then compete with. the
beef interests and the municipality
would have supervision of the inspec-
ton"
DR.. Cutler said he had frequently
found meat bearing the Government
stamp that was purple and BLACK, and
some showing blood clotted veins He
said that was evidence that the ami
NAL was in fever when killed and the
meat should not be sold
One day" said Dr. Cutler Il met
a meat wagon driver carrying a side of
meat out of a butchers shop 1t was
miserabfy thin and had an unnatural
color. Tho driver told me the dealer
would not take il even 60 make sausa ge:
And that side of meat had Govern
ment stamp. Perhaps some stagger,
had sorted il out of the export side and
put II on the American side for home
use"
WASHINGTON. May 2a-Represents-
tive Suizer Of New York today intro
ouced resolution calling upon the
President. If not incompatible with. the
public interest TO send so the House
az his earliest convenience the reporfs
OF Charles ?. NeilI and James B. ReY.
nelds. in connection with their investi-
cation of the meat trust the stock
yards and the meat packing houses of
Chicago and other places and all data.
exhibits and correspondence in any way
relating TO the same"
II IS understood Representative Fin
lay OF South earolina will Introduce a.
slmllar resolution at the suggestion of
Minerity Leader Williams.