The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-02
REPORT on PACKING HOUSES.
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on rondi IONS IN New York ra establishments as
observed ny Mr. Reynolds.
The report hnnd.d In Tho President this
afternoon IL officially daacrthed ~ a mem
orandum. " Commissioner Neill ~aid yesier.
day thai The preparation ~ n comple'e, de-
tailed description of findings would consnme
q considerable lenEh ~ time. The Pfesi'
dant wished to have within three or four
days a part ial report at least, which could
be laid before Congress In order 70 back
up the Administrations contention that tne
action contemplated by the Beveridse
amendment 90 the Agricultural bill should
be put in force before the adjournment
Of the present session Of Congress.
Tho partial report submitted to-day Is
radically different from the report handed
IN two or three weeks ago by experts OF
the bureau Of animal industry Of the De-
partment o~fAgriculture. The experts re-
port was In effect that the current publ
cations In regard to conditions in the pack
ing houses had been greatly exaggerated,
not more than s per cent. Of these allegations
having proved true. The report referred
espeoially to the book The jungle, the
reading of which had caused President
Roosevelt TO order an investigation, and
says that all except the more horrifying
statements made by Mr.. Sinclair In his book
were found to be true, and 1t indirectly
discredits the findings reported by the
bureau Of animal industry.
Messrs. Neill and Reynolds were unable
to find proof Of several sensational and
startling allegations made by MIR. Sinclair.
So far as they could learn, for instance,
no workman had been killed by falling into
e vat of oil in a Chicago packing, house
and there was no proof, therefore, that the
kind TO the Coroner, Such statements as
the one that dead babies fingers had been
found in proximity TO the ordinary products
ofthe packing establishments are chimerical,
30 far as the revelations brought about by
Mr.. Neill's and Mr.. R~eynolds1s mVesuga-
ton a ,a pnDfarDad.
The ill-Reynolds report, however,
sub startiates the Sinclair book, except as to
eXgeptioral cases. Az to the general run
of statements in THE Jungle, such as the
description of filth, unnsanitary features
and lowress Of conditions generally in
the hacking houses and abattoirs, the
report Of the President's recent investigators
j. In complete ACCORD,
some Of the friends OF the packers, esPe-
cially the Chicago members, declare that
they are not averse to having the President
send in the Neill- Reynolds report. They
profess to believe that 1t will show that
conditions In the slaughtering houses are
not really as bad as they have been depicted.
They think that the report will be much
milder thar the public has been led TO be-
lieve, owing to the hysteria over the matter,
The damage to the packing interests, they
say, has already been done by the agitation,
and the publication OF the repoIt, "
IL It does, that conditions are not as bad as
they were thought, may tend to alleviate the
fears of the public. Certainly, they say
there port can be no worse than the pub
lished accounts Of 1t and the ~extravagant
statements Of Mr.. Sinclair.
The situation otherwise is practically
unchanged. Chairman Wadsworth Of the
House Committee on Agriculture and
Representative Lorimer OF Chicago, also
a member Of the committee, are working
upon a provision to be offered as a substi-
tute for the Beveridge amendment, which
they declare will appease all parties
the President, tho packers and the public
to state to-day, as it is not yet in shape.