Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-06-07

made in the Neill- Reynolds report
that a carcass of a hog had slipped
| from carrier into q privy and had
been picked up and placed with clean
carcasses. He called upon DR.. Neil!
to state that it did not happen III one
of the big packing houses.
1T did happen in one of the big
concerns" Neill replied emphatically.
Although requested by members Of
the committee to state which one,
Neill refused.
Asked about the statement that en-
ployes relieved themselves ON the floor.
| Mir. Wilson was inclined to question
this entirely. If it was seen it must
have been in one of the smaller
houses.
OF the man with a dirty apron and
dirty clothes who had no means of
cleaning his hands except TO wipe
them on his dirty clothes, there being
no water in the room, he said ii would
be impossible for an apron to look
| clean after being worn for 20 minutes.
| The only dyes used We're those to
! color the casing of the sausage ana
not for meats.
| AS to the character of the employees
Mr.. Wilson denied that they We're the
refuse of humanity or that the recent
strike had made any changes. Ninety
! five per cent. of those employed since
! the strike We're union men.
| II think" he said, that the people
employed in the stock yards are more
than the average, a healthy class. There
are a few cases of tuberculosis.
| Representative Scott asked if Mr..
Wilson had ever investigated packing
houses abroad.
! He had in England. but said Ameri-
can methods are far superior.
Mr. Wilson then took up the Bever-
+, idge amendment
we should very much prefer" lie
remarked, If the date on the label or
cans might be admitted"
| He also suggested that some car
eases might be found unsound. and at
the same time might be fit for food
or some portion of them.
| He wanted the language to condemn
carcasses only when the carcasses ARE
found to be unfit for human food"
| To illustrate he said 2 carcass might
| he bruised on the shoulder and other
| wise all right
Mr.. Wadsworth said the whole thing
was whether the animal was or was
not fit for human food.
Mr. Wilson said that in the pickle
| four ounces of saltpetre was used on
100 pounds of meat. The meat perhaps
used up two Dances of saltpetre which
he said, was not injurious. although
| under the amendment an inspector
might condemn meat to which this
pickle had been applied.
The committee adjourned until 1915
O'Clock tomorrow morning.
The Wadsworth substitute for the
Beveridge amendment which has beer
in the course of preparation for some
days was maze public today The sub.
Sttute differs from the amendment 81
the Senate in leaving the matter of in
Spection discr etionary with the sec
rotary of agriculture and omits the ad.
ieotives descriptive of meat for hu.
man food these adjectives being
. Sound "healthful," etc. The subeti.
tute places the cost Of the inspection
on the government instead of on tn,
packers, exempts the preventative re.
QuircmentS as to food intended for ey.
port, and simplifies the common car.
rier provision by allowing railroads to
accept for shipment goods marked "in.
= spected and passed"
So far as Mr.. Wilson had covered the
Beverage amendment in his testimony