The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1906-06-08
OBJECTS STRONGLY
IO NELL 5 RT?G9)RI
s
APPEARS BEFORE LEGl 8 TIVE
COMMITTEE TO REFU 1T
Chairman Wadsworth Of lnittee
Says Hog Instance, Wl4v.v Neill
Claims He Detected Filth, Contains
Essence Of Whole Report -Neill
Admits He Did Not Follow Hog
Closely to Get Proof.

Washington, d. c., June s.
Thomas p. Wilson, manager for the
Mason-Murris Co., concluded his
presentation Of the packers side of
the Neill-Reynolds report to the
house committee on agriculture. Neil
went on the stand and was subjected
to sharp cross examination by
Chairman Wadsworth and Repre-
sentative Lorimer. Wilson made this
statement in summing up yesterday.
I'VE feel it is going to be diff
cult matter to create a law, cover
ing the necessary sanitary regula-
tions regarding packing houses, that
will be constitutional. We feel that
such law would be useful as ap-
piled to products when they enter
interstate trade. We do not want
to raise single question. We want
law enacted. We want good lazy
and a stringent one We want sarls-
tary inspection and we want it to be
thorough.
81 do not want the impression to
obtain that we contemplate any at
tack on any law that may be passed =
Representative Adams, (Wis.)
summed UP the objections Wilson
had made to the Beveridge amend
ment and Wilson assented to each in
turn.
The first objection was to placing
cost of the inspection on the packers;
second, requiring dates on labels;
third, sanitary requirement which
leaves discretion to the common carr
riers to reject shipments if they re-
gard the packing houses from which
they came as unsanitary; fourth, use
OF adjectives describing meat unfit
for food; fifth, restriction on pre-
servatives in such form that any in
spector might put his own interpre-
tatinn on what was Injurious and
sixth, requirement that contents of
canned products shall be set forth on
label.
Neill stoutly maintained the E3ac-
curacy of statements made in his re-
port and sharply contradicteI many
statements made by Wilson, when
questioned by Representative Scott
as to what he meant by 'cdor of
decayed meats in his report, in
view Of the statement uf Wilson who
said that from bust mess proposit ion
decayed meats could not be left
around. 53s
1t was certainly he nfini.4n g nf4zde-E
cayed meats, z persisted Neill.
What do you mean by Sinking,
asked Wadsworth, One would In
fer YOU meant a terrible, rotten,
Sinking condition.
That's what 1t was \, said the
witness, who suggested that ventila-.
tion might be q remedy There was
one odor from the fertilizer room and
another from the meat rooms HIS
definition OF stink was this:
When a thing smells go loud that
YOU u5can't call 1t i smell, then it#is g
| stink
The Slipping 81 q hog into q priy'y
was made the subject Of q olloquy
between the witness and Represent
atiye Brooke, Col which finally
raised an issue 81 questions, taking
the form Of 9 cross examina ton
want to say, light here. 4. inter
'ected Neill that do not propose
to give an answer not in
my mind nm soing to get an
answer out Ana ne raid hef|
saw hog fall ana stdentii He'd the
picture Of the priyy was u very
hltfly one. The hog was put upon q
rack and he believed was never
cleaned
chaisman adsworth persisted
that sitnesss xai ght belteye ttie hog
Mss NOT cleansd but he did not knew