Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-06-09
Now Requested By
MIR. Fulkerson Of
Missouri.
NE|llS STARTLING STORY
Alleges Almost Unprintable
Things---Fears Calamity
in West.

F'ulkerSOn, OF MISSOURI, mas introduced
a resolution calling on the President
and Secretary of Agriculture to i'm
mediately make public any and all In
formation that they may secure from
"the great army Of meat inspectors EN-
ployed by the government or from any
other source that will tend to credit
or discredit the product of any plant
where meat products are prepared
The resolution also calls upon the
Secretary of Agriculture to immedi
ately give to the public his opinion on
the conditions of the plants and the
healthfulness of the products coming
from the various plants.
The beef inspection hearing before
the House committee on agriculture
was begun today by listening to Rep
resentative Garner of Texas who
made plea for speedy action
CattIemen Fear Market Slump.
Washington, d. c., June 9.--S. H.
Cowan, Of Fort Worth, Texas an at
torney fer the Texas Cattle Raisers'
Association, was next heard by the
committee. He detailed the extent of
the Texas cattle industry. He said,
while the raisers had their difficulties
with the packers and had not got the
best of them, yet in this question the
interest OF the raisers and packers
were identical. If there was additional
expense, someone would pay it, and
the man who can name the price of
the thing he sells can put the addi-
tional expense where he pleases The
stockmen believe that the packers
could put this expense on the stock
raisers. He read a telegram from ].
l.. Lyle, president of the Cattle Rails
ers' Association Of Texas:
"The present agitation has seriously
depressed the cattle business, The
universal impression is that cattle val.
ues will suffer from four to five dol.
lars per head decline
Another telegram from Murdo Nc
Kenzie, manager of the second largest
cattle ranch in America, located in Col
orado, estimated by wire that the fall
in the price would be 81 per hundred
weight.
Packers Cannot Regulate Prices.
When asked by Representative Ad-
ans Of Wisconsin if the packers did
not fix the price paid for cattle, Cowan
said that this was an impossibility un.
der ordinary conditions. Neither
could the cattle raisers by a combina-
tion, fix the price. His reason for this
was that when cattle got into condi-
tion they had to be sold. Representa-.
tive Haugen of Iowa asked Cowan If
he had read the Presidents message
which estimates the cost of inspection
at eight cents per head.
Would Levy Cost on Cattle.
"But we don't want to pay it-that
is our reason replied Cowan. "But
rather than do without the law we
would be glad to levy the cost on the
CATTLE" he continued.
England Wants to Know About In,
spectIon.
London, June 9.--John Burns, pres
ident of the local government board,
has requested the foreign Office to
communicate with the state depart
ment at Washington and ascertain to
what extent reliance can be placed on
the system of meat inspection under
taken by the Bureau of Animal Indus.
try. In announcing that he had taken
this action, he said it was through the
medium Of reply to the question put
In the House of Commons by William
Field, the nationalist member from
Dublin, and president Of the Irish Cat
tie and Traders Stock Owners Asso-
citation.
Or. NeiIl's Testimony.
Washington, June 9.--The feature OF
the hearing thus far before the con.
gressional committee on the Beveridge
amendment to the agricultural bill
was the testimony Of DR.. Charles e.
Neill, the government expert, whose
report on Packingtown conditions was
made the basis Of President Roose.
velt's special message to Congress.
Thomas B. Wilson, representing the
packers, took the stand and continued
his objection to the Beveridge bill and
to the Neill-Reynolds reports. He said
the proposition to impose the expense
Of cattle inspection on the packers
was unjust, inasmuch as over 81 ,OOO,.
900 Is now annually lost In condemna.
ti0ns by government inspectors after
cattle are purchased.
The foreign demand for Chicago
dressed beet, he said, had been out Ii
two by the agitation started in this
country, and that the result will be the
visitation Of calamity in the West,
as cattle will not be purchased from
the stock raisers in present large
quantities.
Dr.. Neill told Of proposition made
to him by one Of the Chicago packers
- hold back his report until the slau-
houses could be cleaned.
reiterated his charges about filth
1ng he saw one employe Of the Mel
,n.Morris Company wade through the
JftaI On the floor, then climb on q pile
Of carcasses with his dirty shoes and
afterward pick UP piece Of beef and
throw It on the floor near his bench
He also testified to seeing hog fall
into the slime of q privy vault and to