The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-05-31
ARE Not OPPOSED TO
COVhNMENT INSPECTION
III TA1 FACAsRS DECLARE THAT
THEY VIII WELC0ME
LEGISLATION,

Official Statements Issued by Four of
the Leading CompRnies-lIr s.4,.aad
win PROVISION in the BE erage Bill
Looking to the Sanitary Regulation
Of the Plants-ArmOur ca Saw
Their Houses Have ns,S open to
Public for Last Forty YearA
Chicago, May 3O.-Instead Of onnosi,,..
government inspection and sanitary
regulation of meat packing plants .
contemplated by the Beveridge MI,
Chicago meat packers declare that then
Will welcome such legislation, althougb
it is contended that the larger houses
are now sanitary.
Official statements were made to-day
by Armour & Co., Nelson, Morris &
Co., Swift & Co., and the National
Packing Co., declaring that these cont
Germs were in favor of any inspection
or regulation that would add improve
ment to the meat packing industry.
The official statement of Armour &
Co. follows:
Although our packing houses have
been opened to the public for forty
years we heartily favor the regulation
of this industry as provided for by the
Beveridge bill We yield first place to
nobody in our readiness to bring about
such inspection as will guarantee that
every pound OF meat sold shall be clean,
wholesome and absolutely free from
contamination.
All meats that pass through our
packing houses are already subjected
to government inspection, both before
and after slaughter. The meats and
products that are under no form of in
spection or regulation whatever are
those from small plants and local
slaughter houses throughout the coun-
try. The government inspection we
now have is the most stringent and
efficient in the world. But we gladly
welcome Improvement in this after
slaughter inspection, If improvement
can be devised. We will also welcome
an extension of this inspection to em-
brace the sanitary conditions of our
plants as proposed in the Beveridge
bill"
Edward Tilden, president of the Ma
tional Packing company, said:
I'VE are in favor Of a reasonable in
spection by the government, and the
Beveridge bill with some notifications
will perhaps cover the situation. 1t does
seem fair, hoN,syer, that we should be
called upon to pay salaries OF govern
ment inspectors employed in this work,
in view of the heavy loss we now sus-
tain on animals for which we pay full
market price, which are condemned and
destroyed; but this, with some other
points in the bill can doubtless be sat
isfactorily adjusted, and an amended
bill adopted that will reach sanitary
conditions. Such a bill will meet with
our hearty cooperation and support"
The statement of Swift & Co. fol-
lows:
Although the inspection Of slaugh-
tered animals in our plants is already
strict and semitic, still we should well
come law going further, establishing
and maintaining higher standard of
sanitation. The Beveridge bill is right
in principle, and could be used as a
basis for law which would meet every
requirement"
A representative of Nelson Morris &
co. in a statement along the same lines
said:
Our aim always has been to improve
constantly; we feel that we have been
successful, and that the inspection and
sanitary conditions at present are good.
However we heartily in favor of any
practical inspection that will tend to
improve conditions"