Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1909-10-28
MADE TO PASS
DISEASED CATTLE
MRS. CAPOLINE CRANE MAKES
GRAVE CHARGES AT HEALTH
CONGRESS-.
SECRET INSTRUCTIONS
Kalamazoo Woman Startles Health
Oaicials. and Produces Proofs OF
Intrigue by Government En-
ployees.

RICHM OND, VA. - Special.
Proceedings at the meetings OF the
American Public Health Association
assumed something more than thsr
wCnted scientific sedateness when Mrs.
Caroline Bartlette Crane. OF Kalama-
zoo. Mich. vice-president OF the Amer
lean Civic Federation. got the floor
and read a paper on What Is Hap
pening 70 American Inspection"
Feminine speakers are always In
terestinE. yet 10 say that Mrs. crane
was peculiarly so Is but staunE me
case with lamblike mildness- In sooths
she caused the sensation OF the day
threw n bomb in certain quarters
where IL will not soon be forgotten.
Mrs. Crane CHARGED the National
Bureau Of Animal Industry with Is
suing secret instructions 10 Federal
meat inspectors TO pass diseased ami
mails. and Furthermore she said that
the standard Of meat passed BY the
Government at large packing houses
was not what the Federal authorities
had caused the American public 20 be-
iieVe. She even went 50 FAR as 10 de-
clare that the standard has been
greatly lowered in the matter OF the
slaughter OF tubercular and otherwise
. diseased cattle since the exposure or
1906. when the present meat inspec-
. tion law was adopted
The speaker. who insisted that she
could establish the truth or what she
said. stated that she had IN her pos
session photographic reproductions or
the secret instructions. obtained with
the greatest difficulty. These. she de-
.c1ared the inspectors had Informed
her. were 20 be shown 20 no one. but
were 20 be kept i'm the strictest conf
Mrs Crane also asserted that the
r INSPECTORS employed by the Govern
mcut were not competent. being IN
many cases mere boys under twenty
81 wears OF age who have taken no spe-
r cial course in animal industry. and
p that the bureau of Animal Industry
z had shown itself 10 he an unfit guard
Z ian ~ the food supply OF human be-
81 fnrs
B prompt and Vigorous Dcninls.
T,rorr,pf deniafe OF the charges came
- both from the Governme emit officials
n and mem beers Of the association. who
8 CHALLENGED the accuracy of Mrs
90 cranes statements and expressed con-
o. eGcnce alike in Secretary Wilson, the
Daparfr1art OF Agriculture and DIR.
= Melvin chief OF the Bureau of AMI
NAL Industry.
Following the reading OF the paper
we're motions TO investigate the
charges Ira these Mrs. Crane. herself
Ia member OF e. association. heartily
roncurrcd. Finally. after much de-
.ate. the question Was referred 70 the
executive committee Tor report wheth-
er or not committee of I'VE should
ne appointed to consider the state
rucnts made from the platform oi me
association. The committee adjourned
lt midnight without taking hnal 4c-
uon. though the indlEtdual mem neie
seemed 60 feel some doNni as 10 lne
value ~ the proofs submitted
President SWaris last nl-hl save gu
the following statement t'N'AlN- '"'
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