The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-26
Umlauf Brings Out New
Feature in Quoting
Councilman.
REPORTERS WORD
FLATLY DENIED
Levy Discredits Robertson's Tes-
timony, President Peters Be
ing Called in Effort to I'm
peach Newspaper Witness.
Judge Christian Dis
agrees With Pollard.

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Direct, positive and emphatic con-
tradictions in the evidence, with a dis
| tinct effort to impeach the testimony
| of one witness. took up much of tho
time of the Wise-Pollock Investigating
| committee last night. j. Taylor Robert
son. a reporter for an afternoon paper.
| the yirginian, testified to conversa-
tion with Chief Health Officer Levy az
to assurances having been given Coun.
Gilman Pollock that his clients could
| go ahead and feed the swill. DR.. Levy
| took the stand with a direct denial
| of having made any such statement.
Councilman Wise. with some heat. cor
roborated Mr.. Robertson, and Presi-
i dent Peters OF the Common Council,
was placed on the witness stand tn
4 testify as to Mr.. Robertson's alleged
inaccuracy in another matter and OF
his having published what purportei
to be a list of committee appointments
which President Peters had just in
formed the reporter was entirely err
roneous.
\ ..No Lunncy Commission"
Mr.. Lynch and Mr.. Ratcliffe, of the
| committee, took active part in at
tackng Mr., Robertson's testimony
| keeping it up until Chairman Rich
| ardson ruled that the inquiry was not
! commission of lunacy to determine
the witnesses's mental processes.
Coleman Cutchins. a former clerk in
the Health Department, told OF snatches
| of a conversation between DR.. Levy and
| Mr.. Wise, when he had understood the
tChief Health officer TO tell Mr.. Wise
4 to go ahead and permit his clients TO
feed the waste. Mr.. Cutchtns admitted
that he had overheard merely parts OF
an extended conversation, and he was
/ unwilling to swear that that was its
\ purport Harry Beattie and Clyde w.
Saunders told OF their appearance be-
4 fore the Board Of Health seeking for
an amendemnt to the ordinance, Mr..
! Beattie asserting that he knew more
I about the subject and. was certain that
lhe could explain it better than any
lawyer, and he had not thought 1t nee
|essary therefore to employ one.
Judge George L. Christian. on the
stand, controverted the position taken
by John Garland Pollard and others.
holding that an amendment to the Or
dinance was necessary. the Council
having certain police powers under the
charter. AS to the ethical question In
volved, he admitted that there might be
difference of opinion, but said that for
himself. If member of the City Coun-
ell he would not accept employment
TO appear before the various municipal
boards.
For Legal Services.
The evidence opened with j. A. Del
trick still on the stand. He identified
a recent given him by George E. Wise
on March 22 1910. for $500 for legal
services" that it was given on the
date it bears; that it was in full ard
that no other receipt was given. and
that there had been no contributions TO
the fund from distilleries or others than
dairymen.
Dairy Inspector T. j Straucl1, enl-
ployed in the Health Department, tes-
titled that on the morning after Messrs.
Saunders and Beattie appeared oetore
the Board of Health DR.. Levy had coma
IA Mr.. Holdsworth and himself and
told them that the board had recon-
mended that the ordinance be AMENDED
so as to permit the feeding OF swlll
under certain conditions. The inspec-
tor asked Mr.. Holdsworth what 10 90
about the men who were feeding II,
nending the action OF the Council on
the amendment. Together they Weht
into DR.. Levys office and asked hllh'
and he told them TO report any one
caught feeding It. The Inspector wv
of a visit a month later to the Iayior
barn. where, from the condition of the
manrer. he Judged that swill was being
fed Taylor asserted that he mad y
right to feed it; that Mr. Brittle hau
told him that such permission hao oeen
given. The Inspector said he dion
Know OF it, and took a sample IN
bottle to see whether tho feed rea1ls
was distillery waste.
Taylor protested that they were not
his COWS that were eating it--that he
was Keeping then, for a neighbor who
was rebuilding his barn. There vas
doubt whether case could be rnads
In court. and on account OF the con-
ditions in Taylor's barn his license
was suspended for two days,
Examined sample.
The inspector took some feed FROM
the manager at Miller's place which
the chemist Of the Board OF Health
examined, and said he didn't think was
swill--that it was a mixture of other
ground feed The witness was visor-
ously cross examined as to whether ne
had ever been told not to report any
body but stuck to il that he had not,
but that he had never used any eN
traordinary means OF detection, such
as lying about at night
Food inspector Holdsworth cor
roborated his account OF conversa-
tion between Inspector Strauch, Dr.
Levy and himself. Mr.. Holdsworth un-
derstood that the dairymen were not
10 be bounded at night pending action
on the ordinance,
Former Dairy Inspector r, II. Curtis
was recalled and testified Mat DR..
Levy did not give him any special In
structions after the board recon
manded that the ordinance be amend
ed--that he was inspecting along rail-
way lines where there were no dis
tilleries. but that he would have re.
ported any ono he saw feeding swill