Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-03-17
SARDiNE PACKERS
Have Little Faith In Pattangal Pure
Food inspection Bill.

The Sardnc packers who object T.
Repres rntttiVc PattaEGalrS proposed
law to prov dc fer the inspection Uf
sardinc factories under the direo tion
of the State. appeared before the sea
and slor. fisheries committee Thurs
dar afternoon and made it known
that they did not have any faith
III the proposition. They lid not object
to ii bill which would make ii per
missiblc for the packers 20 nave III
speetion. put did object t. having it
thrust upon them.
Rumors began to reach the state
House in the forenoon that all the
sardine packers in the State had ali
riveu i'll town and We're going to make
old Rome howl if the bill was advo-
Gated before the committee. The hear
ing was advertised to start It o'clock
but at that hour the attendance in
the committee room consisted of tiVa
members of the committee and n
ne" spaper reporter. At length the
II"V3 WAS received that the Warrinu
factions (the ali had been modified
somewhat by that time) trcrc at the
augusta House endeavoriUs to come
up routine matters and il was about
3 o'clock W."n the packers came in
K preventative Pattangal said that
III" bill WAS submitted al The Sug
Gestion OF some uf the Packers and
tlat il thcrt was not practical up =
animitN. il would be useless to Try tc
force it through the Legislature. a;
thv emergency clause would defeat it
II" explained further that the bill was
offered because Congress had failed tu
take action in the premises and it was
hoped To accomplish something by
State inspection.
lie said that the objections he haG
heard Welc that the fee was too large
and that Maine had had State in
spection once and that it failed to be
of any benefit. He met the first OBJ
lection with the suggestion that al
the surplus received from fees. ever
the expense of inspection. was to bc
returned To the packers, and the sec
ond. by pointing out that the old
law providing for inspection was in
ade iuate and i'll contrivcd in that thcr.
W. re not inspectors enough.
f p. Mccall OF Eastport. repro
Senting the Scacoast Canning CO.. said
that his company was in favor OF in
Spection that would protect tho goods
but that it didn't believe that STATE
inspection. as provided III the bill
would accomplish that cnd. He be-
lieved that it would cost the packers
$4,000 year and said that his COM
pany preferred to spend its share in
improving the pack.
Ex-senator b. M. Pike of Lubcc.
representing the Luboc Packing Com
pany objected to the law on the same
grounds.
Luther Maddocks of Buuthbay Har-
Dor said that if the federal pure .oo1
officers would accept State inspection.
he would be satisfied with the pas
sage of the bill
DR.. Woods of the Maine experiment std
ton said that the government could not
agree to accept State inspection in this
case. but considering the relations be-
tween the federal and state departments
in this case, he thought that the Maine
packers would have 80 points in their ia
vor to one against them in a controversy.
Representative PattangalI said that il
be redrafted so that inspection would be
optional with the packers. Mr. Mccall
said that he didn't think many of the
packers would object to such law.