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interest in an offensive trade that
creates a public nuisance"

interest in an offensive trade that
creates public nuisance"
Senator Copeland then asserted that
"in Washington We should give con-
sideration to homes for humble
people," The cost of transportation Is
important to them, he explained, and
they all can't live far out.
1T IS just as important to zone .
city with reference to humble homes
as to skyscrapers," he said.
Returning to reference to the Gobel
plant, Senator Copeland said: II can't
believe the District Of Columbia Is
justified in permitting the erection Of
such plant, even though I know 1t is
as advanced as science can develop.
know the men back of it. They are
honorable men, engaged in an honor
able, essential enterprise Of producing
meat for consumption.
But as a member of this District
Committee, I could not justify or
satisfy my conscience in this way-this
Is not place for rendering plant"
Senator Copeland said he would join.
with the committee In the matter Of
compensating the company for any
losses. But this slaughter house
plan-the company says it has spent
no less than $l,250,000-is not the
thing to do. So I add my humble
protest to this attempt to get around
a very proper action on the part Of
the city,
Compensation Question.
The compensation question arose
again when Miss James Of the Ameri-
can Planning and Civic Association
was queried about 1t. She drove home
a point that had not up to then been
brought out.
Declaring her willingness personally
to pay taxes or contribute to q COM
pensation fund. she added:
Looking at 1t from the point Of view
OF the Federal City, the Federal Gov
ernment has its share of responsibility
in the matter. Taxpayers OF the Dis
tr1ct OF Columbia should not alone be
expected to bear the burden"
The Gobel Co. expert ran into some
difficulties when he was questioned
about some Of the slaughter houses
he said he had built in numerous cities.
One in particular was In Denver,
which he claimed was "odorless."
Corporation Counsel Elwood H. Seal
and c. Marshall Finnan, superin-
tendent Of the Once Of National Capi.
tai Parks each piled him With ques-
tions.
Henschin had said the Denver plant
was comparable to the one proposed
for Washington.
In answer to questions by Tydings
regarding fish wharves, Henschin said
he thought the odor from a fish mar
ket would be greater than at the
slaughter house.
Have you ever visited the fish mar
ket here?" Finnan asked. The expert
on smells admitted he had not.
Under cross examination by Seal, he
admitted at another time that the last
definite scientific development in
slaughter house plans was made II
years ago.
Senator Tydings frequently ques-
TONED the witness about technical
matters involved In an endeavor to
bring out that there would be no
odors or obnoxious fumes from the
Benning plant. Henschin claimed resi-
dents near the Benning plant would
not suffer from offensive odors.
interested in the New York situation,
Corporation Counsel Seal asked the
witness II he had ever heard Of COM
plants against slaughter houses there.
No direct answer was given.
DR.. Campbell, who spoke for the
citizens associations and the District
OF Columbia Medical Society, strong
ly supported the King bill.
After DR.. Campbell had presented
the views Of the federation against
re-open1ng the slaughter house,
Chairman McCarran suggested that
before Congress acts on the bill he
would consider the advisabtlity Of ap-
pointing group to make an inspec-
ton OF similar plants elsewhere.
DR.. Campbell agreed with the sur-
gestion, but asked that two or three
doctors be included IN the inspection
group.
That's all right" . Gobel attorney
hterjected. But not DR.. Copeland"
DR.. Campbell stressed the point that
Gallinger Hospital is about a mile
across the Anacostia River from the
slaughter house site, adding that
"dlsagreeable and obnoxious odors
would be carried to patients at the
institution