CABLE NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—COPYRIGHT.]

Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 136, 9 June 1906, Page 5

CABLE NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—COPYRIGHT.]

4 A DIMINISHING BUSINESS. THE AMERICAN TINNED MEAT TRADE. FOREIGN ORDERS REDUCED. WHO ENGINEERED THE REVELATIONS? [PBESS ASSOCIATION.] NEW YORK, Bth June. Mr. Neill, President Roosevelt's Commissioner at Chicago, has assured a committee of Congress that one Dyson, formerly a Government inspector, but now with the packers, requested him (Mr. Neill) to give the packers a month to clear up before inspecting, thus preventing agitation. Mr. Wilson, a member of the Nelson Packing Company, informed the Agricultural Committee of Congress that his firm's foreign exportations had been reduced one-half, and many orders had been entirely cancelled. He predicted a terrible panic in the West, and the ruin of many fanners and breeders if the packers' foreign trade was ruined, as it seemed likely it would be. Mr. Charles Armour estimates the shrinkage in the United Packers' business, as a result of the recent revelations, at the rate of £30,000,000 a year. Messrs. Ogden and Armour have informed a Daily Mail interviewer that the revelations were directly engineered by President Roosevelt, who had a strong personal animus against tho Chicago packers, and that in order to vent his spite he was willing to do anything to discredit them, even if it inflicted infinite damage on the foremost of American industries. INSPECTING THE MEAT. LONDON, Bth June. Mr. R. B. Haldane, Secretary for War, assured the House of Commons that he had sent a picked officer to America to inspect meat before it was despatched under contract, and to examine the methods of manufacture.