AN IMPUDENT REQUEST.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIX, Issue 134, 9 June 1906, Page 2

AN IMPUDENT REQUEST.

FOREIGN • EXPORTATIONS GREATLY REDUCED. TERRIBLE PANIC PREDICTED. (Received June 8, 10.12 p.m.) NEW YORK, June 8. Mr Neill, President Roosevelt's Commissioner to Chicago, assured the > committee of Congress that Dyson', formerly a Government inspector, but now with the packers, requested him to give the packers a month to clear up before inspecting, thus preventing an agitation. Mr Wilson, a member 'of the Nelson Packing Company, informed the Agricultural Committee of Congress that his firm's foreign exportations were reduced by half. Many orders were entirely cancelled, and he predicted a terrible panic in the west and the ruin of .many farmers and breeders if the packers,. foreign trade were ruined, as it seemed likely that it would be.