THE CHICAGO SCANDAL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2728, 27 June 1906, Page 24

THE CHICAGO SCANDAL.

EFFECT ON NEW ZEALAND TINNED GOODS. : NEW YORK, June 19. j The Agricultural Committee of the . House of Representatives is willing to eliminate the provision in the Meat Bill authorising the courts to review the inspectors' decisions, and agrees to allow the Civil Service Commission to furnish the inspectors. The President does not insist on placing the date of manufacture on tihe label. June 20. The United States House of Represen- ! tatives passed the Meat Inspection Bill, with President Roosevelt's amendment!', ( without dissent. June 23. Armour (Ltd.), the Swift Company, Cudahy, Nelson, and Morris, meat-packers, who were found guilty of accepting concessions from the Burlington* Railroad Company on their export shipments, also the Burlington Railroad Company, were* fined 15,000d0l each. George Thomas, a freight broker, wa6 fined 5000dol, and was sentenced to four months in the penitentiary, and L. Taggart, another broker, was fined 4000 dollars with thieo months in the penitentiary. LONDON, June 18. Dr Albert Gresswell, of Melbourne, in a letter to The Times, declares that the . safeguaide embodied in tiie Exported Produce Act render Victorian tinned meats most thoroughly reliable. j June 20. ! Mr John Burns, President of the Local Government Board, has ordered that samples be taken of all tinned meats throughout Great Britain. CHRISTCHURCH, June 19. To-day one of the local meat companies doing a large export business received a disquieting cable from London stating that buyer 8 had stopped purchasing', and recommending the cessation of shipments of tinned meats for the present. A reply lias ' been sent asking for further particular. I