CHICAGO MEAT SCANDAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8156, 9 June 1906, Page 5

CHICAGO MEAT SCANDAL.

ESTIMATED SHRINKAGE IN

BUSINESS,

Received June 8. 10.20 p m.

NEW YORtS, June 8

Charles Armour estimates that the shrinkage in the united packers' business is at th« rate of thirty million sterling per year.

Ogden Armour informed a Daily Mail interviewer that the revelations were directly engineered by President Roosevelt, who had a strong personal animus, against the Chioago paokers. In order to vent his spite, President Roosevelt was willing to do anything to discredit them, even if it inflicted infinite damage on the foremost of the American industries.

MR HALDANE'S STATEMENT.

Received June 8, 9.30 p.m. LONDON, June 8,

Mr R. B. Haldane, Secretary of State, War Department, assured the House of Commons that he sent a picked officer to America to inspect all meat before it was despatched for distribution in the British Navy/ The officer was under contract to examine tbe methods of manufacture.

RUIN OF FARMERS AND BREED-

ERS PREDICTED.

Received June 8,10.12 p.m. NEW YORK, June 8,

Mr Neill, President Roosevelt's Commissioner in 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 exportationa have been reduced by half. Many orders have been entirely oancelled. He predicted a terrible panic ,in the West, and ruin to many farmers and breeders if packers in the foreign trade were ruined, as it seemed likely they would be.