CHICAGO MEAT SCANDALS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8130, 9 June 1906, Page 3

CHICAGO MEAT SCANDALS.

THE COMMISSIONER'S REVELATIONS. PANIC AMONGST THE PACKERS. TRADE DECREASED BY HALF. Received 8,10.12 p.m. New lobk, June 8, Neill, President Rooseyelt's Commissioner at Chicago, assured a committee of Congress that Dyson, formerly a Government Inspector, but now with the packers, requested him to give the packers a month to cleir up before inspection, thus preventing an igitation.

Wilson, a member of the Nelson Packing Coy, informed the Agricultural Committee of Congress that his firm's foreign expositions had been reduced by one half and many orders entirely cancelled. He predicted a tearible panic in the West and theruin of many farmers and breeders if the packers' foreign, trade was ruined, as it seemed likely it would.

LOSS OP THIRTY MILLIONS ANNUALLY. A LAME ANSWER. ACCUSATION AGAINST PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. Received 8,10.20 p.m. New Yobk, June 8. Charles Armour, of tie famous packing firm, estimates the shrinkage n the united packers' business at the ..■ate of thirty million sterling a year. Egdea Armour informed a " Daily Mail" interviewer that the reve'ations had been directly engineered by President Roosevelt, who had a strong personal animus against Chicago packers. In order to vent his spite he was will ing to do anything to disc: edit them, even if he inflicted infinite damage on the foroinost of American industries. I