Show GREAT SALE OF HORSE MEAL Chicago People Becoming Exercised Exer-cised About It SAFE GUARDS ARE WEEDED DISEASED HORSES BOUGHT AND USED I An Ordinacc Framed Which Will I He Almost Prohibitory in Its Measures There is Ao Profit in the Business i Sound Animals I Are used in Chicago Bnt Might lie Out West CHICAGO Oct 17The recent disclosures dis-closures regarding the sale of horsemeat horse-meat In this market has had the effect I of stirring up the health department to a realization of the necessity for throwing ample safeguards around it Yesterday the department transmitted to Morman Stanwood chairman of the city council committee on health and county relations the draft of a i ordinance wHich if is is passed will be i almost prohibitory in its effect I is proposed to license the establishments where horses are slaughtered but it is sad that the license fee will be so high and the provisions of the ordinance ordi-nance so exacting that there will no longer be a profit in the business Alderman Stanwood who Is fathering the ordinance said The ordinance has been draftedi by the law department depart-ment of the city and I am frank to say will end the killing of horses for food purposes in Chicago Under the inspection provided forr not even the wealthiest packer will find a profit in buying horses for food purposes As I lit is now diseased horses costing from 2 to 5 can be purchased for the slaughter houses in existence and a profit made out of them But good sound healthy horses cannot be purchased pur-chased for such money and they will have to be purchased if any horseflesh horse-flesh is disposed of under this ordinance ordi-nance I do not see the slightest reason rea-son why the ordinance should not go through I is demanded by the health department and public safety I shall propose one amendment to i and that is that the mayor shall not issue a license for any such slaughtering place except upon the recommendation of the health department Commissioner of Health Kerr has taken the liveliest interest in the proposed posed ordinance He said The proposed pro-posed ordinance is right in line with what the health department needs in order to regulate and inspect the present pres-ent nefarious features of the business I I goes without saying that an wdi nance to prevent the killing of horses would be we are advised Illegal and unconstitutional but the city has the right t license the men who prosecute this business and to throw a rigid system j sys-tem of inspection about i I really think it will have the effect if passed to close all the horse killing estaiblish I ments in the city and that no new ones will be opened up Personally I do not think the public can act too quickly in this matter through the medium of the council The evil is an aggravated one No concealment is made of the fact that the worst kind of horses are being killed and sold as meat throughout the city Worse than this the same meat is going abroad incans in-cans and carrying disease with i I cannot understand how there can be the slightest opposition to the ordinance ordi-nance and sincerely hope i will pass |