Spanish Fork Press | 1906-06-21 | Page 1 | Chicago Meat under Ban

CHICAGO MEAT UNDER BAN No Meats Used In House of Commons Come From Stock Yards City LondonChlcago meat again formed tho subject of several questions ques-tions In the house of commons Monday Mon-day Mr HicksBeach Conservative son of the former chancellor of the exchequer asked War Secretary Hal dane what the quantity of Chicago canned meat was supplied to the troops In South Africa during the late war and what proportion of enteric deaths ought more properly to have been described as due to ptomaine poisoning poi-soning The secretary replied that rather more than half the canned meat supplied to the British troops in South Africa during the late war came from the United States He could not say how much of this came tram Chicago Replying to a question based on the discovery In the dining room of the house of commons of a box marked Armours St Louis Chicago and Kansas City chickens Mr Ja coby chairman ot the kitchen committee com-mittee assured the house that no food of any kind used In the house of commons com-mons comes from Chicago Mr Ja coby added that he was making an investigation in-vestigation as to how the box came on the premises