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Show BRITISH TALK ABOUT MEAT. Packing House Exposures Being DIs-cusced DIs-cusced in England. London. A fresh lot of questions rotating to tho Chicago meat packing disclosures are being prcpnred for presentation In thoJiouso of commons. Mlchncl Hicks-Bench, spn of tho former for-mer chnncellor of tho exchequor, will ask War Secretary Hnldano to Inform tho houso of tho quantity of Chicago canned mcnt supplied to tho troops In South Africa during tho lato war and what proportion of enteric deaths tought more probably to havo been described as duo to "ptomaine poisoning." Another question Is 'based on tho discovery In tho dining room of tho houso of commons of a box marked "Armour's. (St.- Louis, Chicago and Kansas City) chickens." Frcdorlck K. Smith, unionist, wilt Inquire what portion of tho food supplied sup-plied to tho members of tho houso comes from Chicago. There was an incidental mention of canned moats In tho courso of Friday's Fri-day's Inquiry Into tho South African stores' scandals. Evldonco wns given to tho effect that army officers sold 20,000 cases ot canned meats, Including Includ-ing tho Armour brand, Helmet brand and Mitchell's brand to a contractor for two cents a pound. Tlio contractor con-tractor complained that tho meats wero bad and returned tho cases. Tho officers who sold tho canned meats testified that ho subsequently ordered tho "fllth to bo dumped Into tho sea" and much of It nftorwards floated ashore nnd was picked up by Kaffirs, who ato It, with the result that a number of ptomaine- poisoning. |
