| Show NEILL REPEATS I 1 OF FILTH I Ic Commissioner om miSSioner of Labor U Unshaken Unshaken Un Un- n- n shaken on Story of Packing Packing Pack Pack- ing mg House REBUKE FOR COMMITTEE Congressmen Fa tile to la Packers eIers CIO Cro s Cro Examine Mr 11 Neill In Iii any n a Way ny lie JIl Doesn't OC Jil Like Washington hI June 7 7 Representative tire tive Bowie Dowie of ot the committee on agrical agriculture agriculture agri agri- cal culture ture protested d th this is a afternoon ft em onn against the treatment accorded accord d b by the committee to CommissIoner Commissioner Com Corn missioner of Labor X Nell I for 01 hl his I charges against t the the meat ment packers while Mr MiS Nt Neill lJ was being heard on in inthe the agricultural appropriation bill hilI Mr OIl I Bowie Dowie explained cl that lint representatives pr of the packers aCkEr hall had been shown great r at courtesy courteS an and he lie objected to Mr Neill n a- representative of the government I h being subjected to cro eross examination cross na t Ion anti placed d In tire the attitude of a culprit awaiting prosecution I 1 think said Imd Mr III Neill eill that the attitude of c certain members of the committee towards the thc witness 5 who yesterday declared we vm had hal re reported reported re- re I ported things we had hall not I ton seen and amI the lie attitude altitude of the same mc m members mb rs towards me ml mlIs Is strikingly stilL- stilL I different I dont don't want to bo bp discourteous discourteous dis dis- I courteous to the committee but I think the questions g a asked and the v. v oa ay in all which the they al' al aie asked Is no nol fair talt to me compared with the th- way Mr treated yesterday Wilson was waR What hat the gentleman says Is entirely entirely en en- n correct said ne Representative pre maU Howl Bowie Bottle member of th the I i ia I a agree rc with him and I am per personally I Ire re responsible I I here or all anywhere IC else Is II Same am here bore shouted R nta Uve tive Davis of Minnesota who was sitting sitting sit sit- It- It I ting across s the table It Is mutra I j I Trent Treat Neill Unfairly j Members of nf the tho committee were beginning beginning be be- ginning to move e uneasily about in their chairs when Mr 11 Neill rc restored quiet t 4 by y saying Some oT of the questions asked mand me tilt and the attempts made to lend me into making S statements which I plainly did lid not mean man and anti the fact that lint I was pr prevented pro pre I vented vente from expressing my ideas Ida o was I Unfair Representative lI Henry Menry nn of Connecticut cut mt heretofore regarded as a n friend of I the packers packers' Interests became angry I at it the tho apparent discrimination plat and in declaring that the beef r report 1 had been sent to conle congress by hy bythe hythe the he Pr President nt id of or the United Called States Stats he hl Interposed l'-l l' saying I It i is a report for which President I Roosevelt t stands sponsor and it ou ought ht i not lot to be bc criticized criticised and intimations I made that the framers framel's of lt Its are fal- fal falI I I R Representative Brooks declared that j was wae not met being beins done clone h 1 I e Ir- Ir repeatedly Of j today lod ti Taif 1111 r t r f i reeling nr I During the thc eros cros examination cross of lIr Mr 01 Neil Neill I by Chairman more mor- of or feeling was waR displayed cd I You seem to have found nothing I ml fault remarked Chairman Wads Wads- worth orth Was Vas at that what you went I here for COl My I- I idea WItS was replied Mr lr Neill that thai sonic some on explanation was desired md ind we wore were sent ent there to find out It was vas that needed Improvement I Lid did li not think it was nece necessary t to raise where we found conditions as ashe ashey ashey hey he should have ha been sir Mr 11 Haskins You Yon You were sent there thereto 10 to report lh the facts fact C Mr r. Neill Yes sir air Mr Wadsworth But Wadsworth-But But he has not re reported ro- ro ported the rae facts lie lIc has reported lothing creditable He lie has done one nothing noth ing ins but find fault Walls Mr 11 Neill Eai said he lie found instances where re walls were slimy and had hadnot r not been wn washed hell for months month Mr Neill eill 1 reiterated his that he had seen meat thrown upon dirty floors and anti that men trampled over O It with their hoots on also that men too i stood upon the tables on which meat was waB handled bandied and also alEo sat nt upon the tables and ate their ate their lunches Such In Instances instances In- In stances he had seen een at the plant of nr Nelson Morris Co the hou house e represented directly through Mr Wilson Ilson In instance the lie head men in the es establishments establishments es- es seemed watching for the thea a appearance of ur the government go agents and they thoy were vere always accompanied by byone byone byone one or more in authority Lack of Sanitation In view of what he lie saw un under el such conditions lie he felt entirely convinced that there was an utter want or mit at attempt mitt mitt- tempt at nt systematic sanitation There are ale Hoots Hoot's In some seine m of these places place I h he a asserted where all nil the wat waters s in aUthe all aU the seas could not wash out the smell 11 lie t-aw t dirty wal water I swept alon along the floors anti and splash up a against the them m meat al Mr r. Neill declared tl man many of or the thC rooms were without ventilation and there was a stinking o odor or What hat tl do you mean II by stinking asked etl Mr Mi Wadsworth II Well eU when something Mm smells so o oba ba bad that you iOU cant can't express It by saving say sav ling lag ing it smells thou then you o tL say it stinks Rope Hupe in Totted limn Ham When hen he lie said he IlL saw w strands of or rope in iii scraps of meat about to be ground up Into potted ham Mr h Wadsworth asked Do you ou think that thai rope rop was put 11 Into It intentionally for the purpose t of being put into the th can ean with the meat I haven't said that it was sas but it wa was a a foreign substance nce which ought not to have ha been there thero replied Mr Neill I rhe The witness was subjected to tt a rigid exam cross examination cross i nat ion by M Mr 11 r. r Lorl- Lorl mer n of or Illinois but stuck to o hl his sl story 0 I |
