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Pork Packers Object

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Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
March
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
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Washington, March 28. - When the Committee on AgTiculture met yesterday Hon. Asher Caruth, of Kentucky, presented the protest of pork packers of Louisvilie, Ky., against the testimony of W. G. Bartle. It was placed on tile. Iq reply to a qnestion by the chairman Mr. Caruth eaid that he had a general knowledge of the reputation of the farmers throughout Kentucky and dld believe they were In the hablt of sending diseased hogs to market Mr. Funston (Kan.), a member of the committee, in the name of the farmers of Kansas protested against the charges of Mr. Bartle. St. Louis, March 28.- Captain Bartle has written a statement corxecting the alleged misrcpresentations, in which he says that he never even inttmated that the fcreman of Dold & Sons, of Kansas City, had recently Lught 2,200 smothered hogs, which had been put into prime steam lard rendered by that firm. What he did say was that Dold & Sons' f oreman had told him that when he was foreman of another concern he had tankei out 2,200 smothered hogs and put the product into steaui-refined lard. The Live-Stock Exchange yesterday forwarded to Washington a report, prepared by a special committee, which declares that the statements reported to have been made by William G. Bartle, who acknowledges that he knowingly slaughtered diseased hogs for human food, are wholly unworthy ot credit and utterly false.

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