UNITED STATES MEAT INSPECTION. 
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penalty. Further than this, the Secretary of Agriculture is 
authorized to make such rules and regulations as he may decide 
to be necessary to prevent the transportation from one State 
into another of the condemned carcasses or parts of carcasses of 
inspected animals. 
Congress in this act has provided for a vast system of in¬ 
spection covering meat shipped from one State to another for 
domestic use, it has authorized the Secretary of Agriculture to 
adopt any measures he may see fit to prevent the shipment of 
condemned meat, under which authorization he causes its imme¬ 
diate destruction as soon as condemned ; and it has gone about 
as far as it is possible for it to go under the Federal Constitution 
to protect our citizens from diseased and unsound meat. What 
possible excuse or justification is there for the assertion that all 
of this inspection and all of these precautions are “ merely for a 
show ? ” And is there any more reason for the assertion that 
the origin of this domestic system of inspection is to be sought 
in any German law?” Such claims are too preposterous for 
consideration. 
It is possible in making the assertion that our inspection is 
due to German law, Dr. Schwarzkopf had in mind the micro¬ 
scopic inspection of pork for trichinae, and if this were the case, 
any one can see, by examining the law, how egregiously he is 
mistaken. The meat inspection law does not provide for a 
microscopic inspection of pork, and the only animals specifically 
authorized to be inspected on account of the meat being intended 
for export, are cattle. The microscopic inspection can only be 
made under the general authorization to make a post-mortem 
inspection of the carcasses of all cattle, sheep and hogs which 
are the subjects of interstate commerce. As Congress gave no 
special direction for inspecting export pork, the kind of meat 
which goes to Germany, and did direct an inspection of export 
beef, which by the way does not go to that country, the reader 
will have no difficulty in appreciating at its proper weight the 
influence of the German law in securing our legislation. 
Our inspection of meats for domestic consumption is no more 
