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...Beef & Birthday...
Chief complainant was Republican Senator Samuel Morgan Shortridge of California. Stirred to action by loud protests from the California Cattlemen's Association, he charged that the Army & Navy were buying their beef from Australia and New Zealand to supply outposts in the Philippines, Hawaii, the Canal Zone. It was claimed that a city of 100,000 could subsist on these foreign meat purchases, which exceeded 6,500,000 Ib. per year. Other provender which the Army & Navy have been buying in part abroad included beans, cereals, dairy products. The Cal- ifornia Cattlemen's Association pointed out that Hawaiian beef...
...Army's meat purchases are in the hands of depot quar-termasters in the corps areas. In the Philippines the Army & Navy club together to buy meat on one contract to get a lower price. Both Admiral Cheatham and General De Witt said they would be "delighted" to buy beef from U. S. packers if it could be shipped to foreign stations to meet the foreign price. Declared Acting Secretary of War Davison...
...average cost of foreign beef delivered in the Hawaiian Islands is 2¢ to 4¢ per Ib. cheaper than the U. S. product delivered in the U. S. Any change in the law to require the American product would, of course, require a considerable increase in the appropriation for the sub- sistence of the Army...
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