![]() ![]() The hearing was part of a two-month congressional debate over possible meat inspection legislation, brought about by an unusual alliance between Roosevelt and Sinclair.Īfter extensive and often heated communications between the House, Senate, and White House, a new meat inspection bill, not yet passed by either the House or the Senate, arrived on the president's desk for his preliminary review on June 18, 1906. Although the investigators confirmed many of Sinclair's assertions, members of the Agriculture Committee proved skeptical, challenging the investigators on numerous details. In early June 1906, the House Committee on Agriculture heard testimony from two investigators appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt to verify allegations of unsanitary conditions at Chicago slaughterhouses that had appeared in Upton Sinclair's recent novel, The Jungle. ![]()
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