Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-06-23

AFFIDAvITS AS TO HIS GOOD CHARACTER-IN
A QUESTION OF vERACITY BETwEEN HIN
AND TEMPLE, AFFIANTs WOULD BELIEVE
BEECHER.
Capt. II. F. Beecher, nominated to be col
lector of customs for the Puget Sound district
was before subcommittee OF the Senate com
mittee on commerce to-day to answer charges
filed against him, and to reply to the testimony
given yesterday by Daniel Kepler and H. D.
of Washington Territory who is a witness in his
behalf. Capt. Beecher admitted having re
ceived 1926 from Kepler to be turned into
the east, and claimed that he had given it tC
Temple. an employee of the railway mail ser
vice, with instructions to procure the order:
Temple denied having received the money
and the issue thus became one OF veracity be
tween Beecher and Temple. AS the money wa:
never received, Beecher repaid the amount To
kepler. Capt .Beecher has submitted to the
COMMITTEES number of certificates in the form
of affidavits. Q. F. Carr, postmaster at Seattle
and w. IL. II. Learned, postmaster at POr
Townsend, state that they personally know
both Temple and Beecher; that the reputation
and that they would unhesitatingly believe
him as against Temple in a matter wherein
both were interested, or in any matter wherein
the veracity of ell her had to he discredited.
District Attorney Ronald, Superintendent
Evans, of Wells. Fargo & Co.'s express, and the
presidents and cashiers OF two or three nationa
THY to Capt Beecher's integrity aud trust
worthiness. Capt Beecher says his boa
arrived at Seattle, where he was to get the
had closed for the day, and as Temple had the
entree to the inner office. he asked him to go IN
and get the orders. Capt. Beecher also sub
mitted sworn statements describing transac
tons of a questionable nature with which
Temple was supposed to have been connected
Adulterated Wines.
MEMORIAL OF THE DISTRICT MEDICAL, so
CIETY.
In the Senate, Mr.. Kenna presented a memo
rial from a special com mittee of the District
Medical society, composed of Drs. Garnet
Buckley and Thomas c. Smith, inviting the
attention of Congress to the widespread evils O
adulteration and Justification of beverages sole
as wines, both for daily family and medicinal
uses. The memorial says:
ave are credibly informed that millions O.
gallons of spurious wines are annually sold fol
consumption in this country, and that prac
tically the ordinary consumer and the physi
clans patient have no protection against dis
honest trade. This evil, SO far az the medical
profession is concerned, is in the nature of the
adulteration OF medicine, IN the preparation O.
which wines are necessarily employed, and
with respect to ord nary daily consumption
where wines are habitually used at the family
table, the study of the public health and the
causes of disease are complicated by a want O
exact knowledge as to the nature of the pro
ducts consumed. 1t Is known positively that
wines are not only initiated by apparently
simple methods, but are also adulterated with
false and injurious coloring matters, low grade
alcOhOls and drugs
The memorialists then call attention to the
value of pure wines and the necessity of know
ing they are pure in order to have any assur
ance OF the effect in sickness, and say there il
a defective law in operation on the suDjec!
which is no. enforced. They suggest that the
public health and interests of the medical pro
iession may be in great manner secured by
some effective means to guard against disease
from spurious and adulterated Wines Such b
measure would protect both the sick and the
well. Referred to the finance committee.