The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-23

! visors to invite the Merchants Association to
take the entire management OF the coming
celebration in order TO insure its complete sue
cess, and be it
ReSolred, That we pledge to the Merchants
Association our hearty cooperation and assist
ance in the event of their accepting the respon-
sibility.
A resolution offered by R. Chartrey as
follows was carried:
WHEREAS The Board of Harbor Commission
ers are contemplating building a new ferry
depot at the foot of Market street, and the
plans and specifications prepared by the arohi-
tect demand mostly iron work OF Eastern man
ufacture; now, therefore, 1t is
RESOLVED, That this convention respectfully
asks the said Board of Harbor Commissioners
to instruct their architect to modify the plans
and specification of said buildings so as to de-
mand only ironwork manufactured in Califor-
MIA,
The following resolution was also car
ried:
RESOLVED, That it be the sense of this conven-
ton that the paper presented by Mr.. Dickie is
deserving OF the highest recognition, and that
the active and earnest efforts of this conven-
ton be used to accomplish and effect a release
state and foreign commerce owned by citizens
of this State.
1t was ordered that the following tele-
gram be sent to Governor Budd:
james II. Batdd Governor of California, Sacra-
nent0: The Manufacturers Convention of this
State, now in session in this city, urge and
pray that you afix your signature to Senate
bill two hundred and one (20l).
IL u. MOREY, Acting Chairman.
i. 4. MEAD, Corresponding Secretary.
NJ. NJ. BARNET, Recording Secretary.
In connection with this matter the COM
mittee reported as follows:
We find that this bill was introduced in the
Senate by Senator Wilmington and vas passed
by large majority by both houses, and ii is
now in the hands OF the Governor awaiting his
approval. In terms it is the same as the bill
introduced by Mr.. Keen in the Assembly
We heartily approve this measure and recon-
mend to this convention that it shall forward
to the Governor its Endorsement, urging his
approval. Concerning this measure we submit
the following editorial published in the Sacra-
mento Record-Union, February %, 1895,
which we consider good exposition of the
merits of.the measure:
"The pure food bill is attracting deserved at
tention in the Legislature. The more it is dis
cussed the palmer become the reasons for its
enactment into law. Opponents of the bill
yesterday were asserting that the statements in
the Record-Union are not borne out by the
facts relative to the extent of food and drug
adulteration. The statements in the Record
Union were accurate, and from official data re-
ported by A. J. Wedderburn, division of chem
istry, Department of Agriculture, and pub
lished under act OF Congress passed August 8,
1894.
"Mr. Wedderburn's conclusions were reached
on the OASIS OF reports OF 5000 druggists and
the officers of all Pharmaceutical and dairy as
sociations whose addresses could be found
and on the basis of food examinations made in
most of the States, and from widely different
classes of manufacture and production. The
data is all compiled and presented by the di-
vision, but Professor Wiley does not hold him
self responsible for all the statements made by
correspondents applied to- nor all the conclu-
sions reached by the special agent, Mr.. Wedder-
burn, but he does consider the matter to be so
important and to contain so much of truth as
tn 1gti fy hair iaa inn fhn PntaI
port referred to.
"To be perfectly sure that we on the right
side and that injustice shall be done to no one
suppose we discount Mr.. Wedderburns report
so per cent, and still there remains enough
that is startling to justify the enactment of the
pure food act into law. On that basis then
the concurrent testimony of State officials is
that there is need for more stringent legisla-
ton, and that there should be national aid ex-
tended to protect the food OF the people; that
fully half of all drugs and all foods are adul-
terated to a creator or less extent, and that
these sophistications are ''as broad as the con
tinent," to use the language of Wedderburn;
that they affect the pocket more than the
health: that the general character of food
authorizations is commercial fraud, and that
the extent OF criminal and poisonous adultera-
tons is very limited; that large part of the
poisonous authorizations are due more to care
lessness and ignorance than willfulness.''
This resolution was adopted.
At the afternoon session III. s. Morey of
Placerville presided.
M. J. Waldheimer read paper on the
Mexican International Exposition, which
is to be held next month in the City of
Mexico. He urged that all California
manufacturers take an interest in the mat
ter, and if they did so it would, be for the
benefit Of the State.
The following resolutions, submitted oy
the committee on resolutions, were adopted:
RESOLVED, That this convention recommends
to the favorable consideration of the Senators
and Representatives OF the State of California
in Congress the demands of the distilers of
this State, especially those connected with the
brandy industry, which call for an amendment
TO the revenue laws permitting distillers to
blend, perfect and bottle their pure products
in bonded warehouses both for domestic and
foreign trade. giving them the right to chanue