The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-03
BREWERS RED LETTER DAY
SENATE REJECTS PUBLIC HEALTH
 COMMITTEE REPORT.

~bauAOh oA ny SNoO
 and Whiton Discarded-An Attempt to
 Revive Peach Yellows Bill-Senate Con-
 ferees Report Representations
 Bill in the House.
 The brewers scored a victory yester- bill offered by Senator Futile, in lieu of the report of the committee on pub lie health, relating to the adulteration of malt liquors passed.
 The matter came before the senate in tee on public health, one providing for the supervision of the manufacture and of health and requires among other things that all packages containing fermented malt liquors should be label ed, also that the brewer should furnish samples of their goods to the state chemist for analysis, which should ap- pear on the label of each package or bottle.
 The bill reported by the minority of the committee was less drastic in it's provisions and did not require any label on the package.
 Senator Woodruff said that it was the aim of the committee to prevent the selling of beer as made of malt and hops, when 1t was made of something else. If made of glucose and rice, the fact should be plainly shown to the buyer. If the brewers of Connecticut were selling an honest article, as they claimed, then they should not object to having the ingredients shown on the label
 Senator Futile offered a substitute bill prohibiting the use of drugs or injurious ingredients; the product of of the state board of health.
 Senator Woodruff said that the com mittee had thrown out this bill be- cause 1t did not reach the point that if beer is pure there can be no objection by brewers to a label showing the in gradients. He was not prepared to say that any injurious ingredients are used
 Senator Futile said that 1t would be practically impossible for the brewers to comply with the provisions of the committee bill, and pointed out the reasons. Owing to the blending of beers manufactured at differen periods it is impossible to give the ingredients en- tering into any particular lot of beer put up for market. Further, this bill
 JNo 1ye, brought into Connecticut from other states, so that only Connecticut brew CTS are attacked by this bill. The sen- ator moved to substitute the minority for the majority report, his amendment applying to the minority bill. Senator Futile made the statement that he had it from the members of the committee that this report, which the senator from the Fifteenth had said was a majority one, was not the ex- pression of the opinion of the majority of the committee.
 Senator Woodruff resented the impu- ment of facts. It was the opinion of the majority as expressed in executive session.
 The bill IS as follows:
 Section All persons engaged in the business of brewing or manufacturing ale beer or other fermented liquors are hereby prohibited from using in the process of brewing or manufacturing any poisonous or deleterious drugs or chemicals, or any impure or injurious materials, or such as are prejudicial to
 the health of any person brewing or making use of any such ale, beer or other fermented liquors.
 | Section 2-Every person who shall sell or expose for sale any ale, beer CT oth- CT fermented liquors, knowing the same to be adulterated, or shall adulterate for the purpose of sale any ale, beer or
 fermented liquors, shall be fined not
 more than $1,000 or imprisoned not
 more than six months.
 Section 3-Any person who shall use
 such poisonous or sdeleterious drugs or chemicals, or impure or injurious ma- terials, or those preJudicial to health, as prohibited by the first section of this
 act, shall be fined not more than $1, GOO
 or imprisoned not more than one year, | or both.
 | oecllOl Fl ue SecEeldFy or the SCaCe | board of health, or, some persons desig- hated by the state board of health,
 may at any reasonable time enter upon i the premises of a brewer, wholesale or
 retail dealer of any ale, beer or other fermented liquors and secure direct | from the vessel or package in which such liquors are contained samples of
 such liquors, to be submitted to the state chemist for analysis. The per son securing the sample shall seal the package containing the same in the presence of the retailer, wholesaler or brewer, or their authorized representa- tives, and shall deliver it to the state chemist with the said seal unbroken. | The state chemist shall analyze all samples thus submitted to him, and If
 he finds that any contain poisonous or | deleterious drugs or chemicals, or inn pure or injurious materials, he shall acquaint the proper prosecuting officer with the facts, and it shall be the duty
 of such prosecuting officer to prosecute the retailer, wholesaler or brewer in ac- cordance with the provisions of this act
 He denied Senator Tuttle's statement | that a majority of the committee had l told him that they were in favor of the minority bill, and said that if any who signed the majority report had changed | their minds, influences had been