The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-04-15
PURE BEER HEARINGS CLOSE
ATTORNEY NICK ERSON REPLIES TO
 PRESIDENT KENDALL.


 the Manufacture and Sale of Fertilizers, Oieomargerine, Etc.-Every Keg, Barrel or Bottle Must Bear the Analysis Upon a Label.
 The closing arguments on the pure beer bill were heard at the capitol yes terday afternoon by the committee on public health.
 Tuesday afternoon the committee lis tened to Attorney Williams in support of the bill and President Kendall of the Quinnipiac Brewing company in oppo- sition to it.
 Yesterday afternoon Attorney Nick erson, who Is associated with MT. Will Hams, addressed the committee. He took up the bill by sections and eX- plained each one, after which the at torney made an extended argument in support of the bill as meretricious leg islation. It was not, as had been claim ed by the opposition, a species of class legislation. It was In line with the laws regulating the sale of oleomargar- inc and fertilizer. Bills had been pass ed looking toward the purification of molasses, and during the present ses- sion of the general assembly bill had been passed providing for the punish ment of persons adulterating vinegar.
 Continuing his argument MT. Nick erson said:
 There have been but two brewers of all that interested and large class of men here in opposition to this bill. One of these has said that he made pure beer and therefore was without its jur- isdiction. The other gentleman is the one who made the argument before your committee yesterday afternoon. He says that my brother, Williams, Dr. Wolfe and myself are fighting his com pany. Well, now, gentlemen, we are in this matter for pure beer, and if the bill hits the gentleman where he is ten der we cannot help it.
 You are told this is narrow legisla- t1on. Why, gentlemen, the fact is that the matter has commended itself to dozen of the state legislatures and to the ways and means committee of the federal congress"
 The bill provides as follows:
 Section 1-All fermented liquors re- sembling or known as beer, ale or DOT ter which is not manufactured from pure barley-malt, pure hops, or pure extract of hops, pure yeast and pure water, and all such fermented liquors which has not been brewed at least three months before the same is of fered for sale, shall be inferior beer, within the meaning of this act.
 Section 2-All brewers of fermented malt liquors, such as beer, ale and DOT ter, and all other persons who desire to sell and deliver to any person or corporation in this state any beer, ale or porter, shall before said article is offered for sale, make and deliver to the state board of health certified copy of the report of such brewer or person manufacturing the beer, ale or porter to be sold for the time and period when the same is brewed or manufactured, to the internal revenue department of the United States, in which Is stated the amount of materials bought and used by the brewer or per son making or producing the same, the amount of finished product made from the same, together with the number of
 
 the information contained In such re- port to the revenue department of the United States, by such brewer or per- son at stated intervals as prescribed by the United States internal revenue laws and regulations, which certified copy shall contain statement by said brewer or manufacturer that the same is a true copy of such return and con tains a statement of all of the materials used in the manufacture of such beer to be sold, which shall be sworn to be- fore some proper officer authorized to administer oaths, and the brewer or person so making such return shall at tach thereto his affidavit, in which shall be stated the time when such beer to be sold was manufactured or brewed
 Section 3 provides for the issuance by the secretary of state of licenses to brewers, who have, upon examination of the brewers report, found that they are legally entitled to the same, said licenses to be issued without charge, and to authorize brewers to do busi- ness, the brewer to put on all his bar rels casks, etc., a printed label certi- flying that he has compiled with the law If the secretary of state finds up- on said examination that the brewer has not complied with the law the full license shall be refused, but instead he shall receive a permit to sell inferior beer, ale or porter as the case may be.
 Section provides: Every manufac- turer or brewer of inferior beer, ale, or porter, shall post or keep posted up- on the premises where he carries on the process of manufacturing or brewing, and also in each of his offices a sign bearing in plain black Roman letters, not less than one-half inch wide and four inches long, on a white ground the words "Inferior Beer Made Here"
 Section provides for the proper branding of every barrel, keg, etc., of inferior beer, ale or porter with the word inferior" and that every such receptacle shall also have securely affiX- ed to 1t in a conspicuous place white label, on which shall be plainly printed the word "Inferior," in connection with the article to be sold; and also a plainly printed statement in the English lan- guage of all the ingredients and mate rial used in brewing or manufacturing the article contained therein, together with the per centum of each substance