The evening times., 1898-12-02

NATIONAL PURE FOOD
AND DRUG CONGRESS
-sI .rftrH NaTs
Second Annual Session to Con-
vene Here Next Month.
OBJECT OF ASSOCIATION
To Secure Legislation to Prevent
AduIterati0n.
a Large Number of Delegates Are
Expeeted-Pe0pie Identified With
the Organization.

The second annual session of the Ma
tional Pure Food and Drug Congress will
convene in this city during the early part
of January. The meetings will be held
in the hall OF the Columbian University.
and in the event that the assembly can
not be accommodated there Wizards Hail
has been secured for the reception of the
overflow. Notwithstanding the fact that
this association is only one year old, 1t
represents twenty-one organizations and
over $50 State and local organizations
from every part Of the country.
The object of this congress is TO secure
suitable legisla ton of a national character
to r.revent the adulteration of food,
drinks and drugs, and TO secure the en-
forcement of such laws; to create and
maintain a high public sentiment upon
these important subjects and to uphold
and 10 sustain all public officers charged
with the enforcement OF such feSuld-
lions: to promote a more general lhIelll-
eence concerning the injury 10 the health
and TO the business interests of honest
PRODUCERS. resulting from food adultera-
zion and concerning the Importance OF
proper food. to the health OF the people
This Congress owes its origin to few
local persons who have been unurlng IN
their efforts 10 secure this legislation. ana
have for years devoted much thought TO
securing the means whereby it might be
accomplished The problem which pre-
St tuted itself upon first contemplating
move that would be fought by powerful
persons engaged in the practice Of manu-
l featuring adulteratlons and substitutes
! for pure food and drugs, was not an easy
one. The different purposes of various
| manufacturers all over the country and
! the results to their business had TO be
| taken into consideration. The tirst step
taken by this local body of men was to
! communicate with various firms dealing
In adulteratious and sound them as TO
their opinion upon such a legislature as
! they were endeavOring to secure The an
/ swers received from many of these con-
/ Germs indicated that such movement
would meet with their hearty co-opeTa-
/ tion 1t was claimed by these adultera-
/ tors Of food that while no law could be
made to prohibit them from making and
, Gisposing Of their articles, they would be
really benefited when allowed TO sell their
/ substitutes under their proper names.
/ Thus it was seen that the difficult prob
! lem of aso,ihating these conflicting e!e-
/ ments into a unity could be accomplishe q
/ with but little effort. Subsequently no.
4 tees were sent to different organizations
e.
State and To the Federal Government Of
ficials to the effect that a congress would
be held in this city within two months
from the time the communication was
mailed.
The congress was attended by delegates
appointed by the governors of thirty
States. from six Of the Federal Govern
ment departments; twenty-one national
eiehtv-siX local organizations. making a
total OF four hundred delegates. These
: representatives Of neaEiS every food pro-
dUcing concern framed and presented 10
Congress bill to the effect that the De
partment Of Agriculture analyze all man
ufactured food produced I'm the country
and properly label it 50 that the manufac-
turers be made 10 sell an adulterated OF
substitute article under its proper name
The bill was framed and presented in the
House Of Representatives by Congress
man Brosius and referred to the Com
mittee on Interstate Commerce. SimuI
tane0usly the same bill was presented Il
the Senate by Senator Faulkner and re
ferred to. The Committee on Agricultur,
and Forestry. and ordered to be printe d
II was later sent to Secretary Wilson
who. after approving IL. recommended its
adoption. Upon being returned to Con
gress it was put upon the calendar ard
in consequence Of the busy times in The
House and Senate prior 10 the beginning
OF hostilities with Spain. il was not con
sidered again during last season.
The executive committee Of the Ma