The record-union., 1899-02-03

a bill clerk, at a per diem of 81. Simp
son explained that he still had 81 worth
of patronage coming and a statutory
position to fill Searle was elected
without opposition.
SECOND READING FILE.
The following bills passed the second
reading:
s. B. So, by Davis, relating to steno-
grtphers in Police Courts, etc. Com
| mittee substitute adopted.
S. B. 1872 by Bulla, supplemental
to an Act authorizing cemetery associ-
atoms to erect, purchase or lease build
ings and furnaces, etc., for cremation
of human bodies, ETC.. Amended and
ordered to printer.
S. B. 46, by Morehouse, to provide
for the appointment of five Commission
ers, to be known as Supreme Court
Commissioners, to appoint a Secretary
for such commission, and to appropriate
SGT 600 for the same. Amended and or
dered printed.
s. ]. R. Z, by Flint, relating to false
| branding of food products, was adopted
| by a unanimous vote. The text of the
resolution follows:
Whereas, 1t has become known to the
|
many of their staple articles of pro-
duction that commend themselves to the
consumers Of the world by reason of
their purity and quality, markets for
which have only been obtained by the
expenditure of much time and energy
are being counterfeited by INSCRIPTIONS
persons in many parts Of the Union by
| the substitution for the pure California
product Of certain mixtures or articles
not the product Of California, and label
| ing the packages containing them as
ing a pure product of California; and,
| Whereas, The. subject of false brand
| ing and labelling of articles of food and
! beverages is recognized by producers
and consumers throughout the civil
| lied world as being of vital Importance
| to &C mmerce and the health of the peo-
pie. being especially so to the producers
of California, who by reason of their
large annual output seek foreign mar
kets for their surplus products, and
who find that the good name and repu-
| tation of their goods are seriously in
| jured in the markets of the world and
the trade therein restrained by reason
of such false branding and labelling;
and
| Whereas, This condition is fully met
| by the provisions of bill entitled "a
bill for preventing the adulteration,
misbranding and imitation Of foods,
beverages, candies, drugs and condi-
ments in the several States, the Dis
trict of Columbia and the Territories,
and for regulating interstate traffic
therein. and for other purposes" intro
duced in the National House of Repre-
| sentatives by Hon Marriott Brosius,
and in the Senate by Hon. Charles ].
Faulkner, and indorsed by the National
Pure Food Congress, which makes such
| false branding and labelling a misde-
meanor, Section 5 of which provides
that the term ''misbranded" as used
therein shall include all drugs or ar
ticles Of food, or articles which enter
| into the composition Of foods or condi-
ments, the package or label of which
shall bear any statement purporting to
name any ingredients or substances as
| not being contained in such article,
which statement shall be false in any
| particular, or any. condiment or food
product which is falsely branded as to
| the State or Territory in which it is
manufactured or produced" therefore,
| be it
Resolved by the Senate and Assembly
! Jointly, That we hereby instruct our
Senators, and request our Represent
atives, in Congress from this State to
| urge by all possible means the passage
of the Faulkner and Brosius bills by
Congress at an early date; and be it.
further
Resolved, That the Secretary of State
is hereby instructed to forward certi-
fed copies of the foregoing resolutions
to the Senators and Representatives
from this State in the Fifty-fifth and
Fifty-sixth Congresses.
S. B. 5, by Braunhart, to amend an
Act to establish a tax on collateral in
heritances. requests and devises. to
provide for its collection, and to direct
the disposition of it's proceeds. Com
mittee amendments adopted, and or
dered to printer.
MEDICAL ATTENDANCE
S. B. 214, by Hoey. to compel en-
ployers to furnish medical and surgical
| attendance to employees injured during
working hours in mills, factories. ship
yards, foundries and other places where
machinery is used, was read.
lAIorehouse offered an amendment
providing that such medical or surgical
attendance shall be provided only when
such injury was not due to the care
| lessness or negligence of the party In
jured, or to the careiessness OF fellow
employe.