The record-union., 1899-01-14
BANNERS ALL
ARE WAVING.

Continued from Fourth Page.) a
ator Flint was referred to the Com
mittee ON Federal Relations:
i Whereas, 1t has become known TO
the people in the State OF California
that many of their staple articles OF
production that commend themselves
to the consumers of the world by rear
son of their purity and quality, mar
kets for which have been obtained by
the expenditure of much time and en-
ergy, are being counterfeited by un-
sc1upulous 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 labelling the packages
containing them as being pure pro-
duct of California; and
Whereas, The subject OF false
branding and labelling of articles OF
food and beverages is recognized by
producers and consumers throughout
the civilized world as being of vital
importance to commerce and the health
of the people, being especially so to
the producers of California, who by
reason of their large annual output
seek foreign markets for their surplus
products, and who find that the good
name and reputation of their goods are
seriously injured 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 a bill, entitled "A
bill for preventing the adulteration,
p, ,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" in
troduced in the National House of Rep
resentatives by Hon. Marriott Brosius,
and in the Senate by Hon. Charles J..
Faulkner, and indorsed by the Ma
tional Pure Food Congress, which
makes false branding and labelling a
misdemeanor, Section 5 of which pro-
vides that the term 'misbranded as
used therein shall include all drugs,
or articles of food, or articles which
enter into the composition of foods or
condiments, the package or label of
which shall bear any statement pur-
u
substances as not being contained in
such article, which statement shall be
false in any particular, or any condi-
ment or food product which is falsely
branded as to the State or Territory
In which it is manufactured or pro-
duced;' therefore, be it
Resolved By the Senate and the
Assembly jointly, that we hereby in
ND
Representatives in Congress from this
State to urge by all possible means
the passage of the Faulkner and
Rrosius bills by Congress at an early
date; and be it further
Resolved That the Secretary or
state is hereby instructed to forward
certified copies of the foregoing reso-
luton to the Senators and Representa-
tives from this State in the Fifty-fifth
and F'ifty-sixth Congresses.
RECLAIM ARID LANDS.
The following resolution by Senator
Mutt was referred to the Committee
on Federal Relations:
Whereas, There are many thousand
acres of land within the confines of
the State of California that are at
present lying idle, uninhabited and of
no aSSeSSab Die value, ana
Whereas, A supply of water for ir-
figating purposes would render these
lands susceptible of the highest culti-
vation and a source of revenue to the
Government; and
Whereas, The expense of securing
such a supply of water by the building
of storage reservoirs is far beyond the
means of this State, and as the result
of such work is of great value to the
Federal Government in reclaiming and
making salable isrge tracts of said
land, and thereby making them
source of revenue; and
Whereas. The money necessary for
such work should properly be appropri-
ated by Congress; now, therefore, be it
Resolved, BY the Senate of the
State of California and the As
sembly jointly, that our Senators
be instructed and our Representatives
be earnestly requested to use their best
endeavors to secure an appropriation
from the Federal Government to pro-
vide for the necessary surveys and es-
Inmates for the diverting of rivers and
streams and the construction of reser-
voirs for the storage of water in order
that some of our lands, at present arid
and worthless, may be irrigated and
thereby rendered suitable for cultiva-
tion and a source of revenue to the
United States, as well as to the State
of California.
Resolved. That the Secretary of the
Senate be directed to transmit to each
of our Representatives and Senators in
Congress a copy of these resolutions"
The Senate adjourned until 10 o'clock