Washington sentinel., 1900-05-05

| DGGA pll'p hS AhSy SalA ~ iSA NAN
brewers OF the District oil Colum-
bia. We know shat the beer brewed
in this city is as good as any
brewed in the United States. The
largest of those breweries, that oi
Mr.. Christian Heurich, has more
than local reputation for its pur
ity, and even the beer bTewed by
the smallest and Youngest firm,
namely, that Of Abner & Drrry, is
praised for the purity and excel
lence OF its products. We have so
far never heard any citizen in this
town clamor to establish Chem
ical Division in the Agricultural
Department to examine and pass
upon the purity Of the beer brewed
in the District OF Columbia.
Now this is exactly what the
Brosius bill (ii we are to accept
the explanation Of the lob byist who
wrote iD calls for. A leading pro.
hibitionist told US the Other day
that he was in favor Of Pure Beer
bill in every State. Pure beer in
his opinion was beer that con-
tanned absolutely no alcohol and
did not intoxicate. He further
more said that he favored a tenn.
perance standard to be set up
which the brewers would have to
live up to, and that he and his party
(the prohibitionists) would see to
it that whenever a pure beer bill
was introduced in the Legislature
OF State, they would do all they
could to bring about such restTic-
tions as would in a short time des-
troy all the brewers in those States.
We now ask the brewers of the
United States to read this bill care
fully, and inform us whether they
desire to have such a measure
passed or not:
Belt enacted by the Senate and House
Of Representatives OF the United States
OF America in Congress assembled, That
for the purpose OF protecting the com
merce in food products and drugs
between the several States and in the
District OF Columbia and the Territories
of The United States aud foreign coun-
tries, the Secretary Of Agriculture shall
organize the Chemical Division of the
Department Of fAgriculture into bureau
OF chemistry, which shall have the
direction OF the chemical work OF the
present Division OF Chemistry and oil the
chemical work OF the other Executive
Departments whose respective heads
may apply to the Secretary Of Agrlcul
ture for such collaboration, and which
shall also be charged with the inspection
offood and drug products, as hereinafter
provided in this act. The Secretary Of
Agriculture shall make necessary rules
and regulations for carrying out the
provisions of this act, under which the
director Of the bureau OF chemistry shall
procure from time to time, or cause to
be procured, and analyze or cause to be
analysed or examined, chemically,
microsopically or otherwise, samples OF
foods and drugs offered for sale IN orig.
inal unbroken packages in the District
OF Columbia, in any Territory, or in any
State other than that in which they shall
have been respectively manufactured or
produced, or from a foreign country, or
intended for export to foreign country.
The Secretary OF Agriculture is hereby
authorized to employ such chemists,
inspectors, clerks, laborers and other
employees as may be necessary to carry
out the provisions Of this act and to make
such publication OF the results of exam
jnations and analyses as he may deem
proper.
SEC That the introduction into any
State or Territory or the District OF
Columbia from any other State or Ter
ritOry or the District, or from any foreign
country, or shipment to any foreign
country of any article of food or drugs
which is adulterated or misbTauded,
within the meaning of this act, is hereby
prohibited; and any person who shall ship
or deliver for shipment from any State
or Territory or the District Of Columbia
to any other State or Territory or the
District of Columbia, or 20 a foreign
country, or who shall receive in any
State or Territory or the District OF
| Columbia from any other State or Ter
ritory or the District OF Columbia or
foreign country, or who, having received,
shall deliver, in original unbToken pack
ages, Tor pay or otherwise, or offer to
deliver to any other person, any such
article so adulterated or miSbranded
within The meaning OF this act, or any
person who shall sell or offer for sale in
the District Of Columbia or the Terrific
ries of the United States such adulter-
ated, mixed, misbranded or initiated
foods or drugs, or export or offer &c
export the same TO any foreign country
shall be guilty of a misdem eanor. and
tor such otfense be fined not exceeding
two hundred dollars for the first offense
and for each subsequent offense mol
exceeding three hundred dollars or be
imprisoned not exceeding one year, ol
both, in the discretion OF the court.
SIC 3 That the director OF the bureau
OF chemistry shall make, or cause to b.
made, under rules and regula ions to bC
prescribed by the Secretary of Agricul
ture, examinations ofspecimens offoOd'
and drugs offered for sale in origina