Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1902-04-26
Says Congress Has Power to Regulate Sale
Of Products in Interstate Commerce.
OLD METHOD FAILS QUARTER OF CENTURY
Over Billion Dollars Worth Of Impure
Food on Markets Annually,
cARMAcK DENoUNCEs PHILIPPINE BILL
Asserts IL Presents one Aspect Of I'm
periaIism and Questions Right OF
Congress TO Make Any Laws
, for Islands,

WASHINGTON. April 95.-At the cen
clusion of the routine business in the
senate today MIR. McCumber OF North Da-
kota. chairman Of the committee on manu-
factures. addressed the senate on the
bill ito prevent the adul;srstion, mis-
branding and imitation OF food, beverages,
candles, drugs and condiments In the Dis
trict of Columbia and the territories and
for regulating interstate commerce
therein"
The object OF his address, he said, was
to convince the senate of the very great
Importance Of the subject to The American
people.
Mr.. Carmack of Tennessee addressed the
senate IN opposition to the Philippine gov
ernment bill. He saw in the bill one
pect OF imperialism. by which he charac-
terized the policy of the administration in
the island. During his speech the senator
sarcastically criticised General Funston's
recent utterances regarding those who as
sailed the work of the army in the Philip
pines
Mr.. McCumber, continuing his speech.
said:
For a quarter OF a century nearly every
state in the union had been struggling with
the question of procuring pure foods. Ex-
perience has proved that it has been i'm
possible to obtain uniformity in state laws.
This bill attempted to regulate the sale
of only such foods as entered into inter-
state commerce, and the congress, there
FORE had ample authority to deal with the
subject"
Extent of Fraud Appalling.
He declared that the extent Of the adul-
teration and misbranding of food products
was appalling, that the time had come for
congress to act. He enumerated many of
the frauds, products, which he said, were
crimes, against the retail merchant and
consumer, alike. The amount OF deleterious
food products placed upon the market each
year. Mr.. McCumber said. was valued at
fully S1,170, ,OOO, 900, while the total amount
Of adulterated food products each year was
nearly $4,000 900.
Mr.. McCumber expressed the belief. based
upon evidence taken by his committee that
manufacturers and dealers generally would
not object to the enactment Il the bill
proposed.
Mr.. Plat OF Connecticut, chief OF the
committee on relations. with Cuba, reported
from that committee a substitute for the
resolution offered few days ago by Mr..
Teller, the substitute providing for an in
vestigation by the committee of the hold
ings Of Cuban sugar, and of Cuban sugar
lands by American citizens. the committee
to have authority to send for persons and
papers and to sit during sessions of the
senate. The resolution was referred to the
committee on contingent expenses.
A bill for the protection of game in
Alaska was passed. At o'clock the unfin-
biIl-was laid before the senate. Mr. Car
mack Of Tennessee. member Of the Philip
pines committee, addressed the senate in
opposition TO the measure.
Aspect of Imperialism.
Mr.. Carmack said that this bill, like the
Philippine tariff bill. simply presented one
aspect OF imperialism. II was not a ques-
tion only OF framing just laws for the
Philippines, but a question OF right to
make any laws, whatever. for that people.
THE claim Of the republicans" said he.
''is that they had burned enough towns,
wasted enough country and killed enough
people to make good their right. The land
is ours because we have strewn II with the
ashes Of its homes and drenched 1t with
the blood OF it's people,
Opponents of this policy denied that
We had derived any just powers of gov
ernment from the subJugation Of the gov
erned and that was the real issue OF this
debate. In the former debate, ne said.
Mr.. Spooner had charged that the minority
had prostituted the question to partisan
purposes. and that Mr.. Bryan had seized
upon II to force an issue with the admin
istration. Unfortunately for this argu-
ment, the fact was that Mr.. Bryan had
declared his position upon this question
long before anybody knew what the
policy OF the administration would be.
At that time the public utterances of
Mckinley and Bryan were in exact accord.
and II the administration had not reversed
its policy there would have been no differ
ence between them.
Course of Democrats.
The democrats in the senate, he in
sisted, had tried to remove the question
from party politics. 1t was now claimed
that the civil authority OF the United States
was supreme throughout the Philippines
and II was treason for a democrat TO ex-
press an opinion. He cited the public
utterances OF President Mckinley and Mr..
Roosevelt, and the speeches OF republican
senator's. and quoted from the republican
campaign book TO show that a general
policy of colonialism and conquest was sd-
vocated as republican doctrine.
THE idea that you can transform the
character of race by teaching them to
the most fantastic dream that ever fitted
through a lunatic's brain" He quoted
utterAnees from Mr.. Roosevelt charging
that "treasonable" utteranees had melted
the Filipinos TO insurrection, and said that
We must not Judge the president in his
moment Of oratorical ferocity OF when the
ferocity OF battle was In his blood. The
president was not vindietive, but simply
strenuous. and Tesembled in his habits OF
speech a certain Tennessee horse In that
running away was his natural gait.
Mr.. Roosevelt had habitualiy spoken OF
the Filipinos as "sAyages," aud bar
bsrians" and "Apaehes," and these denun-
Citations had been scattered broadcast
throughout the islands to inhame the
people against the United Safes. The effect
Of the presidents language had been 20
harden and intensity Filipino opposition 10
American rule.
Some OF our military heroes had been
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