The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-07-22

ufacturers make one brand of goods
dor states where the laws are lax and
another for those states where more
stringent laws prevail. A uniform law
would result in all getting the best.
A committee on resolutions was ap-
pointed as follows: A. III. Jones, Illi-
no1s; M. L. Scovell, Kentucky; J. @.
Emery, Wisconsin; c. P. Sherwood,
south Dakota; j. B. Noble, Connect
cut.
In the afternoon H. C. Adams, con-
gresham from Wisconsin, delivered
an address on the subject of National
Food Law" In part he said:
We want national pure food law
to stop food adulteration in this coun-
try; to protect the health and pockets
OF our people; so that state lines shall
not be walls of protection for frauds;
SO that the great power of the federal
government can supplant state author
1ty IN making food products honest.
Eve want national pure food law
so drawn that all the power of con-
gress over the interstate commerce
granted by the constitution shall be
exerted to stop the shipment from
state to state of falsely branded or
adulterated foods.
1--WE want a national pure food law
so drawn that the manufacture, as we'll
as the sale of foods, can be regulated.
4 1--WE want a national pure food law
to lift the standard of American food
products and improve our reputation
in the markets of the world"
He counseled his hearers that in the
preparation of national food law
great care should be taken to so frame
it that it would stand the test of con-
stitutionality. The head of the pure
food department., he believed, should
be appointed by the president. and
should work under general supervi-
sion of the department of agriculture.
In the discussion that followed Mr..
Adams paper, A. H. Jones, food COM
missioner for Illinois, spoke of the
troubles existing through interstate
shipment of adulterated foods. and
said that this could and should be OBJ
waited by a national law.
Keep Matter Out of Politics.
R. M. Allen. of Kentucky. said that
the plans for national legislation in the
interest of pure food had been handi-
capped by the fact that the men who
were pushing them were seeking Of
fees for themselves and were not ac-
tuated by purely unselfish motives.
He did not believe with Mr.. Adams
that the chief officer of the national
food department should be appointed
by< the president, for he thought that
in that case the influence of politics
would be Injurious. He believed that
the United States department of agri-
culture should assume control of the
legislation looking toward national
pure food laws
= Assistant Food Commissioner
Mauck, of Ohio, supplied the place of
Scott Bonham, attorney for the COM
mission of that state, and discussed
the ineficiency of most of the state
1or nx,l0 10 3
which he spoke was that the small re-
tail dealers rather than the manufac-
turers, are the ones prosecuted for
violations of law. He strongly favored
national food laws.
II. W. Wiley. who was not regularly
on the afternoon programme. spoke by
request explaining the laws as to the
testing of imported goods. and the
methods followed by the United States
department of chemistry in, examina-
ton of those goods as to their purity.
ii. r. Wright, dairy commissioner
for Iowa, entered quite extensively into
statistics to show the Importance of
the dairy interests of his state. The
total dairy business of Iowa, he said,
amounts to s590,O00.000 annually, and
that industry is second only to- the
production of corn. The state pro-.
duces every year. he said, $26S,000,000
worth of butter; $26,000,000 worth Of
cheese. s11. 900, 900 worth of condensed
milk, and $277, 100000 worth of milk
and cream.
He said that in the United States
there are 5.475 butter and 1929 cheese
factories. and Iowa. Wisconsin, Min
nesota and New York are the only
states that have more than 200 butter
factories each.
Henry E. Alvord, of the United
States department Of agriculture, dis
cussed the subject of condensed milk,
which industry. he Sid. is constantly
growing