The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-25
JACOBS PHARMACY of Montgomery, 3 Court Square.

to enforce existing laws against such goods as had been found to be adulter- ated.
 Mir. Deliver opposed the amendment to strike out, saying that all European counties protect their people against food adulterations In the six months of investigation authorized under the pres- ent law, many inspections had been made and these forty-nine specimens of food and liquor had been found to be impure. MT. Deliver defended the Department of Agriculture against the attacks made upon it, confessing his irritation over them.
 MT. Bacon said that the House provls- ion extending the supervision of the Sec retary of Agriculture only to goods found by analysis to be injurious to health. MT. Quarles suggested that the authority to confiscate goods when 'incompletely labeled" was entirely too broad, and MT. Proctor consented to the elimination of that provision.
 l MT. Allison said the original provision | for inspection of imported foods by the Agricultural Department was enacted in l 1900. and that 1t was largely for the pur- pose of retaliation against foreign coun- | tries which insist upon inspecting Amer ican goods. He spoke in Justification of the course of the Secretary of Agricul- | ture. Mir. Aldrich disclaimed any inten- ton of criticising the Secretary, and indi- cated willingness to permit the provis- ! ion to stand If 1t could be so amended as to have the determination of the unwhole- | someness of food left to the Secretary | of the Treasury.
 | MT. Allison indicated a willingness to 1 have the provision amended in minor l particulars. but said that the determina- | tion of the degree of purity had been left | to the Secretary of Agriculture rather than the Secretary of the Treasury be- | cause the former had the machinery for l carrying it into effect.
 Mir. Beveridge said there clearly was a l confusion of authority in the law, and that if good results had been secured they were due to the good sense of the | Secretary of Agriculture and not to any | merit in the law.
 MT. Perkins said that California was much interested in proper investigation into the purity of imported foods and he mentioned. incidentally, that cotton seed oil frequently was imported as olive oil Mir. Tillman inquired whether olive oil was any sweeter or better than cotton. seed oil and Mir. Perkins replied that while cotton seed oil might suit sthe Ital. ian taste of some people, he insisted that the article should be properly labeled.
 Docs the Senator know California champagne from the European article ?'
 asked MT. Tillman. and Mir. Perkins re- plies;
 If the Senator from South Carolina will bring on the samples will let him know. ''
 ThS caused a laugh at Mr. Tillman's
 expense and Mir. Perkins added that if
 he ever should take anything stronger
 than coffee he would not be disloyal to the products of his own State.''
 Several of the advocates of Mir. Ald- rich's amendment having indicated that
 the provisions of the act of 1900 hearing
 on the question at issue would be accent able to them Mir. Proctor withdrew the House provision and substituted that of l19O0.
 Mir. McCumber pointed out that this act would make the provision applicable oniv to impure food. leaving out all regulations relating to false labelling and false brand. ing. and the act of 1900 was amended to cover this point
 Further consideration of the bill was postponed until tomorrow and the follow. ing bills were passed:
 Authorizing the Kiowa, Chlckasaw and Fort Smith Railway Company to sell it, road in Indian Territory. Defining tn, limit of navigation of the Osage river 1T Missouri.
 The Senate at 5:f0 D. m. adjourned.