Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-01-31
EXPLAINS DRAWBACK
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the corn contains nothing hut "slops"
which has been thickened with corn
flour. That is not right. We need Also
a drug law that shall prohibit the sale of
adulterated drugs, and the U. s. Phar.
'macopoeia should be the standard. It
should prohibit the sale of any drug in
the United States used internally or ex-
ternally for man that contains
methyl alcohol. 1t is a fact that
during the past four years not less than
100 persons have been poisoned in New
York, poisoned to death from the substi-
tuition of methyl alcohol in place Of the
ordinary alcohol. 1t is claimed that
nine Indians have been poisoned in this
state within the past few recent years,
and I believe at least two men have
been poisoned in this state by drinking
that alcohol.
We need a law to be so drawn that
it shall prohibit the sale of drugs unless
they are labeled, which contain choral,
cocaine, morphine, ETC., or any Of these
'compounds.
There seems to be some misunder-
standing with regard to House Bill No.
20. As presented this bill is drawn
along the lines of the McCumber bill,
but after the McCumber bill had been
presented there were some amendments
! made which were not taken into con.
sideration in this bill, making it a bill
not as we'll adapted as the modified Hep
burn McCumber bill. In the next place
it should be borne in mind that the
Hepburn McC umber bill has been pre-
ceded by two other bills, intended to
prepare the way for it. And further
money has been appropriated to the
secretary Of agriculture for making an
Investigation, and when he says coal tar
dye is poison in the McCumber bill you
have basis for work; when he says
that sulfurous or salicylic acids, formal
dehye, etc. are poison, you have basis
for work; our proposed law does not pro-
hibit these things. Then there was an
other law preceding the McCumber law
and that is that the government shall
prohibit importation into this country
goods which are prohibited in the
foreign country from which they come.
Then, again one objection to the Nc
Cumber bill as adapted for this state is
that it necessitates jury trial in every
case, and that is cumbersome method
of enforcing the law; it should be before
a justice of the peace. In the next
place this house bill does not make pro-
vision in its present form for any means
of inspection. You can 60 into store
and buy samples, but it gives you no
authority to inspect. No food law can
be enforced where there is no authority
to inspect. This has been found true in
other states. Also it seems to me that
wherever they have commission that
the law has not been 50 well enforced as
it is in the hands of commissioner.
WhyF Because there is . larger body to
be brought together and more likelihood
of misunderstanding. It should be the
duty of one man and one man only. In
South Dakota they have a commits
sioner, in Minnesota they have a COM
missioner, SO think that feature of the
bill is not ono that would make it most
effective
Now I want to say that the McCum-
Der bill with its notifications is an ex-
cellent bill for regulating interstate
commerce, because it has back of it two
other bills that have paved the way for
it, but do not think it is adapted for use
in this state.
| Ruttz as Janitor.
One of the liveliest discussions of
the afternoon resulted over a resolu-
ton introduced by Representative
Mitchell, providing for the appoint
ment of A. o. Olson as janitor. to be
assigned by the speaker to the judici-
airy committee rooms. Representative
Stevens, of Burleigh, explained that
the gentleman did not live in Burleigh
county, and inasmuch as the chairman
| of the judiciary committee had recon-
mended his appointment, that he
would vote for the resolution. Repre-
sentative BUTTE explained that he was
unable to find janitor when he want
ed him and that he had swept the floor
once himself and that the clerk of the
committee had swept it twice. Repre-
sentative Phelan explained that he
had been told that men were standing
around in each others way in some
departments, notably the engine room,
he having found out when he asked
for place for a Russian friend who
really wanted to work, and he thought
Major Buttz might find a man there.