The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-20
Gossip From the
 Nations Capital


 Washington. March 1s.--(special)- The violent attack made upon R. M. Allen, secretary of the National Asso- e,ation of State Dairy and Food Pro. ducts by Pearl Pierce, the editor of tne omcial organ of the Association what to Eat-strengthens the impress sion that at the next annual meeting or the Association MT. Allen will be removed and the Association will take sSa spa csn ss a0Sa e Washington this winter with represen- tatives of the bottled-in bond whis- Key interests, but when 1t was found that the pure food bill could not be passed without an amendment to in- clude the bottled-in-bond goods, he and the representatives of the trust left.
 The actions of Dr. Harvey w. Wiley. Chief of the Bureau of Chemistry of the Department of Agriculture as well as of MT. Allen have been caustically criticised by the independent dealers pr. Wiley is accused of being partly responsible for the failure of the Pure Food Congress at St. Louis to adopt State and federal, to absolutely pro- hibit the sale of whiskies containing any poisonous or deleterious sub stances whether added or otherwise" sought to secure the adoption of such resolution and charge that the guid- ing hand of Dr. Wiley and the bottled in-bond whiskey interest operated to prevent it.
 This charge was made in a circular which has had wide distribution and has, it is understood led to some tart correspondence between Dr. Wiley and the executive committee of the National Wholesale Liquor Dealers Association. pr. Wiley was a member of the sub committee and the full committee on resolutions of the Pure Food Congress which rejected the resolution referred to and adopted one approving the bot tling-in-bond act.
 Now comes Mir. Pierce with the broad assertion that the bottled-inb bond com bination put up the money for the pure food exhibit made by the National As- sociation of State Dairy and Food De- partments at the St. Louis Exposition. We make the charge without restraint or hesitation" he says that bottled-in. pond whtskey manufacturers practf- cally paid for nearly the entire exhibit made by the Association MT. Pierce also says that MT. Allen has caused the secretary's office to be looked upon by many as nothing more than an ad- vertising agency for bottled-in- bond whiskey, thus ref1ecting discredit on the entire Association he represents" Mir. Pierce acquits Dr. Wiley of being behind Mir. Allen, but suggests that ''Dr. Wiley should cut loose from sup posed friends of the pure food meas " him in a false light"
 MT. Pierce also states that his inves- tigations disclosed that the govern ment stamp on bottled in bond" whis- key has nothing to do with the purity of the whiskey and hints that there must be some interesting history be- hind the action establishing the bot tled-in-bond stamp"
 The Duty on COnee.
 The proposition to restore the cus- toms duty on coffee continues to be literally discussed at the capitol. The fact that a duty on coffee of two and half cents per pound was levied in the first tariff act of 17S9 and that it always paid a duty ranging from two to five cents a pound until exempted under a special act of 1872, has been given as a reason why there should be no objection to a small duty on 1t now in view of the necessity of raising more revenue. Some of the Demo- cratic Senators indicate sympathy with the proposition, probably because if coffee were raised in the United States at all it would be in the Southern States. Louisiana and Texas nave been specially mentioned as having lands adapted to coffee culture. At the same time, as prominent Democratic cate the placing of a duty on an article which Is now on the free list would be a departure from the tradi- tional policy of the Democratic party All Democrats are anxious and willing