Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-23
SHORT weight GOODS
Pure Food Bill Strikes Rough
Water.
PACKAGE AMENDMENT ROW
Manufacturers Object to a Specific
Label.
MANY INTERESTS CLAMoR
Claimed That Weighing Their Goods
Would Put Many Small canneries
Out Of Business
INTERESTS ola

After an hour spent In the consideration
OF privileged reports the House resumed
further consideration OF the pure food bill
According to the decision OF the chair the
committee Of the whole having under con-
sideration the pure food bin must, under
the rule adopted, report the bill at $50
when 1t will be put upon Its final passage
everything was smooth sailing until the
so-called package amendment" was reach
ed. and then squalls sprang up--and the leg
islative sea became exceedingly choppy
Mr. Mann Ill.), in charge of the bill. Of
fered the committee amendment heretofore
printed, that the time the package was
put up must be on the container together
with the weight or measure on the outside
OF the package.
A dozen members were on their feet i'm
medlately after the reading of the amend
ment. Mr.. Chairman being heard all over
the House.
Bottles Do Vary.
Mr.. Sherman IN. W offered amendment
in substance striking out the time pro-
vision. Mr.. Sherman said that under the
penalty provided the weight and measure,
II stated. must be correctly stated, which
he argued was very dificuIt
He said that this was a most serious oues
tion. involving as 1t did vast interests, and
II should not be hastily considered The
housewife was familiar with the proposition
that she could not get the same weight int
every can of fruit she puts up, and il would
work a hardship on the big Gamer to put
the weight on each can, for cans of stand
ard size do vary In weight
ne told OF having gone into Curtice
brothers Dig cannery in Rochester N Y
ana With member OF the Arm weighed
nifty glass Jars of ketchup supposed to be
Identical In weight. But the bottles varied
from thirteen to fifteen ounces when every
40
weight fourteen ounces
he said II every can and every bottle
must contain the correct weight It would
orive many canneries out of business be-
Gause oI the incidental expense attaching
IN the weighing and in the marking of the
cans. " ~
Mr.. Clark (Mo) wanted to know II II was
true that quart and pint bottles were one
drink short.
II do not know as to that" said Mr..
Sherman. The gentleman is evidently
taking on the product of the corn grown
In his district. I am talking about fruits
and vegetables"
Mr.. Parsons On. " had read the follow
ing telegram from the Columbia Egg and
provision Company of New York to whom
Mr.. Mann paid his respects the other day,
Wnen ne told how this company was I'M
porting rotten eggs for confectionery pur-
poses:
Herbert Parsons-Request your protec-
ton against Representative Mann's untrue
anu iibeious statement about our goods
They are preserved fresh eggs, and the
Agricultural Department knows it. Has 1t
come to this, that legislation Is promoted
by SANDER and malicer'
Mr.. Parsons then said. In explanation.
that the department said the "importations
OF this company sHelt badly and were unfit
for human food"
Protests were heard on all sides against
permitting the telegram to go into the
record, as It attacked a member of the
House. Mr.. Gaines CTennl remarkiug that
the telegram Is rottener than the eggs"
By unanimous consent Mr.. Parsons with
drew the telegram and the consideration of
the pure food bill went on