The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-04
MADE IN TWO MINUTES.


 body of the Pure Food Bill It was stormy day. Two Kentucky men became involved in a bitter wrangle over the merits of the chief product of their State, and before the row was settled members were passing the lie, hurling serious accusations at each other and jamming one another into desks and chairs and in other ways acting as though they were pretty well under the influence of bad whis- key.
 After an unusually noisy and dis orderly afternoon, even for the over worked House at the flag end of a ses- sion, the long suffering Food Bill was adopted Only two changes were made in it on the floor. One of these was unimportant, and was intended to exempt from the operations of the penalty features of the law persons innocently buying bogus foods for l their own consumption. The other change Is looked upon by many mem- bers as a vicious provision, inasmuch as it legalizes the sale of the short weight" packages now found on the shelves of every grocer. The amend ment was offered by Representative Sherman of Utica, N. r., the chair man of the Republican Campaign Committee. It is asserted that MT Sherman's brother Is a canner.
 The bill as originally reported pro- vided that the contents of food pack ages should be stated on the labels approximately in terms of weight or measure. This would require the plain labelling of full pound packages, and would prevent the sale of pack ages under weight. The Sherman amendment provides that if the con tents are stated on the label they must conform to the advertised weight or measure. Under this arrangement, no reference will be made on the out side of packages as, to whether they contain one quart, two quarts or q pound.
 Then there will be no bar against selling so-alled quart cans containing only pint and half, or alleged pound package that weigh only 12 onces. The only stipulation Is that the packages and cans must not be advertised as pound packages and quart cans, unless they actually meas ure up to those standards
 The real feature of the debate was over the whiskey provision There has been long and intensely bitter 1 fight between the bottled in bond whiskey and the reetlhers, Repre- sentative Swager Sherley, the Con- gressman from Louisville made de- fense of the rectihers. and explained the processes by which they made whiskey. He exposed the bogus claims of the bottled-in-bond men, who say that the green stamp of the revenue office is a guarantee of the purity of the contents of the bottle, "The stamp means nothing" declared sherley, "save that the whtskey was for four years in bond"
 This brought out a defense of the bottled-in- bond whiskey men by Rep- resentative A. o. Stanley, a rotund Democrat from Hendersonville, Ky. His reply was a terrific denunciation of Coneressmen who represent "spe' cial interests" on the floor of the House, and he charged that the House had just heard a plea from a Congress- man who is q representative of the bottle-in-bond men.
 White with anger, sherley de- manded to know what Stanley meant by this innuendo, whereupon Stanley asserted that he had intended to im- pugn the motives of nobody.
 But I can show the House." he de- clared, "how so-called 12-year-old rye whiskey is made in two minutes"
 Stalking down in front of the Speakers desk, where grocery store outfit was displayed, the Kentuckian proceeded to act the role of barkeeper while the House looked on with keen interest. He poured quart of pure alcohol into a giant beaker spilled into it a few drops of colored matter that inparted rich garnet glow; added a dash of bead oil to give the desired mellow taste, which suggests old age, and finally some bitter flavor ing extracts. Stirring the whole con coction with a delft hand for an in- stant. Stanley held up to the adnirine gaze and watering mouths of his as- sociates quart of fine old rye"
 q defy any whiskey connoisseur in this house." he declared, Ito smell and taste this product and distinguish be- ) tweent 1t and whiskey that has been kept in a charred oak barrel for 1C years. It is made of pure alcohol, vel YOU put this stuff into man, and 1t becomes pure hell. It would eat the insides of a pile driver and make a rabbit spit in a dogs face"
 Memoranda of bottles exhibited or table for use in making liquors from pure ethyl alcohol;
 Bottle of cognac oil, bottle oi Scotch whiskey essence, bottle of Irisf whiskey essences, bottle of bead oil of rye whiskey oil, bottle of aging oil bottle of coromel
 Bottle of 100 c. c. proof alcohol. IL Irish whiskey essence, two drops beat ! oil two drops carmaei.
 To make Scotch whiskey add three drops Scotch whiskey essence, twC drops bead oil, three drops caramel
 Bottle of 100 c. c. proof alcohol ! To make cognac add one drop of cog nae oil, 10 drops caramel.
 Bottle of 500 c. c. proof alcohol. II make rye whiskey add one drop ry, , whiskey oil, two drops of bead oil tw, drops aging oil, seven to 10 drops cara ,11