The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-06-26
Urges Uniformity of Laws and
Regulations by States
House Considered the Measure While
in Committee of the Whole-Interest
i'm the Debate Was Great. Both nv
House Members and Outsider-Fea-
lures of the House and Senate Meas
ures COntraSted.

Washington, June 21.-The space
in front Of the speakers desk OF the
house today resembled a small section
OF a delicatessen store, and a corner
grocery, with cereals, jams, jellies, tins
of peas, tomatoes, corn, bottles of whis-
key and wine, imported sausage bran
died cherries, and other edibles and
turntables scattered over two tables.
and to complete the picture there were
a standard scale, with weights, a grad
uate and funnel for the purpose of
demonstrating the contention Of the
majority of the committee in inter
state and foreign that a
pure food bill is necessary for the pro-
lection Of the people.
Interest in the debate on the pure
food bill showed itself in the presence
OF many visitors in the galleries and
a large membership on the floor.
b house went into committee of
the whole with Mr.. Currier of New
Hampshire, in the chair for the con
sidefatiOn of the pure food bill, Mr..
Mann beginning the discussion.
Mr.. Man cOntrasted the features of
the senate and house bills remarking
that it was not the aim of the house
committee on interstate and foreign
commerce to recommend legislation as
to what the people should eat or drink
but to call attention tt what they are
eating and drinking.
medicines now on the market. ad-
1ynrficn1 IN Tho ct~o~rncf +n~-pc ~ o,~
the opium habit" said Mr.. Mann,
"show on investigation enough opium
to develop the opium habit"
Calling the attention of the house
to the action of the proprietary assoc
citation in still insisting on the pass
age of the Hepburn bill, he said the
association was afraid to come out in
the open and fight.
He read a letter from the German
American extract works in which
they told how to make all kinds Of
liquors. They were especially inter
ested, ne said, in their Old Tom gin
extracts which give the exact taste Of
the original article. Then to still
further interest the house he said that
this firm claims to make any kind Of
liquor out of ethal alcohol with nc
liquor in it.
THE coffee that we drink Mocha and
Java" said Mr.. Mann, "is generally
adulterated with Brazil coffee and
ground coffee with sawdust and I've
bread crumbs"
Taking his position behind the Ia
bles Mr.. Mann began a rapid expla-
nation of every article there. Taking
up d bottle of bright colored cherries
marked "Marischino Cherries" he ex-
planned that the cherries had been
picked green: they were bleached
and colored with an aline dye. and.
holding up a bright colored bit Of
cloth, he said This cloth was dyed
with the anne dye"
What are these cherries for?"
asked a member.
II understand they are used n at
a time in a we'll known drink" replied
Mr.. Mann amid laughter, some of the
members recognizing the cocktail which
goes with the cherry.
Holding up a bottle with a light COL
ored liquid in it, Mr.. Mann said it was
honey. yet it never saw a hive, much
less a comb. 1t is fresh from the glu-
cose factory"
Freezine, he said, was a powder sold
to preserve meat like cold storage. He
admitted that it might keep meats
from spelling, but [ was most n
jurous TO health, being composed Of
sulphite Of soda and red coal tar dye.
A fine grade of olive oil, used BY the
union league club of Philadelphia
turned out to be cotton seed oil with
an adulterant.
Taking up the subject Of canned to-
matoes. Mr.. Mann held UP three cans,
each being Of different weight and yet
all bought for three pounds.
The department stores of New York
Philadelphia, Chicago and Washing
ton and the mail order houses sell the
short weight cans" said Mr.. Mann
who was received with applause.
He insisted that If standard sizes Of
cans are made as No. 1 2 OF 3 then the
Gamers should put upon the a the
number IL purports to be.
Passing the cereal foods, he called
attention to the difference between the
cartoons, and while he did not care
what the people bought he insisted
that the amount Of the food should
be put upon the package.
One Of the hoped for good result
of a national la won the subject Of
pure food. he said, is the bringing
about of a uniformity OF laws and
regulations ON the part of the states
within their several borders.
Mr.. Mann received an ovation when
he concluded having held the atten-
ton Of the House throughout in his
exposition Of the pure food question