The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-23

teach the people how to cook vegetables by putting decent bacon with them in stead of old ham or beef. But instead they get up a literary bureau and scatter lit- erature and petitions and agitations all owed the country getting up hysteria that under misleading name of purity will scare people into asking Congress to do something it has no business to do
 History of Pure Food Legislation.
 MT. Adamson traced the history of pure food legislation as having been originated by a venerable statesman, now dead (meaning MT Brosius of Pennsylvania), and on which he worked with but little progress Then he spoke of his colleagues in the interstate and foreign commerce. committee, how gradually they left him. Speaking of the gentleman from Massa- chusetts, MT. Gardner, he had been hercules in the fight but he had been placed by cod fish and beans and there Is a monument in this bill' said MT Adamson, Ito his reconciliation in the shape of a proposition that wherever pre- servatlons are used, the impurity or puri- ty of the article shall not be judged until the preseryative has been removed by maceration or otherwise Beautiful pro- vision; beautiful Any man can go in and say the fool cook did not know how to macerate it. that the fool cook did not know how to remove the conservatives and anybody can be happy with his cod fish and beans"
 "There are thousands of women, white and black" remarked MT. Adamson, "in my district that know enough by sight more about good victuals than Dr. Wiley which created hearty laugh from the members.
 During the course of his argument. MT. Adamson was under running fire of ques tions, Mr. Bourke Cochran taking ex- ception to the position of the speaker as to states rights.
 MT. Adamson. while discussing the sev- eral sections of the bill facetlously re- marked that it has been asked what the republicans expected to do with the ele- plants they acquired from the Spanish war "A lot of islands that no other na- tion would have for 400 years, and never will want for a century to come. The fifteenth section settles that. It Is the first authoritative legislative administra- tive declaration that the term as used in this act shall include the insurlar pos sessions of the United States That set ties the question. But If they are right about it. instead of being pure food law they will find 1t will rise to curse them then in the shape of a very i'm pure piece of legislation, which, to be consistent. will require them to ask for a. delegate from the territories in the Philippine islands"
 Richardson Favors Pure Food.
 Mir Richardson of Alabama congratu- lated the friends of pure food not only in the House, but throughout the coun- try for the decided progress Congress has made in the last eight year in the identi- fication of food and drink. He referred to the filled "cbeese bill" mixed flour" bill the ''bottle and bond act and the oleomargarine bill. where Congress had resorted to it's extraordinary power of taxation in order to secure the power therein. He was led to believe that the majority of the members of the House were in favor of pure food Legislation, but he had some doubt that ell the friends of pure food were agreed on the scope or the character of the measure. He said he was a profound believer In pure food but he would like to have the bill amend ed in some respects. He had stood sin- falteringly in the Fifty-seventh and Fifty eighth Congresses for the doctrines of pure food legislation, but he reserved the right to crticise and comment on some features of the measure. He argued that it was very easy for the canner to sep arate his frsts from his seconds, and he wanted to know what objection there was to such a proposition. "lf man offers to sell me commodity, he ought to be required to state what Is in It." he continued. "If he is going to sell me a keg of New Orleans ~and three fourths of 1t is glucose, he ought to be required to state it on the label of the barrel or on the jug"
 States Rights Plea Not Serious.
 Mir. Richardson said he did not look seriously on the question that the doc l Urine of state rights was violated by the bill He said the interests of the meas- ure had lost sight of the great aim and object of the bill. which was inducing the states to cooperate with the federal 1 to destroy the evil that the ! states have been unable to conquer
 Then the gentleman from Alabama tool up the consideration of straight" . against ''rectified" whisky, MT. Richaru- son being in favor of the straight ar ticle, and wanted the rectified products so indicated. Along these lines, he said. that as temperate man, he believed that the pure whisky unadulterated and gem uine, guaranteed by the government as such would promote temperance. as the people of France thought that pure wines would promote 1t in their nation. It was Mir. Rchardson's opinion that 1t was the spurious concoction. the adulterated stuff