The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-23
WARM CLASH
 IN THE HOUSE Sullivan and Cochran
 Have Colloquy. PURE FOOD BILL CONSIDERED Richardson Makes a Few Re-
 marks on Whiskey. The Member From Alabama Ayers that the "straight. is to Be Pre- ferred to the @Rectiaed"-- Bottled in Bond.

Washington, June 22.--During the speech of Mir. Adamson of Georgia, in the House today on the pure food bill, there was a heated colloquy between Mr. Cochran (N. Y.) and Mir. Sullivan (dass ) Mr. Sullivan supported Mir. Adamsor in his contention that the State had ample power to enforce pure food regulations and that the Supreme Court had said in numberiess cases that Congress could not deprive the State of It's police powers. He cited the pure food laws of Massachusetts as evinc- ing the desire of Legislatures to take care of the question along their own lines
 Mir. Cochran called attention to the case of Illinois, where 1t had law relating to the inspection of slaughter houses. but which had deliberately per nsitted the circulation in other States of food products dangerous to public health and then asked. 'Is there nc law in the Federal Government to save the people ot the other States from this danger?"
 Mir. Sullivan replied:
 If the State of Massachusetts under it's reserved power, has passed pure food lays and has enforced them. will the gentleman tell me why the State of Massachusetts should be compelled to | hecause South Dakota or some other State has not passed and enforced pure food laws?
 T remember that not long ago the gentleman from New York stood on the floor and asked the taxing power of this nation to be exerted in order to prevent abuses in insurance on the the ory that the sovereign States did not have sufficient power and virtue to deal with those abuses. And since that speech the great State of New York has acted and it's Legislature has vim dicated the wisdom and the virtue of its people by regulating those abuses to the satisfaction of everybody"
 Mr. Cochran Dqspleaaed.
 This remark evidently did not please Mr. Cochran With voice pitched high and with intense gesture. he replied,
 T believe in the absal-ite autonomy Of the state In dealing with every thing that concerns the people of that State exclusively. Its police power Is unlimited; It's right to regulate the movements of every citizen inside it's borders cannot be questioned; but when any action of that State, whether 1t be permissive or directory, empow- CTS a citizen of it to effect the condi- ton of people in another State by circulating in the channels of com merce anything dangerous to their health and to their welfare, there is no excuse for the existence of a fed eral goverenment if it does not prevent the precise condition. It must step in and say all the powers of the State you may use as you please Inside of your own borders. but you must use them with due regard to the rights of others. when anything sanctioned by your laws passes beyond your borders ana affects their daily lives:' (Ap- plause). with reference to the question about the great State of New York. did say that the taxing power of this government ought to be exercised so as to limit insurance in each State as savinRs banks are regulated, and as a matter of fact when the gentleman saws the great State of New York has dealt with them 1t has confirmed the hold of the thieves on the funds that they have beep plundertUR Today the ineficient heads who were dismissed because they were inefficeint are re- placed by subtle tools or the same gang that worked all the infamy." (Applause.)
 Pure food held the attention of the House throughout today. The consti- tutional features of the bill was de- bated by the leading lawyers of the House, the Democrats splitting on whether the bill takes police power from the States. V@-ious features, ap- plicable to localities and interests, were discussed earnestly, but it was early apparent that the bill practically in the form it came from the committee. will be adopted.
 the friends of pure food not only in the House but throughout the country for the decided progress Congress has made in the last eight years in the in- Identification of food and drink. He referred to the "filleG cheese bill, the mixed flour" bill. the bottle and bond where Congres had resorted to its ex- traordinary power of taxation in order to secure results
 Believer in Pure Food.
 He was led to believe that the ma noritv of the members of the House were in favor of pure food legislation, but he had some doubt that all 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 inc bill amended in some respects. He had stood unfalteringly in the 57th and bSth Congresses for the doctrines Of pure food legislation, but he reserved thA right to criticise any comment on
 
 gued that it was very easy for the can ner to separate his first from his sec onds. and he wanted to know what ob- lection there was to such a proposi- tion. modity 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 molasses and three-fourths of 1t Is glu- cose. he ought to be required to state it on the label of the barrel or on the jug.
 seriously oa the question that the doc trines of State rights was violated by the bill. He said the opponents of the measure had lost sight of the great aim and object of the bill, which was of inducing the States to cooperate with the federal Government to de- stroy the evil that the States have been unable to conquer,
 Then the gentleman from Alabama took up the consideration of straight as against 'rectihed" whiskey.
 MT. Richardson being in favor of the Straight article and wanting the rec tified product so indicated. Along these