The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-24
FOOD BILL PASSED
INTERESTING DEBATE ON FLOOR
 OF HOUSE.
Southern Representatives Make vigor- ous Efforts To Have Straight Whfs- key Protected--Mr. staniey's Vigorous Attack on Rectt-
 ffers..


 under consideration the pure food Dill. 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-ealIed package amendment was reached and then squalls sprang up and the legislative sea became exceed- lngly choppy.
 Mr. Mann. (Ill.) in charge of the bill. offered the committee amendment here toforeprinted that the time the packing was put up must be on the container together with the weigh. or measure on the outside of the package.
 A dozen members were on their feet immediately after the reading. of the amndment. MT. Chairman being heard all over the House.
 Mir. Sherman, (N. Y.) offered an amendment in substance striking out the time provision. MT. Sherman said that under the penalty provided the weight and measure. If stated, must be correctly stated. which he argued was very difficult, He said th@. this was a most serious question involving as 1t did vast interests and it should not be hastily considered. He told of hav- ing gone into Curtis Brothers big can nery in Rochester, N r.. and with a member of the firIl weighed fifty glass jars of ketchup supposed to be identi- cal in weight. But the bottles varied from thirteen to fifteen ounces, when every effort had been made to make them standard weight IA ounces He said if every can ana every bottle must contain the correct weight, 1t would drive many canneries out of business because of the incidental expense att tached in the weighing and in she marking of the cans. Mir. Clark, (Mo.) wanted to know if 1t was true that quart and pint bottles were one drink short
 Y do not know as to that" said Mir. sherman.
 The gentleman Is evidently talk ing on the product of the corn grown in this district I am talking about fruits and vegetables"
 The interest of the Maryland canner- ies were presented by Mir. Taibott, (dd) wko stated taat the:e were s1s.- 900, 900 invested in Mar-land eanneries' and if the canners in the second Mary land district. probably hundred fact ories in all canning oysters, crabs and vegetable were compelled to put the wei1ht on every can, It would work untold hardships on them. Mir. Hayes, (California) in whose dis trlct canning industries run Into the tens of millions, insisted that the ef- l fort being made to lapel the package with the measure and weight would over turn business policies of life time.
 MT. Parsons, (N. Y.) had read the fol- I lowing telegram from the Columbia Egg and Provision Company of New York, who, Mir Mann had charged. were im- porting rotten eggs for confectionery | purposes:
 "fIerbert Parson: Request your pro- l lection against Congressman Mann s untrue and iibelous statement about 1 cur goods They are preserved fresh eggs and the agricultural department | knows 1t. Has it come to this that leg- isiation is promoted by islander ana | maliceY
 MT. Parson then said in evplana- tion that the department said the "im- portations of this company smelt badly and were unfit for human food. 1 Protest were heard on all sides against permitting the telegram to go | into the record as 1t attacked mem her of the House, Mir. Gaines (Tenn.) 1 remarklng that the telegram IS rotteh- l CT than the eggs. Rv Unanimous consent Mir Parsons ! withdrew the telegram and the consid- eration of the pure food bill went on MT Mann tIil.) then took his posi- ton behind the imurovised grocery counter and defended the Committee amendment.
 The amendment of MT. sherman was adopted. yeas 112. nays 45. The sherman amendment is to the section of the bill describing what shall be deemed misbranded articles and 1t Is as follows;
 oIf in package form and the contents are stated in terms of weight or meas ure they are not plainly and correctly stated on the outside of the package. The effect of the Sherman amendment is to remove from the category of mis- branded articles food in package form unless the contents in weight or meas AMkA af al The Representatives of the South ern States treated the House to an in- structive and exhaustive debate on the subject of whiskey, but the friends or the straight" article were routed by the friends of the rectihers by vote of 34 to 76, after an amendment offered by MT. Richardson (Ala.) on behalf of the makars of straight" whiskey
 Tn the course of his remarks. Mir Richardson maintained that there were 1O5, ,000, 900 gallons of imitation whiskey disposed of, consumed and sold in the United States last year, whereas lit- tie more than 100000 gallons in it's original integrity was consumed by the people of the United States. Between sunset and sunrise. he declared. the rectiher by adding to a thimble full of eight year old whiskey chemicals, oils fiavoring, bead, and gin, produced an alleged eight-yearTold brand which went to the consumer as such. He want ed this kind of whiskey marked blend ed whiskey' and the substances stated.
 Mr. Sherley (Ky.). in behalf of theI rectihers, held the attention of thcI House as he explained the contention of the two whiskey camps. the distil lers and rectifers. He said that while there had been a lot of talk about neu- tral spirits and cologne spirits, "as if that was some bugaboo to scare peo- ple," in the manufacture of whiskey, if anyone knew anything about it, the purest ingredient In 1t was the natural or cologne spirits which contained, he said, the medicinal property The more of ethyl alcohol which, he said. was the neutral spirit irn whiskey, and the less of fusel oil, the purer whiskey was the result If 1t was desired to legis- late for purity in whiskey, he added. Congress ought to undo instead of pill ing more law.
 Mir. Sherley's remarks brought Mir. Stanley lKy.) into the discussion. He declared he stood before the House in the name of the health of American | people, in the name of the honesty of enterprise and business and just as else He had no objection to anybody l blending two kinds of whiskey, but, he | said, he did object to making whiskey while you wait.".
 Then. taking a bottle from the table. | hs poured it into graduate. and said
 Here is a quart of alcohol. 100 proof strong It will eat the intestines out of a coyote. It will make a bowling