The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-23
PURE FOOD BILL WILL PASS TODAY Richardson of Alabama Makes
 Speech on Subject BOURKE COCHRAN AROUSED In the Course of His Remarks He Says Some Very Unkind Things About
 the Insurance Men In
 New York.
BOURKE COCHRAN AROUSED

Washington. June 22.-tSpecial.)- )-The House pure food bill will likely go through
 in the House tomorrow. As the Senate has
 passed the measure it will then go to conference. There is considerable differ ence between the Senate bill and the meas
 ure as 1t will be passed through the
 House. so 1t may fail in conference.
 though its advocates say q measure os
 some kind will certainly be placed on
 the statute books by adjournment. The opposition to the bill Is now en- | gagged in a fight in the last ditch to mln- mize the authority which Dr. Harvey w. | Wiley, the government chemist will have
 vested in himself under the proposed bill. | In the opinion of many who are opposed to food legislation there is grave dan
 ger of a conflict of authority between the inspection system which the pure food
 bill provides and that which is being provided for packing house products un- der the Beveridge amendment to the aGri- l cultural bill. The manufacturers are fear | ful that between Dr. Wiley and his in- | spectors on the one hand and the inspec-
 tors of the bureau of animal industry on the other, they are in bad fix. They are extremely bitter in their attacks on
 the chief chemist, whose recent speech at Indianapolis has aroused their ire. An amendment has been prepared which will seek to curtall Dr. Wiley's power. It is doubtful if it can get through at this
 late day.
 Cochran Is Aroused | During the speech of Mir Adamson of l Georgia in the House today on the pure
 food bill there was heated colloquy
 between MT. Cochran of New York and | Mr. Sullivan of Massachusetts. MT. Sulli-
 van supported Mr. Adamson in his con-
 tention that the state had ample power
 to enforce pure food regulations. and that
 the supreme court had said in numberless
 cases that Congress could not deprive
 the state of its police powers He cited | the pure food laws of Massachusetts as evncing the desire of legislatures to take
 care of the question along their own 1 lines.
 | MT Cochran called attention to the case | of Illinois where it had q law relating to l the inspection of slaughter houses. but
 which had deliberately permitted the cir- cuation in other states of food products
 dangerous to public health, and then l asked:
 i 'Is there no law in the federal gov
 ernment to save the people of the other
 states from their danger?"
 MT. Sullivan replied:
 Chides Cochran on Position.
 "If the state of Massachusetts under it's l le- GpI rttrn a | and has enforced them. will the gentle- man tell me why the state of Massachu- setts should be compelled to accept the
 standard of Congress, simply because | South Dakota or some other state has | not passed and enforced pure food laws? i I remember not long ago that the gem ! tleman from New York stood on this ! floor and asked the taxing power of this nation to be eXerted In order to prevent abuses in insurance on the theory that the 1 sovereign state 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 vindcated the wisdom and ! the virtue of Its people by regulating those abuses to the satisfaction of every | body"
 This remark evidently did not please MT Cochran. With voice pitched high and l with intense gestures he replied: "I believe in the absolute autonomy | of the state in dealing with everything that concerns the people of that state eN- l cIusively It's police power Is unlimited: Its right to regulate the movements of every citizen inside its borders cannot be l questioned: but when any action of that | state. whether it be permlssiye or diree- l tory empowers A citizen of II to affect 1 the condition of people in another state 1 ry circulating in the channels Of con- meree anything dangerous to their health | mplf for the existence of federal government if if does not prevent the precise condition. II 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 and af- fleets their daily lives. (Applause)
 Raps insurance Companies.
 Now, Mir. Chairman. one moment with reference to the question about the great state of New York. I did say that the taxing power of this government ought 10 be exercised to limit insurance Tn each state as savings banks are regulated. and as a matter of fact the way in which the gentleman says the great state of New York has dealt with them. It has confirmed the hold of the thieves on the funds that they have been pundering. Today the inefficient heads who were dis missed because they were lneniclent are replaced by subtitle tools of the same gang that worked all the infamy." (Ap- | plauseJ
 Speaker Breaks Gavel. l Speaker Cannon in announcing that the House was in committee of the whole to- day for the further consideration of the | nurefood bill, was so emphatic in his physical demonstration with the gavel l that the head flew off and rolled among inc clerks of the speakers table. After the approval of the journal, the House at once plunged into debate on the pure food bill Mir. Adanson of Georgia open ing the discussion in opposition to certain ! features of the bill.
 Mir Adamson ironically spoke of the high sounding, false sounding names that had been used by the gentleman from Illinois. MT. Mann. in his presentation on yesterday of the needs of pure food law. He did not mean to say that all food leg islation was vicious. but he emphatcally stated that such was true of some of the legislation contained in the bill He sad (continued on Ninth Pa9sl