The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-06-22
DEL|CATESSEN SHOWN|N HOUSE Pure Food Exhibition Causes
 Much Amusement MANN DELIVERS A, LECTURE Shows All Kinds of Liquor Made ArtI- ficlaIly and Samples of "Black
 Pepper Made From
 Tapioca.
MANN DELIVERS A, LECTURE

Washington, June 21-The space in front of the speakers desk of the House today resembled a small section of a deli catessen store and corner grocery with cereals, jams. jelies. tins of peas, toma- toes, corn bottles and whisky and wine imported sausage and other edbles and drinkables scattered over two tables, and to complete the picture there were stan- dard scales with weights, q graduate and funnel for the purpose of demonstrating the contention of the majority of the committee on interstate and foreign com merce that pure food bill is necessary for the protection of the people,
 The House went into committee of the whole with Mir. Currier of New York in the chair for the consideration of tho pure food bill, MT. Mann beginning tho discussion. Mir. Mann then contrasted tho features of the Senate and House bills, remarking that it was not the aim of the House committee on interstate and for eign commerce to recommend legislation as to what the people should eat or drink but to call attention to what they are eating or drinking.
 Medicines now on tho market adyer- tised in the strongest terms to cure the opium habit" said Mir. Mann, show on investigation enough opium to develop the opium hablt'
 Most of the goods are not aduterated, according to Mir Mann, and since the pure food agitation, which began a niIm- Der of years ago. there has been decided reduction in adulterations.
 +t, l,-. manufacturer or dealer goes he Is met by sharp and keen competition from adul- terations, short weights" Make Liquors Artificially. | He read a letter from the German Amer
 can extract works in which they told how to make all kinds of liquors. They were especially interested he said, in their old Tom gin extracts which give the ex- act 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 ethyl alcohol with no liquor in 1t.
 Black pepper, he said, is fruitful source of adulteration, the "filler' being sold in fve-ton weights according to letter which MT. Mann read. Pepper berries, he said, were made out of tapioca, cOlOred With lampDlacK. "rhe coffee that we drink Mocha and Java" said Mir. Mann, lis generally adul- terated with Brazil coffee and ground coffee with sawdust, and even bread crumbs"
 Marischlno Cherries Dyed. Taking up bottle of bright-colored cherries marked "Marschino cherries he explained that the cherries had been picked green; that they were then bleached and colored with amline dye, as also was the bright-colored cloth This cloth, he said, was dyed with the samo dye
 What are these cherries for?' asked member.
 q understand they are used one at time in well-known drink" replied MT. Mann amid laughter, some of the menl- bers recognizing the cocktail which goes with the cherry.
 Holding up a bottle with light-col- ored liquid in 1t. MT. Mann said 1t was , honey, "yet it never saw hive. much less a comb. 1t is fresh from the glu- cose factory.
 "Frezing' he said. was powder sold to preserve meat liLt cold storage. He admitted that it might keep meats from spelling. but that it was most Injurious to health, being composed of suphate Of soda and red coal tar dye fine grade
  club of Philadelphia turned out to be cotton seed oil with an adulterant. Taking up the subject of canned toma- toes MT Mann held up three cans, each being of different weight, and yet all bought for three pounds.
 '"rhe department stores of New York, Philadelphia. Chicago and Washington. and the mail order houses sell the short weight cans" said MT. Mann, which was received with applause. MT. Mann said he was not engaged in an onslaught on the canning interests of the country, but he insisted that standard cans ought to be full weight. and the consumers wers entitled to fair play
 One of the hoped-for good results of national law on the subject of pure food. he said, is the bringing about of uni fornlty of laws and regulations on tho bart of the states within their several borders. Mir. Mann received an ovation when he concluded.
 The pure food bill will again be con- sidered tomorrow.