The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-25
Representative Mann Gives Novel Exhibition of Timed and
 Bottled Delusions.
Pepper Cloud, No sneeze-chicag' Champion of National Law Plays Grocer and Druggist by Turns
 to Unmask Frauds.

Raymond's washington Special to Chi
 cago Tribune.
 The following comprised a portion of the remarkable exhibit made to the House of Representatives today on the opening of the debate on the pure food bill:
 Pepper berries made out of tapioca coIored with lamp black.
 Preserved cherries first bleached with an acid and then colored with poisonous aniline dye.
 Fancy liquors manufactured from ethyl alcohol and a chemical filler.
 Mocha coffee from Brazil.
 Italian olive oil from Mississippi.
 Manufactured glucose honey with bees in it.
 Breakfast foods which weigh less than their pasteboard covers.
 Representative Mann was the show man and he had an interested audience. Amusement and disgust were plainly marked on faces of statesmen as they eagerly leaned over their desks and watched the Chicago representative demonstrate the downright necessity Tor g national pure food law by means @ cores of, packages. cans, and bot ttae the peculiarities of which were elsh ,rated with extraordinary skill and in a way to insure passage or pure food bill in some shape within taa ext two or three days.
 Desk Like Grocer's Counter.
 It was late in the afternoon before the pure food bill was taken up at all' and Mir Mann as chairman of the sup committee, had two hours in which to open the general debate. He made use of the opportunity with marked suc- cess pair of tables. just in front of the speakers chair and below the range of the clerks. were covered with A strange assortment of food ana drink and drugs which had been gath cred in paiustaking, lawyerlike fash ion for months. The samples were us- ed to illustrate in general sort or way the necessity for a pure ,tood law.
 Before the debate began many of the members examined the explanatory tags on the samples and were so famil- far with the subject that when MT. Mann began his illustrated lecture af- ter half an hour of general talk the seats began to fill up, and the house. which had been empty when he started talking, soon contained much more than a quorum, and both parties were represented in about equal proportions, a compliment to the ability of the speaker quite as much as to the im- portance- of the subject.
 Tt must be admitted in all that has been written about the necessity of a national pure food law there has been nothing which fin directness of logic. approaches the practical demon- stration made by the house commit tee on interstate commerce, with the Chicago representative as the princi- pal demonstrator.
 gcafters "Peppers'S Not Sneeze.
 Reversing the method of sleight of hand performance. Mir. Mann read circulars offering for sale certain grade of adulterant which could be used to produce pepper or almost any ether of the spices with some slight notifications A package was open ed in full view of the house and a handful of bogus pepper was slowly poured upon the congressman's desk. Members. in the vicinity started back fin dismay to avoid an attack of sneez- ing.
 Don't be afraid" said Mann. 'Tt won't hurtsyou. It's called epper, but it's nothing but ground olive nuts"
 And then he went on to say the com rnittee had found that spices were quite generally adulterated, and that in fact 1t was difficult to find a pure article. He convulsed the house when he read price list of adulterants showing they were offered to the trade at $20 a ton in five ton lots and that at that rate they were guaranteed to make the finest black pepper, which, as every one knows. Is sold by the ounce. Then 1t was that the explana- tion came that even the pepper berry was being limited generally by a