Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-01-11
IDAHO AT WASHINGTON.
Senator Hepburn and Congressman
French Doing Good Work in
Congress.

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extreme western states at this time.
1t is interesting to note the com
manding influence Idaho has on the
important committee in both houses
which will prepare and consider the
legislation that may 60 before either
house, Gays a Washington corre-
spondent for the Northwestern Press
Association. Senator Hepburn is
member Of the Committee on lmmi-
grafton, and it might be well TO add
that he is the only western republl
can on the committee, and after the
Fourth of March he will be the onl,
western man among either democrats
or republicans on the committee
that means so much to the entire
west at this time. In the House,
Idaho fares fully as well, Congress
man French being leading member
of the Committee on immigration
and Naturalization. Mr.. French is
high up on this committee, being
number three in rank, the connie
tee numbering fourteen. This COM
mlttee would have absolute charge
of any proposed Legislation effecting
Japanese immigration that might
come up in the House. Thus it Will
be seen that no other state IN tn.
west is so strong on this committee
as is Idaho, and without n doubt,
she will have much to say on this all
important question which will come
before Congress in some shape OF
another in short time.
A few days ago Senator Hepburn
addressed the legislative council OF
the American Medical Association.
The subject of his address was pat.
ent medicines and impure foods.
The members of the association
have a very friendly feeling for
Senator Hepburn on acc. mt Of the
services rendered by him in the en-
actment of the pure food legislation
last year. The members of the asso-
citation were very much interested
IN this work as they were almost
unanimously in favor Of the pure
food bill.
During the course of his RENAL ks,
!. Senator Hepburn very bitterly as
I sailed patent and proprietary medi-
q cines. He SAID that the time was
. coming when Congress would be
J. asked for legislation that would ex-
!, clude them from the mails. Many
II of these patent medicines were
n harmless, he said, SO far as theii
effect on the patient, but they were
all frauds and were by no meanl
harmless to the pocketbooks though
they may be to the stomach. liz
: said he thought that influence shoulG
: be brought to bear on newspaper
= to prevent them from printing ad
: vertisemenas of patent medicines
Il and that il would be just as laudabl'
) for newspaper to print advertise
ments of bombs and Internal ma
:. chimes that are 'swarranted to b
- sure and effective in the destructio
of life and property" The Senate
said that he once got a pension fo
=. an old couple IN Idaho, and a littl
:. later when they came back to 9,
the pension increased he found oil
that the need for the extra none
"a arose from the fact that they wel
-, spending NOR than half their |
come for patent medicines.
no Another thing he thought shou
,os be regulated was the time in whit
meats can be kept in cold storag
lie said the Department of AgI
DID culture was carrying on investig
,,ons and would doubtless find SOL
. things sensational in the extrem
,eo. Senator Hepburn declared that
ger had examined meat that had be
per preserved by cold storage for loI
has periods of time and that most of
and was unfit for food and could not
ave, as. used until it had been treated wi
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