The border vidette., 1907-01-26
PURE FOOD LAW
Information In Regard Thereto Obtain
 cd by the Board of Trade.

Tuesday night, at the meeting of the Board of Directors of the Noyales and Santa Cruz County Board of Trade, the Pure Food law as affectin g the territories, was again discussed. In response to letters sent out seekin g information on the subject, some inter- esting and welcome information had been re, eived by the secretary during the week, which was presented.
 The following paragr .phs from a letter received from the secretary of Bisbee Board of Trade, contain some interesting statements:
 "In reply to your letter of the 16th, in reference to the Pure Food Law will say that no one seems to known when the government will insist on strict compliance with the law. I understand that no appropriation was made for enforcing the law. ana an army of inspectors would be required, an appropriation by Congress will be necessary before retail merchants throughout the country will be called upon to coHiply with the law"
 Ut seems to be the general opinion of attorneys that inaslnuch as the law is not operative in the states until October lst, that a test case would invalidate the law as unconstitu- tional."
 The statement that no appropriat- ion has been made by Congress to en- force the law shows up as fakes the newspaper stories that have been going the rounds of the territorial press to the effect that agents of the government have been visiting Arl- zona towns gathering evidence against possible violators. There being no appropriation to enforce the law, there can be no fund out of which to pay agents to gather evidence
 From a San Francisco wholesale liquor house MT. Manuel Escalada received a circular stating that ''goods, whether in the hands of retailers Or wholesalers on January 1st, 1907, do not require to be labeled, if sold with in the limits of your state or territory The same applies to bulk goods also"
 The water committee reported hav- ing looked into the controversy be- tween the Nogales Water Company and the Nogales Town Council and having found that the company and the Council are far from an agreement, they were instructed to make another determined effort to bring about a set clement of the vexing disagreement.
 MT. F. J. Pellegrin started a discus sion of the early closing ordinance by stating that many of the business men would like to have the ordinance changed so as to permit business houses to remain open till nine o'clock and that some would like the privilege O. doing business Sunday forenoon. providing they do not ask clerks to work Sundays.
 President Titcomb appointed Messrs. Pellegrin and E.calada a committee to frame resolution on the matter, to be submitted at the meeting to be held next Tuesday evening.
 The Finance Committee reported having obtained subscriptions amount ing to more than $l, 200 to push the work taken up by the board and to furnish the Board of Trade head quarters.
 elf there is any other town in the with class of business men that subscribe more hberally to pubic under takings than Nogales, the Secre- tary of the Board of Trade in that town is requested to send the name of that town to the Nogales and Santa Cruz County Board of Trade head quarters.)
 Two out of town directors who had not before attended meetings of the directors, were present Tuesday night. They are MT. H s. Stewart of Du- quesne and MT. w. HI Barnett of Pa tagonia. Mr. Barnett Is doing mis- sionarv work in the second city in Santa Cruz county. and the member ship list in that section Is expected to- stretch out some in the near future.
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