The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-04-01

vidual against injury. Congress nas
also the power to say that there shall
not enter into interstate commerce
certain articles which are falsely
branded SO as to deceive. Congress
has the same right to say that load
of grain shall not be certified as NO.
under certain rules when as q matter
of fact 1t would pass as rejected un-
der those rules and would therefore
operate to deceive and defraud the
purchaser. That il az Tar as con-
tend we have the right to go, and
claim we have that right without any
pozEiA1c question
Answering the particular question
which Senator Hansbrough could not
Senator McCunaber says:
Mr.. McCumber: Upon the other
proposition as to where the authority
would lie, / would say that II would
lie under the interstate commerce
clause of the constitution. think
every authority win bear me out on
the proposition that the government
of the United States may make. such
rules and regula ons in regard 70
any commodity that pa.sep into IN
terstate commerce as will prevent
fraud being perpetrate0 by reason OF
the commerce in that commodity. The
pure food bill was based upon the
proposition that under our control
over interstate commerce we could
prohibit the shipment of any article
entering into Interstate commerce
which was falsely branded or adulter-
ated SO as to deceive and defraud the
purchaser.
ton that is based upon that theory,
and that alone, that congress has au-
thority in the regulation Of interstate
commerce so to inspect the articles
entering into that commerce as to
prevent fraud upon the public is a
valid constitutional enactment on the
part of congress-: and If IL Is based
upon and kept within those lines,
do not think there can be any serious
objection to 1t. In other words, the
rule win apply just the same to the
grading of grain as it would apply
to determining whether or not a her
ated in any manner"
Senator McCumber then took up the
cudgel in defense of retaining the old
house provision, and plead with sena-
tors not to raise the rule as against
that, and but for his efforts the whole
thing would have gone out, says Mr..
Lounsberry. He again quotes from the
record as follows:
Mr.. McCumber: Mr.. President: The
senate could give no harder or more
disastrous blow to the entire farming
interest OF the northwest than to vote
in favor of striking out this provision
from the bin [the provision of the
house bill which reads as follows:
For the handling, grading and trans
portation of grain and the fixing Of
definate grades thereby. know Of
what l speak in that respect. have
made a close and most careful exam
ination of the handling Of our grain
and of every law that has had bear
ing upon the handling and buying and
selling Of that grain.
Under the provision OF law the
secretary of agriculture has been
making an investigation OF the grades
that have ben given our grain That
millions and hundreds of millions of
dollars to the farming community in
the last Ave or six years. We are
getting better grades today than we
ever got before in the northwest, be-
cause we are awaa5anmg the interest
not only Of the farming community
demanding that the Id wrongs shall
be righted, but also because through
the active examination by the agri-
cultural department Of the different
grain throughout the country, that de-
partment is saying what grade such
grain is entitled to and it's character
and everything that bears upon the
question OF its value in this great mar
kets of the world.
To-day American grain abroad is
selling all over Europe for several
cents a bushel less than any cores
ponding grade of tine came grade ship
ped from any CHER country than the
United States. e. secretary of agri-
culture sent there during the past
summer a special agent to investigate
the question and determine what diff
ference theNe was between American
gentine Canadian ana Russian Erain
OF the same character and that would
grade the same, and h found that
there were. several cents a bushel In
favor Of the grain producedanywhere
else
After very much discussion of the
minor points and principles, the OPP
position was withdrawn to that fea-
ture of the bill and the point OF order
was not made against It.
The whole question Is discussed in
the congressional records of February
"a, pages 3o52 to S05S.
From reading from this entire
record, says Mr.. Lounsberry, it will
be made clear to anyone who under
stands the English language not only
that Senator Hansbrough was "play-
ing horse" with the amendment, but
that his play nearly cost the provision
which was In the house bill and which
was only saved by the extraordinary
effort Of Senator McCumber.
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