The Penn's Grove record., 1910-07-22

COASIlLuISo WAlChy may UO Su6pCA0Ou
for some time, as the result of the re-
straining order issued
Again, What by Louisiana courts,
is Whisky? acting on a petition of
representatives of the
so-called Whisky Trust. The ruling
reached the Treasury Department,
and Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue Cabell Immediately entered into
consultation with Assistant Attorney
General Fowler, representing the De-
partment of Justice, which has charge
of the legal proceedings in internal
revenue matters. The whisky inter-
ests contend that the Government has
no right to dictate that whisky shall
be made only from the grain; that the
Treasury Department discriminates in
it's rulings, and that there is no rea-
son why whisky made from sawdust,
potato parings, or any other such ma
terial should not be in the same taxa
BILE status as whisky from grain. The
petitioners want the entire Govern
ment proceedings in the matter sus-
pended pending a final determination
Of the test case instituted through the
bill of equity in the Louisiana courts.
The whole problem of what is whis-
ky" is therefore again the matter of
sharp dispute.
One of the soldiers of Company D,
Twenty-fifth Infantry, who was among
those discharged without honor from
the army by former President Roose-
welt for shooting up
Negro Soldiers Brownsville, Tex, on
May Re-enlist. August IL, 1906, may
profit by the transac-
ton. He is employed in an Eastern
city, and has been advised by the Wal
Department that he is eligible for re-
enlistment under the recommendation
of the military court of inquiry which
recently recommended that fourteen
of the discharged soldiers be re-en-
listed. Under a decision of the War
Department he will not be entitled to
receive pay for the unexpired portion
of his enlistment which was inter-
rupted by his discharge without
honor. He will, however, be entitled
to receive pay for the period begin
ming November 26, 1905, and ending
with the date of his re-enlistment.
At the end of about one years service
on his re-enlistment he will be per-
mitted under a decision of Secretary
of War Dickinson, to purchase his dis
charge. He will make several hum
bred dollars by re-enlisting in order
to obtain the back pay due him and
buying his discharge at the end of
one years service.
Acting Secretary of the Navy VIM
throp issued orders creating the fifth
division of the Atlantic feet, to be
composed of the armored cruisers
Tennessee, Washington,
Armored North Carolina and Mon
Cruiser tana. These cruisers are
Squadron. now returning to Hamp-
ton Roads from Buenos
Ayres, where they attended the cen
tennial celebration of the Argentine
Republic. They are scheduled to
reach Hampton Roads about July 81.
The Washington, which is now or the
Pacific coast, will be brought around
South America to the Atlantic Ocean
within the next few months to join
the squadron. The new fifth division
will not take part in the European
cruise next fall.
~The Congressional Committee on
the Cost of Living recently detailed
fifteen reasons for the high cost of
living and yet one of the most impor-
tant reasons for high
Pure Food prices was left out of
Law Adds their report" remarked
to Cost. Solicitor McCabe, of the
Department of Agricul-
ture. "The execution of the Pure
Food law has undoubtedly had an i'm
p~ortant effect upon prices. Formerly
resort was had to adulteration and
m~isbranding to reduce the price of al
legged articles. Now people buy rasp-
berry jam, for instance, and pay more
for it, but they get what they pay for.
So it is with many other articles in
common use. This increase in price,
of course, is only apparent, but it i'm
presses the people who make pur-
chases as real" The cost of living is
being reduced in a practical n
at the Department of Agriculture,
where all the food tested by the Blu
reau of Chemistry and found to be
pure is sold to the highest bidder
every Friday during the noon hour.
Cheese and oleomargarine which had
been found up to the standard OF ex-
celIence were sold. Clerks of the de-
partment who watch for these weekly
opportunities weretherein large num-
bers, and bid in the supplies as fast as
they were offered. The prices accept
ed for these articles were about half
those which prevailed in the stores.
There have been known moments OF
excitement, however, when the com
petition for coveted goods was SO keen
that the price has been run up double
that which is usual in the markets.
Not only do the clerks purchase for
their family use, but occasionally one
of them with an eye to business will
buy a crate of goods and sell them in
small lots at an advance to employees
who do not care to purchase in guam
titles. These supplies are sought Gag
erly, as the stamp of the Government
upon them is a double assurance of
their purity. All of the adulterated
goods are destroyed just as soon as
the experts declare that they are con-
traband under the law.