Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-01
ITO STOP BLEACHING. SWANSON SENATOR
Government viii Prosecute Named to Fill Out John w.
Mlers Who Doctor Flour. Daniels Unexpired Term
DECISION REACHED TODAY APPOINTMENT TO MARCH 3
Will Not Wait for Outcome Former Virginia Governor Will BE
Appealed to Circuit Court Candidate Succeed Himself
MAY CAUSE RISE IN PRICE TO BE NOTIFIED TOMORROW
FriendsW
Now One-Served Twelve Years
/ Artfcialv Representative
DECISION REACHED TODAY
Will Not Wait for Outcome of Case
Appealed to Circuit Court.
MAY CAUSE RISE IN PRICE
Necessary to Store Flour Six
Months to Cause Wilderness Now
Obtained Artificially.

Miners must step bleaching flour, pend
ing adjudication by the higher courts, or
stand criminal prosecution for each ship
.ment made in interstate commerce. ac-
Ilcording to decision reached here today
at a conference between officials CT the
| Departments of Agriculture and Justice
\ The departments gave out the following
statement:
| AT the conference were Acting Attor-
! ney General Fowler and Solicitor McCabe
of the Department of Agriculture, the
latter representing Secretary Wilson.
1t was decided that the inspector of
the bureau of chemistry should be in
structed to procure samples of bleached
| flour shipped in interstate commerce by
millers and jObberS since the date of the
decision in the Kansas City case with a
view TO criminal prosecution of those re-
| spOnsibe for the shipments.
Sustained by Verdict.
The Kansas City case was a seizure
of certain -four which the government
claimed was adulterated and misbranded
because it had been bleached with nitro
gen peroxide. After a five-week trial
and exhaustive testimony on both sides.
! the verdict in the case sustained the
| contention of the government, and the
|
circuit court of appeals. The government
| holds that inasmuch as jury has de-
| cided that bleached -four is adulterated.
| during the pendercy of the appeal and
| until determination is made by a high
| er court bleached flour must not be
sent in interstate commerce..
Bleached flour has caused more fights
than almost anything since the passage
of the pure food law. 1t is simply a
process through which -four is put before
iS The makes tho finur
and the bread from it whittier, and it is
claimed by some experts that it permits
the use of inferior wheat in making APP
parently higher grade of -four The
makers of the bleached flour declare
that the process is harmless though they
do not claim that it adds to the food
value of the flour. The Department of
Agriculture claims that it is absolutely
injurious and against the law.
Fight Led by Manufacturers. i.
There have been a number of lengthy
hearings held before The pure food board
At some of these the bakers testified that
they did not want to buy bleached -four,
but could not get any other sort. Some
of the milers said they did not want to
make it, but We're forced to by cOmpeti-
ton. Others said that they did not make
it and would not The present fight
against the decision of the department
is being made by the manufacturers of
the bleaching machinery who have a
great deal of money behind them and
who would be put entirely out of that
business if the decision of the lower
courts were to be confirmed.
The general manager for W. NJ. Gait
& Co., flour and feed dealers at Indiana
avenue and LIST street, in discussing the
decision said that it's enforcement might
possibly result in an increase in the
price of the flour coming from certain
sections of the country where the bleach
ing process is now in use.
Does Work of Nature.
"By means of the bleaching process,
said he, 1.-THE millers are able to get
result which nature takes upward of six
months to accomplish. l feel quite sure
that -four coming from the southeast
would go up in price were this order
to be permanently enforced.
'IC the flour is not artificially bleach
ed it must be stored for several months
to let nature do the work. This keeps
it off the market and its price quite nat
uraIly increases. The millerS are not do
ing much bleaching in the northwest and
in the central west. There should be no
increase in the price of flour from those