The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-08
Senate Cost of Living Commit
tee Makes Recommendations
Concerning the Food Pro-
ducts Placed in Cold Storage.
INQUIRY WILL NOT BE
FINISHED IN MONTHS
Senate Asked for Instructions
as to the ACCESSIBILITY of
Continuing the investigation
and Outline of Plan Given.
QUESTION OF POLITICS

w YASHINGTON, April "a Limit
Wv should be put the use of cold
storage for the purpose of main
tanning or advancing prices arttficiaIIy.
Ihis "a the Judgment OF the senate cost
or living committee. and Chairman
Lodge today introduced in the senate q
bill 20 meet the FecOmme D dations.
In presenting the biII Senator Lodge
said;
Under the resolution of the senate
the Senatorial committee proposed TO
inquire into wages and prices OF COM
mOdifies was given authority 40 make
Fecomme ndatiOns. In pursuance of
that authority the committee now de-
sire 10 recommend to the senate legis-
iattOn limiting the time during which
perishabie articles of food may he held
In cold storage. From such inVestIga-
ton, rs the committee has thus far
been able 10 make. fl - satisfied some
limit ought TO be put on cold storage
for the purpose of maintaining OF Hd-
vancing prices aFtfficialIy. IL il of the
opinion this limit of time will tend to
an equalization OF prices and in some
cases TO "a reduction.
The 1nvesti cation of this subject
is not completed, but it has proceeded
far enough 10 confirm by the results
thus far obtained the view taken by
the committee
"The question of the public health
IS not within the Jurisdiction Of your
committee charged with the investiga-
ton into wages and prices. The COM
mitIee mas no doubt, however, that "a
Limitation OF the time during which
perishable articles of food. and more
especially meat products, may be re-
tanned in cold storage would be hv-
chemically Of very great value, and
would tend 10 check many physical
troubles which are thought by those
who have examined the question to bs
attributable to the practice of keeping
meats, particularly, in storage for
very long time.
''The committee, therefore. recom-
mends legislation in this direction by
Congress at the earliest possible mo-
ment'
Some Provisions Of the Bill.
Mr.. Lodges bin provides that food
kept I'm cold storage for more than one
year should be considered as adulter-
ated, and that any food taken out OF
cold storage and enormously marked
as to the time it had been in storage
should be regarded as misbranded in
violation Of the pure food law.
Tie committee through M. Lodge
also asked the Senate for Instructions
ia the matter of continuing the inves-
LEGATION into the cost of living. 1t
was estimated that four months would
be required to complete the work, and
that fl would necessitate an expendi-
tGre Of S65 900.
The outline OF the suggested plan
was I'm great detail 1t calls for state
ments to be obtained from forty buyers
in selected localities covering the price
paid 10 the producer on the first OF
January, February, March. April. May
and June. of each year from 1900 10
1910, inclusive, for all grains, live
stock and other farm products
1t contemplabes also the procuring
of WroIegqfp prirPg bV the bureau AZ
labor on 260 commodities for 1903 and
the first four months of 1910, in order
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