Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1910-03-23
$5O,OOO, 900 FOR RIVERS AND HARBgRs.
Uuc|e Sam Wants to StanpardIze Shipment
Of Apples and Other Fruits.

Uucle Sam Wants to Stanpardlze ShIpmen
Of Apples and Other Fruits.
| Washington, D. O., March 21.-
Special .-Uncle Sam is formula.
ting measure to protect the con.
sumer of apples from the dlshon'
est orchardists, who in the past
have been in the habit of "facing''
the tops and bottoms of the. bar.
rels or boxes containing the fruit,
with fancy stock and filling in the
remainder with ''culls." The
idea is, too, to establish uniform
standard as to the size of a box
or barrel which may be used in
shipping apples from one state to
another, SO that the buyers may
know just what be is getting, IN
the way of quantity, when he
purchases a barrel or q box of
fruit.
the committee on Agriculture
has recently given growers, pack
ers, shippers and commission men
ample opportunity to express their
views on the pending bill, intro
duced by Mr. Lafesn of Pennsyl-
vania and these hearings have
developed the fact that all inter-
ested in apple growing in the
Eastern, Middle ana Southern
sections of the country are satis-
fled with the proposition to estab-
llsh standard grades and standard
packages. Only from the north
west has any protest arisen. The
apple growers of the Pacific and
adjoining states send to market
apples which are as rule much
larger in size than those grown
farther cast. They pack their
product in boxes which, while
uniform in size, do not necessarl.
ly contain a bushel. The bib
provides that barrels must con-
tain bushel. The bill provides
that barrels mush contain three
bushels and that boxes must hold
q third Of a barrel.
The bill when reported will, in
all proba bility, fix standard of
U. S. grades, Apples two and q
half inches in diameter may be
marked "U, S. Grade A. those
two and a quarter inches "U. S.
Grade B" and those only two
inches in diameter "U. S. Grade
CO. Apples less than two inches
in diameter are not to be graded
at all and if anyone cares to buy
them he will do so with his eyes
open and without government
guarantee as to grade. The bill,
if enacted, Will not only protect
the home consummer but will go far
towards re-esta blishing the repu-
tation Of American apples, which
has suffered severely in recent
years, in the markets of Europe.
Washington, D. c., March 21.-
(Special)-Not in a generation
have there been enacted such
scenes as characterized the stern
and unyielding fig ht against
Speaker Cannon as were witness.
ed in the House of Representatives
on Thursday and Friday of last
week. Through a coalition OF
of insurging republicans and dem.
oorats the power of the speaker
as member of the Steering Com
mittee," as the committee o1
rules has come to be called, wal
curtalled and the committed
enlarged to ten members, six re
puhlicans and four democrats
Never in the history of the oldesr
newspaper man in Washington
has there been seen so tense .
situation and SO fraught with dee]
significance as the fight which tn
"Old Guard" put up, against tn
reformer in the republican par
ty aided and abetted by the demo
Gratis who saw in the movemen
to dethrone the "Iron Duke o
Illinois" from his power and pres
tige political advantage of tn
highest order.