The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-04-08
SENATOR LODGE
 ON COLD STORAGE Bill Is Introduced to Help Re
 duce Cost of Living TIME LIMIT IS FIXED
Lodges Bill Provides That Food Kept in Cold Storage should Be Con- sidered AduIterated and Re
 Marked Properly

Washington, April IA limit should be purpose of maintaining or advancing prices artifcially, in the judgment of the Senate cost of living committee. Chair mar Lodge today introduced in the Sen ate bill to meet this recommendation.
 In presenting the bill Senator Lodge made the following statement: 'The committee is satisfied that some limit ought to be put on cold storage for the purpose of advancing or main taining prices artificially. They are of the opinion that this limit of time will tend to an equalization of prices and in some cases to reduction.
 "The investigation of this subject by the agricultural department has proceed ed far enough to 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. The committee has no doubt, however that limitation of the time during which perishabe articles of food and more especially meat products, may be retained in cold storage would be hygiencally of very great value and would tend to check many physical trou- bles. which are thought by those who have examined the question to be at tributable to the practice of keeping meats, particularly, in storage for very long time.
 "The committee, therefore, recommends legislation in this direction by Congress at the earliest possible moment
 Mr Lodges bill would provide that food be kept in cold storage for more than one year should be considered as adul- terated and any food taken out of the cold storage and erroneously marked as to the time it had been in storage should be regarded as misbranded in violation of the pure food law.
 The committee asked for instructions about continuing it's investigation, esti- mating that four months time and $65, ,090 expenditure would be necessary to com plete it's work according to the follow ing plan, which was submitted to the Senate:
 Statements to be obtained from 40 buy CTS in selected localities, covering the price paid the producers on January l. February l. March 1, April 1, May and June 1 of each year from 1900 to 1910, in elusive for all grains live stock and other farm products. The procuring of WnOleSaIe pTlceS Dy tuc DuIcdu VI ldbpi on 260 commodities for 1909, and the first four months of 1910 in order to bring to date statements already given since 1s9d The bureau of labor to procure wholesale prices from 1897 = 1910 on all kinds of agricultural implements.
 Retail prices paid by consumers on n articles would be obtained covering periods identical with producers prices. This list Is to include all articles cov- cred by the Senate resolution for the investigation excepting rent, for which the committee says 1t Is practically impossible to obtain reliable conipara- tive figures
 Under the head of retail prices the committee says figures should be taken from four establishments in each of 20 selected cities and that the storeI should be those patronized by waga earners.
 An investigation would be made of