The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1911-05-05
HEPBURN after
COLD STORAGISTS
HEYBURN WORKING IN THE IN
TERESTS OF THE CONSUMER
OF COLD STORAGE GOODS.

Reiuvenating Shad-Dangers of
AduIteration Shown-Welfare of
Common People is Idea of Sena-
tor Hepburn.
The Boston Evening Transcript of
April rs has the following special
correspondence from Washington:
Senator Weldon B. Hepburn of
\ Idaho is hopeful of getting his cold
storage bill through the Sixty-sec-
ond congress. This is a measure of
great Importance to the consumer
and to the health of the community,
1t aims to protect the public against
decomposed meats, poultry, fish, eggs
and butter and, in view of its ante
cedents, is not to be regarded as a.
visionary proposition.
Senator Hepburn drafted and
pressed to its final passage the food
and drugs act, commonly known as
the pure food law. He was beaten
in two congresses but won in the
third, with measure which makes
1t a crime for any dealer to sell or
even transport in interstate com
MERGE articles of food and drugs
which are adulterated or misrepre-
scented. This was one of the great
est pieces of national legislation ever
enacted and only man of the force
OF Senator Hepburn could have car
ried it through.
Rather of the Fure Food Law.
The present proposition had IT'S
genesis in a bill introduced by Sen
ator Lodge of Massachusetts, to pro-
hlbtt the keeping in cold storage for
more than year of certain food
articles. The bill, which was in
tended only as a tentative sugges-
tion was referred to the Committee
on Manufactures and it was indi-
Gated In this correspondence at the
time that 1t had fallen into the well
coming hands of the father of tho
pure food law. Chairman Heyburn
at once addressed himself to the
TASK OF investigation with all his
powers of industry and application
hearings were given and promptly
on inc converting of the Sixty-sec-
oho congress Senator Heyburn in
uoduced his bill, accompanied with /
comprehensive report. The trades
10 which 1t would apply have re-
queSted further hearings. which
probably will be granted, now that
concrete proposition has been pre-
sented.
ihe Jurisdiction of the bill neces-
saiI'y Is confined to the District of
Columbia and other possessions of
'no united States, for of course con-
sfeSs cannot regulate the wholesale
anu retail trade of any state. It
can and would by this bill prohibit
'he transportation between states of
any OF the articles included within
'no prohibitions but 1t could not OF
course reach local dealers by law.
nence In measure the Hepburn bill
Will serve rather as a model for the
states to copy than an instrument of
dlrect regulation.
IL provides first that any of the
.olo"ing-named articles, the manu-
iacturers or products thereof, shall
DC deemed to be "adulterated" II
neld In cold storage for more than
inc periods designated, as follows:
Beef, seven months.
Veal, four months.
Pork, four months.
sheep. four months.
Lambs, three months.
Poultry, three months.
Game, three months,
Fish, three months.
Eggs, three months.
butter. three months.
Tits the Thanksgiving Turkey.
included also in tho prohibition is
"hy article of food which, having
"e'n held In sold storage for any
period. has been removed therefrom
ana returned again to cold storage.
: MS provision would apply especially
70 the Thanksgiving turkey, which
. piaced In refrigerators perhaps In
october. taken out and exposed for
aa'' land contamination about
thanksgiving time. then held by the
'oeAi dealer until after Christmas
ana then twhat is left over) is again
,e'urhed to the great storage ware
"ouses' In fact the bill especially
applies to the great storage plants