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Show MISBRANDING OF FOOD Senator lYIcCumber Declares It is Appalling. SAYS CONGRESS SHOULD ACT North Dakotan Addresses the Senato ln Advocacs of the Pine Tood Bill Totnl Amount of Adultcrafd Pood Troducts Each Yeir Amounts to Nearly Four Billion Dollars-Senator Dollars-Senator Cnrmnck Speaks Upon the Philippine Government Bill nnd Is Bitter In Opposition to Measute. Washington April Si in the Senate today Mr Mi Cumber (N l) ) ehilr-niiiii ehilr-niiiii ur the Committee of Mantifae-tuies, Mantifae-tuies, spoke on the bill To prevent Ihe ttdulteintloii. misbranding and Imitations Imita-tions of rood bevemges candles, drugs and condiments In Ihe Dlelrtit or Co Itimbla an I the territories and ror reg-ulitlnn reg-ulitlnn intcr-stnto rnininetie there In ' The objeit of his uddiess, lie snld, waa to lonvlnee the Mennte of the verv grat Importance ot the subject lo the Amerlcnn people TIMK TO ACT Por a qtnrter or n trnturs, slid Mr Mduinlier nenil) overs Htate In the t nlon had been struggling with the ques. Hull or prneiirliig pure roods llxperlemo has proved that It had been Impossible lo oltaln uniformity In Htate Inns This bill attempted lo regulate the sale of only such foods as entered Into Interstate Inter-state commerce and the I ongress therefore there-fore Ii iid nniple oi portiinlli lo deul wllh thn subject He ihelared that the extent of the ndiilteratloti and misbranding of lood products nnd roods was ni palling 1 lie lime had come tor Congress to nil lie enumerated mam or the frauds In food products which ho said were crimes against tho consumer nnd mere hint alike. APPALLING P1GI lll.t) Tlie amount or delcterl ills roods place I on the mmketB evers sear was valued nt fully tll'O nun ono whllo the totnl amount ot adulterated rood products was nenrlv fteooutiOiM He expressed Ihn be. Her liisiil upon evidence taken bs his committee that manufacturers an I de-il-ers gencrullv would not object to tho enactment of tho bill proposed. INVESTIGATING SlOAlt CHAltGHS Mr, Piatt or Connecticut, chairman ot the Committee on isolations with Cuba, lepoited from tlint imiimltteo n rubstllutc for the resolution ofirtod a few dass ago bs Mr. Teller, the sub-stltute sub-stltute providing ror nn Investigation bj tho commltteo or tho holdings of Cuban sugar and of Cuban sugar I inds by American citizens, tho lommltteo to have nuthorlts to send for persons and papers and to sit during sessions of the Hemic. The remltulon was referred re-ferred to tho Committee on Contingent Hxpcnses CAItMACIC ON P11II.1PPINHR. At 2 o'clock tho uiillnlshed business tho Philippine government bill was laid before tho Henate, Mr, earmark of Tennessee, a member of the Phil-Ipptno Phil-Ipptno eeitnmlltee, udiltesscd tho Senate! Sen-ate! In opposition to the measure. Mr. C.illnuek hild lint Ihe LM. like tho l'hlllppino tariff bill slmpls presented tho aspect of Imperialism It was not n nues. Hon only of framing Just laws for tho I lllplnns but a nuesllon of right to mako it with the blood of iho people " nm clulm ot ihn ltepiiMlcons." sail he, In that they had burned enough towns wasted enough and killed enough Peonln to mako good their right Iho land Is ours because wo liuvo strown It wllh the ashes or Its homes and drenched It wllh tho blood ot tho people" HAT OPPOMI.STS DIIMIX, Opponents or this policy denied that wo had derived ans Just powers or government govern-ment from tho suhjuuitlon or the govern! gov-ern! el, and Hint waa Iho real Issue or this debate In the former debate, ho Bald, Mr Hpooner had charged that tho mluor-ItS mluor-ItS had prostituted tho question tor pnrty purposes and that Mr Ilrsan had seised upon It to torco un Issue with the Administration Admin-istration I nfortiinntels for this nrgu-ment, nrgu-ment, lhofau iran that Mr Ilrsan had Inland Ills position upon this question long biforo unsbody knew what tho policy of tho Administration would be. At that time tho public titternnrrn of Mc. Klnlev and Ilrvnti wero lu exact accord, and H the Administration hod not reversed re-versed Its pollcs thero would havo been ro difference bttween them CLAIMS 1 Oil nilMOCIIATS Tho Democrats 111 Iho Henuto, ho insisted, insist-ed, hid tried to remove the question from party polities It was now claimed that the civil nuthorlty of tho United States was suiremo throughout the Philippines nnd It was trenson ror a Democrat to exprosB nn opinion lln tlted tho publlo utterances of President McKlnlev nnd Mr. Itoos-velt nnd the speeches of Itepuhllcan Henators, and quoted from the Itepuhllcan camialgii book to show that n. general policy of colonialism and conquest was advocated as Itepubllcan doctrine. ' Tho Idea that sou can transform tho character charac-ter of n raco bs teaching them to re id " said he. ' Is tho wildest, craziest, tho most fanlastlo elream that over llltled through a lunnilc s brain " PlUSIDHN'T NOT VI.NDICHVH Ho quoted utteionees from Mr. Itoose-velt, Itoose-velt, charging Hmt 'treasonable' utterances utter-ances had Incited tho 1 lllplnoa to Insur-recti Insur-recti in and said that wo must not Judge Ihe l'resllent In his momenta of oratorical oratori-cal fcroe- l) pr when, the frenzy of batllo waa In his blood The President was not vindictive, but simply strenuous," und lescmhled In his habits or speech a eer-tain eer-tain lennesseeun horse or which it was said that running uway was his natural .,Mr. J'ooscvclt had habitually spoken of Iho Ullplnos as 'savages und hnrba-rlaiis hnrba-rlaiis and ' Aiachis," and Ihesn denun-clntloiiii denun-clntloiiii hud been scuttered throughout thn Islands to Innnmo the reople agulnst Iho I nltiM btates Thn eltect of the President s language had been to harden and Intensify llllplno opposition to Amer-lean Amer-lean rule QUOTrs piiost I't'NflroN. Homo of our mllllari' heroes had been guilty ot a liko offense. said he He re-lerrid re-lerrid lo a recent speech of Gen Kun-ston, Kun-ston, whom ho elescrlbed as Iho Jas-hawker Jas-hawker lirlgndler from tho vvlnd-swent pliilns tho mightiest Hampson that ever wielded the Jawbone of an ass as a wea-I wea-I on nt war'1 Mr earmark said death had cheated I unston or eonm Illustrious vkilms like former Henulor bherniau and rormer Tres. Ilent Harrison Hut there wero still enough to keep him hiisj. Pupers had luoteel l'unstou as sasing the President inilrely approved his Bpeech and wanted him to accept an Invitation rrom Ihe Junior Henator from Massachusetts to go t i iloston and talk to tho people there about hanging the senior Senator from Miissat nusetta, but tho ill lln t nil ti waa that l'unstou eould not hang nmbodv I unston should go back lo tho Philip. I Ines- lo the laud wheie ihero was plents uf hemp and no constitution. MV.N HI1II MOl'TH ISIRIlAHn "if men aro to be hanged without re- Sard ti law for speaking words catcalled catca-lled to Inclto Insurreitlnn," suld he, ' thn tirst neck to feel tho strangling clutch of tho soaped ropn should bo ihe heroic gullet gul-let or 1 unston " liver slneo ho hud been In tho Philip. Pines ho had been pouring rorth tirades or indiscriminate Insult against tho whole people, and hid outrageously Insulted tho very men upon whom the country was rclslng for aid lu puclfslng tho country CnilS HPHhCH OP IIIIVIIIHDGK lln nlso hud it on tho vers highest an-thorlty an-thorlty that a speech made h) tho Henator Hena-tor from Indiana (Mr Iieiirldge) had been circulated brondcaat throughout tho country wllh an exceedingly pernicious clfiet upon iho natives Tho dominant Idea of the bill now before be-fore the benate, sail he, was to exploit ihn 1 hllli Pities It was proposed to make a wholeinlo grant nf franchisee and con-cessions con-cessions and lo dlsposu of tho peoples lands to foreign ssndlcates an I eoriora-tlona eoriora-tlona wthout giving tho pe-onlo themselves any volm in ihe business The wholo bill waa u pltirul evasion or u plain duty, POLICY' IN AHCIIIPHLAGO. W Ind a rlfcht to demand and Ihe fill, plnos hivo n rlMit to demand that the Administration shall at least detlne Its polky In the Philippines ' L p in what fact or experience,' liu usked, ' did they la e Ih r bell f In Hie r irlt of enrpet ting government' IL so ik ot the nor rirs of i rprt bag g v rnment In the Hoi Ih and said 'The llopubllians gave no heed lo the ers of so oi pressed anl plundered people, though the welo their uwu people nf their own I kind I IIAIIUI S lOSril'lltU. lie dee land tint from the vers first there has been n eonsjlriuv t suppress Ihe truth an. I t whllewush .ur) mil luge III Ihe Philippines In conclusion, he SHld tluit he had not b n Ititlueneed In this milter be unv low dmlre for parts advantage lie onls wlshu) to si e Iho e Hintrv reenlled from lh blood) doe nines of blood) men ,iud return to the lean ful puttis hi wide h she had asicnd-ed asicnd-ed 111 sufet) and seeurtt) to glors and iwiver Desiring In continue his speech to-morieiw to-morieiw Carmaek at ( 15 p in Molded the floor Tim Henate went Into executive execu-tive session and live minutes liter ud Join lied |