Show I PURE F FOOD OD Bill I TE BY UNANIMOUS VOTE Term of Commissioner Extended Extend Extend- ed and Salary Increased a Year Senat Senator r W. W N. N pure food bill was as passed In the senate yesterday e without a dissenting vote yote Senators J. J W W. Funk and I I. 11 B. B Wight Ight were ab absent absent ab- ab 8 sent nt when the vote yoto was taken The bill amends the present laws regulating tho the manufacture and sale of foods and drugs th th Also It Increases the term of oC u u uary lr ana rood commissioner fro from two to four tout years earll and and and- boosts his salary from 1600 to 2400 a a. year Mr MrS Senator S Williams In speaking for tor tho the bill declared that with an office otric like the commissioner loner of dalr dairy and food the state should hold ho ld be bo like concerns In the business world and retain competent officials Also said he the tho salary of th the commissioner loner should be Increased He Be remarked that the food bill pa passed sed sedat at the last session but mysteriously lost before It could be signed b by legis legi- legislative executives and the governor carried an aa Increase In salary alan for the corn commissioner n i ss o ncr Senator WIlliams William paid handsome tribute to th services and ability of oC M lIliam Hansen I state dairy an and tood food commissioner whom the state was apt to lose he said i If tho the salary of or the theoffice theoffice office was not raised 1 S Senator L. L M. M Olson asked If It It was hot the thc custom with commercial concerns concerns con con- cerns cerris to Senator Williams al alluded alluded alluded al- al to elect officers yearly tho the senator senator senator sena sena- tor from Sanpete not being In sympathy sympathy thy with Ith the clause Increasing the term of the food commissioner S Senator Williams replied that he was WI alluding alluding- to employees not officers of ot successful concerns Senator Olson also suggested that the tho bill was too full ull of oC tho the language of the scientist and chemist making It hard for th the layman laman to understand what the law la intended He referred particularly rh to the clause providing pro that vanilla extract must contain In cubic centimeters the matt matters rs from flom not los less lese than t ten n grains f of ot tho the vanilla bean He sought fought to explain the English equivalent for tor cubic centimeters St State Stale te Chemist Herman Harms was on hand to take the scientific kinks out of oC the tho bill bUl for the benefit of tho thc senate Commissioner Hansen was pres present nt also Mr Harms said designation of ot the amount In III centimeters was the accepted wa way anti and saved laved an Immense amount of work over other mathematical lations Review of ot the bill took much of the tho senates senate's time but when It was final finally passed the bill was wa virtually as submitted submitted sub sub- to the upper house b by Senator Williams Amendments of a ft minor nature nature nature na na- na- na ture only were made by the committee on public health which recommended it for tor passage and on the floor of or the senate Provisions of or the tho bill were cre re reviewed reviewed reviewed re- re viewed at the time of ot its Introduction |