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Show MISBRANDING OF FOOD Senator lYlcCumber Declares It is Appalling. SAYS CONGRESS SHOULD ACT North Dakotnn Addresses the Senato lu Advccnc) of the Pure Food Hill Totnl Amount of Adulterated rood Fioducts Each Year Amounts to Nemly Tour million Dollars-Senator Dollars-Senator Carmnck Sponks Upon the rhlllppiuo Government Dill nnd Is Hitter lu Opposition to Measure. Washington, April 25 tn the Senntn toUn Mi Mt Cumber N 1 ), chUr-man chUr-man of the Committee of Mnmifuc hue, npnke on the hill To metent tho nduUeti.llun, mlxbrandlm? and Imitation Imita-tion of food, be erases, i indies. ilrtiRS and londlinonts In the DIM. lit of Co. linnbla nnd the teirluil", and foi .oc-ulutlnff .oc-ulutlnff InUi-MMe commeue therein" The ohjett of hlH uddrem, lie vnht, was to loiutmo tho HttuiU of the ery (tPNit Importance of tho ruhject to tho American people TIMK TO ACT Tor a quarter of a century, said Mr. Mu umber, nettrl) tcr Htule In tho I nlon had been slrugiflluK with the question ques-tion of prouirliiK pure food Jlxperienio htm proMM that tt had been Impossible ti obtain uniformity hi State 1an Thin bill altrtnpttMl to rexulato the u1e of only fuiIi fornix as entered Into Inter-Ktute Inter-Ktute fommerce uml the ( onerm therefore, there-fore, hml ample ojporluniu to ileU with tho mibjcit He tlcclared that the xtent of tlu lululteratlon and mtbramllitK of food products nnd foods was uppalllriK 'ltio lime had romp for Oorurcm to nil Ue enumerated main of the frauds In food products which, ho said were crimen BRulnit the consumer and inert h ml alike. awalmko naniKs Tbe iitnount of deleterious foods placed on tho marketH oer eur was uluid nt fully $l lTooncco while the total amount of lululieruted food products was nearly 40nouMW Ho cxprmxtd the belli be-lli f, b ised upon cwdouco tnkt n by his commute, thut miiuufuUiirt rs und dtal crtt tencrulli would not object to tho enuctment of the bill proponed. INVESTIGATING SlTQAIl CHAHOLH Mr. Plutt of Connecticut, chairman of the Committee on Kelatlonft with Cuba, reported from that committee u substitute for the resolution offered u few das ago by Mr. Tclltr, the substitute sub-stitute providing for an lm estimation bj the committed of tho hohllnps of Cuban augur and of Cuban sugar lunds by American tltizcns, the tommlttco to hae authority to send for persons and papers and to sit during eesslons of the Henate The rcmittulon was referred re-ferred to the Committee on Contingent Expenses. CAUMACK ON riUMPPINnS, At 2 o'clock the unfinished business the Philippine BOernment bill was laid before the Senate. Mr. Carmack of Tenmssee, a member of the Philippine Phil-ippine committee, addressed tho Bin ate In opposition to the measure. Mr. earmark said that the bill, like tho Philippine turirr bill, elm ply prciented tho nspctt of Imperialism, it wus not n question ques-tion only of rramlnc jut laws for the ruiplno, but a quextlon of right to mako It with the blood of the people " "The clulm of the Hepubllcans," said he, Is that they bad burned nounh towns, wasted enotiRh and kilted enough people to make koin! their rlRht. Iho land Is ours because we hao strewn It with tho ashes of Its homes and drenched It with the blood of the people." HAT OPPONENTS DUKIED. Opponents of this policy denied that wo had dcrhd any Just powers of ro eminent em-inent from tho subjugation of the governed, gov-erned, and that was tho real Issue of this debnte. In the former debate, ho safd, Mr. Hpooner hud chimed thnt tho minor-It) minor-It) had prostituted the quentlon for partv purposes und that Mr Ilran hud wirnl upon It to force an Issue with the Administration Admin-istration Unfortunately for this arRii-ment. arRii-ment. the fact was thnt Mr. Hrnn had ricilar'd his position upon this question Ioiik beforn unj body knew what thn policy of tho Administration would be. At that lime tha public uttcranceH of Mc-Klnhu Mc-Klnhu and Itrsun wero In ex ict utcord, and If tho AdminlHtrattoti had not re-ersed re-ersed Hh policy Uieru would hao been ro dlfTcreiue bttween them. CLAIMS I OH DUriOCltATB. The Democrats In tho Henate. he insisted, insist-ed, hid tried to rrmovo the question from party politic It was now claimed that tho chll authority of tho United mutes was supreme throuffhout the lMitllpplnes and It was treason for ii Democrat to express un opinion He cited the public utteruncts of President McKlnley nnd Mr. lloosoAclt and the speeches nf Republican Ht-nfttors, und quoted from the Republican lampulsn book to show thut a general policy of colonlnllmn und conquest wua advocated us Republican doctrine. "Tho Idea that jou cun transform tho churuc-tcr churuc-tcr of a race by teaching them to read." fald he. ' Is tho wildest, cruzlcst, tho most fantustlc drtum thut tner lUttcd through a lunatic's brain " PJtKfitDKNT NOT VINDICTIVE. Ilo quoted utterances from Mr. P,ooe-elt P,ooe-elt charRlng- thut "treasonable' utter-antes utter-antes hud Incited tho Plliplnos tn Insurrection, Insur-rection, und said that wo must not judge the President In his moments of oratorical oratori-cal feroctt) or when the fri nxy of battla wus In his blood Iho President was not lndUtlM, but simply 'strenuous, and resembled In his hublts of speech a certain cer-tain TtnitesHteun horse, of which It was shM that runiiinc uway was his naturul ftult Mr. Roosevelt hid labltuully spoken of tho rillpluos as "saagts und 'barbarians' 'barba-rians' and "Apucbcs," and these denunciations denun-ciations had been scattered throughout tho Islands to Inflame tho people against the United Slates. Tho effect of the PreMrienl lantiiuifo had born to hirden and intenflfy rlllplnu opposition to Amer- quoies rnoM punbton. "Homo of our military heroes had been guilty of a llko offense' suld he. He re-terrcd re-terrcd to u recent speech of Oen, Kun-stoti. Kun-stoti. whom ho described as Tho Jay-huwker Jay-huwker llrlffadler from tho wind-swept plains, tho mlKhttrst Sumpson that etr wielded tho jaw bono of un uss us u weapon wea-pon of wur' . Mr Curmack suld death had cheated runstnn of some Illustrious victims, like former Senator Hlierinuu und former President Pres-ident Harrison. Hut there were still enough lo keep him busy. Pupers had quoted Puns ton as salnic tho President entirely approved htt spcch and wanted him tn accept un Invitation from the Junior Senator from Massachusetts to bo to Ronton and talk to thu people there about huimlnp tho senior Senator from Massarhust tls, but tho plitn truth was thut Punston could not hantf an body Punstoti bhould bo back to the Philippines Philip-pines to iho land where there was plenty of hemp and no constitution. MAN AMI II MOUTH DISEASE. "If men aro to be hinged without re-Kird re-Kird to law for spcuklutr words calculated calcu-lated to Incite Insurrection said he, ' tho nrst neck to tiel the strungllni; clutch of thH soaped rope should bo tho heroic pullet pul-let of rtincton " Evir since he had been in tho Philippines Philip-pines ho had been pouring forth tirades of indlserlmlnutu Innult against the whole people, and hid outrageously Insulted thu very men upon whom the country wns renins for aid in puUfnfr tho country C1TEB SPEECH OP UEVErttDOE He ntso hud tt on tho ery hlttbest au-thorltj au-thorltj thut a speech made by tho Hena-toi Hena-toi from Indiana (Mi JieverWue) had been circulated broadcast throughout thu country with un exceedingly pernicious effect upon tho natives 'iho dominant Idea ut tho bill now before be-fore the Senate, suld he, wus to explo't tho Philippines It wus proposed to mako a wholesale Krunt of frnnchUts and ron-ifsslons ron-ifsslons und to dts,osu of the peoples lands tn foreign SMidb ates und corporations corpora-tions wthout KUlnK the people themueltc an ol. ft In tho business Ihe whole bill wus ix pitiful evasion uf a plali ilut, POMCV IN AHCHIPEI.AOO, Wo had a right to demand und the Kill ptnos havo a itKht to demund thut the AilmtniMinrlon shutl at least dellno Us pollc In the Philippines Upon what fact or experience' he usked, 'did the) Use th ir belief in the purity of carpet-bnir carpet-bnir Rovernment, Ho spoke of tho hor rprs of nrp t naK rnnient In the South and suld 'Toe Republb ans gave no liietl i.) Hie vrv of an ot pressed nnd lluiuUrid pconlc. tlmiKh th wero their in peo,de of thetr own blood" CHAHOKS KNrtPIItAC He .le. tared that rrom the ery first lluro hns bun -i consplracv to suppress tin truth and to whitewash Men oul-tnen oul-tnen In the Philippine In conclusion, he said that he had not turn Influenced In this matter b nn low deelre for part advantage lie onlv wished to see the tountr) recalled from the blood) iloc-trlnes iloc-trlnes of blooj men nnd return to the loaieful paths bv which she bad aseeiul-ed aseeiul-ed In safetv nnd se-cuttt) lo Rlorj and pow or Deslrlm? to continue his speech to-moneiw, to-moneiw, Carmack, ut 1 16 p m , Ielded the llnor The Sen ite went Into executive execu-tive session and the minutes liter adjourned |