EXPENDITURES IN THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. COMMITTEE ON EXPENDITURES IN THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, The committee met at 10 o'clock a. m., Hon. Ralph W. Moss (chairman) presiding. The following members of the committee were present: Messrs. Floyd, Mays, Doughton, Higgins, French, and Sloan. PURE-FOOD LAW OF JUNE 27, 1906. [House Report No. 5056, Fifty-ninth Congress, first session.] Mr. Hepburn, from the committee of conference, submitted the following conference report (to accompany S. 88): The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendments of the House to the bill (S. 88) entitled "An act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes," having met, after full and free conference have agreed to recommend and do recommend to their respective Houses as follows: That the Senate recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the House and agree to the same with an amendment. Strike out all of said amendment and insert in lieu thereof the following: "That it shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture, sell, or offer for sale within any Territory or the District of Columbia, or deliver for shipment, or to cause to be delivered, shipped, or transported from within any State, Territory, or District of Columbia to any State, Territory, or District of Columbia, or foreign country, any article of food, drugs, medicines, or liquors which is adulterated or misbranded, or which contains any poisonous or deleterious substance within the meaning of this act; and any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and for each offense shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not to exceed five hundred dollars or shall be sentenced to one year's imprisonment, or both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court, and for each subsequent offense and conviction thereof shall be fined not less than one thousand dollars or sentenced to one year's imprisonment, or both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. "SEC. 2. That the introduction into any State or Territory or the District of Columbia from any other. State or Territory or the District of Columbia, or from any foreign country, or shipment to any foreign country of any article of food or drugs which is adulterated or misbranded, within the meaning of this act, is hereby prohibited; and any person who shall ship or deliver for shipment from any State or Territory or the District of Columbia to any other State or Territory or the District of Columbia, or to a foreign country, or who shall receive in any State or Territory or the District of Columbia from any other State or Territory or the District of Columbia, or foreign country, and having so received, shall deliver, in original unbroken packages, for pay or otherwise, or offer to deliver to any other person, any such article so adulter 915 |