Pure Food Bill Provisions and Pending Legislation
The text outlines adulteration and misbranding definitions for food and drugs, preservative use rules, disclosure limits for proprietary formulas, and dealer protections. It notes enforcement measures, court procedures, confiscation, and Treasury cooperation, with effective date January 1, 1907, while detailing ongoing conference status on related bills including rate, meat inspection, naturalization, immunity, customs, immigration, and appropriations.
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Chemistry Bureau
Treasury Department
Rate Bill Conference Reaches Tentative Accord
Washington June 27. Conference on the Railroad Rate bill reports a tentative agreement. Am endments on pipeline and Elkins stay, with "companies" added to limit prohibitions to railroads only. Plies amendment restoring timber land exemption remains. New anti pass rule bars most passes. Congress members banned from accepting passes from election date until term end. A further session is set for tomorrow at 10 a.m. to approve and sign the report.
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Triburte Bureau
Washington
Conferrees
Senate
Standard Oil Inquiry Proceeds With Moody Meetings
Attorney General Moody held talks in Washington with Frank B Kellogg and Charles B Morrison, the special counsel in the Standard Oil investigation. He planned further inquiry and instructed district attorneys summoned to Washington on how to proceed. Special grand juries were likely to be convened to probe rebates or concessions violating the Interstate Commerce Act.
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Washington
Moody
Frank B. Kellogg
Charles B. Morrison
Standard Oil Company
Senator Baron Pushes Domnican Treaty Vote Date
Washington June 27 Senator Baron sought a quick verdict in executive session on the Santo Domingo treaty aiming to set December 17 for a final vote, hoping a GOP loss would bar ratification with Gearin’s seat vacant. Republicans balked at fixing a far date and blocked the move, preserving current status.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Baron
Gearin
Oregon
Georgia
Senate
Pass Stock Canal Bill to Instruct Isthmus Canal
Washington June 27 The House without debate passed the bill for instructing a lock canal across the Isthmus of Panama Mr Hepburn Iowa moved to substitute the Senate bill for the House bill No further Senate action is needed and once signed by Senate and House officers it goes to the President
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Washington
House
Panama
Hepburn
Iowa
Senate
Nominations sent to Senate for several diplomatic and military posts
The President submitted nominations including Golene to brigadier general. Major James L. Lusk to the Mississippi River Commission. Peter Sas of Rhode Island as secretary at the embassy in Constantinople. Lewis Eines as second secretary. Irwin B. Laughlin of Pennsylvania as secretary of legation and consul to Romania and Serbia. Montgomery Uyler of New York as secretary at Peking. Thomas Ewing Moore of DC as secretary at Stockholm. Norman Hutchinson of California as secretary of legation.
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Washington
Senate
Golene
Walter T Duggan
Mississippi River Commission
James L. Lusk
Corps of Engineers
Emi Y Beesy
Constantinople
Ee Peter Eee Sas
Rhode Island
Ang
Rumania
Gervia Montgomery Uyler
New York
Peking
Thomas Ewing
Moore
Dist of
Columbia
Stockholm
Norman Hutchinson
California
Meat Bill Deadlock Stalls Wadsworth Blocking Move
Washington reports on June 27 show the House conference chairman rejected any change to the House meat inspection substitute. He warned he would let the measure fail rather than accept a partial report. Senate and House negotiators argued over who pays for inspection, with Treasury fees proposed but not discussed by House conferees. The dispute casts doubt on passage of the Meat Inspection bill as negotiators await receipts from the Senate conference.
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Ffrom
Tribune Bureau
Washington
Senate
Proctor
House
Secretary of the Treasury
House Conferrees
Wadsworth
Messrs
Hopkins
Warren
Senator Proctor
Lodge
Hale
Buck Fanshaw
Beveridge
Department of Agriculture
Sen
Portland
Republicana of
Maine
William T. Cobb
Rockland
Lewiston
Bangor
William P. Frye
Charles E. Littlefield
Canada
Ke Sires
Alain
Frye
Republican Party
Littlefield
Cobb
L. M. N. Stevens
Woman's Chinn Temperance Union
House approves General Deficiency bill with small net rise
Washington June 27 The General Deficiency bill passed the House at 6 o'clock with few changes and about a $500,000 net increase. The day featured the Senate canal bill passage and ratification of duties from President McKinley’s term on Philippine imports. Democrats briefly opposed an amendment but largely backed the final passage after Mr. James of Kentucky urged support.
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Washington
House
Committee On Appropriations
Senate
McKinley
Philippine Islands
James
Kentucky
Senators Confirm Landmark Nominations In Executive Session
Washington June 27 the Senate in executive session confirmed nominations including Charlies the Accet Appraiser of merchandise for the Southern District of New York and Edward E Fowler for the District of New York.
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Washington
Senate
New York
Charlies
Accet
District of New York
Edward 8. Fowler
New Hampshire to be launched at Camden shipyards
The Navy Department reports the 16 000 ton battleship New Hampshire will be launched at the New York Shipbuilding Company yards in Camden New Jersey on Saturday morning.
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Washington
Navy Department
New Hampshire
New York Shipbuilding Company
Camden
N. J
Immunity bill approved by conferrees inWashington
Washington June 27 conferrees agreed to the Immunity bill with House members accepting the measure as it passed the Senate.
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Washington
Conferrees
House
Senate
Bailey Strikes Back In Senate Tension Over Treason
Washington June 27 Senator Bailey faced a crowded gallery and defended himself against David Graham Phillips’s Treason of the Senate charges in The Cosmopolitan Magazine. He cited public records to refute claims of links to Standard Oil and Hearst influence, insisting the “white light of truth” should prevail.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Bailey
Cosmopolitan
Senate
David Graham Phillips
House
William R. Hearst
Phillips
Gorman
Tay
Iie
Wilson
Committee On Finance
Aldrich
Mr. Bailey
Standard Oil Company
Waters
Texas
Hoe
Hearst
New York
la Follette
Wisconsin
Mr. la Follette
Spooner
Railroads
Senate Advances Naturalization Bill As Clash Over Shanghai Court
Washington June 27 The Senate produced a productive session approving a bill to establish a U S district court at Shanghai and passing a uniform naturalization law aimed at stopping frauds before election. The measure borrows English language provisions and excludes non English speakers, while Porto Ricans may become U S citizens. Executive action included a debate on Baileys reply and a Moroccan treaty protocol pending Madrid signing. The chamber also ratified participation in the International Agricultural Chamber of Commerce at Rome with a $5000 contribution and reports from agricultural bureaus.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Senate
Spooner
United States District Court
Shanghai
China
House
Bureau of Immigration
Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization
Senator Foraker
United States
Bailey
Algeciras
Madrid
International Agricultural Chamber of Commerce
Rome
Cannot Keep Promises
Washington June 27 The German tariff situation embarrasses the State Department and Congress is unlikely to pass needed changes. The needed customs adjustments include treating consigned goods as sold and eliminating penalties for undervaluation up to 5 percent, reforms essential to satisfy Germany and secure the extension of minimum tariff rates.
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Washington
State Department
Congress
Department
Root
Germany
United States
Shaw
Hocure
Reinsurance Shakeup Hits San Francisco Insurance
San Francisco insurers abandon reinsurance after a damaging fire and rising losses. Major firms including Continental, 28tha, Home of New York, Liverpool London and Globe, North British and Mercantile of London and Edinburgh, London and Lancashire, and Fidelity of New York plan to cancel all reinsurance contracts.
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San Francisco
Continental
28Tha
New York
Liverpool
London and Globe
North British and Mercantile
London
Edinburgh
Lancashire
Fidelity Insurance Company of
Erie Railroad official denies Pittsburg expansion plans
An Erie Railroad associate stated there is no basis for rumors of the company building into Pittsburg. A dispatch from Pittsburg claimed a proposed terminal line would be used by the Erie and other roads seeking entry into the city.
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Erie Railroad
The
Erie
Pittsburg
New York City
Moody Orders Broad Rail Safety Suits Across Nation
Attorney General Moody has ordered suits against numerous railroads for violations of the safety appliance law. The actions target lines including Atlantic Coast Line, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul, Missouri Pacific and El Paso & Southwestern, across multiple districts. The department says enforcement aims to protect travelers and railway workers by promptly pursuing statutory penalties.
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Washington
Moody
Atlantic Coast Line
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company
Colorado
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company
Georgia
Southern
Florida
North Carolina
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway Company
Wyoming
Chicaco, Burlington & Quincey Railway Company
Nebraska
South Dakota
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company
Northern
Iowa
Chicago
Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company
Oklahoma
Colorado & Northwestern Railway Company
Colorado & Southern Railway Company
Denver & Rio Grande Railway Company
el Paso & Southwestern Railroad Company
Texas
Western
el Paso & Southwestern Railroad
Arizona
New Mexico
Missouri Pacific Railway Company
Los Angeles & Salt River
Nevada
Seaboard Airline Railway Company
Southern District
DA to prosecute ice firms for price conspiracy
Philadelphia June 27 District Attorney John C Bell announces plans to bring criminal proceedings against more than a dozen local wholesale ice companies accused of forming a price fixing cartel. Ice prices in the city have risen about 1 percent. Charges include conspiracy with penalties up to a year in jail and fines.
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Philadelphia
John c. Bell
The Moroccan Treaty Declared Public by Senate
The Senate ordered the Moroccan treaty made public outlining police powers contraband control customs taxation public works and revenues. Democratic opposition argued it creates Moroccan laws and permits police powers as a precedent while the US reservation states no enforceable obligations for American interests.
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Washington
Senate
Morocco
Turkey
United States
Senate Conferees Reach Agreement on Lake Erie Ship Canal Bill
Washington reports the Senate and its conference committee reached a complete agreement on the Lake Erie and Ohio Ship Canal bill. The measure remains substantially the same as passed by the Senate with only minor changes.
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Lake Erie Canal
Washington
Senate
Cuse
May sue S P R R for back taxes
Louisville June 27 A county court decision by Judge Charles A Wilson allows George H Alexander state revenue agent to prosecute a back tax suit against the Southern Pacific Railroad over an alleged omitted personality valuation for 1965 of 300000 600 The ruling holds the Board of County Supervisors remained in session beyond statutory end, rendering actions during that period illegal.
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The
Tribune
Louisville
Charles A. Wilson
George H. Alexander
State Revenue Agent
Southern Pacific Railroad
Board of County Supervisors
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