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The Apple Package and Grade Bill in the Senate

Senate Bill No. 21,480

Your Co-Operation Again Asked

Rochester, N. Y., July 4th, 1912.

The Sulzer Apple Bill known as House Bill No. 21,480, unanimously assed the House of Representatives on Monday, June 17th. This was a very appy ending of a vigorous campaign, extending over several months.

The Bill was printed and went into the Senate on Monday, June 24th, here it retains the same number that it had in the House, No. 21,480. Immeiately after second reading it was referred to the Senate Committee on tandards, Weights and Measures, composed of Senators

John H. Bankhead, of Alabama, Chairman,

Augustus O. Bacon, of Georgia,

William E. Borah, of Idaho,

Moses E. Clapp, of Minnesota,

Robert J. Gamble, of South Dakota.

CLEAN IT UP.

The work is over half done. The Bill has passed the House. Many of the Senators are already pledged to its support. LET US GET IN THE COLLAR AND FINISH THE JOB. The wheels are turning. Keep them urning.

CO-OPERATION.

The Bill went through the House because Y-O-U gave splendid co-operation. Every letter and every telegram counted. It is your Bill. Results have been accomplished and results always look good and lend encouragement.

WE WILL AND SHALL WIN.

Battles are won by quick work and stiff fighting. Strike often and hard. Congress is willing and wishes to carry out the desires of the country. The only way it can know and feel the desires of the people is for the people to tell them.

WRITE AND TELEGRAPH.

Write your own Senators from your own state and arouse in them an actual positive interest in the Bill that will cause them not only to vote for the Bill but to WORK to get it to a vote. We want active influence, not passive. Write the members of the Senate Committee given above. Make it strong.

Don't hesitate to write often. Get all the pledges of support you can and send them to the Secretary.

Let us close this deal and mark it off the books by August. We want the WHOLE BILL JUST AS IT PASSED THE HOUSE-BARREL AND GRADES.

The Tuttle Bill

Standardizing Fruit and Vegetable Barrels

Your Co-Operation is Essential

Rochester, N. Y., July 4, 1912.

The Tuttle Bill, now pending before the House Committee on Coinag Weights and Measures, deserves our energetic support. This Bill originate as the Hardwick Bill No. 17,822, and was caused to be introduced by t National League of Commission Merchants, with the backing of the larg potato growers of Virginia and elsewhere, state departments, producers ar consumers generally, together with the Western Fruit Jobbers' Association an the International Apple Shippers' Association.

Mr. Tuttle, who is a member of the House Committee, a strong supporte of the Sulzer Bill, its most excellent friend and deeply interested in standardiza tion, introduced a bill which will probably be substituted for the Hardwic Bill. This Bill aims to establish a standard barrel for fruits and vegetables the same size as the apple barrel specified in the Sulzer Bill. It is aimed to d away with the abuses, uncertainties and lack of uniformity in barrel package generally. Mr. Tuttle is at present engaged in redrafting his measure, making suitable provision to allow cranberries to be shipped in the usual sized packag for this commodity, without prejudice, and also incorporating a section simila to Section 4 of the Sulzer Bill, which permits a barrel of different size than th standard to be used, providing its fractional relation to the standard is marke on such barrel. This harmonizes the measure with all interests and is in lin with the needs of the day.

STANDARDIZATION IS ON THE WAY

It is a great thing for all of us to feel that WE HAVE DONE OUR PART TO THIS END. We can feel that we have thereby been of benefit to the land in which we live. We have been working for the general good as wel as our own. After the lapse of over one hundred years Congress has been persuaded to Act. It is a fine thing.

KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK

Let us give Mr. Tuttle and the League our most enthusiastic support. Get behind your local congressmen and urge their support of the Tuttle Bill in the House. It should be enacted into law. Hon. Thomas Hardwick is Chairn the Main Committee, and Hon. William E. Tuttle, Jr., Chairman of th Committee. Your local congressmen you know. Congress will proba adjourn the present session before some time in August; therefore add letters to Washington, D. C.

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