December, '09] JOURNAL OF economic entomology 461 



PROGRESS OF THE NATIONAL INSECTICIDE BILL 



At the last session of the Association of Economic Entomologists 

 the committee on insecticides reported that a bill for the federal 

 control of the purity of insecticides had been introduced into Con- 

 gress and had the support of the leading manufacturers^ 



The measure introduced into Congress was originally suggested by 

 the insecticide committee of the Association of Economic Entomolo- 

 gists which called a conference of manufacturers, entomologists and 

 agricultural chemists which met at New York, June 18, 1908. This 

 conference appointed an executive committee to represent it in push- 

 ing the passage of the bill as amended by the conference before Con- 

 gress. This committee consists of the following:- — E. D. Sanderson, 

 Chairman, and H. E. Summers, representing the Entomologists; J. P. 

 Street, Chemist, Conn. Agricultural Experiment Station, representing 

 the agricultural chemists, and H. F. Baker, Pres. Thomsen Chemical 

 Co., Baltimore, Md., and R. G. Harris of the Grasselli Chemical Co., 

 Cleveland, Ohio, representing the manufacturers. The committee has 

 recently sent out the following report of progress to all parties in- 

 terested : 



The committee met at New York, July 23, 1908, organized, and ap- 

 pointed an advisory member in each state to secure support for the 

 bill. The bill as amended was at once printed and given general 

 circulation among agricultural and horticultural organizations and 

 the agricultural press. The committee met at Washington, D. C, 

 November 16, 1908. Methods of introducing the bill in Congress 

 were discussed and tentative plans therefore were made. Objections 

 having been made to the standard for arsenate of lead as defined in 

 Sec. 6. of the bill a meeting was held at the Hotel Belmont, New 

 York, December 8, 1908, to which all the manufacturers were invited 

 to consider the same, and this section was finally unanimously 

 amended to read as found upon the bill, favorably reported by the 

 Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. Messrs. Baker and 

 Sanderson were appointed by the committee to visit Washington 

 when necessary to aid in the passage of the bill and to call a meeting 

 of the whole committee whenever a hearing before Congressional 

 Committees could be secured. They visited Washington, January 14 

 and February 4, 1909, and with others called upon the gentlemen 

 who had introduced the bill and the members of the committee to 



^See Journal Economic Entomology, Vol. 2, page 224. 



