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by Hon. Frank 0. Lowden of Illinois (H. R. 3658, 20989) and re- 

 ferred to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. 



The bill was introduced in the Senate by Senator Burton of Ohio 

 (S. 6131). On March 8 a public hearing was given by the Commit- 

 tee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce of the House of Represen- 

 tatives to members of the Executive Committee named below assisted 

 by Dr. J. B. Smith of New Jersey, Prof. E. L. Worsham of Georgia, 

 Prof. T. B. Symons of Maryland, J. H. Hale of Glastonbury, Conn., 

 vand Mr. E. W. Catchpole of North Rose, N. Y., and a hearing was 

 also given by the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. 

 The bill was reported in the Senate on March 23 and passed the Sen- 

 ate April 4. The Senate bill was modified slightly to correspond with 

 the House bill which was reported by the House Committee on April 

 12, passed the House in the amended form on April 18, which amend- 

 ments were at once concurred in by the Senate, and the bill was ap- 

 proved by the President April 26. The committee highly appreciates 

 the personal interest which both Mr. Lowden and Senator Burton 

 evinced in securing the passage of the act and is under obligations 

 to Chairman Mann and Senator Dolliver for the courtesy of hearings 

 before their respective committees. 



Upon the introduction of the bill in 1908, the Committee on Insecti- 

 cides of the Association of Economic Entomologists consulted several 

 of the leading manufacturers and found them favorable to such 

 national legislation, but that they felt the entomologists, agricultural 

 chemists and manufacturers should get together and confer over 

 several minor changes in the bill which they desired. The com- 

 mittee therefore called a conference of all the manufacturers and 

 leading entomologists and agricultural chemists, which was held at 

 the American Institute, New York City, June 18, 1908. The meet- 

 ing was a representative one of the three interests named. The bill 

 in its original form was then taken up and carefully discussed, sec- 

 tion by section, and amendments w^ere made placing it in the form 

 in which the bill was reported by the Senate Committee of the 

 Sixtieth Congress, and the bill was finally adopted in that form. 

 The bringing of these amendments before the proper authorities, and 

 the proper presentation of the entire bill to those interested was left 

 to a committee consisting of Prof. E. D. Sanderson, Entomologist 

 N. H. Agricultural Experiment Station, Durham, N. H. ; Prof. H. 

 E. Summers, Iowa State Entomologist, Ames, Iowa; Dr. J. P. Street, 

 Chemist Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, 

 Conn. ; R. G. Harris, Sales Manager of the Vreeland Chemical Co., 

 New York; and H. F. Baker, President of the Thomsen Chemical Co., 



