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some and sound for human food, and may authorize 

 the proper officer of the customs to give an official 

 certificate clearly stating the condition in which such 

 pork and bacon is found ; and no clearance shall be 

 given to any vessel having on board salted pork or 

 bacon found, on such inspection, to be unwholesome 

 for human food ; but any pork or bacon may be ex- 

 ported to any foreign country without such inspection 

 when it is proved to the satisfaction of the collector 

 of customs that the same has been properly salted and 

 packed more than sixty days prior to the date of the 

 application for inspection or manifest for exportation ; 

 and such collector shall in that case certify to the fact 

 that such meat was properly salted and packed more 

 than sixty days before the date of such entry. One 

 copy of any certificate issued by such collector or in- 

 spector shall be filed in the custom-house where such 

 inspection is made, another copy shall be attached to 

 the invoice of each separate shipment of such meat, 

 and a third copy shall be delivered to the consignor 

 or shipper of such meat ; and as evidence that pack- 

 ages of salted pork and bacon have been inspected in 

 accordance with the provisions of this act, and found 

 to be wholesome and sound for human food, and for 

 the identification of the same, such marks, stamps, or 

 other devices as the Secretary of the Treasury may by 

 regulation prescribe shall be affixed to each of such 

 packages. 



SEC. 18. That it shall be unlawful to import into 

 the United States any adulterated or unwholesome 

 food, or vinous, spirituous, or malt liquor adulterated 

 or mixed with any poisonous or noxious chemical drug 

 or other ingredient injurious to health. Any person 

 who shall knowingly import into the United States 

 any such adulterated food or drink, knowing or hav- 

 ing reason to believe the same to be adulterated, being 

 the owner, or the agent of the owner, or the consignor 

 or consignee of the owner, or in privity with them, 

 assisting in such unlawful act, shall be deemed guilty 

 of a misdemeanor, and liable to prosecution therefor 

 in the District Court of the United States for the dis- 

 trict into which such property is imported ; and, on 

 conviction, such person shall be fined in a sum not 

 exceeding $1,000 for each separate shipment, and may 

 be imprisoned by the court for a term not exceeding 

 one year, or both, at the discretion of the court. 



SEC. 19. That any article designed for consumption 

 as human food or drink, and any other article of the 

 classes or description mentioned in this act, which 

 shall be imported into the United States contrary to 

 its provisions, shall be forfeited to the United States, 

 and shall be proceeded against under the provisions 

 of chapter 18 of title 13 of the Revised Statutes of the 

 United States ; and such imported property so declared 

 forfeited may be destroyed or returned to the importer 

 for exportation from the United States, after the pay- 

 ment of all costs and expenses, under such regulation 

 as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe ; and 

 the Secretary of the Treasury may cause such im- 

 ported articles to be inspected or examined in order 

 to ascertain whether the same have been so unlawful- 

 ly imported. 



SEC. 20. That whenever the > President is ^satisfied 

 that there is good reason to believe that any importa- 

 tion is being made, or is about to be made, into the 

 United States from any foreign country of any article 

 used for human food or drink that is adulterated to 

 an extent dangerous to the health or welfare of the 

 people of the United States, or any of them, he may 

 issue his proclamation suspending the importation of 

 such articles from such country for such period of time 

 as he may think necessary to prevent such importa- 

 tion ; ana during such period it shall be unlawful to 

 import into the United States from the countries des- 

 ignated in the proclamation of the President any of 

 the articles the importation of which is so sus- 

 pended. 



SEC. 21. That whenever the President shall he sat- 

 isfied that unjust discriminations are made by or un- 

 der the authority of any foreign state against the im- 



portation to or sale in such foreign state of any product 

 of the United States, he may direct that such ^products 

 of such foreign state so discriminating against any 

 product of the United States as he may deem proper 

 shall be excluded from importation to the United 

 States ; and in such case he shall make proclamation 

 of his direction in the premises, and therein name the 

 time when such direction against importation shall 

 take effect, and after such date the importation of the 

 articles named in such proclamation shall be unlawful. 

 The President may at any time revoke, modify, ter- 

 minate, or renew any such direction as, in his opinion, 

 the public interest may require. The foregoing pro- 

 visions of this section shall expire on the 4th day of 

 March, A. D. 1887, and shall no longer be in force. 



In explanation of this amendment Mr. Mil- 

 ler said : "If there is a very great objection to 

 this amendment the Committee on Foreign 

 Relations and I certainly share in that opin- 

 ion are not particular about its being incor- 

 porated on this bill. We regard this as a 

 measure of great importance, even greater than 

 the bill under consideration, and that it is des- 

 tined to do very much more good to the cattle 

 interest of this country than the bill that it 

 proposes to amend, and we hesitated for some 

 time whether we would desire to incorporate 

 a measure like this, which has been so careful- 

 ly drawn and carefully considered as this has 

 been, upon such a bill as has been brought here 

 from the House of Representatives. But, be- 

 lieving that this measure ought to pass and 

 that it is now very difficult for the House to 

 reach any bill which the Senate may pass at 

 this session, we thought it best to suggest at 

 any rate to the friends of the bill under con- 

 sideration that we would incorporate this as 

 an amendment, believing that it supplements 

 and improves and rounds out the measure and 

 makes it of some value. 



" The other branch of it which relates to the 

 inspection of meats intended for exportation, 

 the Senate has had ample opportunity to read 

 and digest and understand, because it was re- 

 ported some time ago and attracted a great 

 deal of attention when it was reported. I 

 think every Senator is perfectly familiar with 

 the provisions, and I think every Senator will 

 agree that some such law as this ought to be 

 enacted. 



" We have come to the conclusion that the 

 discrimination made against American meats 

 in foreign countries is unwarranted, perhaps 

 based upon a false assumption of facts ; at all 

 events that there is no reason for the prohibi- 

 tion of American meats in England and France 

 and the other countries which have prohibited 

 them. The investigation which we have been 

 enabled to give the subject convinced us that 

 the American meats are not infectious, that 

 not a single case of trichina has ever occurred 

 in any part of Europe from the use of Ameri- 

 can salted meats, that the curing process en- 

 tirely destroys the parasites. The evidence 

 npon that subject is overwhelming. It is con- 

 tained in a report which was made by the 

 Committee on Foreign Relations and has been 

 printed. It is voluminous, and contains all 



