932 HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE. 
Mr. Apams. Is not this an explicit authority for the Secretary of 
the Treasury to do what he is doing? 
Mr. Witey.. Exactiy, but for a little different purpose. 
Mr. Grarr. But they have to pay their duties if they take their 
goods out and keep them. This bond has simply to do with the duties 
and nothing to do with anything else? 
Mr. Wrrey. It is construed now to cover both duties and inspection. 
Mr. Grarr. Then, supposing a party concluded that he would sell 
the goods and pay the duty, that is what he would have to do in any 
case, whether they were pronounced contraband or not. Well, they 
would not have to pay any duty if they were contrary to the provi- 
sions of this law: but he would sell them, and if he sold them he would 
have to pay the duty 
Mr. Wizey. Then this would happen. If we should ask the return 
of the goods under this bond, and a part had been disposed of, he 
would have to return what was left and pay double the full value of 
those that he had disposed of. 
Mr. Havucen. And the duty besides? 
Mr. Wiey. And the duty besides. 
The Cuarrman. I believe in making this severe, so as to stop it right 
off. The moment they find that there are going to be severe measures 
adopted by us to prevent the disposing of this kind of goods—goods 
injurious to health—they are going to stop it; they can not continue 
to send those goods over here. Their agents over here will write back 
and say to them ‘‘ Don’t send any more of that stuff; we can not do any- 
thing with it,” and it will not pay them to send any more over. 
Mr. Wiey. You will understand that what we are trying to get at 
are the parties that are offending, and we can not tell until we inspect; 
we do not want to put a penalty on the parties who are entirely inno- 
cent. That is what we are doing when we send these goods to the 
bonded warehouses under the old provision. 
The CHairman. Right there, if I may interrupt you, perhaps it 
would be proper to tell the committee something about these goods; 
the idea was to prevent the importation of goods which were contra- 
band in their own country where they were manufactured and goods 
that were injurious to health, was it not? 
Mr. Witry. And in addition to that, Mr. Chairman, goods that are 
falsely labeled in any respect. 
The Cuarrman. Yes; goods that are falsely labeled also? 
Mr. Winey. Yes. 
The Cuarrman. What have you done in that line? 
Mr. Winey. I have some interesting statistics which I will present 
first. The average daily number of invoices which have reached us 
since this act went into effect, July 1, have been 114—that is, there 
have been that many separate shipments of food products coming imto 
the United States every day from all countries, from all quarters of 
the world. We found at the beginning, and now with a diminishing 
percentage, that about 10 per cent of the inspected cargoes were con- 
trary to law in respect to adulteration of a chemical nature, which we 
could detect in the laboratory. 
The Cuarrman. Those things being contrary to the law in the 
countries from which they came? 
Mr. Witey. Contrary to our law, and in most cases contrary to the 
