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as regards the contents of the package,” and that covers that point, I 
think, without question. At least no one has seen fit to apply to the 
courts to require the issuance of a mandamus compelling the Secretary 
of Agriculture to permit the entry of these goods; they take them 
away without any such proceedings in every instance. 
Mr. Scorr. When you get a cargo of these vegetables do you make 
any effort to inspect every package? 
Mr. Wier. No, sir. Wador the rule laid down they take packages 
at random. We have nothing to do with taking the samples at all; that 
is done by the Treasury Department while under their control, and then 
these are labeled by the Secretary of the Treasury under forms which 
we furnish, giving necessary information on each one, and then they 
are sent to us by express. 
Those are the principal things. 
Now, Mr. Chairman, what we wantis this. We want money enough 
to put some chemists and a laboratory at these various ports; the Sec- 
retary of the Treasury has very kindly said that he would give us the 
laboratory rooms and everything he could free of charge, because every 
port has its laboratory for the appraisers’ use. I have consulted with 
Assistant Secretary Armstrong in regard to the laboratory in New York, 
and the room has been selected; we have everything ready except the 
means to move these laboratories. 
The Cuarrman. How would you do in the other ports? 
Mr. Wivry. We have.already appointed a chemist at San Francisco, 
because it is impracticable for us to send things back and forth across 
the continent. We want to establish 
The Cuarrman. How about New Orleans? 
Mr. Winey. We want to establish a laboratory in New York first, 
with force enough to handle the bulk of the work, because there is 
where nearly all of it comes, and in order to release everything 
promptly that has to be released, and send to us at Washington all 
the samples that are to be held, and we want one man at least at Bos- 
ton and one at Philadelphia and about four or five in New York. 
The Cuarrman. Right there, Professor, has the United States labora- 
tories at all those places now? 
Mr. Wizey. Yes, it has; it has one in every port. I have charge 
of those laboratories to a certain extent under a commission of the 
Secretary of the Interior. 
The Cuarrman. Why could not they do these preliminary —- 
Mr. Wiury. They are worked full on Treasury business even to 
the extra half hour, Mr. Chairman, in the classification of goods for 
duties. All the goods that come into this country which are judged 
by chemical composition are examined by the chemists before the 
duties are assessed. They can not classify them without doing that. 
Mr. Ropry. You could do both things at once if you had the 
laboratory ? 
Mr. Witxy. We do not have anything to do with the classification 
for dutiable purposes; we simply have to do with an examination or 
analysis with the subject of adulteration in mind; that is in an entirely 
different line. And then in the California laboratory we want a man 
all the time. We have one man part of the time there now. And we 
want enough money to take up this other part of the work, to secure 
immunity orn false labeling where the constitution of the matter is 
not at stake. That is most important, and the only way we can do that 
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