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“It simply means that we have got to bring out a good pack in compe- 
tition with this stuff that is marked ‘Standard No. 1/ and the best pack that 
the Government of the United States will recognize. When it got to the 
Senate of the United States the Senate said, ‘We will not be responsible.’ 
They had that much grace — they saw that much of the thing — that they 
would not let the United States stay where it had been put by the House.” 
The inference here intended to be drawn is that the Senate thought this 
grade too poor and wanted to wash its hands of the whole thing. There 
is absolutely not a word of truth in the inference attempted to be conveyed. 
I know the facts because I was there and participated in the removal of 
the letters “U. S.” in company with the Chairman of the Committee to 
which it was referred. Those letters were removed for the sole and only 
reason that the Government did not have inspectors and felt that it could 
not provide the money for inspection. It did not wish to apparently guar- 
antee that the pack was up to the law unless the fruit co'uld be first inspect- 
ed by its own men. That position was entirely sound. Before any com- 
modity should be allowed to bear the words “United States” it should be 
inspected and passed upon by the Government. Canada does not guarantee 
its apples, neither do the words “Canadian Grade” or anything like them ap- 
pear on their fruit. I again quote from the instructions issued by the 
Canadian Government: 
“Apples should not be bought or sold with the stipulation ‘subject to 
government inspection.’ There is no such thing as ‘government inspection,’ 
meaning a ‘certificate’ or ‘report’ guaranteeing the quality of a particular 
lot of fruit.” 
Mr. Woods: Mr. President, I would not want to say anything “plausi- 
ble” if I could. I know that I could not. What I am aiming at, and what I 
want to do, if I can, is to correct a mistaken assumption, not that I should 
be called to correct my position. But I believe that the facts in this case 
are sufficiently presented and apparent. 
I have read that law very carefully, and have studied the Canadian law, 
and I want to tell you right now that our Sulzer law is no more to be com- 
pared to it than night is to day. I tell you that it is an incomplete effort 
of a tyro compared wjth the fine work of experts, when compared with 
the Canadian law. The first grade under the Canadian law, naturally the best 
grade under the Canadian law, and the best grade under our law, are simply 
withdut comparison, I was about to say. What is the best grade under 
the Sulzer law? A law which permits about a peck and a quarter of culls 
in the first-class barrel. Now I will read what the first grade under the 
Canadian law requires; then you will understand just what this gentleman 
has failed to do in referring you to the situation in the English markets: 
“Such fruit shall be well grown, sound, uniform, of natural color 
at least, uniform size and of good color for the variety, and this pro- 
duct of the grower shall be free from all scab, blotch, blight, worm holes 
or other imperfections, and properly packed.” 
Now that does not provide for a single defective apple going into that first- 
