2 A BILL TO PREVENT DECEIT AND UNFAIR PRICES THAT 52241 ᏢᎪᎡᎢ 1 Printed for the use of the Committee on Interstate Commerce WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1921 M.EA A 8/25/24. HD9846 TRUTH IN FABRIC. A5 19/1 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1921. UNITED STATES SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE COMMERCE, Washington, D. C. The subcommittee met pursuant to call at 2.30 o'clock p. m. in room 410 Senate Office Building, Senator James E. Watson presiding. Present: Senators Watson (chairman of subcommittee) and Fernald. The subcommittee thereupon proceeded to the consideration of the bill (S. 799) to prevent deceit and unfair prices that result from the unrevealed presence of substitutes for virgin wool in woven fabrics purporting to contain wool and in garments or articles of apparel made therefrom, manufactured in any territory of the United States or the District of Columbia or transported or intended to be transported in interstate or foreign commerce, and providing penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act, and for other purposes. Senator WATSON (chairman of subcommittee). The subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate Commerce appointed to conduct hearings on Senate bill 799 is now in session for that purpose. Senator Capper, the author of the bill, desires to make the first statement. STATEMENT OF SENATOR ARTHUR CAPPER, A UNITED STATES SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF KANSAS. Senator CAPPER. Mr. Chairman, I appear before this committee to present bill 799, introduced by me and known as the truth-infabric bill. This is the same bill introduced in the House of Representatives by Congressman French. Hearings were held on the truth-in-fabric bill in the House of Representatives before the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee in March, 1920, at which time Congressman French in his statement at the beginning of the hearings and again at the close took up in detail the technical features of the bill and the related facts, and problems pertaining to the bill. I will therefore conserve the time of the committee by not going over again at this time the ground covered by Congressman French, but I invite the attention of the committee to the two statements presented by Congressman French, the one at the opening and the other at the close of the hearings. These two statements are found in the published report of the hearings before the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce of the House of Representatives, March 19-31, 1920. Congressman French's first statement is found beginning on page 26 of this published report, continuing up to and including the first three paragraphs on page 57. Congressman |