...favor the enactment of a general national law regulating commerce in adulterated and misbranded foods in the District of Columbia and the Territories of the United States and between the States. Such a national law would serve as a model for the local control of food adulteration...

...Federal food and drugs act is concerned only with the foods and drugs manufactured and offered for sale in the District of Columbia and the Territories of the United States and with those which are shipped from one State to another in interstate trade. The State laws are designed...

...anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, be and the same is hereby, made a special legal holiday in the District of Columbia and the Territories of the United States " ; And, whereas, by the said Joint Resolution the President is authorized to issue a proclamation in accordance...

...conformity with the rule there can be no doubt that an act of Congress undertaking to regulate commerce in the District of Columbia and the territories of the' United States would necessarily supersede the territorial law regulating the same subject.* If an act of Congress...

...Confederacy." This resolution passed the House by a vote of 194 to 6. The second was in these words: the District of Columbia, and the territories of the...on foot to affect the institution of slavery in the Southern states and thus indirectly to destroy th^t institution within their limits." On this resolution...

...for the purpose of protecting the commerce in food products and drugs between the several States and in the District of Columbia and the Territories of the United States and foreign countries the Secretary of Agriculture shall organize in the chemical division of the Department...

...should exercise its undoubted power and prohibit the manufacture and sale of intoxicating beverages in the District of Columbia and the Territories of the United States, and in all places over which the Government has exclusive jurisdiction ; that hereafter no State shall...

...1909, being the centennial anniversasy of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, was made a special holiday in the District of Columbia, and the Territories of the United States. By a joint resolution approved February 4th, 1909, Congress gave its consent to the States of Tennessee...

...packer, seller, or distributor. The Federal Act does not cover retail sales from bulk containers, except in the District of Columbia and the Territories of the "United States, but does cover sales in containers suitable for household use when the goods cross a State line or...

...anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, be, and the same is hereby, made special legal holiday in the District of Columbia and the Territories of the United States. Be it further resolved, That the President be authorized Proclamation. to issue a proclamation in accordance...