A Legislative History of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and Its ...

To protect the public health by amending the
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to
prohibit the use in food of chemical additives
which have not been adequately tested to
establish their safety.

By Mr. HILL, Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, and
Mr. SPARKMAN

APRIL 16, 1957

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare

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(2) We do not feel that effective and effcient methods of spending the additional funds to be raised by the proposed check-off have been sufficiently well developed to avoid duplication of effort and waste of money.

(3) We are concerned about the possibility of encouraging competition between the different segments of the livestock industry. It would be unfortunate, indeed, if any pro-, gram is launched which would result in pitting against each other the cattle producer, the hog producer, and the sheep and lamb producer in the market places. This situation is highly undesirable for many obvious reasons.

(4) The National Live Stock and Meat Board is now dcing a splendid job on an effective and economical basis. We feel that the possibility of expanding the funds and program of this board should be studied thoroughly before resort is had to Federal legislation and the creating of another agency to do a job now being done by the National Live Stock and Meat Board and by many other agencies in the livestock and meat industry, i. e., packers, retailers, etc.

(5) We need further information about the possibilities of actually increasing meat consumption by the expenditure of enormous funds in doubling or trebling the advertising campaign.

(6) We are convinced that much more can and should be done in the field of research and marketing and in the improvement of the types of hogs, cattle, and sheep which will better meet consumer demands. We have serious doubts that by merely expanding our advertising campaign we can best meet the marketing problems confronting livestock producers.

For these reasons we feel that final action on the proposed Federal legislation should be deferred pending more careful study of the entire program in general and the accumulation of more information about practical means of collecting the proposed checkoff and the use of funds to be derived from that source.

I want to thank you for your letter and for your request to have the contents of the letter entered into the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. Our board of directors made careful study of this proposed program, and while we are in agreement upon the objectives of the program, we cannot go along with the suggested plans for meeting those objectives.

Our members at our last annual meeting requested the board to make this study and report our conclusions. We reported to the members at a series of district meetings held last spring covering the entire State. The members at all eight meetings agreed with the board of directors that we should not support this legislation. They recommended that more money be given to the National Livestock and Meat Board.

The National Cattle and Swine Councils seem to be carried away with the possibilitles of this national producer meat promotion .cy. Our board members think it would be heady impossible to coordinate the promotional activities of the proposed national agency, and as the law provides, not more than three State agencies in each State. That would be a lot of organizations and jobs for somebody.

We question the wisdom of setting up a new and inexperienced promotional setup, when we have now in operation an experienced, efficient, and economical agency on the job in the capacity of the National Livestock and Meat Board. This board gets a tremendous amount of free publicity by having the various news agencies run their material. If the educational producer agency is authorized by Congress and they begin buying publicity, we stand a chance of losing this free publicity.

Farmers are a bit touchy about any sort of deductions. They would be very unhappy if any money deducted from their sales of livestock went to pay fat salaries for any top-heavy administrative agency.

The members of the Missouri Livestock Association will greatly appreciate your cooperation in supporting our views with respect to Senate bill 646.

Sincerely,

C. W. SHEPPARD, President, Missouri Livestock Association.

REPORTS OF A COMMITTEE The following reports of committees were submitted:

By Mr. EASTLAND, from the Committee on the Judiciary, without amendment:

S. 147. A bill for the relief of Guido Wiliam Grambergs (Rept. No. 236);

S. 239. A bill for the relief of Maria Parisi (Ref. No. 237);

S. 256. A bill for the relief of Aristea Vitogianes (Rept. No. 238);

S. 470. A bill for the relief of Livio Senni (Rept. No. 239);

S. 616. A bill for the relief of Blanca G. Hidalgo (Rept. No. 240);

S. 629. A bill for the relief of John Eicherl (Rept. No. 242);

S. 650. A bill for the relief of Isabella Abrahams (Rept. No. 243); and

S. 710. A bill for the relief of Sul-an Fung and Shu-nung Wu Fung (Rept. No. 244). By Mr. EASTLAND, from the Committee on the Judiciary, with an amendment:

S. 303. A bill for the relief of Maria Caccomo (Rept. No. 245);

April 16

By Mr. CARLSON:

S. 1891. A bill for the relief of Piet W. Van Aalst; to the Committee on the Judiciary. By Mr. DOUGLAS:

S. 1892. A bill for the relief of Cacille Emilie Eichmann; to the Committee on the Judiciary.

By Mr. YOUNG (for himself and Mr.
LANGER):

S. 1833. A bill for the relief of Mrs. Maria Finnell (nee Pitsch); to the Committee on the Judiciary.

By Mr. NEUBERGER (by request): S. 1894. A bill to amend the law with respect to the recoupment of funds expended in cooperation with the school board of Klamath County, Oreg., because of the attendance of Indian children, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.

By Mr. HILL (for himself and Mr.
SMITH of New Jersey):

S. 1895. A bill to protect the public health

S. 622. A bill for the relief of Georgina by amending the Federal Food, Drug, and Mercedes Llera (Rept. No. 241);

S. 623. A bill for the relief of Donini Maur

izio Donato (Rept. No. 246); and

S. 641. A bill for the relief of Elvira A. Belford (Rept. No. 247).

By Mr. EASTLAND, from the Committee on the Judiciary, with amendments:

S. 776. A bill for the relief of Shigeko Kimura (Rept. No. 248):

By Mr. O'MAHONEY, from the Committee on the Judiciary, with amendments:

S. J. Res. 22. Joint resolution to designate the third Friday of May of each year as National Defense Transportation Day (Rept. No. 235).

Cosmetic Act to prohibit the use in food of chemical additives which have not been adequately tested to establish their safety; to the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. (See the remarks of Mr. HILL when he introduced the above bill, which appear under a separate heading.)

By Mr. CASE of New Jersey:

S. 1896. A bill for the relief of Maria West; to the Committee on the Judiciary.

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to show cause upon witnesses found in their territory.

2. Prohibitions by certain foreign countries of interviews with or interrogations of prospective witnesses,

3. Prohibitions and limitations by many countries on the taking of depositions under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 15.

4. Lack of means in all civil-law countries to compel unwilling witnesses to testify in deposition proceedings and in some civillaw countries to compel unwilling witnesses to testify in the execution of letters rogatory from American courts.

5. Difficulty or impossibility of proving foreign public records under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 27 and section 1741 of the Judicial Code.

6. Dificulty or impossibility of proving foreign records under sections 3431-3494 of the Criminal Code.

Foreign courts are said to find equally unsatisfactory the judicial assistance which American courts render them. Neither the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure nor the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure contains any provision relating to assistance to foreign courts. Section 1782 of the Federal Judicial Code relating to the taking of depositions to be used in foreign judicial proceedings is ill-adapted to the execution of letters rogatory from courts of the civillaw countries. Neither State nor Federal practice makes any adequate provision for the service of judicial documents on behalf of foreign courts.

Practice can be simplified, expedited, and rendered more certain and less expensive by treaty or other arrangement. Much of Latin-America and Europe is covered by a network of procedural treaties, Great Britain has entered into a number of such agreements. This demonstrates that the common-law and the civil-law systems can be coordinated procedurally. An excellent start in drafting has already been made by the Harvard Research in International Law which in 1939 published a Draft Convention on Judicial Assistance. The Inter-American Juridical Committée of the Organization of American States in September 1952 rendered a report on judicial assistance in civil matters. Considerable improvement in practice can probably be effected by informal agreement, or the development of greater uniformity of law in the various countries.

Responsibility for reform must be assumed by the Federal Government because there is little or nothing the Individual States can do to improve their international juridical rela

tions.

Reform of international procedure has been urged by many interested organizations. In 1950, the American Bar Association reccnicended the establishment of a overn mental agency for that purpose. Again, in 1953, the association adopted a resolution favoring the establishment of a commission and advisory committee to draft international rules of practice. Joining the American Bar Association with resolutions urging reform of international practice are the American Society of International Law, the American Foreign Law Association, the Conular Low Society, the Maritime Law AscoCation, the Association of the Bar of the Cry of New York, and the Pennsylvania State Bar Association. In the International field, the International Bar Association and the Inter-American Bar Association i.ave recommended the negotiation of procedural

treaties.

The proposed legislation would combine the techniques of democratie draftsmanship by the joint effort of the bench, bar, and law faculties that proved successful in recent Federal procedural reforms, with certain of the techniques of interdepartmental cooperation utilized in the drafting of treaties for the alleviation of internation. double taxation.

Effective and uniform reform of international procedures can be brought about only by general international agreement. Any such agreement would set up rules of practice which, in litigation in the Federal courts, would supplement the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. The organization contemplated by the proposed legislation has therefore been modeled upon the two Supreme Court advisory committees, which, in turn, were established upon the precedent of the American Law Institute.

The requested legislation will not of itself effect any particular reform or change of procedure; it will merely create an agency for the study of existing problems of international judicial assistance. The proposed commission and advisory committee will be authorized to explore, report upon, and make recommendations for the Improvement of all aspects of international judicial or quasijudicial practice and procedure. The conmission will itself determine, within broad limits of the subject of judicial assistance, the precise scope and content of its program; and its recommendations, accompanied by draft treaties or other proposed procedures, model conventions, or draft statutes, will be forwarded to the President for appropriate action.

AMENDMENT OF FEDERAL FOOD, DRUG, AND COSMETIC ACT, RELATING TO THE PROHIBITION OF CHEMICAL ADDITIVES IN FOOD

Mr. HILL. Mr. President, cn behalf of myself, and the Senator from New Jersey [Mr. SMITH), I introduce, for appropriate reference, a bill to protect the public health by amending the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit the use in food of chemical additives which have not been adequately tested to establish their safety. I ask unanimous consent that the bill lie on the table until the close of business on Thursday next, in order that other Senators, if they so desire, may have the opportunity to become cosponsors.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The bill will be received and appropriately referred; and, without objection, the bill will lie on the table, as requested by the Senator from Alabama.

The bill (S. 1895) to protect the public health by amending the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit the use in food of chemical additives which have not been adequately tested to establish their safety, introduced by Mr. HILL (for himself and Mr. SMITH of New Jersey), was received, read twice by its title, and referred to the Committce on Labor and Public Welfare.

QUANTITATIVE RESTRICTIONS ON IMPORTATION OF IRON AND STEEL WOOD SCREWS

Mr. DIRKSEN. Mr. President, I introduce, for appropriate reference, a bill to regulate the foreign commerce of the United States by establishing quantitative restrictions on the importation of iron and steel wood screws.

I should like to observe that the heavy importations of iron and steel wood screws have reached such a point that the American industry is jeopardized and action is called for. The bill I am introducing deals with this matter, and proposes a quota for our own industry.

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The PRESIDING OFFICER. will be received and appropriately referred.

The bill (S. 1899) to regulate the foreign commerce of the United States by establishing quantitative restrictions on the importation of iron and steel wood screws, introduced by Mr. DIRKSEN, was received, read twice by its title, and referred to the Committee on Finance.

REGULATIONS OF INTERSTATE DISTRIBUTION AND SALE OF CERTAIN HAZARDOUS ARTICLES

Mr. BUSH. Mr. President, I introduce, for appropriate reference, a bill to regulate the interstate distribution and sale of hazardous articles in packages suitable for or intended for household use.

There is increasing concern on the part of the public, members of the medi cal profession and responsible manufacturers because of the many substances in household use which are potentially hazardous to life and health. There have been distressing cases of death or injury of young children resulting from misuse of such products.

The proposed Federal Hazardous Articles Act is intended to protect the public by requiring manufacturers to label such articles so as to clearly identify the hazard and the precautionary measures which should be taken to protect life and health. I ask unanimous consent that the bill be printed in the RECORD following my remarks.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The bill will be received and appropriately referred; and, without objection, the bill will be printed in the RECORD.

The bill (S. 1900) to regulate the interstate distribution and sale of hazardous articles in packages suitable for or intended for household use, introduced by Mr. Busн, was received, read twice by its title, referred to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, and ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows:

Be it enacted, etc.

CHAPTER 1-SHORT TITLE SECTION 1. This act may be cited as the "Federal Hazardous Articles Act."

CHAPTER II-DEFINITIONS
SEC. 201. For the purposes of this act-

(a) The terin "Territory" means any Territory or possession of the United States, including the District of Columbia and excluding the Canal Zone.

(b) The term "interstate commerce" means (1) commerce between any State or Territory and any place cuts!de thereof, and (2) commerce within the District of Columbia or within any other Territory not organized with a legislative body.

(d) The term "Secretary" means the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare.

(e) The term "person" includes individual, partnership, corporation, and association.

(f) The term "hazardous article" means any article or mixture of articles which is (1)-toxic, (ii) corrosive, (iii) an irritant, (iv) flammable, (v) radioactive, or which (vi) generates pressure through decomposi tion, heat or other means, and which, when used and handled in any customary inaner

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with a special price support to cover this production. Under this plan, cotton for the world market would be grown on additional acreage, with or without a specific allotment, depending on existing conditions as to the amount of surplus cotton on hand. Because it included these sound, basic features, last year I spcke in favor of and supported the Russell amendment to the 1956 agriculture bill.

With the passing of time, the necessity for a new approach to the problem becomes clearer and clearer. In considering and working on this problem over a period of many months, I have prepared a bill, and I present it to the Senate for consideration. Mr. President, I introduce, for appropriate reference, a bill which has the following as its main features, all directed to meeting the pressing problems confronting the American cotton farmer:

First. Provision is made for a national acreage allotment equal to the acres required to supply estimated domestic consumption, plus estimated production for exports, which for 1958 would be approximately 20 to 21 million acres. This acreage would be allotted to the States, counties, and farms on the basis of the present formula, with a domestic allotment and an export allotment for each farm. A price support of 95 percent of parity would be given on cotton produced under the domestic allotment, and a price support of 75 percent of parity on that produced under the export allotment. A Government loan would be available at 75 percent of parity, and cotton producers would receive an adjustment payment on the domestic allotment equal to the difference between 75 percent and 95 percent of parity.

Second. The bill further provides that the farmers shall vote whether they prefer to operate under the present flexible support system or under this combination domestic export allotment plan.

Third. The bill provides that any unused part of the soil bank funds for 1958 shall be used to meet a portion of the cost of this domestic export allotment plan.

Fourth. Special consideration is also given to our small farmers with an allotment of five acres or less by providing a support price of 95 percent of parity for all cotton produced on such acreage.

The estimated cost of this program to the Federal Government for the first 2 years will be less than one-half of the cost of the present program.

Mr. President, I believe the foregoing program is a sound approach toward meeting the primary problems of giving better protection for farm income, restoring stability and confidence to the cotton economy, and objectively meeting competition. Certainly, we do not have an adequate program now. This critical problem should be fully studied by the Committees on Agriculture in both the House and Senate, as well as by all interested parties with the purpose of developing a sound, long-range cotton program. I hope this bill and the points I have raised here will stimulate constructive thinking on this highly important subject. I believe these major considerations will prove to be the founda

tion for sound, constructive legislation on the subject.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the bill be printed in the REC

ORD.

The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. THURMOND in the chair). The bill will be received and appropriately referred, and, without objection, the bill will be printed in the RECORD.

The bill (S. 1924) to establish the level of price support for the 1958 and subsequent crops of upland cotton, and for other purposes, introduced by Mr. STENNIS, was received, read twice by its title, referred to the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, and ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows:

Be it enacted, etc., That, subject to the provisions of section 2 of this Act, beginning with the 1958 crop production adjustment and price support programs for upland cotton shall be carried out by the Secretary of Agriculture in accordance with provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended, and the Soil Bank Act except that

(1) The national marketing quota shall be a number of bales equal to the estimated domestic consumption plus exports of cotton for the marketing year beginning in the calendar year in which such quota is proclaimed. The percentage of the national marketing quota for domestic consumption shall be determined by dividing the total of such estimates of domestic consumption and exports into the estimate of domestic consumption, and the percentage of the national marketing quota for exports shall be determined by dividing the total of such estimates of domestic consumption and exports into the estimate of exports. The percentages so determined shall be referred to herein as the "domestic percentage" and the "export percentage":

(2) The domestic percentage and the export percentage shall be applied to each farm acreage allotment established pursuant to section 344 of the Agricultural Adjustment

Act of 1938, as amended, to obtain the farm domestic allotment and the farm export allotment;

(3) The level of price support to cooperators for any crop of upland cotton for which producers have not disapproved marketing quotas shall be 75 percent of the parity price for upland cotton as of June 1 of the calendar year in which such crop is produced;

(4) The Secretary shall make equalization payments to cooperators on the farm normal yield multiplied by the farm domestic allotment (or, in the case of a farm having a farm cotton acreage allotment of five acres or less, by the farm cotton acreage allotment). Such payments shall be at a rate equal to the amount by which 93 percent of the parity price for upland cotton as of June 1 of the calendar year in which the crop is produced exceeds (A) the average farm market price for upland cotton for the first three months of the marketing year, or (B) 75 percent of such parity price, whichever is larger; and

(5) Funds available for cotton payments under the Soil Bank Act which are not required for such payments shall be used to make the equalization payments provided for in this section, and, insofar as such funds are Insuficient for such equalization payments, the Secretary is authorized to use funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation for making equalization payments.

SEC. 2. The foregoing provisions of this Act shall become effective only if a majority of those voting in a referendum, which shall be held by the Secretary not later than December 15, 1957, of farmers engaged in

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the production of the 1957 crop of cotton, vote to approve the program set forth in such provisions.

Sec. 3. Section 303 of the Agricultural Act of 1956 is amended by changing the first sentence of subsection (e) to read as follows: "The amendments made by this section shall be effective with respect to the 1957 and succeeding crops."

SEC. 4. Section 377 of the Agricultural AdJustinent Act of 1938, As amended, is amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 377. In any case in which, during any year for which acreage planted to such commodity on any farm is less than the acreage allotment for such farm, the entire acreage allotment for such farm shall be considered for purposes of future State, county, and farm acreage allotments to have been planted to such commodity in such year, but only if the owner or operator of such farm notifies the county committee prior to the thirtieth day following the beginning of the marketing year for such commodity of his desire to preserve such allotment. This section shall not be applicable in any case in which the amount of the commodity required to be stored to postpone or avoid payment of penalty has been reduced because the allotment was not fully planted. Nothing herein shall be construed to permit the allotment to any other farm of the acreage with respect to which notice is given under this section."

AMENDMENT OF PUBLIC-ASSISTANCE PROVISIONS OF SOCIAL SECURITY ACT-ADDITIONAL CO

SPONSOR OF BILL

Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr. President, on April 4, 1957, the Senator from Minnesota Mr. HUMPHREY), for himself and the Senator from Rhode Island [Mr. PASTORE), introduced the bill (S. 1793) to amend the public-assistance provisions of the Social Security Act to eliminate certain inequities and restrictions and permit a more effective distribution of Federal funds. The bill remained on the desk until the close of business on April 15, and several additional cosponsors added their names. The name of the junior Senator from Oregon (Mr. NEUBERGER] should have been added to the list of cosponsors, but was inadvertently omitted.

The Senator from Minnesota [Mr. HUMPHREY] is absent today on official business, but as the sponsor of S. 1793, he has asked me to make the cosponsorship of this bill by the Senator from Oregon [Mr. NEUEERGER] a matter of record. At such time as the bill is reprinted, the name of the Senator from Oregon should appear an additional co

sponsor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

AMENDMENT OF FEDERAL FOOD, DRUG, AND COSMETIC ACT, RELATING TO THE PROHIBITION OF CHEMICAL ADDITIVES IN FOOD ADDITIONAL COSPONSOR OF BILL Under authority of the order of the Senate of April 16, 1957, the name of Mr. SPARKMAN Was added as an additional cosponsor of the bill (S. 1895) to protect the public health by amending the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit the use in food of chemical additives which have not been adequately

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to show cause upon witnesses found in their territory.

2. Prohibitions by certain foreign countries of interviews with or interrogations of prospective witnesses.

3. Prohibitions and limitations by many countries on the taking of depositions under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 15.

5. Difficulty or impossibility of proving foreign public records under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 27 and section 1741 of the Judicial Code.

6. Dificulty or impossibility of proving foreign records under sections 3431-3494 of the Criminal Code.

Practice can be simplified, expedited, and rendered more certain and less expensive by treaty or other arrangement. Much of Latin-America and Europe is covered by a network of procedural treaties, Great Britain has entered into a number of such agreements. This demonstrates that the common-law and the civil-law systems can be coordinated procedurally. An excellent start in drafting has already been made by the Harvard Research in International Law which in 1939 published a Draft Convention on Judicial Assistance. The Inter-American Juridical Committée of the Organization of American States in September 1952, rendered a report on judicial assistance in civil matters. Considerable improvement in practice can probably be effected by informal agreement, or the development of greater uniformity of law in the various countries.

Responsibility for reform must be assumed by the Federal Governinent because there is little or nothing the individual States can do to improve their international juridical rela

tions.

Reform of International procedure has teen urged by many interested organizations. In 1950, the American Bar Association reccnicended the establishment of a govern mental agency for that purpose. Again, In 1953, the association adopted a resolution favoring the establishment of a commission and advisory committee to draft international rules of practice. Joining the American Er Association with resolutions urging reform of international practice are the American Society of International Law, the American Foreign Law Association, the ConCutler Low Society, the Maritime Law AstoCation, the Association of the Bar of the Cry f New York, and the Pennsylvania St e Bar Association. In the International feld, the International Bar Association and the Inter-American Bar Association Lave recommended the negotiation of procedural

treaties.

The proposed legislation would combine the techniques of democratle draftsmanchip by the joint effort of the bench, bar, and 1 factities that proved successful in recent Federal procedural reforms, with certain of the techniques of interdepartimental cooperation utilized in the drafting of trenties for the alleviation of internation double texation.

Effective and uniform reform of interna tional procedures can be brought about only by general international agreement. Any such agreement would set up rules of practice which, in litigation in the Federal courts, would supplement the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. The organization contemplated by the proposed legislation has therefore been modeled upon the two Supreme Court advisory committees, which, in turn, were established upon the precedent of the American Law Institute.

The requested legislation will not of itself effect any particular reform or change of procedure; it will merely create an agency for the study of existing problems of international judicial assistance. The proposed commission and advisory committee will be authorized to explore, report upon, and make recommendations for the Improvement of all aspects of international judicial or quastjudicial practice and procedure. The con.mission will itself determine, within broad limits of the subject of judicial assistance, the precise scope and content of its program; and its recommendations, accompanied by draft treaties or other proposed procedures, model conventions, or draft statutes, will be forwarded to the President for appropriate action.

AMENDMENT OF FEDERAL FOOD, DRUG, AND COSMETIC ACT, RELATING TO THE PROHIBITION OF CHEMICAL ADDITIVES IN FOOD Mr. HILL. Mr. President, cn behalf of myself, and the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. SMITH), I introduce, for appropriate reference, a bill to protect the public health by amending the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit the use in food of chemical additives which have not been adequately tested to establish their safety. I ask unanimous consent that the bill lie on the table until the close of business on Thursday next, in order that other Senators, if they so desire, may have the opportunity to become cosponsors.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The bill will be received and appropriately referred; and, without objection, the bill will lie on the table, as requested by the Senator from Alabama.

QUANTITATIVE RESTRICTIONS ON IMPORTATION OF IRON AND STEEL WOOD SCREWS

Mr. DIRKSEN. Mr. President, I introduce, for appropriate reference, a bill to resulate the foreign commerce of the United States by establishing quantitative restrictions on the importation of iron and steel wood screws.

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The bill

The PRESIDING OFFICER. will be received and appropriately referred.

REGULATIONS OF INTERSTATE DISTRIBUTION AND SALE OF CERTAIN HAZARDOUS ARTICLES

Mr. BUSH. Mr. President, I introduce, for appropriate reference, a bill to 1egulate the interstate distribution and sale of hazardous articles in packages suitable for or intended for household use.

There is increasing concern on the part of the public, members of the medi. cal profession and responsible manufacturers because of the many substances in household use which are potentially hazardous to life and health. There have been distressing cases of death or injury of young children resulting from misuse of such products.

and health. I ask unanimous consent that the bill be printed in the RECORD following my remarks.

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The bill will be received and appropriately referred; and, without objection, the bill will be printed in the RECORD.

Be it enacted, etc.

CHAPTER 1-SHORT TITLE SECTION 1. This act may be cited as the "Federal Hazardous Articles Act."

CHAPTER II-DEFINITIONS

SEC. 201. For the purposes of this act— (a) The termin "Territory" means auy Territory or possession of the United States, including the District of Columbia and excluding the Canal Zone.

(b) The term "interstate commerce" means (1) commerce between any State or Territory and any place outside thereof, and (2) commerce within the District of Columbia or within any other Territory not organized with a legislative body.

(d) The term "Secretary" means the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare.

(e) The term "person" includes individual, partner.hip, corporation, and associa

tion.

(1) The term "hazardous article" means any article or mixture of articles which is (1)-toxic, (il) corrosive, (11) an irricant, (iv) fanmable, (v) radioactive, or which (1) generates pressure through decompost. tion, heat or other means, and which, when used and handled in any customary inarier

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