there is any combination between the representatives of these Governments with a view of depressing the price of American-grown tobacco. It is believed that such a report will result in relieving the American tobacco grower, by the ascertainment of all the facts relative to the purchase of American tobacco by foreign Governments. This bill was indorsed by a mass meeting of tobacco growers of the State of Virginia, which assembled in Lynchburg, Va., on the 27th of December, 1911.

REPLICATION OF HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TO ANSWER OF JUDGE ARCHBALD.

JULY 31, 1912.-Ordered to be printed.

Mr. CLAYTON (on behalf of the managers of the impeachment of Robert W. Archbald) reported the following replication to the answer of the respondent.

Replication of the House of Representatives of the United States of America to the answer of Robert W. Archbald, additional circuit judge of the United States from the third judicial circuit and designated a judge of the United States Commerce Court, to the articles of impeachment exhibited against him by the House of Representatives of the United States of America.

The House of Representatives of the United States of America, having considered the several answers of Robert W. Archbald, additional circuit judge of the United States from the third judicial circuit and designated a judge of the United States Commerce Court, to the several articles of impeachment against him by them exhibited in the name of themselves and of all the people of the United States, and reserving to themselves all advantages of exception to the insufficiency, irrevelancy, and impertinency of his answer to each and all of the several articles of impeachment so exhibited against the said Robert W. Archbald, judge as aforesaid, do say:

(1) That the said articles do severally set forth impeachable offenses, high crimes, and misdemeanors as defined in the Constitution of the United States, and that the same are proper to be answered unto by the said Robert W. Archbald, judge as aforesaid, and sufficient to be entertained and adjudicated by the Senate sitting as a Court of Impeachment.

(2) That the said House of Representatives of the United States of America do deny each and every averment in said several answers, or either of them, which denies or traverses the acts, intents, crimes, or misdemeanors charged against the said Robert W. Archbald in said articles of impeachment, or either of them, and for replication to said answers do say that said Robert W. Archbald, additional circuit judge of the United States from the third judicial circuit and designated a judge of the United States Commerce Court, is guilty of the misbehaviors, high crimes, and misdemeanors charged in said articles, and that the House of Representatives are ready to prove the same.

STANDARD BARREL FOR DRY COMMODITIES.

AUGUST 1, 1912.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.

Mr. ASHBROOK, from the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, submitted the following

REPORT.

[To accompany H. R. 23113.]

The Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, to which was referred House bill 23113, to fix a standard barrel for fruits and vegetables, after thorough investigation, discussion, and extended hearings, report the same to the House with the recommendation that the title of said bill be amended to read as follows: "A bill to fix the standard barrel for fruits, vegetables, and other dry commodities"; and that said bill do pass with the following amendment:

Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert in lieu thereof the following:

That the standard barrel for fruits, vegetables, and other dry commodities shall be of the following dimensions when measured without distention of its parts: Diameter of head inside of staves, seventeen and one-eighth inches; distance between heads, inside measurement, twenty-six inches; the outside bilge or circumference shall not be less than sixty-four inches; and the thickness of staves not greater than four-tenths of an inch: Provided, That any barrel of a different form having the same distance between heads and a capacity of seven thousand and fifty-six cubic inches shall be a standard barrel.

SEC. 2. That it shall be unlawful to sell, offer or expose for sale in any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, or to ship from any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, or to a foreign country, a barrel containing fruits or vegetables or any dry commodity of less capacity than the standard barrel defined in the first section of this act or subdivision thereof known as the half barrel; and any person guilty of a violation of any of the provisions of this act shall be liable to a penalty of one dollar and costs for each barrel so unlawfully sold or offered for sale or shipped, as the case may be, to be recovered at the suit of the United States in any court of the United States having jurisdiction: Provided, however, That no barrel shall be deemed below standard within the meaning of this act when shipped to any foreign country and constructed according to the specifications or directions of the foreign purchaser, if not constructed in conflict with the laws of the foreign country to which the same is intended to be shipped.

SEC. 3. Reasonable variations shall be permitted, and tolerances shall be established by rules and regulations made by the Director of the Bureau of Standards and approved by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor. Prosecutions for offenses under this act may be begun upon complaint of local sealers of weights and measures, or other officers of the several States and Territories appointed to enforce the laws of the

said States or Territories, respectively, relating to weights and measures: Provided, however, That nothing in this act shall apply to barrels used in packing or shipping cranberries, or commodities sold exclusively by weight.

SEC. 4. That this act shall be in force and effect from and after the first day of July, nineteen hundred and thirteen.

This bill establishes a standard barrel for interstate and foreign commerce, and for intrastate traffic as well.

The dimensions specified are those now established by law in many States, and are in customary and general use throughout the country.

Provision is made that barrels used in packing or shipping cranberries may be of another size, because it has been demonstrated that these berries can not be packed without damage in the standard barrel. Exception is also made of those commodities which are sold exclusively by weight rather than measure.

This bill has been advocated by various associations engaged in the fruit and produce business of the country, and is approved by the weights and measures officials of the various States and by the Federal Bureau of Standards.