Quote – E.D. Crumpacker (R-IN). Testimony, House Committee on Agriculture.

We have no authority until the meat becomes commerce. You see we have a right to control commerce, but not manufacture. I have the belief that it would be better if the Federal Government had general power to enact police powers for the protection of the people against impure and unwholesome foods, if it could stop with that…There is not one single thing in the Federal Constitution that expressly confers upon Congress any police power whatever, and by police power I mean the power to enact laws for the preservation of the public health, the public morals, and the public peace.

E.D. Crumpacker (R-IN). From the hearing before the House Committee on Agriculture.

Wednesday, June 6, 1906
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