Wholesale deaths due to denatured alcohol threaten to produce a storm onthe reassembly of Congress on January 3. Already one Senator has intimated his intention to introduce a bill to prohibit denaturing of industrial alcohol, Hitherto industrial' alcohol has been statutorily adulterated with two er cent, wood alcohol. This pro-Portion has been doubled by' the new Treasury formula coming into operation on January 1. Government chemists claim that the new formula is non-poisonous but Dr. Murray Butler describes the poisoning of industrial liquor as unadulaterated murder by a paternal Government, On the other hand Mr. Maynue Wheeler, general counsel {for the Anti-Saloon League, absolves the Government of responsibility. He says that such deaths are deliberate suicide.
Secretary of the Treasury Motion {to-night announced that the Government has decided to eliminate the use of certain poisonous substances} from the Government's denaturing, formula but it will adhere to the stipulation to use four per cent. wood aleohol—Reuter,
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