The mineral water controversy : artificial or natural? : conflicting official opinions, the U.S. chemists and the Attorney-General overruled by the Secretary of the Treasury : his novel chemical theory that natural products can be manufactured : a review of the whole question on behalf of American mineral waters / by Carl H. Schultz.

  • Schultz, Carl H.
Date:
1882
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Credit: The mineral water controversy : artificial or natural? : conflicting official opinions, the U.S. chemists and the Attorney-General overruled by the Secretary of the Treasury : his novel chemical theory that natural products can be manufactured : a review of the whole question on behalf of American mineral waters / by Carl H. Schultz. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    be published in the daily papers. Consul Bullock, at Cologne, was subsequently in- structed by the State Department to examine and re- port upon the Apollinaris Spring. Though the facts stated by him show conclusively that the imported Apollinaris is an artificial water produced by ing;enious, skillful and complicated operations, strange as it may appear, he expressed the opinion that it was natural, which opinion was adopted by the Treasury Depart- ment on the 21st of February, 1879. The proprietors of the Saratoga Springs had also pro- tested and given their definition of bottled natural mineral water, which was adopted by the manufacturers of mineral waters throughout the United States, who added their protests to those already made. The matter was referred by the Treasury Department to the Smithsonian Institution, which reported in July, 1879, that the imported Apollinaris water is artificial; but it was, nevertheless, permitted to come in free of duty as a natural water. Upon the application of our counsel. Colonel George P. Webster, of New York, the Secretary of the Treasury ordered, on December 10th, 1880, another investigation. The chemists in charge of the United States Laboratory at the port of New York were directed to analyze imported Apollinaris water, as the leading water of that class. They reported it, after a very complete analysis, to be an artificial mineral water, and as their opinions are followed on all questions of a chemical nature, the Appraiser assessed it for duty which was presumably due. The Collector and the Special Agent, who had charge of the investigation, concurred in the opinion of the Appraiser. The duties were paid under protest, and the Secretary of the Treasury, before deciding on the matter, submitted it to the Attorney-G-eneral for his opinion on June 29th, 1881. The Attorney-Generars opinion, which was rendered