The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-20

the circular recommended the coloring matter
as giving butter a tint like the highest grade of
Jersey butter, and no expert can detect" He
almost hesitated TO read the last paragraph.
LSeverai Senators. Let US have it'll It was:
I'VE warrant it to add at least five cents per
pound to the value OF white butter tlaughterl
and return dollar for every cent it costs.
Mr. Miller knew nothing about this coloring
matter When the distinguished Senator Mir.
lngallsl was going over it's wonderful qualities
ne wascarried back to his boyhood days when,
on general training days. he used to see man
standing on wagon auctioning his bogus goods
or bogus Jewelry, offered to the people some
elixir of life" Whether the Senator had ever
had any experience of that kind he Mr.. Milerl
did not know, but the Senator had shown asgreat
aptness for it. If the Senator failed in his pres
ent calling he could certainly succeed In that
KIND or work. 1t had always been known that
coloring matter was used in butter, just as salt
was, and nobody ever regarded 1T as fraud.
Inc Senator from KANSAS usually came to the
Capltol with flaming red necktie Why not
wear one of the natural color OF the cocoons
because the Senator admired some other color.
And that was true of butter everything else
senator ingalls, said that the Senator from
New fork had seen fit, in his reply. to descend
into the arena of personalities. His humor was
very much like the attempt of hippo
pptamus to dance on the slack rope.
mt to refer to his Mr. Ingallssl
youthful vocation. and to present the spectacle
of country peddler dealing IN bogus jewery
and elixirs. TO that he Mr.. Ingalsl had this
remark to make-that whatever he might have
done, he had never stood before the Senate ad-
vocatlng measure in which he had the strongest
personal interest, as the Senator from New York
had done. That Senator was in the dairy bust
ness; he owned dairy farm and herd OF dairy
cattle, putting its produce on the market as the
product of Oakhil or Oakeaf creamery, and he
used the whole power of his official station as
Senator and as chairman of committee to get
the measure away from the committee to which
it belonged and referred to his own committee,
and ne stood on the floor of the Senate day after
day advocating measure which was to increase
directly the profits of his own product. After
Mr. ingalls, had delivered this sentence with
great emphasis and effect. he paused for several
seconds amidst the most profound silence
A more shameful spectacle had never been
presented to the American people than
had been presented in regard to this
measure. In the other house it had been under
the leadership of the chairman of a committee
who was himself engaged in the dairy business,
and Ia this body that gentleman was reinforced
by the chairman of the committee on agricut-
ure Mr.. Millerl, who was engaged in the same
business, and who was to profit by the legsla-
ton.
Mr. Miller, apparently laboring under great
excitement, rose to reply. He denied having re-
ferred to the Senator's Mr. IngallsI calling in
early life, and went on to say that whether this
Dill became law or not, it would not add one
farthlng to any profit which he could possibly
receive No sneers at the dairymeu of the
country, no implication that he was actuated by
base and corrupt motives, would close his
mouth He appealed from that infamous
charge to his constituents throughout all the
great rural districts of New York. He left judg-
ment of the matter to them and not to any man
on the floor of the Senate who ventured to
charge him with corruption. These were words
which the Senator or any other man would not
dare to speak to him outside of the Senate cham
Der. They might shield themselves behind the
Constitution and behind parliamentary law, but
he would go to his constituents on that base, in
famous charge, and there he would leave it.
Mr.. Butler closed the debate, and the Senate
adjourned.