Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-07-23
OLEOMARGARINE TALK.


WASN'T GTON, July Ex-senator Harris
offered an amendment to-day making 1t
unlawful to sell oleOmargarine within the
District of Columbia or the territories,
unless it was distinctly marked as such.
The question was then taken on this
amendment and ii was rejected, yeas IS,
nays 81 Mr.. Butler addressed the SEN
ate, saving, he regarded this whole sys-
TEN of legislation, however, as unCOn-
stituuonal and vicious in the extreme.
Mr.. Miller renewed former motion to
lay Mr. Buffers amendment on the table
Agreed to yeas 81, nays III.
Mr.. Edmunds said he wished to correct
the impression some senators seemed to
have that this bill proposed to tax one IN
terest Tor the benefit of another. He did
not so understand the bill, II he did he
should be against it. He supposed that
- out OF every 100 people who ate these
oleomargarlne compounds, believed that
they were ealing butter IN the sense in
which their grandfathers aud grand
mothers and themselves, when children,
understood that term. No one was poor
enough, ignorant enough, or debaSed
enough, to like to he cheated and where
he could do anything to repiess fraud on
the poor he would do il, and would be
leve he was rendering them service.
Mr.. Vest opposed the bill at consldera-
BILE length pr0nouncing it monstrOuS
lIdul. NIL luBdllS llltttlc IL
speech, commenting particularly on a
vial containing preparation for colOrlng
butter which he said was manufactured
at Burlington, VT, accompanying cir
cular claiming for it the power of giving
butter "a tint like the highest grade of
Jersey butter which no expert can detect.
Mr., Miller seemed to regard this as {
personal attack and replied angrily
eliciting another sharp retort. An eXciteC
colloquy followed in which both speak
ers exchanged remarks of highly per
sOnal nature,
Senate Vote to Reduce the Tax on it to
Two Cents Per Pound.
WAsHINGToN, July Ex-senator Pugl
waving his notice that he would call NJ
the Payne election case, the Senate re
sumed consideration of the oleOmargarin
bill, Mr.. Brown spoke in opposition tt
the bill. Mr. Hawley spoke in support o
it, saying that the discovery of the inven
ton had been working a revolution. Tn
new product was said to be nutritious ant
nearly as good as butter. He supposed i
was harmless and in many cases nutri
tious, but the oleomargarne patents wer
not agreeable reading. The right to max
and sell oleomargarine was not doubted
but he held that people had right +
know what they were buying.
The penalty for violating the oleomar
garine law, reads as follows: Every per
son who knowingly sells oleomargarin
IN any other form than IN new wooden o
paper packages, or who packs in an
packages any oleomargarine in any man
ner contrary to law, or who falsely brand
any package or ailiXes stamp on an,
package denoting a less tax than that re
quired by law shall be fined for each OF
Tense not more than $1,000 and be impris
oned not more than two years. "
Mr.. Call supported the bill and Messrs
Evarts and ingalls, opposed it. Mr.. Ingall
prefaced his remarks by stating that h
regretted his observations (personaD @
Yesterday. He moved to reduce the ia
from five cents pound to ? cents
Agreed to, 80 to IS. He moved to inser
the word "knowingly" in connection wit
the sale of oleomargarine, Agreed t.
He moved to strike out the minimum
penalty, "less than 500" and the word
'less than six months" Adopted. Tn
amended naval appropriation bill, tht
repeating laws pertaining to public land
was adopted, 81 to "a.
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