National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-06-04

A few minutes after the beginning of yes
terday's session the House resumed the con-
sideration of the. oleomargarine bill, and Mr..
Hatch took the floor to close the debate In
support of the measure. He characterized
the consideration of the bill up to this point
as one Of the most remarkable parliament
ary contests which had taken place In the
House for many years. He defended the
committee on agriculture, contending that
1t had not exceeded its Jurisdiction In re-
porting revenue measure and attributing
much of the antagonism which It had met
to the fact that 1t had not come from the
ways and means committee. The gentlemen
who had opposed the bill had started out
with the cry Of "Fraudln There was not O
single word in the proposition that any hon
orable man could object to. 1t defined
oleomargarine and placed tax upon it;
where was the fraud? 1t was In the manu-
facture Of the article; II was In the sale Of
the article. The fraud was on the sixty
million of people who were asked to buy It
under a false and fraudulent name.
Mr.. Hatch replied TO the criticisms made
upon the bill by its opponents, described
the manufacture of oleomargarine as an in
famous and outrageous fraud from be-
ginning to the end; he had no faith In the
certificates Of physicians TO the wholesome
ness of the compound, and he asserted that
the doctor who told him that he could eat
three times day for 1856 days the uncooked
product Of oleomargarine without injurious
effect, wrote himself down either knave
or an ass.
He then criticised Mr.. Morison's antago-
nism to the bill and that gentleman's
promise to the people, that something
would be done for their benefit. The tariff
bill was hanging on the calendar somewhere
the Lord only knows where. Laughter
Why was 1t left hanging on the calendar
CO. Ia,y ,,1 o.
doubted the sincerity and courage Of the
chairman of the committee on ways
and means to do battle. Had he
lost the confidence Of his COM
mitteeP IL SO, the agricultural COM
mittee ought to be turned over to the chair
man Of the ways aud means committee and
they would bring the bill before the House.
Gentlemen talked about what they were
going to do; the farmers wanted to see
something done. Every time they came to
the House and asked for bread they were
given a stone--the cold stone Of the past.
The farmers OF the country asked for no
protection except protection from counter
Felt and fraud. Let all the agricultural in
terests OF the country stand shoulder to
shoulder. Let the wheat grower, the wool
grower, the sugar planter, and the rice
planter stand shoulder to shoulder with free
wheat, free wool, free sugar, and free rice.
Alter stormy struggle over point Of
parliamentary ruling, the House proceeded
to vote upon the amendments to the bill.
The amendment was disagreed to which
excluded from the definition Of "butter,"
the product made from milk or cream when
additional coloring matter is used.
The verbiage of the section defining
"oleomargarinen was changed so that the
latter clause of ii shall read Sand all
mixtures and compounds Of tallow, beef
fat, suet, lard, lard oil, vegetable oil, an
nato, ard other coloring matter, intestinal
fat and offal fat made III imitation, or sem
blance OF butter, or when so made, calcu-
lated, or intended to be sold as butter OF
for butter.n
The amendment requiring hotels and res.
taurants In the Distrlctof Columbia to pla-
card the use OF oleomargarine was rejected
yeas so, nays 17G.
In accordance with the agreement made
in the committee, Mr.. Hatch submitted au
MISUNDERSTANDING his opposition to 1t,
hOweyer-ilXiDg the rate of tax on oleomar.
garne at 3 cents pound. Rejected-yeas
100, nays l40.
Mr. Hatch then offered an amendment
fiX.H4the rate at 3 centJ pound. Agreed
tojbyeas 1853, nays 1872,
.uNt this point the proceedings were inter
20 opted to enable n. J.. Wallace TO take the
neeath Of Office as representative from the