The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-08-21
THE BUTTERINE LAW,

| Chicago Manufacturers Hold a Confer
ence on the Subject with the Revenue
Collector, and Receive Some Instruc
tions.
CHICAGO, Aug. 1.-Representatlve O
the firms of Armour & Co., Stern q Davis,
Roos, Henshaw e. Co., Garden City Dairy
Company, Hickson e. Friedman Braun &
Fills, William j. Monkey, and Swift e. Co..
held conference with Internal-Revenue
Collector Stone Tuesday in regard to the
oleomargarine law. Letters were handed
in from j. j. Murray & Co., A. e. Moulcv,
George W. Clarke & Co., C. II. Robinson &
q Co., Fairbank Canning Company, and
Herter d Co.
| The law requires a tax of 5000 and q
special tax OF two cents pound from the
manufacturer, $3.50 from the wholesaler.
and SIS from the retailer. The collector
explained how the stamps must be placed
upon the wooden packages similar to those
on tobacco pals, and that the stamps
must be Cancelled and the bucket not used
twice. Each manufactures was asked to
make report to the collector of the capac
ity OF his works and the present produc-
ton.
number OF manufacturers thought the
law too exacting, and calculated to i'm.
pose undue burdens. The greatest obiec
ton was made to the tax of SIS imposed
on the retailer. Several manufacturers
said they would have preferred to paw
81, 600 and relieve the retailer. Objection
was also made to the restriction of pack
ing in wooden buckets only, and Collector
Stone agreed to submit this question to
the department. The manufacturers want
to pack in stone vessels as well as wooden
ones
CHICAGO, Aug. 12.-The butterine manu-
facturers OF Chicago held another meeting
at the Revenue Collectors office yesterday
and discussed the new law by sections.
The department will be asked to con-
strue the law so that the retailer
can pay his tax of SIS in quarterly in
stallments, and an easy system of pay
ment will also be asked for the wholesaler.
The manufacturers strongly object to the
section requiring that wooden pals must
be used. They will ask to be allowed to
continue to use earthen and tin vessels.
claiming that wooden vessels would not
be sale to ship the product long distances
or to mountainous sections or abroad.
One section OF the law requires a retail
dealer to sell the product from the original
package, which shall contain not less than
ten pounds. The manufacturers want to be
allowed toput packages OF less than ten
pounds and have the retailer authorized
to sell an original package up as high as ten
pounds The manufacturers aver that the
section requiring the retailer to put the
product he sells in wooden or paper pack |
ages and branded entails hardship and
they want him to be allowed to put the
butterine in any dish or vessel brought by |
the purchaser, by putting paper aroundit. |
New YORK, Aug. 12.-The board of di-
rectors OF the American Agricultural and |
Dairy Association met here Tuesday to |
wind up the recent campaign against oeo-
margarine, which eliminated in the pass
age OF what is known as the Oleomargarine
BILL President j. II. Real reported the
ex penses OF the campaign as $1,000 and
the receipts as $500. Resolutions were
passed commenting the supporters in
Congress OF the Oleomargarine bill as wise
and patriotic men. The time and place of
the next national convention was fixed for
September IA and 49, 1856, at Phila.
lelphia.