The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-07-20
OLE0MARGARINE BILL
ooNsIpERnp pY TnE sHN AWE.
Senator vqnss Makes u FacOtIOu1 Effort
Ingalls, and Miller In n More Serious Vein
Indulge In Personalities and UsO Very
Bitter Lauguage-A Mad Senator,

| ~ Temlnubu nlm ol MHhL uAtuIhllht
told him once when, as Governor Of North
Carolina, he had favored the introduction
OF black bass, The naturalist told him
that black bass introduced into pond
would destroy every other fish, IAN the
bettsr,n he said. But that was not all-he
was told that after they had cleaned out
every other fish, frog and tadpole, they
turned on one another and ate each other
| up, So this doctrine OF protection was
the black bass OF American politics. 1t be,
gan on this article and that article so as to
exclude foreign competition. The bill
would result, not in DArwins doctrine OF
the survival Of the tittest, because any bus.
iness that came to Congress and invoked
the arm OF the law to keep II alive at the
expense OF other business WAS not tit to
live, and thus 1t was that
"ProtectiOn's b'ttle once begun
BeQueRtIed by howl ny sire 10 son,
Only could bG fought aud won
Dy taxing every sou Of gut"
He thought bsefsteak needed protection
az we'll as butter, and intimsted that the
supporters OF the bill were influenced by
political considerations; that butter, like
conscience, made "cowherdsa oil them all.
Great laughter Thenecessity ot"grease"
to carry the State Of New York two years
hence was what effected them.
Mr.. Butler offered an amendment ex.
tending the principle Of the bill to wines
and liquors, which Mr.. Miller moved TO
lay on the table, remarking that he had
learned from the Committee on Appropr,-
atIons that II this bill were out OF the way
the appropriation bills might all be dis.
posed OF and Congress adjourn next week,
To avoid cutting off debate, however, Mr.
Miller consented 10 withdraw his motion
and Mr.. Gray addressed the Senate In OPP
position to the bill. HI thought oleo.
margarine should be sold for what 1t is
under its true name, but thought that
Congress could only compel this distinC.
ton in the Territories.
Mr.. Harris also opposed the bill, saying
that the only power which Congress had
to pass the bill was It's power to levy taxeB
for revenue. He had offered an amend
ment making II unlawful to sell oleomar.
garine In the District Of Columbia or the
Territories unless It was distinctly marked
Us such. Further than this Congress
could not go.
Mr.. Harris amendment was rejected
yeas IS, nays SO.
CoLoRINd MATTER IN BUTTER.
Mr.. Butler said that this bill was the
most Hagrant and unblushing in It's viola
tons OF the Constitution oi any ever intro.
duced In Congress. He asked II the arti-
fetal coloring Of butter was not fraudulent.
Mr.. Ingalls, In calculating that question
produced vial OF coloring matter and
commented upon the circular accompany
ing 1t. The preparation, he said, "pre-
tended" to be manufactured at Burling-
ton, VT. TA laugh at tho expense OF Mr..
Edmunds. This vial, he said, was war.
rsnted by the firm which put 1t up, "per-
iected butter color"-at Burlington, VT,
l-ior dairy purposes, to color twelve
pounds Of winter butter. It had been
pretended, he said, that the dairymen oi
Vermont and elsewhere We're engaged in
their buColic honesty and simplicity IN q
struggle with the efforts Of the manufac'
turers OF oleomargarine. One sentence in
the circular recommended the coloring
matter as giving butter "liut like the
highest grade Of Jersey butter and no ex.
pert can detect IT," He almost hesitsted
10 read the last paragraph. Several sena'
Itors-"Let us have IT," 1t was-"We
warrant It to add at least fye cents per
pound to tha value Of white butter
lfLaughter1 and return dollar for every
cent it costs.
Mr.. Miller knew nothing about this col:
oring matter. When the distinguished
Senator, Mr.. Ingalls,, was going over ita
wonderful qualities, he was carried back
to his boyhood days when on general
training" days he used 70 sec man stand
Ing on wagon auctioning bis bogus goods
or bogus jewelry, or offered 70 the, people
some "ellxir Of life" Whether the Sen.
ator had ever had any experience ol that
kind he [Mr. Millerl did not know. But
the Senator had shown a great aptness for
liz II the Senator failed In his present
calling he could certainly succeed In that
kind Of work. 1t had always been known
that coloring matter was used In butter
lust as salt was, and nobody ever regarded
| Il az fraud. The Senator from Kansas
usually came 10 the Capitol with flaming
red neuktie. Why not wear one oil the
natural color Of the Gocoon3 ReCause the
Senator admired some other color, and
that was trne OF butter as everything else.
INGALLS, GROWS WRoTltY.
Mr.. Ingalls, said the Senator from New
York had seen ct in his reply to descend
into the arena OF personalities. His humor
was very much like the attempt Of a hip
popotamus to dance on the slack rope,
IfLaughter The Senator had seen Ct to
refer to his Mr.. Ingalls] youthful avoca'
ton, and 10 present tho speCtacl % oil q coun.
try peddler dealing In bogus jewelry and
olIriB. To that ho Mr.. Ingalls, had this
remark 10 make, that whatever he might
have done he never stood before the Sen.
ate advocating measure 10 which he had
The strongest personal interest, as the Son
ator from New York had done. That
Senator was In the dairy business
lie owned dairy farm and a herd oi
dairy cattle. Putting its production on
the market as the product oi Oak Hill OF
IOAk Leaf creamery, and he used the
whole power OF his official station "a
Senator and 40 chairman Of committee
10 vet the measure away from the com.
mittee To which II belonged and referred
to his own committee, and he stood on
tho floor Of tho Senate advocating a
measure to increase directly the profits Of
hiB own product
After Mr.. InEalS had delivered this
sentence with great emphasis and effect,
be paused for several seconds amid the
most profound silence.
A more shameful spectacle had never
been presented to the American people
than bad been presented In regard 10 this
measure. In the other House II had been
under tho lpAdeFphip oil the Chairman OF A
committee who wS himself In the dairy
buBlnets, and IN this body that gentle.
man was reinforced by the Chairman ui
tho COMMITTEES on Agriculture tMr, Nil.
lef1 who was engaged Ia tho same busI.
ness, aud who was TO profit by the legiBla-
MI. Miller, apparently laborlns under
great excitement, rose 70 reply. He denied