The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-07-19
0LE0MARGARINE BILL.
IT CAUSES CONSIDERABLE DEBATE
M THE SENATE.
A Motion to Refer 1t to the Committee
on Finance Defeated-The Four Princi-
pal Points in the New Extradition
Treaty-Capital News Notes.

on Finance Defeated-The Four Princi-
pal Points in the New Extradition
Treaty-CapitaI News Notes.
WASHINGTON CITY, July 70. After vot
ing down every attempt to amend the com.
merce committees amendment of the river
and harbor bill Friday, the senate passed
the bill as amended by the committee, re-
ducing each sum appropriated 25 per cent.
by vote of yeas 81; nays, II. The yeas
were: Allison, Beck, Blair, Conger, Cullom,
Dawes Edmunds, Evarts Frye, German,
gray Hale, Harrison, Hawley, Hoar, In.
gals, Jones of Nevada, kenna, Mcmillan,
Malone, Miller, Payne, Piatt, Ransom,
Salisbury, Sherman, Spooner, Stanford,
Teller Wilson of Iowa, Wilson of Maryland
81. The senate then passed the naval ap-
preparation bill and adjourned
Saturday Dawes submitted report on
the president ; message Vetoirg the bill Civ
ing the right of way through the Indian
reservation in northern Montana, recon-
mending the passage of the bill notwitil-
standing the presidents objections He
stated that the report was unanimous, and
that he would take an early decision to cali
it up for action. Miller called up the cleo
margarine bill-the house bill defining
butter and regulating the manufacture,
sale Importation and expectation of oleo-
margarine reported by the committee on
agriculture without amendment The bill
was read in full The question whether the
bill should be now considered was decided
i'll the afhrmative-yeas rs, nays las fol
lows:
Neas-Alison, Blair, Cockrell, Congor,
Cullom, Dawes, Edmunds, Evarts, Frye,
German, Hale, Harr ison. Hawley, Hcar,
kenna, Logan, Mcmillan, Mahcne Miller,
Padine, Flatt, Plumb Sherman, Spooner,
Stanford, Teller, Van Wyck, Wilson O.
Iowa >.
Nsys-Beck, Berry, Brown, Coke, Gray,
Harris Jones Of Arkansas, Marcy, Pugh,
Vance, Walthall, Whtthorne, and Wilson
of Mary land-l&
BECK moved 10 refer the bill to the com-
mttee on finance. lie sand il was tax
bill, hey ond all controversy and should, un-
der the rules OF the senate, be considered
by the committee on finance 10 not only
dealt with internal taxation: but il changed
the tariff laws There was no report from
the committee on agriculture; but the mag
nitude of the bill was set forth in a report
by its friends in the other house. In this
report it was stated that about 200. 0OJ 900
pounds of spurious and imitation compounds
we're manufactured annually. Tbs amount
II taxed as proposed would produce rev
nue. OF $1,000. o0V; or If the quantity I'M
ported was large possibly $lj,ojo,0O0
There was already surplus of S.F, 00O, 0lO
and here was proposition that would add
SlO,oouod0 or S-0,O,0,0oO more to that sur.
plus and yet, without any report, 1t was
proposed to pass this bill, while it was APP
parent that every additional dollar OF taxa.
ton imposed was only adding that mucr
more not only to the burdens of the tax
payers but to the embarrassment of the
treasury. ! nder that condition of things
the finance commute which had to dea
with inteTuGl and tariff taxes should con,
! slider tie measure. and il bis measure wa:
re acted it would show an intention to push
the hi!l through against all precedent Mr..
Miller opposed tha motion 10 refer, contend.
ing that the result Of ST. b reference would
nc to buy the bill and carry it over for
this session
Marcy advocated the motion to refer on
the ground that it was tax bill and there
fore tha committee ON agriculture had moth
inI to do with it. A demand for such a taN
lad never come from the people, but had
come from rival industries. Ii oleomar.
gerIne was unwholesOme its manufacture
should be prohibited whenever Congress had
the power 10 prohibit it. but if wholesome,
there was no more reason for taxing it than
there was for butter, cheese, meat and any
other article of food
After further debate, the motion to refer
the bill to the committee on finance was re-
Jected-yeas Il, nays %
At the night session Of the house Friday
only one pension bill was passed
In the house, Saturday, Zach Taylor of
tennessee, from committee on expenditures
in the treasury department, reported a reso-
luton eNpunging from The Record the resc
luton purpprtinS to have been reported
from that committee in reference TO charges
against t. j, Lancaster: referred Holman
of Indiana, from the conference commute,
| ON the legislative bin, reported a disagree
ment The house conferees represented that
the senate would not yield upon the amend
ment making appropriations for senators
/ priv ate clerks. Oates of Alabama moved that
the house reccdc from its disagreement t,
the amendment The motion was lost am
further conference ordered.
A number of committee reports WEIR
| submitted, after which the house proceeded
| to consider the fortilication appropiatio,
| bill