The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-07-22
THE SENATE AND HOUSE.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWO HOUSES
OF THE LEGISLATURE.

Bills introduced and Passed in the Senate.
Considering the Oleomargarine Bill In
senate-Night Sessions of the House to
Be Held Hereafter Until Adjourned.
WASHINGTON, July 20-Mr. Whitthorne
introduced bill to return the tax on cotton,
which was collected by the United States in
1885, 1857 and 1888, to be used by the states
from which it was collected, for educational
purposes. Calendar.
Bill were passed giving consent of congress
10 the construction Of bridge over Memo
minee river, Michigan; and across the Ten
nessee and Cumberland rivers.
Mr.. Logan called up the house bill for the
enlistment and pay of general service clerks
and general service messengers in the army,
not to exceed 148. Passed with amendments.
Mr.. Balm offered an amendment to the
house joint resolution for the use of the sur
plus revenue in payment Of the public debt.
The amendment provides that before the
payment of any sort of such surplus there
shall be reserved and set apart $40 900, 900, to
be known as the common school fund, to be
paid out as provided in his educational bill.
Ordered printed
The senate then took up the oleomargarine
bill, and Vance proceeded to argue against it.
He characterized it as the most vicious Of
all tn legislation ever attempted i'll the sem
ate, most outrageously violative of the con-
stitution and Of individual and personal
rights. 1t was literally "protection gone to
Beed."
1t reminded him Of what naturalist once
told him when, as governor of North Caro-
lima, he had favored the introduction Of
black bass The naturalist told him that
black bass introduced into pond would do
stroy every other fish. GAN the better" he
had said But that was not all. He was told
after they had cleaned out every other fish
and frog and tadpole, they turned on one am
other and ate each other up. So this doc
trine of protection was the black bass Of
American politics. 1t began on this article
ana sssss,. article, so as to excite foreign COM
petition. The bill would result not i'll Dar-
wins doctrine of the survival Of the unfittest,
because any business that came to congress
and invoked the arm of the law to keep it
alive at the expense of other business was un-
fit to live, and thus it was that
Projections battle once begun,
Bequcataed by bowling sire t. on,
Only could be fought and won
BY TeN.ns wiry son of gun.
He thought beefsteak needed protection as
well as butter, and intimated tat the sup
porters Of the bill were influenced by political
considt ration. that butter, like conscience,
made "cow herds of them all [Great
laughterl
Mr.. Butler offered amendment extending
the principle of the bill to wines and liquors,
which Mr. Miller moved to lay on the table,
remar!;ing that he lad learned from the COM
mittee on appropriation that if the bill were
out of the way appropriation bills might all
be disposed OF, and congress adjourn next
week. To avoid cutting off debate, however,
Mr.. Miller consented to withdraw his motion,
and Mr. Gray addressed the senate in opposi-
tion to the bill.
He thought oleomargarine should be sold
for what it is, under its true name, but
thought that congress could only compel this
distinction in tine territories.
Mr.. Harris also opposed the bill, saying
that the only power which congress had to
pass the bill was its power to levy taxes for
revenue He had offered an amendment
making it unlawful TO sell oleomargarine
within the District of Columbia Or the terri
tories, unless it was distinctly marked as
SUCH Further than this congress cannot do.
Mr. Iarris' amendment was rejected, yeas
/, nays 81.
Mr.. Beck argued that if the bill were to
be passed, it would be but right and logical
to engraft it on the bill offered by Mr.. But
Ter.
He maintained that the posti n Of the SEN
tor from New York in regard to this oil was
just the same as he occupied year or two
ago when he tried to have the white wine vim
egar factories taxed or suppressed in the in
terest of the cider vinegar factories Of New
York The arguments which Mr. Miller had
then made for the apple growers were the
same as he made now for the dairymen. He,
Mr. Beck, quoted from the arguments of
Senators Sherman, Hawley, Ingalls,, and
Hale, in opposition to that bill, 10 show that
the same reason applied to the pending
measure. Kentucky, Mr. Beck continued,
made as good butter as New York made, but
no Kentucky farmer or dairyman asked to
be protected against anybody who manufac-
tured what anybody else wanted This bill
was protection run mad