New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-11-05
TRUE TO DAIRY INTERESTS.
CONGRESSMAN PARKER DEFINES THE RE-
PUBLICAN POSITION.
DIsGRAcEFUL ATTEMPTS TO DECEIVE DA1RYMEN
HOW oLEoMARGARrNE LEGISLATION HAS
BEEN FosTERED BY REPUBLICANS IN
CoNGREss-EFroRTs OF HARRI-
SON AND MILLER
SON AND MlLLEk
Tsthe Editor OF The 1rfbune.

TstheEditor OF Then tribune.
SIR have been advised for some days OF the receipt
at OF country post offices Of malbags filed
with material that did not appear to be distributed
On the first and second days Of November there ap
peared in different towns simultaneously through the
post Offices, great numbers of a paper called The
American Daryman7 bearing The date OF October IS.
1883 In some OF our dairy towns 1t appears TO be
distributed though from polllst. The paper con-
talns an article OF nearly six columns. intended by
Misrepresentation and fslsehood 10 prejudice the
dairymen in Mr. Cleveland's favor and against the
Republicans, and seeking in a visnous manner to
make Democratic votes by its treatment of the legsla
ton of the XLIXth Congress In relation to the protec
ton Of dairymen and the taxing OF olcomargarine.
propose TO give the action Of the members of the
two Houses, showing the votes of the members OF
the House and Senate upon the amendments and the
passage Of this law The facts tell their own story
and the Republicans we'll afford to rest their
upon the record, It has become . matter of his
tory.
The Oleomargarine law passed by the xLIxth
Congress, during the first session. In the House
Committee Of Agriculture II was opposed by three
Democrats and was supported by six Democrats and
six Republicans On June 3, 1886. the tax stood in
the bill at cents per pound The motion to reduce
this tax to cents carried, 153 members voting
in favor OF such reduction. OF these, 48 were Re
pubicans and l05 were Democrats On the same day
the bin passed by the House, ayes, 1T, nays,
l0l. The ayes were Republicans, 105 Democrats,
70; total, IL. The nays wer: Republicans. Is;
Democrats, So total, 1ol.
Roger @ Mills sought to attach amendment TO
destroy the bill, and, falling in that, he and Nc
Mn, the two Breckinridees, Wilson and Turner, six
of the eight Democrats who reported the Mills bill,
voted against the passage Of the oeomargarine BILL
Thus much as TO the action in the House.
In the Senate the measure went to the Committee
Agriculture and Forestry OF which Senator Miller,
our candidate for Governor. was chairman. Senators
Blair. Plumb, Van Wyck and sawyer were his Re-
publican associates There were four Democrats upon
this committee The action Of this committee is Sig
nlfcant and indicates that II IL had been In Demo
cratic control the act instead Of giving
It's protection To the country would now sleep the
sleep Of death in the pigeon holes Of Senate COM
mittee room. Four Of the Republican members of
this committee supported the act, and the other
Van Wycb was absent. OF the Democratic men,
bers Of the committee two were absent or silent and
the two who acted voted against the measure. There
fore it Is proved that Democrat on the committee
aided the bin and they were opposed TO t.
On July 90, a motion made 10 the Senate
10 reduce the from five to two cents per pound.
The motion was carried by vote OF 80 for and IS
against it.. In favor OF this motion there were
Democrats, "a Republicans, 8. Against It were
Democrats .; Republicans, 90. Among the noes,
and against reducing the tax, AZ Is shown By the
Record, stands the OF our candidate for Presi-
dent, ex-senator Benjamin Harrison, Of Indiana.
on the same day the act was passed by the senate.
Sixtyone Of the seventysx Senators present and
voted. The final vote stood follows: Ayes
Republicans 80; Democrats, 8 total 81. Noes
Republican, Qilddleberger Democrats, 90; total, "a.
Thus It IS proved beyond argument that but for
the gallant leadership OF senstor Miller, and the
hnchng support OF his Republican associates, this
law would have been destroyed By the Democrats
Of the Senate and this act at the very crisis OF It's
fate, received the support and vote OF senator Ben
jamin Harrison
II IS therefore. proved that. far as this Oeomar
garlne legislation has party bearing or partisan sup
port the Democrats opposed the law and theRepub-
lcans created II.
Kentucky, introduced a bin to reduce the tax upon
retailers. On February . 1857, Mr.. ONen DEM
from Missouri. introduced into the House bill III.
It. II 1861 To reduce the retail license charged TO
veDders under the Olcomargarlne law. In the Lth
Congress Mr. LAWYER DEM. from Illinois. has
times sought 10 attack the law, strike of ts
tax and weaken rs efficiency, and has based his ac
ton upon the Presidents Tariff message, LAWYER
asserting that the surplus should be reduced, the
tax should be stricken frUm oleomargarine.
Benjamin Harrison In bis letter Of acceptance says:
The Inspection and regulation Of the manufacture
and sale OF Oleomargarine Is important, and the
revenue derived from IL IS not great that the re-
peal OF the law need enter into any plan of revenue
reduction
While Republican members Of Congress have never
sought TO make party capital out OF their plainly
advantageous position In this oleomar gaTine egtsia-
ton, they cannot remain silent and permit the bold
and INSCRIPTIONS fraud sought to be perpetrated upon
the voters Of the dairy districts al the threshold OF
the election TO pass without the condemnation which
lis rascalty deserves. A. " FARMER
Potsdam n. y, Nov. 3, 1883