The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-11
CHEESE AND PENSION
What the Members Of the House Pom
dered Over Yesterday.
STALE MILK AND LEAF LARD
BY the Manufacture of "FfIied
Cheese" the Legitimate Indus
try Is Injured Mccall and
the Widows of Soldiers.

Washington. April 1O.-Hainer of
Nebraska reported the fertilization ap-
preparation bill. The bill to pension
the widow of Colonel ]. Irving Gregg
failed. Grosvenor demanded the reg
ular order. and the filled cheese bill
was taken up Grosvenor addressed
the house in favor of its passage. He
described in detail the manufacture of
filled cheese from skinned milk and
leaf lard. OF all the persons who had
appeared before the ways and means
committee, he said, but one, manufac-
turer Of filled cheese, had opposed the
bill. The bill had been framed on the
lines of the oleomargarine bill, which
had become law against the most in
tense opposition, though subjected to
the severest tests of litigation. 1t had
been held to be constitutional in all
essentials. The expectation OF filled
cheese, he claimed, had practically
ruined the foreign market for genuine
American cheese. The bill did not pro-.
hibit or discourage the manufacture OF
filled cheese: 1t simply forced the man
ufacture and sale under its true colors.
rs the experience with the oleomar-
garine law not the best reason" asked
McMillin. why this effort to destroy
an industry by taxation should not be
made?"
Grosvenor denied that the bill pro-
posed to destroy the industry.
Regulations in the bill. he said. would
compel the sale OF filled cheese under
it's true name.
McMillin. democrat. Tennessee. a
member Of the ways and means COM
mittee, made the principal argument
against the bill. He argued that there
was no reason why the manufacturers
of filled cheese should be taxed while
the manufacturers Of other forms of
cheese were not taxed and that to re-
sort to the power of taxation for the
suppression Of its production or sale
was an abuse of that power.
Tawney. republican. Minnesota. un-
dertook to show the injury done to the
legitimate cheese industry by the man
ufacture of filed cheese by citing the
fact that in 1890 there were 100 cheese
factories in his state producing 10000. 900
pounds of cheese. Last year there were
but "a factories, the production of
which was less than a million pounds.
In 1885 our expectation OF cheese was
lis, 900. 900 pounds and Canada exported
but 40.000.OO0. Last year. as a result
OF the expectation OF bogus cheese. our
expectations had fallen to 6i.000.000
pounds while Canada's expectations
had increased to 146,OO0,0O0 pounds.
Dolliver republican. Iowa. closed the
debate. He supported the bill. IL would
tend TO bring revenue into the treasury
and the bill would furnish an appro-
pirate legal protection against the adul-
teration of food. Butter had been pro-
tected. why should not cheese be?
Pending the reading OF the bill for de-
bate, the committee arose. After the
transaction of some minor business, the
house. at 5 p. m. took a recess until
s o'clock, the evening session to be for
the consideration of private pension
bills.
AT the night session an attack was
made on the pension committee for
recommending larger pensions than the
law allowed to the widows of officers.
Talbert democrat, South Carolina; Ba-
ker. republican. New Hampshire; Hem
mlngway. republican. Indiana, and Nc
Call, republican. Tennessee, all pro-
tested against this course. The latter
declared that he was willing TO attend
Friday night sessions IL their object
was the relief of the poor soldiers who
fought In the trenches; but IL their pur-
pose was to vote large pensions to Off
GERS widows, he would not be present
Pickler, chairman of the committee, de-
Tended the course of the committee. es-
pecially in the case of the widow of
Gen. Abner Doubleday I'm which the
committee recommended 800 per
month because of the especial circum-
stances surrounding the case. Mrs.
Doubleday. ne stated. had been con-
stantly at her husbands side during the
rebellion and had endured the actual
hardships OF campaigning. IL was not
acted upon, however, before the hour
of adjournment was reached.
Among the bills favorably acted upon
was one 10 pension Josephine Foote
Fairfax, the widow of the late Rear
Admiral Fairfax, at the rate OF $50 per
month.