St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-04-11
TOOK UP THE HOUSE DAY.
THE BILL WILL BE READ THIS
MORNING TO ALLOW AMEND
MENTS.
SAILING NOT SMOOTH FOR 1T.
1t Is Possible That the Bill VIII Not
Be Passed Until After Radical
Amendment.
Special to the Globe.


filled cheese" played the most important
parts in the session of the house TODAY
Nearly the entire day was given over to gen.
eral debate on the measure which was pre-
pared by Mr.. Tawney and reported favorably
from the ways and means committee, after a
long consideration. The debate was in COM
mittee of the whole with the understanding
that general discussion was to close this
afternoon, and that the bill should be read
tomorrow, under the fiye-minute rule. for
amendments. During the course of the debate
Mr.. Tawney spoke on the bill he prepared and
MS ADDRESS was the principal one, in support
OF the measure. He spoke of the cheese in
dustry in Minnesota, and showed how the
manufacture of the imitation product has re-
suited adversely to the prosperity of the
manufacturers, and quoted figures to show
the decrease in the size of the output since
the number of filled cheese manufacturers had
been augmented. In support of the bill, to
show the injury done to the legitimate cheese
industry by the manufacture of filled cheese
he cited the fact that, in 1890, there were 40
cheese factories in his state producing 10 000
00o pounds of cheese. Last year there were
but thirty-four factories, the production of
which was less than LOCO 900 pounds. In 1885,
the expectation of cheese was 11S 600. 900
pounds, and Canada exported but 40 600, 900
pounds. Last year, as a result of the exporta-
tion OF bogus cheese, exports had fallen to
olUoo'Ooo pounds, while Canada's expectations
had increased to $4,000, 600 pounds
strong opposition to the measure has de-
Veloped, and some of the members interested
IN It's passage fear it will fail, unless radf-
cally amended. The principal objection seems
TO be raised to the tax features of the bill s4OO
on the manufacturer and $40 on the retailer
while there appears general unanimity in
favor of bill to prevent the false branding
OF hlled cheese. Those who spoke in favor
OF the bill today were Messrs. Grosvenor
tfep, Ohio), Tawney (Rep., MIMI, Sauer-
herlng tRep. Wis.,, Barney Rep, Wis.,. and
Dolliver (Rep., Iowa.. Those in opposition
were Messrs. otey Oem., Va.), McMillin
(Dem., TENN, Tracey Rep. Mo- Brumm
(Rep., Pa), Evans (Rep., Ky.), Linney Rep..
n. CD Shaw Oem., N. c., Clardy Dem,
ky.), and Underwood Dem, Ala.).
After some routine business had been
transacted by the house, Mr.. Grosvenor de-
manded the regular order in the interest of
the IaWney bill and then urged it in
strong speech. Only one person, he said.
who had been before the committee had on
posed the bill and he was manufacturer
ON the lines of the oeomargarine bill which
had become law against the most intense
opposition, and though subjected to the Sc
Verest tests OF litigation had been held to be
constitutional in all essentials. The commit
tee, therefore had held to the legal pathway
blazed by that bill.
In reply to question, Mr.. Grosvenor said
that despite the taxation and penalties in
the oleomargarine law the manufacturers had
making
before the ways and means committee he
said had demonstrated that the law was vio-
lated a thousand times day in the city of
washington. Mr.. Grosvenor denied that the
bill proposed to destroy the industry. The
regulations in the bill he said would compel
the sale Of filled cheese under it's true name
and regulate all traffic in the article
Mr.. Otey Oem. Va.) opened the debate in
opposition to the BILL which he said should
be entitled, bill to manufacture crime
Mr. McMillin Oem., TENN, a member of
the ways and means committee, made the
principal argument against the bill. He ar
gued that there was no reason why the man.
ufacturers of filled cheese should be taxed,
while the manufacturers of other forms of
cheese were not taxed, and that resort to
the power Of taxation for the suppression
OF its production or sale was an abuse of
the power.
Mr.. Dolliver Rep, TO- closed the debate.
Filled cheese a commercial fraud He
approved this bill in the interest of the
boarding house victims who ate cheese to
digest their pie, and were then forced to eat
another piece of pie to digest the cheese
Q.aughter.). Butter had been protected, why
should not cheese be? He admitted that lin
burger cheese, not domesticated in the state
Of his friend Mr.. Sauerherring, was Endorsed
by nature with the means of protecting it
self. Oaughter.).
IF every man on this floor" he concluded,
"who has ever worked the lever of an old
fashioned churn, will vote for this BILL we
will drive out Of the barn yard the coun-
terfeiters and cheats and keep them out till
the cows come home.'
Pending the reading Of the bill for amend
ment, the committee rose. After the trans
action of some minor business, the house
took recess until o'clock, the evening ses-
sion to be for the consideration of private
pension bills.