The morning times., 1896-05-24
FILLED CHEESE IS PURE
Argument Against Taxing a le-
ultimate Article of Food.
AFTER SKIM MILK PRODUCT
Article Made From This Is Fraudu-
Iently Sold In All the Markets of
the Country as Full Cream Cheese.
Should Be Placed Under Provisions
of Measure Before the Senate

One Of the important me asures yet to be
disposed of by the Senate is the filled
cheese bill. tits on the calendar, but there is
a question whether it will be brought UP or
not this session.
The measure passed the House monthago
and was reported from the Senate Com
mittee oa Finance week or mere ago
1t would have bee takenup before This were
it not for the fact that big fight is prom
ised. 1t is more than likely that it will
be the struggle OF the session.
The opponents Of the filled cheese bill are
! not opposed to all its measures. They agree
with man OF them, but they want some Of
the provisions changed. They are very
open In aging what the want andde sire the
purchasers or this cheese and OF all cheese,
for that, TO receive the fullest protection
The Iilled cheese manufacturers and deal
ers are honest in their endeavor to treat
the people honestly and simply want pro-
lection.
The bill as 1t has passed the House and is
now before the Senate, imposes burden
some tax on the manufacturers and the re-
tailers. The measure was modelled after
the oeomargarine bili and the same tax
l. imposed S4OO on the manufacturer, $3.50
on the wholesaler, and SIC on the retailer,
With the oicomargarine product this tax,
while large, has not destroyed the oleOnar-
garine business. SO many people want IL
and prefer it to butter that the dealers are
still able TO pay the tax, and make some
money But such will not be the case with
| filled cheese. The proportion of cheese
sold as compared with the amount OF butter
used, is too small TO permit OF such tax, and
at the same time a profit.
EFFECT OF THE BILL.
So the opponents OF the measure now be-
fore the Senate claim that 1T will simply
Kill one of the growing industries OF the
country. IT is small industry, ma king not
q twenty-fifth part or the cheese mace in
| this country, but il is legitimate and has a
right 10 live. Filled cheese is just as much
product OF the COW, they claim, as full
cream cheese and the farmers have right
| to the benefit which this use OF their
milk gives 10 them.
The opponents of the bill find no objection
| TO the provision which requires filled cheese
| to be marked on the box M on the pack
age. Toey hold that the purchaser has a
| right 10 know what he is buying and they
are perfectly willing that This proviso should
| be enacted into law. In fact they are will
ing that any other safeguards which Con-
| gress may see fit 10 adopt, shall be added,
and they Will offer no objections to them.
| They Will aid all tl:ey can.
| But while Congress is so much interested
| in the purity OF the cheese sold TO the peo-
| pie, the filled cheese men insist that it
protect them all along the line, and to Sc
| cure this end they. will ask when the bill
comes up in the Senate that il be amended
| with this end in view. They go farther in
! their efforts TO deal fairly with the pur-
| chaser than did the House, and if there is
| the least chance to have this legislation
for the people passed. il will be done.
In the market today there are three kinds
of cheese sold. One is known as fulLcreaIn
cheese. 1t is made or the milk without
eliminating anything whatever from it.
| When milk is so used and is turned into
cheese with nothing eliminated from it the
article is the full-eream cheese.
The second is an article manufactured and
and known as skinned cheese This cheese
is made from milk from which a part of
the butter fat has been extracted. 10 the
manufacture of this article the same iugredi-
ents are used a s in the manufacture or the
full-cream cheese, but not such quantityo Of
them. Yet this article is put on the market
and sold as fullCream cheese
THE THIRD CLASS.