The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-01-24
THE TUB MILL
VERSUS
The ROLLER MILL
Continued from First Page.)


edge it. He thought the bill ought ia
20 TO the Committee on Agriculture
These roller mills have two spouts
nj which the flour comes o,lt-one is
fine and white, the other is coarse and
brown. They give the customer the
brown stuff and sack up the white and
send it off North and sell it. The mill
that will do that will steal, and it ought
to be run out of existence The miller
that will do that is a thief
Mr.. Julian, of Rowan: II didn't think
the gentleman knew what he was talk
ing about and that proves it. The
White flour has less nourishment in ii
than the brown flour he talks about.
a little further Oh in Mr.. Rays speech
Mr.. Holman, Of Iredcll, addressed the
chair
Mr.. Ray: Docs the gentleman wish to
ask me a question! -
Holman: No | don't want to ask
YOU any question. because you don't
know anything of what you're talking
about
Ray; Amt you the owner of roller
mill.''
Mr.. Holman made no answer to the
question.
Foushee: won't you Ito Mr.. Ray
IN committee when this matter was con
sldercd, and didn't Won vote for it?
Ray: I've stated emphatically that
made the motion to report the bill favor
ably, hut I've found out / was wrong
and I've got the bravery and the man.
hood to say so here publicly
Williams, Of Iredell: s'To show yorl
tliat the gentleman from Macon does not
know what he's talking about | want
to say that the fine white flour that
he says we ship North is not the -four
that has the most nourishment in it,
Mr.. Stevens, of Macon. said he was
the owner Of an old-fashioned burr mill,
hut he believed it only an act OF Justice
10 the roller mills of the State to pass
this bill. 1.-THE one charges one-eighth
and the other onc-sixth. Let the people
choose between them.''
Mr.. Carroll, Of Alamance, said his peo-
pie preferred to pay the roller-mill man
oile-sixth rather than give the burr mill
man one-eighth.
Mr.. Powell. of Wake. said that he was
a farmer and had had some experience
with both mills and he preferred to
pay one-siyth to the roller mill
Mr.. Council, of Watauga, Ito Mr.. Cur
tis): DO you think the same laws that
applied to the old burr mill ought 10
he made to apply to roller mills?'
Mr.. Curtis did not, but he thought
they should not be freed from all re-
straift while the tub-mill was held
down strictly under the Jaw.
Mr.. Julian. OF Rowan: ..The gentle
man from Buncombe Curtis speaks of
the farmer being gulled. I want to
say that nearly all the roller mills in
Rowan are owned by farmers, ana
they've not coslbined into trust either.
And what's more, the farmers who
take their wheat there are better salts
fed with the return they get back than
they are with what they get from the
burr mill.
Mr.. Patterson, of Caldwell, favored
the bill. He found that in his section
the farmers preferred the roller mills
and went a long way, even by the burr
mills. to get to roller mill. The roller
mill gives 3S pounds of best flour and
II pounds of ship-stuff. This leaves ten
pounds in the bushel as toll and ont of
this must come the two or three pounds
of trash and dirt.
My interest is directly on the other
side Of this question, but as matter OF
JUSTICE to the roller mills ahink the
bill ought to pass"
On the passage Of the bill on its
second reading Mr.. Hampton called for
the ayes and noes. The call was not
sustained.
The bill failed to pass.