The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-03-03

Advocating the Passage of the
Staples "RenOvated Butter" Bill
Now Hung Up, as Is limited, to
Await an Amendment by Senator
Potter (Rep0, of Hennepin.
Few bills that are pending in the
present legislature are fraught with
more far-reaching influences than
house file 297, the renovated butter
bill, introduced by Mr.. Staples Rep.),
Of Dakota.
With the public at large this re-
noVated butter is new thing and COM
paratively unfamiliar.
In the development of the butter in
dustry, some economic genius discover
ed that rancid" butter could be re
toned,' so to speak.
After considerable experimentation,
he started factory for the manufac-
ture of process butter,'' as he called
it. Here came various samples Of poor
or bad butter, which was melted and
the Oil drawn off The residue was
then churned with skim milk, and by
the addition of little glucose the ex-
perimenter found that he was not only
able to simulate the grain of the true
DutlGI, Dul OlSSu lS6O the TdnClOlCy OF
the defective dairy product.
The butter has been placed On sale,
it is charged, as creamery butter, the
result being that in many cases the
innocent purchaser, detecting the bad
taste, has been shaken in his confidence
in creamery butterto the consequent
impairment of the market for such
brands of goods as have made Mime
sofa famous in the last few years.
&C. l.; l.; -
the making of this process butter,'
but insists that it be marked in every
case, renovated butter
The bill is as follows:
For an act to prevent fraud in the branding
and sale Of process and renovated butter Be
Minnesota.
Section No. 1. No person, firm corporation,
agent or emrloye, shall manufacture, sell,
offer or expose for SALE in This state any
butter that is produced by taking original
packing stock butter or other butter, or both,
and melting the same so that the butter fat
can be drawn off, or extracted, then mixing
the said butter fat with skinned milk, or
milk, or cream, or other milk product and re-
churning or reworking the said mixture, or
that produced by. any process that is com
monty known as boiled, process or renovated
butter, unless the same is branded or marked
as provided in section 2 of this act
Sec. 2 No person, firm, corporation, agent
or employee, shall sell, offer expose for sale
or deliver to purchaser any boiled process OF
renovated butter defined in section / of
this act unless the words renovated butter
shall be plainly branded with Gothic bold
faced letters at least three-fourths of an inch
in length, on the top and sides of each tub,
or box, pail, or other kind Of a case or
package, or on the wrapper of prints or rolls
posed for sale uncovered, or not in a case or
package, a placard containing the label so
printed shall be attached to the mass of but
ter, in such manner as to easily be seen and
read by the purchaser.
The branding or marking of all packages
shall be in the English language and in a
conspicuous place so as to be easily seen and
read by the purchaser
Sec. 8. The state dairy and food commits
sioner, and his assistants, experts, and chem
lists, by him appointed, shall be charged with
the proper enforcement of all the provisions
of this act. When complaint is made by the
said dairy and food commissioner, his assist
ants, employees, and chemists. or by any
other person authorized by the said dairy and
food commissioner. security for costs shall
not be required Of the complainant in any
case at any stage of the prosecution or trial.
provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty
of misdemeapof, and shall for each offense,
upon conviction thereof be subject to fine
of not less than twenty-five (25, dollars, nor
more than fifty (50) dollars and costs or by
Imprisonment not to exceed two (2) months.
Sec. 5. In all prosecutions under this
act the costs shall be paid in the manner now
provided by law, and the fines resulting there
from shall be paid into the state treasury and
placed to the credit of the state dairy and
food commissioners fund for its use
Sec. 6. The said commissioner and the
assistants, experts, chemists, and agents he
shall duly authorize for the purpose shall
have access and ingress to all places of bust
ness, factories. stores and buildings used for
the manufacture or sale of butter They also
shall have power and authority to open any
tub, box, pail other kind of case or pack
age containing any butter that may be manu-
featured, sold or exposed for sale in violation
of the provisions of this act
Sec. T. This action shall take effect
and be in force from and after its passage
At present the bill is hung up in the
senate committee on public health.
dairy and food. One Of the members
of this committee is Senator E. G. Pot
ter, of Minneapolis, who sells butter
and eggs himself and who, it is said,
will endeavor to have the bill so
amended that the marking on the
package will be process butter" rath-
er than renovated butter
That Is just what the promoters of
the bill do not want. They say that
there is nothing more invidious in say
ing process butter than in saying
butter" because all kinds of butter
are the results of some kind of process
Joseph G. Moody, of the Minnesota
Butter and Cheese company, is taking
an active interest in the bill row pend
ing. To a G O b e reporter yesterday
he said:
III. this bill does not pass, 1T will
put the state of Minnesota, as far as
her creamery interests are concerned,