The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-08
a TO DRIVE OUT OLEoMARGA ARINE
COLORED TO INITIATE
BUTTER
TAX PUT 1T 10 CENTS / POUIb
WHILE UNC0LoRED OLEo IS AS
sEsSED BUT oNE-FOURTH
OF A CENT
kWAs SUPPORTED BY TAwNEY
Member From the First District of
Minnesota Among Those
in Favor of the
Fill.

HiI.
WASHINGTON, Dec The house to-
day passed the Grout oleomaredrine bill
by vote of 1876 to 90. The substitute Of
fered by the minority of the committee
on agriculture which imposed additional
restrictions on the sale Of oleonargarine
= 10 prevent its fraudulent sale as butter
game increased the penalties for violators,
was defeated by vote of l13 to lis. The
bill as passed makes all articles known
as oleomargarine, butterine imitation
butter or imitation cheese transported
into any state OF territory for consumr-
ton or sale subject to the police power
h0f such state or territory, but prevents
any state or territory from forbiddillg
the transportation or sale Of such product
when produced and sold free from color
alton in imitation Of butter. The bill in,
creases the tax on 0leOmargarine colored
in imitation of butter from to 10 cents
per pound, and decreases the tax on oleo-
margarine uncolored from 2 cents to a
of a cent per pound.
A long and interesting debate preceded
the vote, in the course of which those
who favored TIE Grout bill claimed the
additional tax on colored oleonlargarine
was the only effective remedy for pre-
venting fraud upon the public while
those who opposed it co9tended that
fraud would he prevented by the sub sti-
tute and that the real purpose of the
Grout bill was TO destroy the oecmargar-
Inc industry. Those who participated in
debate were Messrs. Henry Rep..
Comm: Grout (Rep., Vt); Lamb Dem.
Na), Davidson (Rep., Wis.), and
Tawney (Rep., Mimi, in favor of the
BILL and Mess rs Wa6sWorth (Rep. n
~, Lormer Rep., HT), Bailey (Rep.
kan), Grosvenor (Rep., o., Williams
(DeTn, Miss), Foster Dem, HI and
BAILEY (Dem., TeXD, against it.
Nj. Payne, chairman of the ways and
means committee, gave notice at the
close of the session that he would call
up the war revenue reduction act after
the disposal OF the legislative appropria-
tion bill next week, probably On Tues
day.
BILL AGAINST POLYGAMY.
Representative Taylor, Of Ohio, who
las prominently identified in the move
ment To exclude Brigham Roberts. of
Utah, from a seat in congress, today in
produced q, measure intended to brin3
about federal prohibition of polygamy
1t proposes a constitutional amendment
for uniform laws on marriage and di.
Vorce. Mr.. Taylor says however, that
his aim goes consider ably beyond a mere
uniformity of such laws. and is expressly
designed tc reach polygamy and put al
end to it,
WATERWAYS REPORT.
The complete report of the deep water.
Ways commission was sent to the house
of representatives today by Secretary
Root. The project before the commission
IS cne Of vast magnitude, for a deep
waterway and routes between the Great
Lakes and Atlantic tidewater The es.
umated cost OF a 2l-foot waterway is
given at $206 25S, ,000 and of a 3O-foot
waterway at ST., ,zS4, $50. An additional
estimate is made for deepening the har.
bors at Chicago and Duluth, making the
total aggregate for the S0-foot channel
sS5Zz.S32 QUO. The cost OF annual main
tainence Of the El-foot waterway is gwen
at 2,243,4!S, and Of the So foct waterway.
$2,S90 90S
The most favorable route the com-
mission states for a 30-foot waterway
from the lakes TO the sea is from Lake
Erie to Lake Ontario. via La Sale and
Lewiston and from Lake Ontario to the
Hudson river via CSWego and the Mo-
hawk valley and that the same route is
practically as favorable as any for the
2l-foot wterway.
1t also is pointed out by the commits
sion that this route is entirely in our own
country
WEST POINT MILITARY ACADEMY.
The military academy appropriation bill
will be taken Up by the house on mill
tary affairs next Tuesday. AT that time
also ii is expected the resolution aslxire
the secretary Of war to investigate the
alleged hazing of Cadet Booze at West
FONT, will be favorably reported as
chairman Hull says the secretary Of war
p obably has instituted an inquiry on his
own account ana there is no objection to
expressing the wish of the house that the
inquiry shall be made
PROTEST AGAINST WILCOX.
Representative MondeI, of Wyoming.
has received 4 petition from A n Re
polka and A b. Lowensteine, of Hawaii.
stating that the election of the Hawaiian
delegate, Wilcox, was irregular. They
ask that a hearing be given for the con-
Bideration of the points they make
againts his admission
TO NAME HER DUBUQUE
: The entire Iowa delegation in congress.
Including Speaker Henderson, today unit
ed in petition to the secretary of the
navy to name one of the new gunboats
the Dubuque
IMMIGRATION FIGURES.
The annual report of the commissioner
general of immigration shows that dur
ms the last fiscal year the total number
of immigrants who arrived in this coun-
try was 44S,572 of which 23,200 came
through Canada Of the whole number
5O4,I4o were male and 144, ,424 females
This is a net increase over 1889 of I96. .S57
These figures, however, the commissioner
general says don't show the total num-
Der OF alien arrivals, as G., ,635 came as
passengers. They would have swelIed
the total immigration to 514,207 had thew
travelled in the steerage.
The figures show that of the whole,
number of arrivals 424 700 came from Eu-
-0pean countries, II, ,946 from Asia, 30 from
Africa, and 5,S96 from all ether places.
Switzerland and Spain and the Spanish
islands show a small decrease in jmmi-
grafton, while Austria Hungary shows
an increase of 80 per cent; the Russian
umpire and Finland, 40 per cent Increase.
Italy 29 per cent increase, and Japan.
$40 pei. cent increase. The total arrivals
from Japan, however, amounted to onlv
S,791.
The recommendation made in the re-
ports of the last two years is urgently
repeated, that physicians representing
the government be stationed at the ports
of embarkation for the purpose Of ex-
Rmining into the physical condition of
aliens who are about to embark for the
United States, and it is recommended
that the bead tax upon aliens be increas-
to not less than 81 per capita.