The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-08
a TO DRIVE OUT OLEoMARGA RINE
COLORED TO INITIATE
BUTTER
TAX PUT 1T 10 CENTS 4 POUND
WHILE UNC0LOBED CLEO IS AS
sEssED BUT ONE-FOURTH
OF 4 CENT
kHAs SUPPORTED BY TAwNEY
Member From the First District of
Minnesota Among Those
in Favor of the
IIiII.

Fill.
WASHINGTON, Dec. The house to-
day passed the GrOUt Oleomaredr bill
by a vote of 1856 to %. The substitute Of
TeTed by the minority of the committee
on agriculture which imposed additional
restrictions on the sale Of oIeomargarine
10 prevent its fraudulent sale as butter
san%. increased the penalties for Violators,
was defeated by a vote of l13 to us. 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
81 such state or territory, but prevents
any state or territory from forbiddIg
the transportation or sale Of such product
when produced and sold free from color
alton in imitation Of butter. The bin in
creases the tax on 0leOmaTgarine, colored
in imitation Of butter from 2 to 10 cents
per pound. and decreases the tax on oleo-
margarine uncoIored from . cents to a
of 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 ColUTed Ole0mar riga rine
was the only effective remedy for pre-
venting fraud upon the public while
those who opposed it cOHtended that
fraud would he prevented by the substi-
tute and that the real purpose of the
Grout bill was to destroy the oiecmargar-
inc industry. Those who participated in
debate We're Messrs. Henry (Rep..
Comm: Grout rep, VI; Lamb Dem.
Na.), Davidson CRep., Wis.,, and
Tawney (Rep., Mimi, in favor Of the
bill and Messrs. Wa6sWorth tRep.. n.
-, Lormer CRep., I'D, Bailey (Rep.
kan), GIosvenor rep, o., Williams
Dem, Miss), Foster dem. M, ana
Galley dem, Tex, against it.
Nh. 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-
ton 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 seat il congress, today in
produced a measure intended to brin9
about federal prohibition of poIygamy
it proposes 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 che Of vast magnitude for a deep
waterway and routes between the Great
Lakes and Atlantic udewater The es.
unated cost OF 3 2l-foot waterway is
given at $206, rs COO, and Of a 3O-fo0,
rre.,~yK 80
estimate is made for deepening the har.
bors at Chicago and Duluth, making the
total aggregate for the 30-fOot channel
zSS2, QUO. The cost CT annual man
flamenco Of the zl-fOQt waterway is gwen
at 2,243.4!S, and Of the S0foct waterway
$3.50 9OS.
The most favorable route. the c0rp-
mission states. for a 3O-foot waterway
from the lakes 10 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 No
hawk valley and that the same route is
practically as favorable as any for the
2-foot WteTway"
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 appropria ton hill
will be taken Ur by the house on mill
tary affairs next Tuesday At that time
ais o ii is expected the resolution as<fra
the secretary Of war to investigate the
alleged hazing of Cadet Booze at West
ONT, will be faVorably reported as
Chairman Hull SAYS the secretary Of wan
Probably has instituted an inquiry on his
own account ana there is no objection to
expressing the wish of the house that tha
inquiry shall be made
PROTEST AGAINST W.T. Gov
Representative Mondeu, Of Wyoming.
has received Il petition from A. n. Kc-
polka and 4. 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
ngaints 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 gunboat IS
the Dubuque.
IMMIGRATION FIGURES.
The annual report of the commissioner
general of immigration shows that dur
ms the last fiscal year the total number
If immigrants who arrived in this conn
try was 1882, of which 1920 came
III CuS5ll Noiletdd VI the Whole number
304,l4S We're male and 144,424 females
This is a net increase over 1899 of 136 S57
These figures, however the commissioner
general says don't show the total num-
Der Of alien arrivals, as Go, 635 came as
passengers. They would have swelled
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-
.Opean countries, ,946 from Asia, 30 from
Africa, and 1886 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 So per cent; the Russian
umpire and Finland. 40 per cent increase
Italy, % per cent increase, and Japan
$40 per cent Increase. The total arrivals
from Japan, however. amounted to only
S,79l.
The recommendation made in the re-
ports Of the last two years is urgently
repeated, that physicians representing
the government be stationed at the port,
Of embarkation for the purpose of ex.
aiming into the physical condition Of
aliens who are about to embark for thc
United States, and it is recommended
that the bead tax upon aliens be increas
10 not less than 81 per capita.