The Savannah morning news., 1901-02-17
CLEOMARGERINE BILL
TILLMAN AND PROCTOR TALK OF
DARYING.
NO ACTION TAKEN ON BILL.
DEMOCRATS TOOK 1T UP TO
sHELVE sHIP-sUBsIDY.

Much miscellaneous Business Dis
posed of - senate Passed Nearly
800 bills, Including 1917 Private
Pension BiIIs-WidOus of Gen. Du-
Barry, Admiral Crosby, Col. Ids
cum, Admiral Pickering and Gen.
PenrOse to Get $50 n Month Each.
Washington, Feb. 16.-At the conclusion
of the morning hour in the Senate to-
day when the unfinished business-the
shipping bnl-was laid before the body
Mr.. Spooner of Wisconsin moved to pro-
ceed to the consideration OF the oleomar-
garine bill. BY practically unanimous
vote-only two senators voting in the neg
ative-the motion prevailed. Thus the
subsidy bill was displaced as the unfin-
ished business. and the oleomargarine bill
was placed in that order. After little over
an hours consideration of that measure
II was laid aside in order that uuobjected
bills on the calendar might be considered.
Nearly 300 bills, including 1917 private pen
sion bills. were passed during the day.
In the absence of Mr. Frye. president
pro tenn. who is confined at his apart
ments by illness. Mr.. Perkins of Cali
forhia, occupied the chair at the opening
of to-day's session.
Mr.. Jones of Arkansas. offered reso-
luton discharging the Committee on the
Judiciary from the consideration Of the
so-called antitrust bill, and providing
that 1t should be considered by the SEN
ate. Tho resolution went over until Mon
day.
On motion OF Mr. Allison the Senate
decided to consider until ocock unob-
jected bills on tho calendar. Under that
order the following bills were passed.
Authorizing the Carolina Northern Rail
ROAD Company to construct bridge across
! the Lumber river at Lumbertou, Robson
county, North Carolina; to amend tho
acts for the protection of birds, and the
preservation OF game and fish, and for the
prevention Of their sale during certain
closed seasons IN the District of Columbia:
permitting the transportation by steam
vessels of gasoline and other products or
petroleum, when carried by automobiles;
providing that 1t shall he a mlsdemeauor
for 4 civilian to refuse to appear and tes-
tify before military court-martial.
AT o'clock the ship-subsidy bill, as the
unfinished business, was laid before the
Senate. Instantly Mr.. Spooner of Wis
consin demanded recognition and moved
| that the Senate proceed to the consider
alton Of what is known as the oleomar-
| garlne bill The motion was agreed to.
| - TO 2, Senators Chiffon of Texas and
| Vest OF Missouri casting the only votes
! in the negative.
| Mr.. Halle of Maine appealed to Mr..
| Proctor "in view of the almost unanimous
vote" by which the oleomargarine bill
was taken up to permit vote to be TAX
en- upon the measure Immediately.
I - lN...H-
! feet at once. Mr.. Berry gaining fecogni
tion said
'T want to say TO the senator from
Maine that the almost unanimous vote
to take up the bill was not because the
| Senate is unanimously In favor OF it. hnt
it was in order to get rid OF, set aside
and give black eye TO the ship-subsidy
bill"
| joint resolution ratifying an agree-
ment between Tennessee and Virginia
| to the boundary between the two states
was passed.
Mr.. Proctor Of Vermont. chairman of
the Committee on Agriculture, from
which the oleomargarine bill was report
| ed, made sta tement as TO the bill
The discussion took a rather humorous
| turn when Mr. Proctor and Mr. Tillman
! began comparing their respective expert
ences I'm dairying. Mr.. Proctor said he
MIXED $50 cows and had had fifty years
| of dairy experience.
| Mr.. Tillman said he used to carry his
butter to market every Saturday, and
that he went from the dairy to the Gov
ernor's chair.
The South Carolina Senator said that
the restrictions Oh coloring should apply
to butter and oleomargarine alike, and
he caused much amusement by the We
hemence of his denunciation of 'axle
grease" and all "other decoctions, con-
coctions and deceptions put off on the
public" although he held that IL a pur-
chaser wanted "axle grease" he was en-
titled to have It. The senator spoke Of
the kind Of butter that was so strong
that a man had to put a brick in the top
Of his hat to get the taste out of the roof
of his mouth.
Without completing the bill, it was laid
aside for the purpose of taking UP unob-
Jected House bills.
Among the bills passed were the fol-
lowing:
To incorporate the National Society of
the United Daughters of 1872: to pay 5000
to the trustees of Hoston Seminary at
Newmarket, Tenn, for the occupation of
their property by United Ssates troops
during the Civil War; to pay 5000 to the
trustees of Carson-Newman College at
Messy Creek, Tenn, for damage done the
institution by United States troops during
lhe Civil War; to enable the President to
detail retired officers of the army aud
navy to assist In military instruction in
schools; authorizing the construction Of
bridge by the Mobile and West alabama
Railroad Company across the Warrior
river between the counties OF Walker and
Jefferson, Alabama authorizing the Mo-
bile and West Alabama Railroad to con-
strucs a bridge across the Tombigbee riv-
er between the counties of Marengo and
Choctaw in Alabama; authorizing the di-
rector of the census to make payments
for information foncprning pOtton
One hundred and ninety-seven private
pension bills were passed. among them be-
ing bills giving pensions Of $50 a month to
the widows of Gen. DuBary, Admiral
Crosby, Col Liscum, Admiral Pickering
and Commissary General Penrose.
At $3.50 o'clock the Senate, without fur
ther business, adjourned.