The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-17
CIRCUIT OLE0 BILL TAKEN UP
PITCHFORK TILLNIAN HAS HIS SAY
ANENT "AXLE GREASE" AND
THINGS
HOUSE TALKED WHOLE DAY
Discussed the Sundry Civil ApprO-
I pTiRtiOn BIN, the Net Result of
Days Work Being Prac-
ticalIy Nothing.

N<AoAtl4N11 1O1N, req. 1o.-1n the alb
sence of Me Frye, president pro tenn.
who is confined to his apartments by ill
ness Mr.. Perkins (CaL) occupied the
chair at the opening of today's session
of the senate.
Mr.. Jones (Arl) offered a resolution
diseharsing the committee on Judiciary
from the consideration of the so-called
antitrust bill and providing that it
Should be considered by the senate. The
resolution went over until Monday.
On motion of Mr.. Allison the senate
decided to consider until | o'clock un-
objected bills on the calendar
Under that order the following bills
We're passed; Referring to the court OF
claims the claim of William e Wood
bridge for compensation for use bv the
United States, Of his invention reiatfne
70 prOlectles: authorizing the Carolina
northern Railroad company to construct
pfldgc across the Lumber river ST
Lumberton, Robson county. North caro-
ma; permitting the transportation bv
steam vessels of gasoline and other pro-
oHctS OF petroleum when carried by
motor vehicles, known as automobiles
when used as source of motive mower
providing that it shall be misdemeanor
LOT civilian to refuse to appear and tes-
tlIy before military courtrnart ial .
authorizing the board of supervisors of
Flma county, Arizona, to issue fiftv-vear
per cent bonds Of Pima county. Arizona
TO redeem certain bonded Indebtedness
not exceeding $147 600, but to include ONLY
legal bonded Indebtedness
SUBSIDY BILL DISPLACED.
At 1 o'clock the ship subsidy bill as
the unfinished business was laid before
the senate. Mr.. Spooner CWis0 demand.
Ell recognition, and moved that the sen.
tn hn
is known as the oleomargarine bill. The
motlon was agreed to- As to 2, Senators
Chiffon CTeX) and Vest (Io) casting +he
only votes in the negative.
MI Hale Gie) appealed to Mr.. Proc
tor in view Of the almost unanimous
vote by which the Oleomargarine bin
was taken up, to permit a vote to be
taken up on the measure Immediately.
Half dozen Democrats We're on thei,.
ieet at once. Mr.. Berry gaining recog-
milton, said
! want to say to the senator from
Name, that the almost unanimous vote
to take up the bill was not because the
senate is unanimously in favor of it; but
IT was in order to get rid of. set aside
and give black eye to the ship subsidy
bill"
Not that they love Caesar less sug-
gested Mr.. Hale, smilingly, but they
love Rome more" Naughter)
ment between Tennessee and Virginia as
TO the boundary between the two states
was passed.
CIRCUIT BILL UP.
Mr.. Proctor CVt.). chairman Of the com
mittee on agriculture. from which the
oleomargarine bill was reported made a
statement as to the bill. He was of opin-
lon that the enactment of the bill would
puC the oIeomargarine business upon a
SOUND and honest basis and in the end
the oIeomargarine manufacturers would
be the better for the change.
us the object of this b1ll?" inouire1
Mr.. Vest (Mo), Ito collect revenue. or is
intended to discourage the manufactures
of oleomargarne?"
Ihe measure shows on its face" re.
phed Mr.. Proctor, that the measure ,s
partly for the collection Of revenue and
partly for the protection of the honest
butter production"
l want to know" inquired Mr.. Stew
art, If the principal object of this bill
is not to raise the price of dairy butter
ara thus impose upon the common peo-
ple?" P00-
II Think responded Mr.. Proctor. thai
u VIII have very slight effect in thar
direction"
he discussion took a rather humorous
turn when Mr.. Proctor and Mr.. Tnlman
Logan comparing their respective expa-
riences in dairying. Mr. Proctor said he
milked. $50 cows and had had 80 years
Of daily experience
DAIRY11AN TILI4MAN.
Mr.. Tillman sad he usal to carry his
tutter to market every Saturday. and
he went from the airy to the governor
CHAIR. The South Carolina senator de-
cared that the restrictions or colorine
should apply to butter and olecmargariae
alike. and he caused much amusement
by the vehemence of his lenunciation OF
axle grease" and all other 6ecoctious
and contraptions put off on the people
although he held that if a purchaser
wanted axle grease he was entitled to
have it.
Without completing the bill il was LAID
aside for the purpose of taking up un-
objected house bills.
Among the bills passed we're the fol-
lowing: To incorporate the National So
clety of Daughters of 1872; providing fol
the sale of certain lands of the Medawa-
kanton band Of Sioux Indians in Redwood
county, Mimi, ana the purchase of other
lands; to pay $4,000 to the trustees OF
Holston seminary at Newmarket Tenn
fol the occupation of their property by
Union troops during the Civil war: tc
pay $4,000 to the trustees of Carson New
man college at Messy Greek, Tenn. fol
damages done the institution by United
CldlSS lIOOpS uuIlAS the civil war, tC
enable the president to detail retired of.
flcers of the army and navy to assist IL
military instruction in schools; authoriz
ing the construction of a bridge across
Little river at the mouth of Big Lake
Ark, amending the statutes relating tt
the inspectors Of hulls and boilers; au
thorizing the construction of a bridge
by the Mobile & West Alabama Railroad
company, across the Warrior river be
tween the counties of Walker and Jeffer
son, Ala; authorizing the Mobile 6
West Alabama railroad to construct
. bridge across the Tombigbee river be
tween the counties Of Marengo an(
Choctaw in Alabama; authorizing the di
rector of the census to make payment.
for information concerning cotton gins
authorizing the Portland. Nehalem &
Tillamook Railway company to construc
bridge across Nehalem bay and river IL
Oregon.
One hundred and ninety-seven private
pension bills were passed, among then
being bills giving pensions of $50
month to the widows of Gen Du Barry
Admiral Crosby, Col Liscum, Admira