The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-04-01
THE ANTI-OLEO BILL
MOTH SIDES PRESENTED IN SEN
ATE YESTERDAY.
Mr.. SIMMONS MAIDEN SPEECH
WOULD DE A BLOW TO COTTON
SEED OIL INTERESTS.

Believes OIeomargarine a HeaIthfuI
and Nutritious Product-Passage Of
the Bill Would Render VaIueless
Millions --of Invested Capital.
American People Tired of Being
Humbugged in Their Food Prod
nets said MIR. Dillingham; of YER
mont, and Demand Enactment of
Pure Food LEGISLATION.
washington, March S1.-During the
entire session of the Senate to-day
the oleomargarine bill was under con-
sideration. Three speeches were deliv-
cred, two in support of the measure.
and one against it.
Mr.. Simmons of North Carolina made
an extended argument in opposition to
the bill, reinforcing cogently and in
terestingly points heretofore made
against the proposed legislation and
adding some new and forceful argu-
nents. This was Mr.. Simmons maid
en- speech in the Senate and he was
cordially congratulated at it's conclu-
sion.
Mr.. Dillingham; of Vermont presented
a strong legal argument in support OF
the measure, in the course of which he
vigorously arraigned the manufactur-
ers of oleomargarine for imposing, as
he said, a fraud upon the people.
In supporting the pending bill, Mr..
McCunlber of North Dakota expressed
the belief that the farmers of the coun-
try were entitled to the protection at
forded by the bill. incidentally, he adj
vocated general pure food legislation.
Mr.. Simmons announced he was sat-
isfied that oleomargarine was a health
full and nutritious article of food and
he believed that the manufacturers of
oleomargarine had legal right to color
the article provided the coloring mat
ter was not deleterious to the health
Of the consumer.
Mr.. Simmons said that the enactment
of the bill would destroy oleomarga-
rine factories and render practically
valueless millions of invested capital,
and it also would affect seriously grow
ers of cotton seed, manufacturers of
cotton seed oil and the large growers
of cattle and hogs.
Mr. Proctor of Vermont, in charge
of the bill, in response to an inquiry
of Mr.. Clark of Wyoming, said it was
his purpose to accept the amendment
offered by Mr.. Harris of Kansas, plac-
ing tax of 10 cents a pound upon
adulterated butter and regulating the
manufacture and sale of renovated and
process butter.
Mr.. Mitchell Of Oregon expressed
himself as favorable to the bill.
The Vermont View.
Mr.. Dillingham; insisted that oleo-
margarine and all other food products
ought to be sold for what they actual
-ly are.
Mr. Dillingham; made a particularly
sharp arraignmert of the manufacture
ers of oleomargarine and butterine for
the fraud which, he said, they commit
ted upon the public, and he cited many
instances of practice of fraud. He said
that the American people were getting
tired of being humbugged in their
food products and were demanding the
enactment of pure food legislation.
The Philippine Legislation.
Mr.. Lodge, chairman OF the Com
mittee on the Philippines, in reporting
the bill to temporarily provide for the
administration of the affairs in the
civil government of the Philippine Isl
ands, said he hoped to call up the
measure for consideration at an early
date.
Mr. Rawlins of Utah, of the same
committee, offered an amendment to
the Philippine government bill, in the
nature CT substitute for it. 1t rep
resents the views of the minority of
the committee.
Bills were passed providing an ad-
ditional circuit judge in the Seventh
Judicial Circuit, and to pay $2,515 TO
members of the life saving crew for
losses sustained by them in the Gal
WESTON hurricane of Sept. s, 1900.