The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-03
The AMERICAN GIRL
SHE GETS MIXED UP IN OLEOMAR-
GARINE DISCUSSION.
BAILEY AND DEPEW DID IT.
sALLIES EXCHANGED ON INTER-
ESTING SUBJECT.

lean Girl Aroused the Newly Made
Benedict From New York Who
Came Back at Him in Good Style
and POlxed Fun at the Texans
Youthful and Handsome Appear
ance-Not an Bill for Revenue for
One to XIII an Industry, Said
Bailey.
Washington, April 2.-Discussion of
the oleomargarine bill in the Senate to-
day was enlivened by two or three
bright colloquies between senators.
Mr.. Bailey of Texas concluded his
speech in opposition to the measure.
He was followed by Mr.. Depew of New
York, who in the course of his remarks
matched his wit with that of Mr..
Bailey on the subject of the American
girl. The sallies of the two senators
were greeted with shouts of laughter.
Mr.. Bailey conceded the right of
Congress to enact the proposed bill as
n revenue measure. and every senator
who supported the measure to raise
revenue was entirely within his con-
science and his oath of Office, but if
any senator should vote for it to sup
press the oleomargarine industry he
would do violence to his sense of duty
and to his obligations of office.
He declared that the purpose of the
bill was not to raise revenue. He
maintained that the proposed bill con-
tanned palpable and even wicked vio-
lation of the constitution in the plac-
ing of tax upon the article manu-
featured and sold within a state.
Mr.. Bailey sharply arraigned the
creameries and cheese factories of the
country, the former of which he said
was the real hacker of the legislation
proposed.
He could understand the Republican
policy of protection of industries, but
this new policy to legislate for the de-
struction of industries was entirely in
comprehensive to him.
In the pending measure, Mr.. Bailey
said in conclusion, the majority in Con-
gress was endeavoring to settle con-
tention among competing manufac-
turers.
The coloring of oleomargarine to re-
semble butter, said Mr.. Bailey, might
be an innocent fraud. but was certainly
no more reprehensiDle than the artifi-
cial attractions which our wives and
daughters utilize to make themselves
more pleasing to the eye.
Depev's VolIey at Bailey.
Mr.. Depew followed Mr.. Bailey and
supported the bill. He said he never
had heard a speech which had so fired
his fancy, SO appealed to his magma
ton and had had so little effect upon
his judgment as that of Mr.. Bailey. He
said that if a merchant deceived his
customers by foisting upon them a
fraud he believed that man ought to
be reached by law 1t was perfectly
evident that no industry with good
article could compete successfully with
a spurious substitute with which the
people were deceived.
Mr.. Depew, referring to an allusion
made By Mr.. Bailey, said that the
American girl had been put in the
wrong position before the people of the
United States.
'T forgot for the moment" interject
ed Mr.. Bailey, "a recent occurrence in
the life of the Senator from New York,
or should not have made the allu-
sion.' Oaughter)
BaiIey's Youth and Beauty.
"And but for that occurrence" re-
torted Mr.. Depew, laughing as he
spoke, II should have left younger
man to come to the defense of the
American girl. 1t was the Senator s
youth and beauty great laughter),
which astonished me when he made
that remark. If he had been soured
and disappointed in love, or if the
sex had treated him in some way that
would lead him to remark about it
like that, /. should understand him. But
no one can meet the Senator. no one
can see him socially or in his grave
and dignifed position, no one can see
his photograph on Pennsylvania ave-
nue. without recognizing that his gen.
iality, his happiness, his eloquence,
have come because the American girl
has admired him and loved him."
Gong continued laughter.)
"And he never ought to have gone
back on her to-day by saying she is a
fraudulent specimen of living oleomar-
garine." Oaughter)
just n Revenue Bill.
Mr.. Bailey and Mr.. Spooner became
involved in a colloquy as to some legal
phases of the bill.
"Will the Senator from Wisconsin
say" inquired Mr.. Bailey, that the
object of this bill is to raise revenue?"
81 say that the object of this bill is
to raise revenue" replied Mr.. Spooner.
In OIneF WORDS, L Say ludt III the eAef-
else of the discretion which the consti-
tuition gives us, we select this article
as an object of taxation"
But is it 0he raising Of revenue)
the paramount object?" inquired Mr..
Stewart of Nevada.
1T is the primary object" replied
Mr.. Spooner.
But not the paramount object"
persisted Mr.. Stewart.
Bliss were passed providing that ses-
sions of the United States District
Court shall be held at Winston. n. c.,
on the second Monday of July and
January of each year; authorizing the
construction of a traffic bridge across
the Savannah river from the mainland
within the corporate limits of Savan-
nah to Hutchinson's Island in Chat
ham county, Georgia; to extend the
time for presentation of claims to re-
imburse the governors of states and
territories for expenses incurred by
them in aiding the United States to
raise and organize an army in the war
with Spain to Jan. /. 1903; and seven
ty-one private pension bills.
TWO NEGRO CONyICTS KILLED.