Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1902-04-04
OLEO BILL IS PASSED
Measure Goes Through the Senate with Bare
Majority Of Eight Votes.
DIFFERS LARGELY FROM HOUSE BILL
Subjects 0leomargarine and Kindred Prod
ucts to State Laws.
TEN CENTS A POUND TAX FOR c0toRATION
Bill Glasses All Selling Artificial Make as
Manufacturers.
TAX UNCoLoREO PRODUCT QUAR- ~,
Senators Dietrich and Willard OF
braska Vote with the Thirty
Nine Members who Sup
port the Bill.
TEHcENTs ABOUND TAxFoR CoLoRATION
Bill Glasses All Selling Artificial Make as
Manufacturers,
TAX UNCoLoREO PRODUCT QUAR- =

WASHINGTON, April 3.-At the conclu-
sion Of a lively debate today the senate
passed the oleomargarine bill by vote oil
80 to 81
The discussion was largely in the nature
of a reinforcement Of arguments previously
advanced. Mr.. Spooner OF Wisconsin made
the principal speech, maintaining that con-
Rress had ample authority to enact the
proposed legislation because It was In the
interest Of the people.
In an earnest protest against the measure
Mr. Vest OF Missouri held that congress was
invading the powers OF the states. Mr..
Scott OF West Virginia moved to recommit
the measure to the committee, holding that
IL was unsatisfactory to any senators and
ought to be perfected. The motion was de-
feated, 50 to 37 During the afternoon a
perfect food OF kilograms poured into the
senate from all parts Of the country urg-
ing senators either TO support or to oppose
the measure.
Differs from House Hill.
The measure as passed by the senate diff
fers in some respects from that passed by
the house OF representatives. II provides
that oleomargarine and kindred products
shall be subject to all the laws and regula-
tions Of any state or territory or the Dis
trict OF Columbia into which they are
transported, whether in original packages
or otherwise; that any person who sells
oleomargarine and furnishes it for the use
OF others except to his own family, who
shall mix with II any artificial coloration
that causes It to look like butter, shall be
held to be a manufacturer and shall be sub
ject to the tax provided by existing laws;
that upon oleomargarine colored to resem-
BILE butter a tax Of 10 cents a pound shall
be levied, but on oleomargarlne not coll
ored the tax shall be one-fourth OF / cent
per pound; that upon sdulterated butter
a tax OF 10 cents pound shall be levied
and upon all process or renovated butter
the tax shall be one-fourth OF / cent a
pound. The manufacturers OF renovated
butter shall pay an annual tax OF $500, the
wholesale dealers shall pay a tax of $4So
and the retail dealers tax OF s4s per an
mum.
Provides for Collecting Tax.
The measure provides regulations for the
collection Of the tax and prescribes min
utely how the various products are to be
prepared for market
Mr.. Harris Of Kansas submitted an
amendment placing a tax OF 10 cents a
pound on adulterated butter and a tax OF
one-quarter Of 1 cent a pound on process
or renovated butter and providing regula-
tlons for the collection Of the taxes, which
was adopted, a to 26.
The verbal amendments suggested by Mr..
Foraker earlier in the session wero
adopted. An amendment offered by Mr.
Harris was agreed to providing that whole
sale dealers who vend no other oleomar-
gartne or butterine except that on which a
TAX Of one-fourth of cent a pound is laid
shall pay 5000 and retail dealers OF the
came Sc
Mr., Money, on behalf of the minority of
the committee on agriculture, offered a
substitute for the bill. It was rejected, %
70 20.
Final vote, Passing the Bill.
The bill as amended then was passed, 80
10 81 the dntaiIoh .-a4a L-I-.- - -