Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-15
DAlRYMEN IN A PANIC.
Thrown Into Confusion by Unexpected
Attitude Of Hoard.

Attitude OF 6Odf0.
| Washington. Jan. 15.-Sensational de-
velopments marked the opening of the
! hearings on the oleomargarine bills In
the room of the committee on agricul-
| ture of the house. Under the program
arranged the 18th was set for hearing
of the dairymen, the remainder OF this
| week being given the oleo manufacture
ers. On Monday, the goth, the dairymen
will again be heard and then the mem
| bers who have introduced oleo bills will
be given an opportunity to explain
them Ex-Governor Hoard OF Wiscon-
sin, president of the National Dairy I'm
ion. threw the bomb Monday that caus-
ed the commotion, and for while there
was danger of the meeting breaking up
in disorder.
Representative Tawney of Minnesota
has presented bill in which oleo col
ored in imitation of butter is taxed 10
cents pound. while uncolored cleo is
untaxed The Grout bill, which passed
the house last session, imposes tax of
one-quarter Of cent a pound upon un-
colored oleo and a 10 cent tax upon the
colored product Mr.. Circuit having re-
tired from congress, Representative Nc
Cleary Of Minnesota took up the fight
and introduced on the first day of this
session a bill similar in phraseology and
Identical In every way 1t was the first
bill introduced. The Grout, or the Nc
Cleary bill, as it is now called, was con-
sidered the dairymens bill. Upon 1t
they were expected to unite and press
an effective campaign.
Governor Hoard, Secretary knight of
Chicago and n. C.. Adams of Wisconsin.
chairman of the executive committee Of
the Dairy Union. were present at the
meeting Monday. There was no init
nation that they had deserted the Grout
bill until Governor Hoard spoke in favor
of the Tawney bill He created stam-
pede. The members OF the committee
looked in In amazement. CONSERVATION
reigned supreme. 1t was several mo-
ments before the Importance OF the stu
alton was thoroughly realized and then
the president OF the National Dairy I'm
ion became the storm center. He was
assailed with a flood of questions, and
would have been deluged had not Rep
resentative Graft of Illinois come to his
rescue. He was eXtricated with difficult
ty, and the dairy interests are trying to
locate their bearings.
The Tawney and Grout bills are similar
in their treatment of cleo colored in inn
:tation of butter. Both propose to tax
the product 10 cents pound. This tax,
in the opinion Of Chairman Wadsworth
and other me n,bers OF the committee,
means the determination of legitimate
industry, and while they advocate legis-
lation that will protect the public from
teing imposed upon, and which will re-
quire oleo to be sold as oleo and not as
butter, they argue that the dairy in
terests ere taking an unfair advantage
of competitor by the prohibitive tax
The Grout bill provides tax of one
quarter of 1 cent pound on the uncol-
ored product, but the Tawney bill pro-
taxed In this feature the snag was
struck. In advocating the Tawney bill
Governor Heard, Secretary knight and
Mr. Adams Undo. in the estimation Of
dairymen, all the good that has been ac-
complished by the present law and
which the advocates of the Grout bill
insist should be perpetuated. They in
sist that not only should oleo uncolored
in imitation of butter be heavily taxed,
but that a small tax should be imposed
upon the uncolored product to give the
federal government jurisdiction over the
cleo factories. cause reports to be made
and keep hand upon the industry. If
the Tawney bin should become law, as
the officials of the Dairy Union now rec
ommend, the cleo factories would pass
from under the calcium light of federal
supervision, and the industry would be
conducted without government inspec-
tion and no government reports would
be made annually upon the industry by
the commissioner OF internal revenue or
any other official.