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oLEo BILL PASSES THE HOUSE.

OLEO BILL PASSES THE HOUSE.
The oleo bill went through the house
Yesterday by majority of "A. 1t ought
to have had a much larger majority
and from all indications would have,
had it not been for the mess made of
things by the so-called National Dairy
Union, which virtually played into the
hands of the oleo people, by demand
ing that the tax on uncolored oleo be
entirely removed, which would de-
prive the government of all authority
over the manufacturers as to what
they were doing to impose upon the
public their imitation. But under the
lead of Representative McCleary this
scheme did not work and the provi-
sion of the Grout bill for tax of one
fourth of cent per pound, was re-
tanned. Commenting upon the bill as
il passed the house yesterday Mr.. Nc
Cleary is reported by the Washington
correspondent OF the Minneapolis
Journal as follows:
1.-The bill contains all the provisions
of the old Grout bill and therefore has
in it the things which the dairy in
terests have been demanding. The ad-
ditional two paragraphs, one extend
ing the definition of the word manu-
facturer' and the other giving the de-
partment of agriculture more perfect
control over reports of wholesalers,
are additions which have been neces-
STATED by conditions recently discov-
cred, and they are all right.
The changes in language from the
Grout bill are not improvements.
They have distinctly lessened the value
of the bill. Last week on test vote
on the bill as originally reported we
had a majority of 102. Today, after
the tinkering process had been finish
ed. we passed the bill by only "A. This
falling off is due TO the Vacilltiaon
which the committee base xibited under
the assaults of outside influences sup
posed to be friendly TO this legislation
The bill isneither so strong nor s. good
as it would have been if there had
been no tinkeriDg,
The interests which wanted chang g
from the Circuit bill, as it was approved
by dairymen of the country, feel very
sore over the exposure and defeat they
suffered in the fight for IT'S retention
intact led by Congressman McClesry,
and it is said that they propose send
ing 40, 900 copies Of the Congressional
Record, containing Tuesdays proceed
ings to this state for the purpose O.
showing that Mr.. McCleary did no
have much to do in the work of whip
ping the oleo bill into shape for ina
passage on that day. Their work il
this line will simply be labor lost Th
work man does in behalf of bill
does not always show on the surface
and the people are well onto the fac
that the work of getting Legislation
through is not wholly confined to thos'
who make the most noise about it
Mr.. McCleary has proved himself ;
firm friend of the dairy and creamer.
interests and this fact is being recog
nized by the farmers, despite the mis-
representation made by the secretar.
of the secretary of the so-called Ma
tionsl Dairy Union, who seems to b
smarting under the defeat suffered a
the hands of the committee on agri
culture which had charge of the bill