Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-03-27
MAY VOTE ON TUESDAY
TRYING TO REACH A DIVISION
ON oLEoMARaARINE BILL
Conclusion Of Senator Delivers Speech
constitutional Point Raised by
Mr.. Hoar-Mr. Lodges Position.

During the debate on the oleomargarine
bill in the Senate yesterday afternoon Mr..
Proctor endeavored to obtain an agree
ment for a vote next Monday at o'clock.
It developed that a number of senators
wished to have the Senate adjourn this
afternoon over Good Friday and until Mon
day, in that way greatly curtailing the op-
portunities for debate on the bill this week.
Mr.. Bailey of Texas announced that he
wished to prepare himself before Monday
for speech on that day, and that as far
as he was concerned he would be ready to
vote on the bill then, but he could not an
swer for Others. He objected to a unani-
nous consent for a vote either on Monday
or Tuesday, but thought that democratic
senators would probably be ready to vote
on Tuesday. After some debate Mt. Proctor
took the suggestion of Mr.. Bailey that the
debate be allowed to run along until Tues
day afternoon at o'clock, and then IL no
more senator's want to speak on It q vote
will be taken. If it should be developed
then that more time is required the vote
will be delayed.
A Manufacturer Experience.
Mr.. Dolliver continued his speech after
The Stars report Of the proceedings was
closed. He referred to a well-known oleo-
margarine and butterine dealer In Chicago
who spent more than half of his time in the
courts for violation OF the oleomargarine
law. And he never gets into the courts.
said he, 'but he finds there side by side
with him the attorneys for the oleomarga-
rine manufacturers
Mr. DolIiver declared that the only way
ito break up a nest like this" was Ito re-
duce to a minimum the profits Of the ras-
cality.' He said there must be something
fatally wrong with business that spends
more of its time lodging the police and the
courts than in the other branches of the
business. IL this business was looking Tor
a fight to a finish with the American farm
it would be accommodated by the allied
agricultural interests.
He insisted that the proposed law would
not interfere with legitimate Industries
which supplied raw materials to tho oleo-
margarine manufacturers, and that the
oleomargarine industry itself would not be
injured seriously. Even il the oleomarga-
rine industry -ould be wiped out, how
ever, it must l., borne in mind that the
American dairy interests represented far
more than all the interests which Contribute
raw material to the oleomargarine industry.
Mr.. Dolliver sharply arraigned Mr.. Stew
art for the statement in his remarks that
much butter was made in conditions OF
sQualor and disease.
Boys Feet-Warming.
illustrating the interest OF the greatest
OF our people in the farm, he described an
incident which occurred on the late resi-
dent McKinley's last western tour. AS the
train was passing through Iowa early one
morning the President was observed to be
laughing to himself as he watched the an
tics Of two boys warming their feet on the
spot where cow had been lying during
the night.
Gentlemen" said President Mckinley,
lone of the pleasantest and most delightful
recollections Of my boyhood is the solid
fnrf yx-hi Oh hos h1xyc h viy,ry
warming frost-bltten feet In the place
where cows have been lying. I wonder how
many Of you have had similar expert
ence."
One after another Of the members of the
cabinet, governors, senators and represen-
tatves who were of the party bore witness
to the same experience. beginning with
John lay who did his feet warming part
ly in Ohio and partly in illinois, and ending
with Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, who
warmed his feet in the heather of Scotland.
Mr.. Dolliver concluded with a glowing
eulogy Of American farm life and q forceful
epitome of the arguments for the pending
bin.
A Constitutional Question.
Mr.. Hoar said one Of the greatest dangers
to the country was the establishment of
the principle that the taxing power OF the
government could be used as q means Of
Furnishing and suppressing vice or crime or
any form OF wrong doing. From that point
of view the pending BIZ. could not have his
support, but Congress undoubtedly had the
right, under its power to regulate inter-
state commerce, to suppress, If need be,
any deleterious article.
Mr. Vest inquired II Congress had the
right to invade his state, for Instance,
where oleomargarine was manufactured
under state laws, and tax the industry out
Of existence when the eleomargarine made
there had not entered into interstate COM
merce.
Mr.. Hoar replied that Congress was in
every state Of the Union as much as the
state government was, and as a controlling
power 1t was supreme. Congress had the
right to use the taxing power to put out of
existence and strike down anything which
it haD q constitutional right to strike at
directly.
Mr.. Bailey inquired If the imposition of
intended to raise revenue.
NO" replied Mr.. Hoar. 1T have tried to
make that point clear. This 10 cents a
pound tax Is tax not upon oleomargarine,
but upon a fraud-upon the false coloring.''
Mr.. Lodge explained that he expected to
vote for the pending measure for the rea-
son that 1t imposed a tax upon an article
that was fraudulent In sense. He urged,
however, that the House provision regard
Ing renoyate- butter ought to be restored
to the bill.
Mr.. Proctor, In charge OF the measure.
said that an amendment covering that point
probably would be offered
The Senate then, at 4:1O pm, went into
executive session and a few minutes later