The age-herald., 1902-03-27
0LEOMARGARINE
 BEFORE SENATE
TIIIman Couldn't Find imprint
 on the Package,
CAUSED MUCH AMUSEMENT
Senators Hoar and Lodge Oppose the Measure Because They Say lt Is Tax On an Evident Fraud.
 Army Bill In the House.

| Washington, March 2e.-Throughout to- | days session of the Senate the oleomar- | garine bill was under discussion. The de-
 bate was interesting at all times and
 some phases of 1t were amusing. MT Hansborough of North Dakota concluded his speech begun yesterday in support of
 the measure, maintaining that the oleo-
 margarine industry had been outlawed
 by the legislatures of many states and
 that 1t ought to be compelled by Congress
 to take off its mask and place It's product on the market for what it really was.
 MT. Stewart of Nevada declared that and that there was no more reason for taxing colored oleomargarine than for taxing colored butter.
 MT. Deliver of Iowa scathingly de- | nounced the oleomargarine industry de- claring that it had put itself In partner ship with lawlessness and false pre- lenses.
 setts explained that their reason for sup porting the bill was that 1t was a tax | on an evident fraud.
 Showed the Package.
 In the course of his speech Mir. Deliver declared that the oleomargarine manu- lecturers were evading constantly the law which provided that every package of ole- omargarine should be stamped plainly. He exhibited a package of oleomargarine which he had purchased from q famous butter dealer in Chicago H said the package was marked, but 1t would tax any mans ingenuity to find the mark. He then handed the package to MT. Tillman and challenged him to find the mark required by law to be on the wrapper. Mir Tillman failed to discover the imprint, Mr. Deliver pointed it out printed in fine type in a corner of the wrapper. The incident excited lively in- 1 terest and amusement.
 | MT. Deliver said there must be some- | thing fatally wrong with a business that | spends more of it's time lodging the police and the courts than the other branches of the business He insisted that the proposed law would not interfere with 1 legitimate industries which supplied raw materials to the oleomargarine m anufact- urers and that the oleomargarine indus | try itself would not be injured seriously. Even if the oleomargarine industry should | be wiped out however, 1t must be borne in mind that the American dairy inter- ests represented far more than all the l interests which contribute raw material to the oleomarg lrine industry. Arraigned MT. Stewart. l ] Stewart for a statement that much better was made in conditions of squalor and disease. Illustrating the interest of the greater of our people in the farm, he said that on the late President McKin- l ley's last Western tour the President, while passing Iowa, early one morning, was observed to be laughing to himself as he watched the antics of two boys warming their feet on the spot where a COW had been lying the night President Mckinley and members of the cabinet, Governors Senators and Representatives who were members of the party bore wit ness to the same experience when they were boys.
 Mir. Deliver concluded with a glowing eulogy of American farm life. MT. Hoar said one of the greatest dan gers to the country was the establish ment of the principle that the taxing power of the government could be used as means of punlshing and suppressing vice or crime or any form of wrong do- ing From that point of view the pend ing bill could not have his support, but Congress undoubtedly had the right, un- der it's power, to regulate interstate commerce, to suppress if need be any del- iterious article.
 MT Vest inquired if 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 oleomargarine made there had not entered into inter- state commerce?
 In Every State in the Union.
 Mir Hoar replied that Congress was in every state of the U 1ion as much as the state government was, and as a control | ing power 1t wss supreme Congress had 1 the right to use the tsxing power to put ] out of existence and strike dc wn anything which it had a constitutional right to strike at directly. MT. Bailey inquired if 1 the imposition of the 1O-cent tax on oleo- margarine really was intended to raise revenue
 No replied MT Hoar q havs tried to make that pcint clear, This 10 cents a | pound tax is a tax not upon oleomargar- | inc, but upon a fraud upon the false col orirg.t
 MT Lodge explained that he expected to vote fer the pending measure for the reason that it imposed tax upon an ar tiele that was fraudulent in a sense. He urged, however, that the house provision regarding renovated butter ought to be | restored to the bill.
 MT. Proctor, in charge of the measure. said that an amendment covering that | point probably would be offered l The Senate then at 4:10 D. m went into executive session, ana a few minutes l later adjourned.
 BURLESON AGAIN MADE
 ATTACK ON SECRETARY HAY.
 Washington, March 26-General debate on the military appropriation bill was concluded today and consideration of the bill under the flye-minute rule began. During the debate MT, Burleson of Texas renewed the attack on Secretary Hay on account of the allegations regarding the Boer relief funds subscribed in Illi- nois. MT. Hit of Illinois said there had been no developments in the matter and the secretary had done all that was pos- | sible.