The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-07-01
OLEOMARGARIN LAW
Effect of the Measure Which Went
Into Operation To-day.
RESULTS ARE VERY UNCERTAIN.
Some Details of the CAPITAL Improve
nent Plans-A Lincoln
Memorial.

From The Jo..rnal Bureaus. Room ss. Posi-
Building, Washsnsso',.
Washington, July seldom has leg
islation been enacted, after long efforts,
the results of which are so uncertain as
those of the new oleomargarin law. 1t
taxes oleomargarin, colored to resemble
butter, ten cents pound. but reduces
the tax on the runcolored to one quarter
OF cent pound-just enough to keep
the Industry under the supervision of the
internal revenue bureau. The commits
sioner decided in a recent case that
mixture of June butter, with It's natural
high color, with oleomargarin would not
be subject to the ten cent tax, and the
view accordingly gained some currency
that this would afford new lease of life
for the ,t'oleo" industry. 1t will be seen
on little reflection. however. that June
butter would prove pretty expensive
ingredient, and that the extreme terms
Of the law, which were meant to be pro-
hibitiye, would permit the manufacturer
to nay but nine and three-quarter cents
more for the amount of June butter which
was necessary to float pound OF 'oleo
than for the quantity OF oleo itself,
with the coloring matter. So while there
is q possibility of some business develop
ing along this line, it does not promise
to be large.
~ Circumventing the Law.
The better outlook for the oleomargarin
makers to circumvent the present law
comes in the possibility of finding some
natural Ingredient which has .ex proprio
vigore a color that would contribute to
the mixture a butter tint. The search
for such an ingredient may not prove
fruitless. Then, for cooking purposes,
considerable oleomargarin will move IN
tho trade in uncolored condition. Private
householders might, moreover, color this
for oh II, ingenious
method were devised for doing this sim
ply, but hotels, restaurants and boarding
houses would not be allowed to do this,
as their proprietors are construed as
manufacturers under the law.
Big Stocks ON Hand.
Just now the keenest oleomargarin IN
terest Isl concerned over the proflts 10
be made on the stocks on hand. All the
oleomargarin manufactured and delivered
to dealers up to to-day carries the oio
tax OF two cents a pound. To take ad-
vantage of this privilege the factories OF
the country have been for some weeks
running day and night, and the demand
for oleomargar1n stamps at the internal
revenue bureau has been unprecedented.
1t Is estimated that there is enough
oleomargarin in cold storage now to sup
ply the demand for six months, and ma
terially check the rise in the price or
butter. which is claimed to be 1neVltaple
under the new law. 1t was estimated by
Mr.. Grout of Vermont, the author OF the
original bill, that it's passage would re-
quire an addition of IL per cent IN the
number of COWS. So sudden an increase,
coupled with the demands on the butter
market which prosperity have mace
would be likely to maintain pretty hlgn
butter prices in the future; this will, 1t
is claimed, be the case as soon as the
present oleomargarin supplies are ex-
hausted. 1t is expected that the surplus
stock now piled up in cold storage will
yield an extra profit OF at least elgnt
cents pound to it's owners, and probably
more on account of the limitations In Its
supply. -. -. - ~. -
~~-- White Touse improvements.
Although in the closing hours Of con-
gress the union railway station, the hall
of records, the Memorial bridge and
number of other public improvements
which were hoped for as Initiative of the
new plans for identifying the capital city,
were voted down, tidy little lot re-
mains.
First the most important, there is the
renovated White House with total ap-
preparation of s540.641. OF this amount,
s475 445 goes for the Extraordinary re-
pairs" alterations and additions,' dec
Grafton" "refurnishing," and the like
a very fair sum when it is remembered
that the original demand for $3.50, 900 was
REGARDED as doubtful: VI passage pCCo o0O
CT sUnc1e Joe" ~Cannon's opposition to
every thing artistic. When the crucial
moment came, Mr.. Cannon insisted upon
knowing, not how much could be pared OH
the proposed appropriation, but how mucn
could be asked for with the absolute as
surance that he would not be bothered
with calls for any more for the same job.
When the figures were footed up and he
received a pledge from the experts that
the total named would answer, he simply
put into the paragraph line requiring
that the work should be completed In
every detail within the sum hereby ap-
propriated," and signed his name to the
, Plan of the Changes.
! To set at rest many inquiries, it should
!, be said Just here that the plans for the
J changes in the exterior appearance Of the
White House are noteworthy, but In no
wise radical. The Conservatives and
q greenhouses which now stretch out from
the side of the main building to the west,
but constitute no part of it, will giev way
to colonnade leading to the office build
ing at the further end. This will be a
restoration, to all intents, of something
: of which rudimentary relics and traces
sf5 are found in the stratum of an earlier
I. presidential era, the office building it.
{ self, for instance, being as nearly as pos
f. sible where Jefferson had his, The colon
made, which will probably be decorated with
palms and Towering plants, and to that
extent continue the idea of eonserva-
tory, will be upheld by pillars on the
blower side, forming covered way FOL
!. ( reaching the basement Of the office build
ing from the basement of the White
House. From the east side, to symme.
trize this structure, will run another
colonnade leading to a porte-cochere
where quests can alight from their car.
i*riages and proceed to the assembly room
ION social occasions. A considerable sun
included In the, general appropriation fol
the White oHuse was added for the TWO
colonnades, which were, strictly speaking
an afterthought. Fsf:- ~
Anacostia Creek Gets $15O,OOo.
ID. For the improvement of the lower end O.
s the eastern branch Of the Potomac, other
wise known as Anacostia Greek, there i:
an appropriation Of $4,000. Undoubtedl!
no small amount Of credit for this is dut
to the fact that the new war college il
Il to be placed where it will get all thu
IS benefit, good or i'll, of the condition 0
~ this estuary If the latter is left ma
laria- breeding stream, the flower of tn
army will suffer. If it is made beautiful
the officers will thrive accordingly. TIL
4 Improvement of the mouth now will meal
the early improvement of the creek high
ser up, and the first step toward the com
ing; water park Will have been taken.
Lincoln Memorial.
Finally. Of the important projects, ther
remains the $4,000 appropriation for tn