New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-06-30

terlne imitation, process, renovated or adulter-
ated butter. or imitation cheese or any substance
in the semblance of butter cheese not the
usual product of the dairy. and not made ex-
clusively of pure and unadulterated milk or
cream. 1t amends the act Of 1856 by declaring
that any person who sells, vends or furnishes
oleomargarine for the use of others, who shall
add to mix with such oleomargarine any
artificial coloration that causes it to look like
butter OF any shade of yellow. shall also be held
to be a manufacturer of oleomargarine. Whole
sale dealers who vend the oleomargarine or but
terine defined in the act of 1886 which tax
OF one-fourth Of cent a pound is levied, shall
pay 500. and retail dealers So. Manufacturers
of oleomargarine are to pay 10 cents a pound;
but If the oleomargarne is free from artificial
yellow celebration the tax shall be only onefourth
of cent pound. The different butter substi
tutes are defined and special taxes are imposed
on their manufacture, follows: Process or
renovated, $50 year; adulterated 5000 year
Wholesale dealers in aduterated butter are to
pay $3.50 a year. retail dealers S4S. All adul-
terated butter must be packed in wooden pack
ages containing less than TEN pounds marked
the Commissioner of Internal Revenue shall
direct and all sales by manufacturers must be
in original stamped packages. Dealers must sell
in these original packages or in other smaller
stamped packages approved by the revenue au-
thorities. Adulterated butter shall pay a stamp
tax Of 10 cents pound manufacture sale
and process butter a stamp tax Of fourth of
a cent pound The Secretary of Agriculture is
directed to apply the meat inspection laws to
the manufacture of butter substitutes. and the
Commissioner Of Internal Revenue is empow
cred to examine the books and accounts of all
butter substitute manufacturers
TO PROTECT PRESIDENT.
OF the measures which reached the conference
stage without final action in either house the
bill for the protection of the President and the
suppression of anarchy the most important
The Senate's bill confined itself strictly to the
sirgle purpose of protecting the President. his
possible successor and the representatives of
foreign governments visiting the United States
from the peril of assassination 1t fixed death
as the penalty for any attempt, successful or
unsuccessful. to take the life of any person in
cluded within its protection Aiding, abettinB.
advising or counselltng such an attempt was 40
be punished conviction with Imprisonment
for twenty years. and threatening by written
81 oxen printed words the life of any person
DE- signated in the proposed law was to be pun
ishable by ten years imprisonment A special
military bodyguard for the President was also
authorized.
On June o the House passed a greatly enlarged
and amended substitute, which not only con-
templates the punishment of crimes against tn"
head of the State and his possible successor and
against the heads and representatives of foreign
governments but also legislates 10 some extent
against the general profession or teaching or
anarchy. The Judiciary Committee of the House
held the Senate bill as drawn to be open to Ger
tain constitutional objections and in its substi-
tute drew the distinction that the President. the
Vice President, the other officers entitled by law
to succeed to the Presidency. as we'll as foreign
ambassadors and ministers. must be assas-
snated assaulted while engaged in the per-
Torrance of official duties to give the federal
courts Jurisdiction over such assasslnatlons
military bodyguard which the Senate author
lied for the President. and greatly expands the
brief provisions Of the Senate measure aimed
at anarchistic agitation.
FOR THREE NEW STATES.
The House passed an omnibus Territorial bill.
admitting the Territories Of Oklahoma, Arizona
and New Mexico as States into the Federal
Union. The Senate Committee Territories
showed some reluctance report the bill, and
MI Quay. OF Pennsylvania made fight In
the closing days OF the session TO discharge the
committee and force a vote in the Senate. I
was agreed, as n compromise. that the bill
should be reported the first Monday OF De-
ccmber and should be made the Senates I'M
finished business on December 10. The House
also passed immigration bill which still
awaits action I'm the Senate.
The Senate passed early in the session snip
Subsidy bill. drawn on lines a little diHerent
from those OF the so-called Payne Hanna Dill
which failed in the LVIth Congress. Thls
modified bill encountered very serious oppo-
stlcn in the Senate. although eight Republlcan
Senators voted against II. In the House no
effort was made TO secure consideration for It
before adjournment.
No definite estimate be given at this
time OF the appropriations for lN2-'oS In
speech In the House on June I'D. Mr.: Cannon.
the chairman of the House Appropriations COM
mittee. predicted that the grand total for regu-
lar permanent and miscellaneous appropriation
would reach S691 .445OOO
The Senate at this session ratified two I'M
portant treaties-the modified Isthmian Canal
r, eaty with Great Britain and the treaty with
Denmark for the purchase OF the Danish west
Indies.