The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-26
OLEOMARGARINE DEBATED
Mississippian Makes Sharp
 Attack on the Measure.
Says It is Designed to Put Money in the Pockets of the wealthy
 Dairymen of the
 Country. ..

WoFutu6toH, XAdiIh SS'-A cbetP oeN0N~ on the pending oieomargarine blt was made in the Senate today by MT. Money of Misssissippi. He denounced the meas ure as unconstitutional, immoral, dis honest and unjust" He said it was a proposition to tax out of existence one in- dustry for the benefit of another. and was protection gone mad On behalf of the working people of the country he appealed to the Senate not to enact the bill into law, and declared if it could voted on by secret ballot, it would not receive a dozen votes in the Senate.
 Mir. Hansbrough (N. D. began an ar gnment in support of the measure, but yielded the floor until tomorrow.
 At the conclusion of routine business in the Senate today, a resolution offered by Mir. Platt CConn.) was adopted calling upon the Secretary of the Interior for in- formation concerning treaties with Indian tribes of Oregon in 1850, and inquiring whether the United States equitably is bound to compensate the tribes for lands now in possession of the Government or settlers.
  ton of private pension bills.
 Forty-four pension measures were pass ed The Senate then proceeded to the consideration of the bill to amend the act establishing a code of laws for the Dis trict ofColumbia.
 After the reading of the bill it was passed without debate.
 Consideration then was resumed of the oleomargarine bill.
 Hi.@ v1nin member of the Committee on Agriculture, addressed the Senate in opposition to the measure.
 My conviction is,'' said he, that the measure is unconstitutional, immoral. dishonest and unjust
 The great mass of the people. he said. was not demanding the passage of the bill. The proposition presented Is one in line with all protective measures and only the people who desired the money of oth- CTS. desired the passage of the bill.
 Tt is protection gone mad" he insist ed, protection run clean crazy, and how the Senate can consider it calmly Is be- yond my comprehension.
 Mir. Money declared he was speaking for a mass of working people of the coun- try who had no means of pressing their views and opinions upon Congress. It was d demand to deprive them of a wholesome article of food-an article as good as butter and in many instances bet ter. He insisted that there was money behind the bilI-money in the enhanced profits of the butter interests.
 In response to an inquiry by MT. Quarles tWisl. Mir Money said that while the bill was unconstitutional it might never be declared so by the courts because the courts might not go behind the text of the law to inquire into legislative in- tent.
 .In other words" suggested Mir. Spoon CT the bill is unconstitutional in the Senate. but will not be unconsttutional before the Supreme Court of the United States"
 Mir. Money asserted that he did not think there was man in the Senate who did not believe that the purpose of this bill was to exterminste the hutterine and oleomafsarine industry for the benefit of the dairy interests.
 Mir Money did not think il a fraud on the consumer to have oleomargarine palmed off upon him for butter.
 Yes do" replied Mir. Money. But the Senator never has been injured by oleomargarne heinz palmed off on him. |"
 ''I have not but my wife has.
 MT Money insisted that the cry of the poor-the working poor-should be heard by Congress as well as the appeal of the protected rich.
 He meant. he said the stalwart millions whose brawn and muscle and brain and energy was the under-pinning of every industrial enterprise.
 The working people" he declared, want this bill defeated. And l will say that if this bill could be voted for under our rules by a secret ballot, it would not get q dozen votes
 In conclusion. Mir. Money said that oleomargarine had come to stay and It could not be repressed, evt by the pend ing bin. His desire simply was that jus tfce should be ed to all interested par ties and that no under or dishonest ad- vantage he given to the manufacturers of butter
 Mir Hansbrough of North Dakota de- nied that there was any attempt in the measure to destroy the oleomargailns in- dustry. The hill simply provided that and kindred products should be put on the market for what they are and not palmed of on the pub lie for what they are not.
 The measure, he said was neither inn moral nor dishonest
 Mir Hansbrough had scarcely opened his argument before the Senate, at 4:25 went into executive session, and. at f:37 p. m, adjourned