Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-12-21
NEWSY GOSSIP FROM NATIONAL CAPITOL
better served, SO far, at least, as their
breakfast tables are concerned.

better served, so far, at least, as their
breakfast tables are concerned.
Both the retailers and the cold
storage folks say that the chief rea.
son for the big fall in prices is the
ulseasonably warm weather ana the
tremendous stocks of eggs held in
storage in the west. They add that
millions of dozens of eggs are now
held by storage companies in ChiCa-
go, indianapolis, etc, and that the
middle western points are the main
places where the larger part OF that
immense storage is done, Much OF
tf,,t extraordinary supply was bought
they say, last April and May at prices
lclose on to 20 and 20 cents a dozen.
Those fellows are doing a lot OF
figuring just row, and. starting in on
the suggested first price of % cents
Ia dozen, they add thereto the storage
charges, 2 cents a dozen, and the
freight, which Is about a cent a dozen
to eastern points, thus showing that
they are coming out at the short cad
OF the horn-but the old.time retail.
ers assert that eve at % cents a
dozen, the cold storage men are max.
ing a fair profit.
Up to this date, no appreciable
change has been made in the price OF
butter, although many members OF
the Housewives league felt that the
dissolution of the Elgin bier goard,
and the recent failure to fix prices
for the coming week meant a sure
reduction. Millions upon millions OF
pounds of butter are said to be held
lin storage In the West, and tt Is an.
ticipated that a big part OF that sup
Iply may be suddenly dumped on the
market any day, with the certain re.
suit of clopping the price at least
several cents a pound.
The house committee on agricul-
ture that Is discussing the Lever bill,
which has been framed to impose a
tax on oleomargerine and to place
certain restrictions around its sale,
time, for both the imitation butter
men and the real butter men are
| fighting the bill, the latter insisting
that the measure should have a
| clause providing that butter and oleo'
; margarine should be differently COL
ored, so that when served at table
anyone can readily tell the differ
elce. To the amazement of both
! scientists and dairymen, Mr.. Cabell,
the internal revenue commissioner,
declared that it is not feasible or pos
sible to make a standard Of color
| whereby butter and oleo could be
told apart at a glance.
The assistant physicist at the U.
S. bureau of standards frankly said
that Cabelrs statement is "unintellig-
ible to a scientist" while Prot. Oscar
Edf, G" the Ohio State university. add
ed cumulative testimony by the in
dubitable evidence that the Danish
government has fixed a color stand
ard for butter and limitations, and
that 1t = is srigidly adhered to. Dr.
Stratton, director of the bureau OF
standards, stating that he a easily
fix and measure color within a GER
tain degree, apparently voiced the
| sentiments of the farmers and dairy
men Of the whole country, when he
told the committee:
"All we want is a regulation which
will make it easy for the man who
wants butter to get butter. The Lev
err bill will injure the dairy industry,