Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-02-08
CHANGES MADE IN
CIRCUIT 0LE0 Law
President Carter of Vermont
Dairymen's Association Re.
ports on Work.


as YOU may remember at the meotIns
Of the Vermont Dairymcn's association IN
burlington in January. Congressman Eos.
ter asked that a representative he sent 10
TO assist MIR. pItmlov in on.
posing the repeal OF the circuit olcofuar.
parinc law rho choice foll on me for No
other reason. apparently. except that
had the time.
! went 10 Washington and found ths
situation somewhat peculiar Tho oIp,
manufacturers were urging
that since their product was rs-..
wholesome article of food. and 50 rcoog
nized by tine pure food and drug ac'. than
the law Numbered the legitimate expansion
of their business.
The labor ORGANIZATIONS. on account Of
the present high prices Of butter. were
demanding the repeal of tho law, having
the mistaken notion that its repeal would
lower the price of butter, or at least on
able them to purchase substitute AZ Il
low price. Allied with the above interest.
was the Internal revenue department
The SOLICITOR general Of internal rever .s
affirmed that it was impossible to enfor.n
the law owing to its inherent defects. and
that the law in itself was an inducemc1t
to fraud and furnished the means OF p.l-
petrating such fraud.
| must confess that T. like most farn-
ers. was possessed with the idea tina. iHa
tax on oleoma rgarne was n cents =
r..
pound. bu, the law specifies ,hr ON olco
'artinclally colored tax Of 10 cents .
pound mist be paid The word "artf1-
clally' was the Joker The courts held
that any essential ingredient which en-
tered into the composition OF Olco. how
ever much il might color the product.
could not be held to be 'artinc.al' color
Consequently the manufacturers Of oleo
sought for and employed oils and lngrcd-
ents which while entering into the conf
position OF the substance would produce
the yellow color. Furthermore. the 'AX
on uncolored oleo being onc-fourt1 Of H.
cent, and on colorcd % cents wa tn"
great induccmout 20 fraud Tho dealers
secured their licenses to sell ho.n colorel
and uncolorcd. .1irchased few packages
of the colored on which The tax Of ~
cents had been paid. then purchased large
quantities Of uncolored which they coll
ored themselves and sold from the pack
ages which bore the STAMP for coiuf--
oleomargarne. They could easily do this
for the law specified that tho stamp or
the package must not he destroyed until
such package was empty. The result
was that the dealer never Above; q.
package to get empty
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,.,t,o asui.,irg tho ol.o manufacturer.
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