Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-01-04
RELY. ON SENATE
TO KILL THE BILL
House Likely to Pass Measure
Giving Oleomargerine a
Fres Market.
Washington, Dec, 2S. 1911.

Washington, Dec, %. 1911
II row appears on the face of things
| that the House committee on agriculture
Will certainly report favorably the bill
| TO remove the disabilities from oleonar-
rcrinc and 10 give it practically free
market under the revised name OF mar
| germ The whole subject is now before
n subcommittee of the agricultural COM
mittee consisting Of Lever of South Caro-
| lima Ilefln Of Alabama, Bean of Texas,
llaughn of Iowa and Plumley of Ner-
lmont to Investigate the merits OF the
caec and report to the FUN committee.
! The names of the first three members
of the subcommittee. All southern men.
| indicate with reasonable certainty what
their report is likely to hc. Being from
| the South Of course they are Interested
in promoting Il much larger market for
cottonsecd oil. q large constituent part
of oleomargcrne. and therefore their
sentiment can be easily discounted. n
majority Of the subcommittee and the
full committee win report in favor Of
the bill and quite likely it will later
lbe pushed through the House. OF course
, Representatives plunley and IIaughn
interests Of real butter. bu, there is
little doubt that the steam roller will
pass over the republican members of the
icommittee, who nearly all represent dairy
districts However. the action of the
House will settle nothing. When the bill
reaches the Senate il viii run into a
snag which is likely to rip "a fatal nole
in IT, ard there is hardly It possibility Of
it passing that boGy
vital difference of opinion between
the House and Senate. as a, present con-
Istituted can always Re counted on with
practical certainty. This fact is more
lvividly illustrated just now in the matter
of the so-called Sherwood service pen
sion Till which recently passed the House
with such whoop. In fact the vote for
lit would have been unanimous had it
not been for Malhv Of the northernost
New York district. To-day tangible
rumor comes from Il republican com
mittee room of the Senate to the effec;
that the administration has about de-
cided to swing its influence in favor OF
the so-called Sulloway bill witch passed
the House last winter If the Senate
were to enact that. or something similar,
it would 80 to conference and the House
previously in earnest in it, apparent solici-
tude for the old soldier If it's vote was
Il political bluff that fact would develop
by its refusal to agree in conference
and the bill would fall between two
stools AS an administration measure the
Sulloway bill would of course he signed
: by the President should it ever rcacl
him. In the meantime. awaiting actio,
: | he. all
dividuai pension legislation will be held
up in committee The status of nearly
, all Of them would he entirely different
in the event of the passage OF gen
| eral bill. and therefore :. bad mix-uI
, would result.
, That the average citizen is prone t,
criticize anything which he does no
, clearly understand is eXAmpliied by III,
3. attacks now being made on the working.
Of the weather bureau Just now whcr
the service Is before the House committe.
2 asking for funds for many extension
D of its work. An operative of the weathc
V bureau system has to be Il scientific cx
, pert. and the labor, of the bureau arr
l a hopeless tangle to the intelligence o
the ordinary mortal Therefore. when III
r common or garden variety of bucol
= money Is going and how it is exp, ndet
: and cannot make mead nor tail of If
, he can give his conscience an immunit,
2 bath by making a horizontal reduction C.
, about thirty-threc per cent. IN tn
Q amount asked for and call il Il GOO
days work. Seriously. the weathc
bureau is doing a tremendous work. vas
in its scope aid far-reaching IN it
effects. It is saving millions Of dollar
Of the wealth of the country every mont
by It's forecasts of storms and frosts
to say nothing OF iunumorahle live
= saved by advance cyclone and tornad
u signals of especial value at sea. Tha
u there is room for economy in the admin
u straton of other branches OF the gov
:. but the weather department can i
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