Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1902 — OLEO BILL IS PASSED. [ARTICLE]

OLEO BILL IS PASSED.

Measure, Without the House Amendments, Put Through Senate. By the close vote of 37 to 35 a motion to recommit the oleomargarine bill was defeated ip the Senate. The bill was then passed without the House amendments, substantially in the form of the Grout bill, by a vote of 39 to 31. The Mooney or minority bill was defeated, 39 to 29. The bill will now go b*ek V» the House and probably into conference. There may be some delay in reaching an agreement, but the impression prevails that it will become law substantially in the form it passed the Senate. It provides that oleomargarine and kindred products shall be subject to ail laws and regulations of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, into which they are transported, whether in original packages or otherwise; that any (>erson who sells oleomargarine and furnishes it for the uses of others, except to his own family, who shall mix with it any artificial coloration that causes it to look like butter shall be held to be a manufacturer, and shall be subject to the tax provided by existing law; that upon oleo margarine colored so as to resemble butter. a tax of 10 cents a pound shall be levied, but upon oleomargarine not colored the tax shall be one-fourth of 1 cent per pound; that upon adulterated butter a tax of 10 cents a pound shall be levied; and upon all process or renovated butter the tax shall be one-fourth of 1 ecu-t ;>er pound. • The manufacturers of process or of renovated butter or of adulterated butter shall pay an annual tax of S6OO, the wljoh-sale dealers shall pay a tax of S4BO. and the retail dealers a tax of S4B per annum. The measure ;g-ovides regulations for the collection of the tax and prescribes minutely how the various products are to be prepared for market. Among the speakers were Senators Foraker. Penrose and Spooner, in .support of the measure, and Senators Money, Vest, Scott, Kean. Carmack and Rawlins, iq opposition. During the debate Mr. Kean laid before the Senate a sample of oleomargarine and Senator Frye said the sample would be laid on the table. The discussion was largely in the nature of a re-enfdrceinent of arguments previously advanced,