Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1904 — OLEOMARGARINE LAW UPHELD. [ARTICLE]

OLEOMARGARINE LAW UPHELD.

Court Says Tax on Colored Article la Constitutional. The United States Supreme Court has handed down a decision declaring constitutional the act of Congress which imposes a tax of 10 cents a pound on oleomargarine when colored like butter. This verdict is expected to make it difficult for butterine manufactories to exist. The issue was taken to the Supreme Court as the result of the prosecir.ion by United States officials of Leo W. McCray. Fifty pounds of oleomargarine, colored like butter, were bought by McCray for resale. On his stock he paid a tax of one-quarter of 1 cent a pound, which is the tax on uncolored oleomargarine, instead of the tax of 10 cents a pound, which Congress has declared should be paid on tffl oleomargarine colored to look like butter. McCray was convicted in Ohio and then the case was appealed. According to the men interested in the making of butterine in Chicago, the payment of the tax not enly means a loss of the money, but it also means a loss of all the money spent in the building of the factories. There Is no loophole of any kind for either the government or the butterine manufacturers. The decision says explicitly what constitutes coloied butterine, and declares the law to be constitutional. Ex-Senator John M. Thurston of Nebraska has received a gift of an 800ounce “matte" of pure gold, the product of a mine in Nicaragua. Senator Thurston is counsel for James Deltrick, who has a concession of 2.000.000 acres of land and other rights in Nicaragua. . 4,. .i an in A six-hour fight during a snowstorm two miles below Karo Pana, Tibet, cost the British forces Captain Bethune and three men killed and twenty-one wounded, but gained the position, which had been defended by 1,300 Tibetans, who lost 200 men.