Show BUTTER Bill SHOWS SMS TRICKS OF TRADE THADE Water Logged Product in Local Market Kills Kis Com Corn petition HOW PUBLIC IS CHEATED Supporter of Measure Presents DI Dis DIs- closure of or Methods Used ii h by Inh Dairy Jogged Vater butter bUler was rapped by hy bytho hythe time the senate committee mn on manufacturers ers erg and commerce yesterday and during tur- tur dur lug ing hum tho consideration of r Sen Senator llor Seely's Seely butter butler huter bill bi a startling con condition condi llon l- l ion tion lon was wan brought to to light through a aletter aletter letter Iter from a prominent creamery creamer milan man who vim asked alced that an amendment be attached to time the hill hi prohibiting time the tle manufacture or 0 sale of or butter buller buter that contained moro more mort than luau th IG 16 per pr c cent nt o of water It n was charged In the time letter leter that thal 1 th thin the manufacturer could not nol sell sel butter uter in Suit Salt Lake because of th the Tact that thai I II other r ot manufacturers make male butter buter I with wih more water nut and thell thereby kIll competition The lime lete letter rays I A 4 lei Pertinent hWI SI Senator Seely's mu measure Uc In relation rein rela tion lion to 10 the weight of butter buter is a good gool measure and auth will vIll wi lieu help hell us UR materially It I dos do's tines does not go far enough howo er however The Tho bill bi should provide that It I will wil wi also alM b bo be unlawful to sell butter butler luler containing con con- morn more morl than IG 10 per 11 cent o of wat water h The good people of Salt Sail I Lake oday are nc paying for Cor 1 11 15 r per por Pl cent morO more water in bulk hul hulor of or the butter than timan th should do o If It I lh time the short weight ht ant and water logged butter Is kept Oll out I Imay It Itra ra may be bl that thai wo tio 0 can al again get on the theSal Salt Sal I Lake IkC market mark marker We Ye have not hot sold sohl solda a pound of butter butter- on omi 01 that market t for tur two years oars on out account of oC this timis unfair oni imet I t I Oh OhI I enclose you clippings from rom the time Dairy Press published at San FranIsco Franisco Fran Fran- Frn- Frn Isco stating that the tho people of that city cit ar are getting tired tred of paying for so much water and anti that they lie are arc r going to get gt even by ly enforcing th the national law of 1902 Of or cour course e we could coull do tin dothe the sm same but Inasmuch a as this bill hi 1 is IH ip ap wo we WI think It should hould cover er this thi poi point point ii t Ho It II Is lom In support of his hl measure Senator Seely presented the following ex exPO ex- ex PO of water logged butter as pub huh In the tIme Dul Dairy Daimy Review printed a at SLUm Soji SO Francisco That a n number lumber of creameries In California are likely to contribute Jh- Jh lib him orally emily ri If unwillingly to Uncle UnI Sams Rams treasury seems to be b. b indicated h by re recent 10 re- re cent developments Time rhe Review has ninny many times warned warnel our creameries that tha In trying to crowd crowl excessive l' l an of water Into lr butter buter they were wre taking chances of or getting Into trouble with wih time the In internal re nu revenue t tor of or the time fc federal Jo government Owing Owing to th time the slowness Iowne s of these officials to ae act the water fraud has imas n bec-n tarried carried 01 on with wih extreme boldness But while the tho federal officials be slow In inny II noton 11 there here Is something about them when hn something tI c Into notion t ln JV 2 never 1 stops slops cj te ll I Although j h little lull or 01 hn hums hns appeared ap imp- to attract It I hn has hns be ben been n known that for Cor sonic some months month that agents of oC time the treasury ul department haon ha have boon been on omm lh the trail trai of or a n number of tIt creameries In California la a and ni ha have haf f gradually come camp so 1 near r to ti a round u up up that It cannot be lie Il kept quiet an any ammy longer long long- cr er The rime work is iN being inG done under unter time tho of tim the iii Internal nu Ie revenue thIs thIs- l who whose office orico in iii charge of Collector Coltor Collect Collect- Colt Colt- or John C. C Lyn Lynch l I is located In San 1 Francisco In addition to the time local 1031 of of- ricers a i t special representative of the time internal revenue rC IHle department p d at al WashIngton Wash Ington has hns been 11 on the ground to direct tIme the work and ld information has hus leaked out oll to thin the effect that limit samples ha have been taken from flom a number of creameries creamer creamer- l- l ies ts and among them suite lul a few pw have hav been found to have ha evaded p paying the Internal revenue rC IH tax tx of ten cents tents a pound by reason of their having over 1 0 1 JG IC per pr e ent nt tol water warel In their product lu JI Ol vase case casl It I Is I stated ta t td t that Iu 1 over o el 3 30 J per cen cent t thas has Imas h el found When hen the 11 offices of time the Internal revenue rV nyc reve nue nie service icE over 1 co 1 l that ha t a hl ter producer r has bus hug been making a n practice of exceeding the th lawful limit of wat water r rin in huts his butter without sit paying time the 11 12 1 ei and auth 11 IX taxes S required his lok books are seized seised and antI the Lime amount of butter made nnie in this way war is I determined am aman and an aim n agreement i is hi levied 1 at at ten cents Ints a I pound which must J be paid pahl at jit t t O once 01 ot the time creamery 1 Is seized and ant put oui out ont oi of nr business ins and the tue own owner I goes KOPS gOIR to lo jai jail II It Itis I Is reported that creameries In tho time l Eastham East Kast nt have ham t hU beun lo to pay PY lar large e RUm in iii this a. way under protest which thue they can only recover reco b by bringing suit sui against time the government nt There ht re Is IN a n report re rc re port current to the time effect that hint by lh the I line lime time the tH officers get through with wih th time the California creameries they have detect detect- Iw mu id i'd In ui time the Illegal 1111 hu business of loading their thc butter huler with water that tile they will wi have hav secured from filly fifty rry to 10 one hundred thousand in taxis taxes Creameries that ate aie al' al Involved ol In are arc located In iii all al parts of tC f th time tho state slate The 11 action aton of oC time the lw government Jo In this t h I time the federal I law matter is la based upon tl passed In Irm ISO 10 lS which impo imposes a tax of oft t n ii cents ll n mu pound Ilo on 10 hutler hut hut- ler ter On One that Urt makes butter butler buler come coin under time th heath head of adulterated goods goOlS I Is 15 when time the tl wafer amler contained ex tX exceeds tx ce s n a certain maximum to be be pre pre- by hr time the Secretary of or Agriculture The Time maximum decided on I Is sixteen per ier cent It I Is IN for Cor making this kind Ind of or butter that hunt some onH of or our creameries will wll have to suter suffer |