108 THIRTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



co-operting with, extending and emphasizing the work of the different 

 State departments. 



Within a little over a year and a half a certain amount of executive 

 work has been added by the national division by the passage of that law 

 which ought to be of interest to a Vermont audience because that law 

 is popularly known as the Grout bill, bearing the name of one of your 

 most honored sons and one of your most useful representatives in 

 Congress. It has added to the fame and glory of Vermont as a dairy 

 State and the dairymen of the country will ever hold in grateful recol- 

 lection the name of your representative in Congress, Representative 

 Grout, who gave his name and an immense amount of work so long and 

 faithfully to the bill. That bill was originally and primarily a bill to 

 further restrict the dishonest sale of a fraudulent commodity. 



The work that was done for that bill by our friend, Governor 

 Ho'ard, Mr. Knights and others was something that words cannot ex- 

 press. One day I received a telegram from Mr. Knights saying the 

 position of Senator Hoar was in doubt, and that he wished me to write 

 to him at once. He sent me a lot of statistics with which to load my 

 letter to convince the Senator of the necessity for the passage of the 

 bill. There is no one in the country who holds Mr. Knights in more 

 respect than I do, but upon that point I differed with him. My opinion 

 was that with Senator Hoar a different line of policy was necessary, so 

 I wrote him a letter discussing the question from the broad moral 

 standard of a fraud that ought to be restricted and curtailed. I told 

 him that a number of men had joined themselves together in a cor- 

 poration to manufacture oleomargarine in Rhode Island — none of them 

 were Vermont men, none had any interest in any other State except 

 Rhode Island, but the corporation's title was the "Vermont Manufac- 

 turing Co." That was a typical illustration of the nature of the oleo- 

 margarine business from the Atlantic to the Pacific, men doing business 

 in Rhode Island with the corporate title of the "Vermont Manufacturing 

 Company." The Senator voted for our bill. 



The oleomargarine people are a sly set of fellows. When the bill 

 was in the process of passage they announced they had found out a 

 certain butter known as renovated butter was being shown in a dis- 

 honest way to a great extent. They thought that would throw a little 

 dust in the eyes of the public and perhaps give some glory to them- 

 selves, but our good friends, Governor Hoard, Congressman Adams 

 and Mr. Knights, were not to be fooled in that way; they did not think 

 because there were other sins it made the one of the oleomargarine 

 people any less. So our friends took the oleomargarine amendment as 

 to renovated butter and put it through alongside of the Grout bill, so 

 we have now not only certain regulations relative to oleomargarine, 

 but certain regulations relative to renovated butter, and under the law 

 as it now is no renovated butter can be exported unless inspected by 

 the Agricultural Department through its dairy division. As the result 

 at least one shipment of renovated butter has been held up ana re- 



