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six hundred creamery operators and it is possible to get that 

 fellow who is about to use poor quality of cream to make butter 

 and fine him, he will not do business that way. That is the 

 kind of law we want. 



Mr. McNary: There is a law on the statute books to that 

 effect. Any man that knows of a crime, the law exists just the 

 same against him as the man who perpetrates the crime. That 

 is the law on the statute books. If you know that I stole a 

 horse they will hold you just the same as they do me, if you 

 do not report that crime. 



Mr. Wright : Did you ever know a man that was put 

 in prison for stealing a horse that way, by proxy? You could 

 not convict him in a thousand years. 



Mr. McNary: The buttermaker at our creamery is a first 

 class man, a gentleman in every respect. A man came to the 

 creamery with about 75 pounds of milk more than the day before; 

 the buttermaker asked him how it came. Well he said "That is 

 none of your business." Well the buttermaker said he would 

 not take a lot of milk that came from a fresh cow; one word 

 brought on another and the buttermaker pushed the patron over. 

 The patron came to me (they call me the "Irish Justice of 

 Hudson"). I asked the buttermaker what was the cause of the 

 trouble and he told me the facts; the patron did not deny it and 

 said 'T did bring some of that kind of milk in." I refused to 

 issue a paper but said "1 wnll have this man appear at any hour 

 you want but you are the criminal for bringing in such milk 

 not him." I read the statute to him which showed that 

 in his case the lowest fine is $25, while in the case against the 

 buttermaker the fine is down to nothing. I asked the butter- 

 maker why he did not turn the milk out and he said that the 

 officers in the creamery would not back him up in it. As long 

 as you tie the buttermakers' hands you are taking up all this dirt 

 and putting it into the butter. 



Mr. Bart : I would like to ask Mr. Wright this : Supposing 

 we had such a law and the buttermaker claimed he did not want 



