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with numerous safeguards which Congress in its wisdom has seen fit 

 to provide. 



"Experience has taught us that it is just what a large majority of the 

 people in this country want, and in behalf of the producers and con- 

 sumers of the great Northwest we do solemnly protest against the 

 enactment of legislation calculated to ruin a great industry. 



"CHARLES L. HAAS, 

 u President South St. Paul Live Stock Exchange. 



"H. B. CARROLL, 

 " Secretary South St. Paul Lwe Stock Exchange." 



These are resolutions passed by the Texas Cotton-Seed Crushers' 

 Association: 



"DEAR SIR: At a meeting of the Cotton-Seed Crushers' Association, 

 held in Dallas on Tuesday, November 14, 1899, T. P. Sullivan, of Jef- 

 ferson; R. K. Erwin, of Waxahachie; W. R. Moore, of Ardmore, Ind. T., 

 and Robert Gibson, secretary, of Dallas, were appointed a committee 

 to draft resolutions expressive of the sense of the meeting on the 

 matters discussed. The resolutions as submitted were unanimously 

 adopted, and are as follows: 



"MARION SANSOM, Chairman: 



"The undersigned committee appointed by you beg leave to submit 

 the following preamble and resolutions: 



"Whereas the line of industrial business represented by this asso- 

 ciation is coextensive with the entire area of the cotton cultivated zone 

 of our Southern States, and in conjunction with cotton in its various 

 uses, represents the wealth of the South; and 



"Whereas Texas represents over 30 per cent of the cotton and cot- 

 ton seed annually produced in the United States, any embargo placed 

 by legislation on the growth and development of our industry is detri- 

 mental to the vast interests committed to our care. It is therefore 

 of most vital necessity that all avenues leading to the sale and con- 

 sumption of our cotton-oil products should be free and unrestricted, 

 and inasmuch as cotton oil is used to a large extent in the manufac- 

 ture of butterine, which is a most wholesome and healthful substitute 

 for butter; and 



Whereas a tax at present exists of 2 cents per pound on the manu- 

 facture of this most healthful article of food, and that it is contem- 

 plated to introduce at the next session of Congress an increased tax of 

 10 cents per pound on same: It is, therefore, 



" 'Resolved, That this association enter its protest against the existing 

 tax of 2 cents per pound on butterine and ask for its abrogation and 

 repeal, and against the introduction or adoption of any future tax on 

 same as an article of food, as it directly afl'ects our great industry both 

 at home and on the continent of Europe, where a cheap and wholesome 

 article of food, such as butterine, is appreciated. 



"Resolved, That we believe the imposition of a special tax of this 

 nature is class legislation and should be combated by all the means at 

 our command, and that our Senators and Representatives in Congress 

 are hereby requested to give us all the necessary aid in this behalf; 

 and it is further 



' ' Resolved, That the secretary of this association transmit a copy of 

 these resolutions to each cotton-oil mill in the South, with the request 



