OLEOMARGARINE. 61 



"After the constitution and by-laws were read and adopted, the fol- 

 lowing resolutions were offered by A. A. Haynes: 



" ^Re'solved, That this association, representing millions of dollars 

 of invested capital in the South, strongly protest against national class 

 legislation which aims directly at the destruction of competition in 

 the manufacture and sale of wholesome and healthful articles of food. 



" ''Resolved, That we protest strenuously against the passage by Con- 

 gress of the Grout oleomargarine bill, which proposes to tax oleomar- 

 garine 10 cents per pound, and thus to drive it from the market. 



"'JResolved, That this association implores Congress not to destroy 

 an industry which now uses nearly 10,000,000 pounds of the best grade 

 of cotton-seed oil annually, and thus kill that quantity of our most 

 profitable output. 



" k Resolved, That we urge the legislatures of South Carolina and of 

 other Southern States to remove from their statute books the anti- 

 oleomargarine legislation thereon, because such acts are only in the 

 interest of the renovated and process butter factories of the North and 

 Northwest, and against the hog fats, beef fats, and cotton-seed-oil 

 products grown on our Southern farms. 



" ' 'Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the National 

 Provisioner, of New York and Chicago, the indomitable champion of 

 the cotton-oil interests, for publication, and that the members of this 

 association proceed to secure, if possible, the repeal of the obnoxious 

 State laws above referred to. 



" ^Resolved, That this association will do what it can to cause the 

 defeat of the Grout antioleomargarine bill in Congress during the 

 coming session." 1 



This is a resolution passed by the Mercantile Club of Kansas City, Mo. 



Senator BATE. They are all to the same purport? 



Mr. MILLER. Yes, sir. 



KANSAS CITY, KANS., MERCANTILE CLUB. 



THE MERCANTILE CLUB, 

 Kansas City, Kans. , March H, 1900. 



At a recent meeting of the Mercantile Club the following resolution 

 was adopted: 



" Whereas bills have been introduced in the Senate and House of 

 Representatives as follows: H. R. No. 6, by Mr. Tawney, of Minne- 

 sota; H. R. No. 43, by Mr. Davidson, of Wisconsin; H. R. No. 3717, 

 by Mr. Grout, of Vermont; H. R. No. 6445, by Mr. Glynn, of New 

 York; H. R. No. 2049, by Mr. Allen, of Nebraska, increasing the 

 present tax of 2 cents a pound on butterine to 10 cents per pound; and 



"Whereas such legislation, if enacted, is calculated to build up one 

 industry at the expense of tearing down and ruining another, and will 

 in effect amount to the giving of a monopoly to the industry sought to 

 be benefited by such legislation at the expense of another by means 

 of uncalled-for taxation; and 



"Whereas the destruction of the oleomargarine or butterine indus- 

 try would greatly impair the market value of beef cattle, doing great 

 injustice to cattlemen of Kansas, and would be a severe blow to the 

 manufacturing interests of Kansas City, United States of America: 

 Therefore, be it 



