300 OLEOMARGARINE. 



He is having some figures prepared here in the Agricultural Depart- 

 ment, and will not be able to obtain them before 4 o'clock. 



The ACTING CHAIRMAN. To-day? 



Mr. JELKE. To-day; yes, sir. I have just seen Senator Culberson 

 in regard to the matter. He will be here in a few moments. He said 

 he spoke to several members of the committee, and thought there 

 would be no objection to his being heard to-morrow. 



The ACTING CHAIRMAN. The committee has not taken action on the 

 matter; but it has been suggested by the chairman, whom we all delight 

 to support in matters of this kind, because of his great wisdom, that 

 the hearings be held open until Thursday, and that to-morrow be given 

 to the cotton-seed oil people. 



Mr. JELKE. Yes, sir. 



The ACTING CHAIRMAN. We understand that there are four repre- 

 sentatives of that industry here. 



Mr. JELKE. Yes, sir. I do not know their number. The statistics 

 which one of the gentlemen wanted are being prepared now in the 

 Department of Agriculture, and he will be ready to present them to- 

 morrow morning. 



Senator HEITFELD. That is what they asked for in the first place. 



Mr. JELKE. Yes, sir; he came here in pursuance of that arrange- 

 ment, and he can not possibly present his statement any earlier, if it 

 meets the approval of the committee. 



Senator MONEY. There is another gentleman here by the name of 

 Culbertson, too. 



Mr. JELKE. Yes; he is in the room now. 



Senator HEITFELD. I would suggest that we go on now. 



The ACTING CHAIRMAN. Shall we go on, then, with the understand- 

 ing that the cotton industry and others of the oleomargarine side of 

 this case conclude their testimony to-morrow, and that on Thursday 

 the butter people shall close the case? Can we get consent to that 

 proposition 1 



Senator MONEY. I do not want to compel the cotton-seed oil people 

 to go on to-day. If they have more to say than we said to-day I think 

 they ought to be heard. Still, if they think that that is enough time 

 for them it makes no difference to me. 



The ACTING CHAIRMAN. Mr. Schell, who has been speaking for 

 quite awhile (as I stated awhile ago), announces that he will be 

 through now in a few minutes. I assume that the remainder of to-day 

 and the whole of to-morrow can be devoted to the hearing of the 

 cotton-seed oil interest. 



Senator MONEY. Whenever they get through I am quite willing 

 that they shall stop. 



Mr. SCHELL. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee: I 

 think I am the only one speaking against this bill who has said any- 

 thing about conceding the right of the friends of the bill to close. I 

 have already said that when one side opens the case and then claims 

 the right to close, the person speaking on that side must present their 

 full case in the beginning, and must in the end confine their testimony, 

 or what they have to offer, to rebuttal of what the other side have had 

 to say. At the same time I said that if they introduced any new evi- 

 dence or any new features in the case whatever, we would claim it, not 

 as a privilege, but as a right, and one which we thought the committee 

 would not deny us, in view of the fairness it has shown in the past, to 

 be heard in rebuttal of any new argument which they advanced. 



The ACTING CHAIRMAN. Under those circumstances I can not very 



