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up some sentiment in favor of the Grout bill, and incidentally he got a 

 few people in Atlanta to introduce a bill placing further restrictions on 

 butteriue. The cotton-seed oil people found it out and killed the bill 

 in a few days. That happened three weeks ago. 



Mr. CONLEY. I was going to state, Mr. Chairman, that if you will go 

 back a few years in the South everybody had prejudices against the 

 use of cotton-seed oil in cooking. They raise it there, and as I stated, 

 it comes from the waste. We used to throw it away and never made 

 any use of it. Everybody was prejudiced against it, and it is only in 

 the last year or two that it has become so notoriously healthful a food. 

 Since then I am satisfied the laws have not been changed; but at the 

 same time the product and the article are sold in all those States right 

 along without any interruption. 



The ACTING CHAIRMAN. That would simply indicate the lawlessness 

 of the business. 



Mr. CONLEY. How is that 1 ? 



The ACTING CHAIRMAN. That would indicate a disposition on the 

 part of those interested in the business to disregard and violate the 

 statutes. That is not a healthy sign. 



Mr. CONLEY. Well, 1 think any one of our Southern States can vio- 

 late a statute when they want to do it, you know. 



The ACTING CHAIRMAN. I should think that was so. 



STATEMENT OF WILLIAM PERSON, REPRESENTING AMMON & 

 PERSON, JERSEY CITY, N. J. 



GENTLEMEN OF THE COMMITTEE: In speaking to you of the subject 

 under consideration, it will perhaps be difficult to present it to you in 

 any way more convincing than it has already been given to you by 

 those who have heretofore had your patient and courteous attention. 



llepresenting a firm reputed to be one of the largest and let me 

 here impress upon you at all times legitimate dealers in oleomargarine, 

 I may be pardoned for the belief that as a dealer i can give you some 

 facts which will merit your full consideration, if not your indorsement. 



In our State, New Jersey, we have several hundred retail dealers in 

 the product duly licensed and under the constant espionage and con 

 trol ot the revenue department of this great Government, and as is 

 conceded by the Commissioner, with ample means in men and money 

 to rigorously enforce every requirement of the severe regulations which 

 have from time to time been promulgated. Besides this, New Jersey 

 has a dairy commissioner, who, as his title indicates, is clothed by law 

 with full authority to control the sale of all butter substitutes within 

 the State. Let me here say that New Jersey has the exceptional dis- 

 tinction of being about the only State the law of which closely dove 

 tails or harmonizes with the Federal law in requiring every seller of 

 oleomargarine to convey with each sale his full name and address, 

 together with the amount and nature of the article he sells as a sub 

 stitute for butter. 



As proof of this I desire to have go in the record these examples of 

 tickets commonly used by dealers throughout New Jersey : 



10 Ibs. oleomargarine, 



Aminon & Person, 



138-140 Ninth street, 



Jersey City, N. J. 



