412 OLEOMARGARINE. 



Mr. CULBERSON. Mr. Peters has not been heard at all. 



Mr. KNIGHT. There were two gentlemen here who stayed almost a 

 week, but did not have an opportunity to be heard, and they have left 

 their statements, which they ask to be filed. 



Senator DOLLIVER. They may be tiled with the stenographer and 

 printed with the proceedings. 



The statements referred to are as follows : 



WASHINGTON, D. C., January 5, 1901. 



GENTLEMEN : I hereby respectfully request to be permitted to tile 

 with your honorable body, to be printed in the records, the indorse 

 ment of the Watertown Produce Exchange, of the State of New York, 

 of the so called "Grout bill." That board, composed of a large num- 

 ber of representative citizens of the State of New York, through me, as 

 their delegate, request your honorable committee to report the said 

 bill favorably, to the end that the fraudulent practices now in vogue 

 in the sale and use of oleomargarine by the retailers and its use in 

 hotels and restaurants fraudulently represented as butter may be 

 stopped. 



This board would not favor the bill if its only object were to drive 

 competitors out of the market. It believes firmly in giving free scope 

 to honest competition, but it believes that no fraud should be the 

 vehicle or avenue of commerce whatsoever, and it therefore believes 

 that this is a question worthy the notice of the Congress of the United 

 States, and asks that your honorable body provide against such fraud 

 by the enactment of this measure into a law. 



Respectfully, W. A. ROGERS. 



The COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY 



OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE, 



Washington, D. C. 



CHAIRMAN COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY, 



UNITED STATES SENATE, 



Washington, D. C. 



Mr. CHAIRMAN: On account of the pressure for time in your com- 

 mittee by those conducting the oleomargarine side of the questions 

 involved in the Grout bill, I have been unable to be heard, although I 

 have been present here for nearly a week. The press of business at 

 home demands that I return. I therefore beg leave to lay this written 

 communication before you, to the end that a few facts may be placed 

 upon record relative to the attitude of the National Grange and of the 

 State Grange of the State of New York in the matter of the so called 

 " Grout bill." 



1 1 has been stated by those opposed to this bill that the farmers of 

 this country are not interested in the measure and do not want it. 

 The National Grange represents over three hundred ihousand agri 

 culturists of the United States, and the State Grange of the State of 

 New York represents over sixty thousand, and yet both of these bodies, 

 after due consideration of all the questions involved, passed resolutions 

 indorsing the said bill and requesting the Congress of the United 

 States to enact it into a law. 



I am master of the State Grange of the State of New York and a 

 member of the executive and legislative committees of the National 

 Grange, and come here in such official capacity as the representative of 



