430 OLEOMARGARINE. 



Secretary WILSON. Can you let us have it in pounds ? Then we will 

 understand it. 



Mr. CULBERSON. If you multiply that by fifty and by seven and a 

 half you will get it. A million and a half times fifty will give you the 

 gallons, and multiply that by seven and a half and it will give you the 

 pounds. 



Secretary WILSON. I am speaking of what is in the cotton seed. 



Mr. CULBERSON. You spoke of the fact that oleomargarine abroad 

 was not colored, did you not? 



Secretary WILSON. Oleomargarine sent from here to Europe? 



Mr. CULBERSON. No; manufactured abroad. Is it colored or un- 

 colored ? 



Secretary WILSON. That I do not know. 



Mr. CULBERSON. I will say that I know of my own personal knowl- 

 edge that it is colored. 



Secretary WILSON. Very good. 



Mr. CULBERSON. And is almost identical in appearance with that 

 sold here as oleomargarine. 



Senator ALLEN. Is that shipped from this country abroad ? 



Mr. CULBERSON. No, sir; it is made in Rotterdam, in Holland, and 

 is made in Germany. 



Senator ALLEN. That is not the question. Is the oleomargarine you 

 export colored before it leaves this country? 



Mr. TILLINGHAST. Yes, sir; every pound of it. 



Mr. MILLER. All the butterine we export is colored. We do not sell 

 any in Europe or in England, because there are large manufacturers over 

 there. There is one factory in London that makes more butterine in 

 one year than all the factories in the United States. 



The CHAIRMAN. Those are statements you can make. I hardly think 

 it is necessary to detain the Secretary in this general discussion. We 

 are very much obliged to you, Mr. Secretary, and we shall be very glad 

 to hear anything further from you that you wish to say. 



Secretary WILSON. I have nothing further to say, and I am very much 

 obliged to the committee for their attention. 



Senator ALLEN. If the Secretary has any further information that he 

 would like to submit to us before we make our report, I think we should 

 be glad to have it. 



Secretary WILSON. I shall be glad to do so, and I shall see to it that 

 you get some genuine butter in your family before the winter is over. 



(At this point Senator Proctor left the room and Senator Hansbrough 

 took the chair.) 



The ACTING CHAIRMAN. Mr. Adams, are you ready to proceed? 



Mr. ADAMS. Yes, sir. 



STATEMENT OF H. G. ADAMS. 



Mr. ADAMS. Gentlemen of the committee, I will take up this subject 

 at a point where it was dropped by Secretary Wilson. 



The statement has been repeatedly made that the friends of the Grout 

 Bill are endeavoring to destroy the oleomargarine industry, and they 

 base their argument upon the statement of our position. They have 

 proceeded to attack us as being men who are striving to fight down one 

 legitimate industry in the interest of another. These gentlemen can 

 not be permitted to state our position for us. We appear here for our- 

 selves, and I desire to say to this committee on my own behalf and OD 



