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stuff was sold surreptitiously, and all accomplished by the fact that 

 this stuff was sold for that which it was not, made possible by the fact 

 that the manufacturers colored it in semblance of yellow butter. 



Mr. Adams, who has preceded me, has very clearly demonstrated the 

 iniquity of this state of affairs and how the fraud is made possible. It 

 requires an expert to determine one from the other, and as an evidence 

 of that, no later than this very day, within the last hour, in company 

 with Mr. Hewes, I repaired to one of your principal hotels in Washing- 

 ton. We called for our dinner. The waiter brought us our dinner. 

 Upon the table he placed two plates, upon which was something sup- 

 posed to be butter. We examined it, and I immediately called the 

 waiter to my side. I said: "Take this back. Tell your proprietor that 

 I want butter, and not oleomargarine." In support of that statement 

 I have brought both here to you to-day. These are actual facts, Sena- 

 tors. The proprietor I afterwards called to my side and asked him the 

 question, "Did you buy this for butter or oleomargarine?" I said, "I 

 want a direct answer," and he admitted that he bought it for oleomar- 

 garine and served it to us as and for butter. We then called for a 

 piece of butter, which he furnished. 



Mr. HEWES. Here [exhibiting] is the oleomargarine he served first 

 and there is the butter which he gave afterwards. 



Mr. MEDAIBY. That came from a hotel this very day. It is an object 

 lesson. 



Mr. TILLINGHAST. Did you ask for butter? 



Mr. HEWES. We asked for dinner. 



Mr. MED AIRY. Then we asked him to bring some butter, and I 

 tasted it, as I always do. 



Mr. HEWES [exhibiting]. They are almost identical. 



Mr. MEDAIRY. These are the two samples. That has been my 

 experience almost without interruption in I do not know how many 

 instances. 



Senator ALLEN. Which do you say is the butter? 



Mr. MEDAIRY. I can tell you. 



Mr. HEWES. Anybody can tell. 



Senator ALLEN. You can tell which is which? 



Mr. MEDIARY. I am an expert in the business and claim to be able 

 to tell at any time. 



Mr. HEWES. Anybody can tell. If you smell it, you can determine. 



Mr. MEDAIRY. Do you prefer that I shall tell you? 



Senator ALLEN. My judgment is that that [indicating] is the oleo. 



Mr. MEDAIRY. Yes; that is right. 



Mr. HEWES. You can smell it. 



Mr. MEDAIRY. That is why we ask for legislation to preclude the 

 possibility of such deception, and by such deception as this the busi- 

 ness has grown to the magnitude which they have admitted that it has. 

 Gentlemen on the other side have stood up in this room in my presence 

 and have admitted that unless they colored the oleomargarine as you 

 see that sample colored they can not sell it. 1 think, with all due 

 respect to the representative of every industry that goes to make up 

 oleomargarine, that it is a reflection upon a Senator of the United States 

 to come here and ask him to support a measure that will tend to such 

 fraud. I do not doubt for one moment that the city of Baltimore is 

 but an index to the principal cities of the United States. 



Senator ALLEN. What hotel did this come from? 



Mr. MEDAIRY. The hotel opposite the Baltimore and Ohio depot. I 

 think it is called the B. and O. hotel. I called the proprietor to the 



