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from this thing at all prior to 1886? Not a dollar. There is not a 

 single gentleman who represents the other side but who is confident, 

 perhaps, that with uncolored oleomargarine properly put before the 

 public they can get a revenue of half a million dollars at least. 



Mr. WADSWORTH. What do we get under the color law at 10 cents? 



Mr. HEWES. I do not believe there will be very much uncolored oleo- 

 margarine sold, and therefore the public will be protected from this 

 fraud that is perpetrated upon them, illustrated to-day by what occurred 

 down here at this restaurant. 



The two cases that have been decided in Pennsylvania (in 133 Penn- 

 sylvania State Keports) and they are the leading cases now on that 

 subject go to show that if a man puts up a meal and serves oleomar- 

 garine, he sells oleomargarine. That is a retail sale of oleomargarine, 

 because the cost of the olernargarine is included in his bill of fare. 



Senator MONEY. Providing he has got butter on the bill of fare. 



Mr. HEWES. He has got no butter on the bill of fare, but the pre- 

 sumption is you are going to get butter. 



Senator HEITFELD. Suppose you go into a restaurant and ask for a 

 meal and do not get any butter at all. 



Mr. HEWES. You call for butter, or refuse to eat. 



Senator HEITFELD. Not in our part of the country. We often call 

 for it and don't get it. You go into a mining camp, and I will defy you 

 to get butter. 



Mr. HEWES. I never heard of that East. 



Senator HEITFELD. You could not carry it in there. There is no 

 possibility of it getting in there. It would be strong and rancid before 

 you could get it there. 



Mr. HEWES. Where is that? 



Senator HEITFELD. That is in the mining camps. 



Mr. HEWES. We are talking about east of the Mississippi Eiver. 



Senator HEITFELD. I do not consider it fraud, as a rule, to set up 

 oleomargarine in a hotel, unless the bill of fare contains butter and it 

 is palmed off' on you as butter. 



Mr. HEWES. Take it from the standpoint of a raining camp or any 

 other place, as rude and primitive as it may be. If you go into a res- 

 taurant and they put up anything at all, the presumption is it is butter. 

 You do not presume that a man is going to put oleomargarine on the 

 table for you; and if it was white, you would detect it immediately. 



There has been a great deal of talk here about the different grades of 

 butter. My friend the Secretary of Agriculture did not tell you about 

 the laws of foreign countries as fully as he could have told you, because 

 he knew well enough that was not evidence. The law of Belgium is just 

 the same as the law of Holland. The law of France is just as restricted 

 as the law of Holland. 



Senator DOLLIVER. How do they prevent people from getting the 

 counterfeit goods? 



Mr. HEWES. Senator, they make oleomargarine to be sold in a place 

 that is different from where butter can be sold. You can not go into 

 the oleomargarine division in Paris and ask for butter, and you can not 

 go into the butter division and ask for oleomargarine. 



Mr. TILLINGHAST. How does that protect the table? 



Mr. HEWES. That protects the people who buy it. We have our own 

 sins to answer for, however. We can not regulate the law of Paris. 



Senator DOLLIVER. But we are struggling for some method by which 

 to regulate our own affairs. 



Mr. HEWES. Yes ; you want to get the best. 



