OLEOMARGAKINE. 473 



conclusion that oleomargarine was a good thing after all, and they 

 rescinded the action of the Federation of Labor of the city of Chicago, 

 and called on the legislature, I think, to repeal the law, or something 

 like that. 



Further than that, here last fall, before I came to Washington, I was 

 called on by the chairman and secretary of that Chicago Federation of 

 Labor. They showed me a resolution which had been put before that 

 body condemning the Grout bill, and they said they thought the whole 

 thing should have thorough investigation before it went through. I 

 took them along this Fifth avenue. They came to me at a hotel -which 

 is on Fifth avenue, and I went along Fifth avenue with them, because 

 it is within half a block of my office, and I could find throughout the 

 city 2,000 places like that where I bought the alleged butter. I showed 

 them these places. They were perfectly dumfounded that such a state 

 of affairs should exist, and they gave me their word that no resolution 

 of that kind should be passed, and that the Dairy Union should be. 

 assisted in its position in asking for this 10-cent tax. I knew nothing 

 further than that until this resolution came floating down here and was 

 put into the House. 



Senator HANSBROUGH. For or against the Grout bill? 



Mr. KNIGHT. Against the Grout bill. 



Mr. MoNAMEE. Do you mean to cast such an imputation as that 

 against the representatives of organized labor as to say they had been 

 seen and influenced? 



Mr. KNIGHT. I saw a couple of them myself. 



Mr. McNAMEE. You acknowledge here before this committee, do 

 you, that you have been trying to bribe members of organized labor 

 to 



Mr. KNIGHT. No, I do not. 



Mr. MCNAMEE. You make that insinuation that they had been seen 

 in order to change their opinion. We all know what that means. 



Mr. KNIGHT. No; they could not make any arrangements without 

 seeing them, I think. 



Senator ALLEN. I think you are under a little apprehension, Mr. 

 McNamee. 



Mr. SNIGHT. I want to pay my respects now to my friend from Cin- 

 cinnati. He has had a good deal to say here. I have heard from 

 Cincinnati since he has been talking. I can not read all I have heard 

 from Cincinnati, but I can put it in the record. I am very pleased to 

 have him vouch for one concern in Cincinnati with which I am well 

 acquainted that is, the French Brothers Dairy Company. If you will 

 look over the record you will find that he spoke of them as being very 

 nice people, and he said the president of the company was treasurer 

 of the county of Hamilton, or something of that sort, and that they 

 were not in such business as that they would be interfered with, and 

 that in the city of Cincinnati the business was done in a public way 

 and everything of that kind. I have a telegram here from French 

 Brothers Dairy Company, as follows : 



CINCINNATI, OHIO, January 9, 1901. 

 Secretary National Dairy Union, National Hotel, Washington, D. C. : 



Large percentage oleo sold here as butter. Hurts legitimate butter business. We 

 want Grout bill passed. 



THE FRENCH BROS. DAIRY Co. 



Mr. SCHELL. In order that there may be no conflict, I wish to call 

 attention to the statement that I made, which was that I had talked 

 with the Messrs. French personally, and with some young man in their 



