OLEOMARGARINE. 503 



Now, that excites some feeling among our friends upon the other 

 side. But I want to say to Mr. Knight and to this committee that we 

 do not base our case before this committee or before Congress upon any 

 particular act of a single Federal official, however discreditable it may 

 have been. The case which we are endeavoring to establish before this 

 committee is simply this and we have proved it; I will not take the 

 time to recite the proof that this business of selling oleomargarine, 

 colored in imitation of butter, is permeated with fraud at some stage 

 or other of the proceedings. It is not vital to this case that a single 

 instance like this should go into the record. And I will ask Mr. Knight's 

 consent, and that of the gentleman on the other side and of the com- 

 mittee, to strike out of the record everything which relates to the 

 internal-revenue collector of Chicago. 



Senator HANSBROUGH. 1 think myself that the record ought to be 

 edited with a great big blue pencil. 



The ACTING CHAIRMAN. It must be, or it will make a volume bigger 

 than this desk. 



Senator MONEY. Mr. Chairman, here is Mr. MacNamee, representing 

 the Confederated Labor Union of Columbus, Ohio, who wants to make 

 about ten minutes 7 remarks. 



The ACTING CHAIRMAN. We have heard him, but I think we will 

 hear him again. 



Before he begins, however, do you insist, Senator Money, upon this 

 matter being telegraphed to Mr. Coyne 1 ? 



Senator MONEY. Oh, no; not if the whole matter is to be stricken 

 out of the record, although the impression will be left upon the minds 

 of the committee. 



The ACTING CHAIRMAN. And do the gentlemen who have made 

 these statements consent that they shall go out altogether? 



Senator MONEY. I believe, Senator, that I will insist, if you please, 

 upon this statement being sent to Mr. Coyne. Then we can take the 

 liberty of striking them both out of the record if we choose to do it. 



The ACTING CHAIRMAN. Very well. 



Mr. KNIGHT. Senator, I will appeal to the committee to sustain me 

 in the statement that I did not bring these things in voluntarily. 



The ACTING CHAIRMAN. The record shows that. 



Mr. KNIGHT. And so far as I am concerned, I am willing that they 

 should be stricken out. 



The ACTING CHAIRMAN. Now, what further are we to do this morn- 

 ing, gentlemen? 



Senator HANSBROUGH. I think it would be a good idea to adjourn. 

 I would like to ask now who desires to be heard this afternoon? 



Senator MONEY. Pretty nearly all of the gentlemen who have 

 appeared thus far have talked indiscriminately; but I should like to 

 suggest to the committee that on Monday I shall move to close these 

 hearings by Wednesday. 



The ACTING CHAIRMAN. By the following Wednesday? 



Senator MONEY. By the following Wednesday. 



Senator HANSBROUGH. Oh, I think that is too long a time. 



The ACTING CHAIRMAN. Very well; then I will make this sugges- 

 tion, and I want Senator Money to hear it, that if we can get a full 

 committee or a majority of the committee here this afternoon I shall 

 move to close these hearings by Monday night. 



Senator MONEY. You can not get the full committee here, that is cer- 

 tain, because Senator Warren will not be here. 



The ACTING CHAIRMAN. Well, if we can get a majority of them 

 here. 



