504 OLEOMARGARINE. 



Senator MONEY. I will try to be here, although I am attempting to 

 keep up with the Army bill at the same time. 



The ACTING CHAIRMAN. I shall make the motion, then. I think the 

 hearings ought to be closed and the report, whatever it may be, made. 



Senator MONEY. Well, gentlemen, I do not think you are going to 

 facilitate business by taking this sort of course. I do not want to be 

 dilatory, but I do want fair play. If you are going to take advantage 

 of your majority to press us to a conclusion here, when other men want 

 to be heard, and when members of the committee who are absent 

 especially request that the thing be delayed for a day or two 



Senator DOLLIVER. There will be no difficulty about that, Senator. 

 Senator Warren can be counted as present. 



The ACTING CHAIRMAN. The evidence is altogether cumulative 

 now. 



Senator MONEY. That may be true, too. I do not know about it, 

 however. Nobody can say that positively. They do not know what new 

 matter may be sprung at any time. But I want to ask that this gen- 

 tleman [Mr. McNainee] be heard for a few minutes before we adjourn. 

 He is a representative of the laboring people. 



The ACTING CHAIRMAN. Go on, Mr. McNamee. 



Senator MONEY. And he simply wants to reply to certain strictures 

 made upon him by a former speaker. 



The ACTING CHAIRMAN. Let it be understood, however, that there 

 must be nothing in the way of personalities here. 



Senator MONEY. No new matter ; he simply wishes to reply. 



ADDITIONAL STATEMENT OF JOHN 0. McNAMEE, OF COLUMBUS, 



OHIO. 



Mr. McNAMEE. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen: I simply desire to 

 submit this as my reply to the remarks of Mr. Knight last night. 



It would be a very great hardship upon me to be compelled to stay 

 here any longer, as I must transact this afternoon some private busi- 

 ness, which I have come to Washington to look after, and be gone 

 to-morrow morning. I have no personal feeling toward any gentleman 

 who has been connected with either side of this controversy. As for 

 Mr. Knight, personally, I think that he is, under normal circumstances, 

 a good fellow, and if it were in my power to do him a favor I would 

 gladly do it. But I have a duty to perform and I must perform it. 



I desire to take exception to Mr. Knight's method of designating 

 my representative power. He has, in referring to me, used the expres- 

 sion, "the gentleman who represents himself as representing organized 

 labor." 



Permit me to pause to say that I will not submit to any questions, 

 that I will submit this as my answer, and then go. This will be posi- 

 tively my last appearance before this committee at this session. 



The credentials which I bear, gentlemen, from the Columbus Trades 

 and Labor Assembly, bearing the seal of that organization and the 

 signatures of its officers, should, I think, be sufficiently authentic to 

 shield me from implied imputations of that nature on the part of even 

 those gentlemen interested in the destruction of the interests that I 

 have been instructed by my constituents to protect. I would, therefore, 

 request that this reference to my representing myself to represent 

 organized labor be stricken from the record, as my credentials alone 

 make such representation. Mr. Knight claims that there are but 28 

 labor organizations which have taken action against the Grout bill. I 



