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store. He let on that he was a huckster. He came in tapping his leg, 

 etc., and asked me if we were selling oleomargarine. I said we were. 

 I turned him over to my brother, and my brother said: "Do you want 

 to buy some goods?" He said he did, He bought one package, and 

 immediately suit was brought on that first package of goods that we 

 sold. The case was decided against us before the magistrate, and was 

 carried up to the common pleas court, before Judge Eeed, of Philadel- 

 phia. The decision was handed down in December, 1890, in our favor, 

 showing that the interstate commerce law was constitutional, and 

 allowing the original package to be brought into the State of Pennsyl- 

 vania and to be sold for what it was, in the shape and size that was 

 regulated by the internal-revenue law. This resulted in a good trade 

 for us. Immediately two of the firms who were before you last week 

 took out their special license and commenced selling the goods. They 

 were quite prominent houses in Philadelphia. They commenced sell- 

 ing goods quite freely until in the month of April, 1890, this organiza- 

 tion of people who had been fighting us considered that the law was 

 unconstitutional, and they immediately went to Chicago two of the 

 prominent firms who were here, and two of the prominent firms we were 

 fighting, and they were also officers of the Butter Protective Associa- 

 tion, I believe it is called. They went to Chicago and called together 

 the manufacturers of Chicago and asked them if they would allow them 

 to sell their product in Philadelphia. They showed to them where 

 they would be able to dispose of a great many goods. They got the 

 right to sell the goods as distributing agent. 



One of these other parties who had taken out a special license, when 

 he found he had to buy his goods wholesale through the agents in Phil- 

 adelphia, immediately went to work to enforce the State prohibitory 

 law. During the months of April and May I suppose there were fifty or 

 seventy-five retail licenses taken out through the influence of these 

 other gentlemen who had gone to Chicago. This one old gentleman 

 became incensed because he had to buy his goods through the agents 

 in Philadelphia, who were his enemies in business. He came to me in 

 my office, and he said to me, " Mr. Paul, must I buy my goods from 

 you people and from these other people who have been appointed here 

 as distributing agents in Philadelphia?" I said, "The understanding 

 is we are to be the wholesale agents for these goods here in this mar- 

 ket at the present time until the market gets settled, and we are to give 

 up all our jobbing interests. We must sell our goods to the wholesale 

 trade." He said, " 1 would willingly buy my goods from you, but if I 

 have got to buy my goods from these other people who have been my 

 friends, I will go in and fight them to the teeth. If you were standing 

 in the middle of the street, and those people were on the other side of 

 the street," said he, "if I have got to knock you down I am going to 

 knock you down. I am going to bring suit right away against you, and 

 I am going to carry it up to the higher courts." Immediately suit was 

 brought against us, with the same result, before Judge Hare, who is con- 

 sidered one of the best constitutional judges we had in Philadelphia. 



Mr. KNIGHT. -What year was that? 



Mr. PAUL. I think it was in 1891. That case was carried into the 

 State supreme court; but other suits had been brought against other 

 persons who came in after that for instance, Mr. Schollenbarger. Then 

 our attorneys and the Butter Protective Association and the State's 

 attorneys agreed on a case stated, taking up first the Schollenbarger 

 case, although the Paul case, or the Chicago Butteriue Company case, 

 was also taken up at the same time. Mr. Schollenbarger's name being 



