570 OLEOMARGARINE. 



you, because it was open to the same objections exactly as the original 

 bill that allowed this thing to be sold in too large quantities. 



Senator MONEY. Looking at it from another point ot view, we 

 impose upon an honest, legitimate industry an additional tax in that 

 wrapper. I do not know how much that will cost to put the product 

 up in a changed form. Can any of you gentlemen tell me that? 



Mr. JELKE. About half a cent a pound. 



Mr. WADSWORTH. Therefore the tax is JJ cents a pound. 



Senator FOSTER. I do not suppose those wrappers cost a fifth of a 

 cent. 



Mr. JELKE. It is not merely the expense of the paper. You must 

 include also the printing and handling of the paper. 



Mr. WADSWORTH. it is the handling and packing. Senator. As the 

 law is now, they pack it into a big tub. They shove it in or scoop it in, 

 and there is very little work attached to it; but in this case all this 

 wrapping has to be done. I should think it would be worth half a cent 

 a pound. 



Mr. JELKE. I should hardly think half a cent a pound would cover it, 

 for this reason: We now pack 50 pounds into a solid-packed tub. In 

 printing it in the 1 or 2 pound blocks there is a certain amount of 

 moisture eliminated from it. You can not make out of 50 pounds of 

 solid-packed oleomargarine 25 2 pound prints or 50 1-pound prints. 

 The pressing of the oleomargarine into that form eliminates a certain 

 amount of moisture. 



Senator FOSTER. It would be more attractive in the 1 or 2-pound 

 prints than it would the other way? 



Mr. JELKE. Yes; very much more attractive. 



Mr. TILLINGHAST. It is generally understood in the factories that 

 prints cost half a cent a pound more than the tubs. 



Senator FOSTER. I suppose it would sell for perhaps that much more 

 in that shape than it would when it is scooped out of a tub. 



Mr. JELKE. That is undoubtedly so. 



Senator FOSTER. Is that all, Mr. Wadsworth? 



Mr. WADSWORTH. That is all, unless the committee want to ask 

 something. I simply wanted to show the practical operation of the law. 



ADDITIONAL STATEMENT OF HON. W. W. GROUT. 



Mr. GROUT. I would like to submit just a word, if the committee will 

 hear me, illustrating the workings of this substitute bill. 



Senator PROCTOR. We will hear you. 



Senator MONEY. Let me ask a question before you begin. Mr. Wads- 

 worth, did the minority of the House committee consider the expediency 

 of making a provision in regard to renovated butter? 



Mr. WADSWORTH. No, sir; that was not brought up before us at all. 



Mr. GROUT. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, Mr. Wadsworth says he 

 regrets the absence of Mr. Lorimer, whose scheme I understand this to be, 

 but he has made the plan quite plain, I think, as to the purpose it would 

 serve. 1 am not going to say but that so far as the retail dealer is con- 

 cerned this might somewhat limit his ability to work this off as butter, 

 but only a little, a very little, as I will show you later. I presume you 

 have been told in this investigation that a large part of oleomargarine 

 is disposed of to purchasers who know just what it is. I have not been 

 present all the time during these hearings, but I saw a letter to that 

 effect written by an oleomargarine manufacturer from Ehode Island 

 to the chairman of this committee, to the effect that over forty-odd per 



