OLEOMARGARINE. 637 



Mr. DAHLE. Then if oleomargarine is equal in quality, as it is claimed 

 by its friends, it could still be sold in competition with butter, even if 

 the tax were 10 cents? 



Mr. KIMBALL. Yes; on the present market price. 



Mr. LORIMER. What is the average price of butter in Philadelphia 

 the year round? 



Mr. KIMBALL. The average price of that class of butter, I think, 

 would be over 20 cents. I think last year it was something like 22J 

 cents. 



Mr. LORIMER. So that if butterine costs 26 cents a pound it could 

 not be sold in competition with butter at 23 cents? 



Mr. KIMBALL. No, sir ; it could not. 



Mr. LORIMER. What is the average price of butter in Philadelphia? 



Mr. KIMBALL. You can buy creamery for 22 cents. 



Mr. LORIMER. What does the retailer pay for it? 



Mr. KIMBALL. It is 2 cents higher this year than it was formerly. 



Adjourned. 



WEDNESDAY, March 21, 1900. 



The subcommittee on the Bureau of Animal Industry of the Com- 

 mittee on Agriculture met at 10.30 o'clock a. m., Hon. William Lorimer 

 in the chair. 



STATEMENT OF ME. C. Y. KNIGHT, SECRETARY OF THE NATIONAL 



DAIRY UNION. 



Mr. KNIGHT. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, when 

 I was here two weeks ago the testimony that I gave before the com- 

 mittee, particularly that in reference to the exhibits that I made, was 

 published very conspicuously in all the Chicago papers, and there was 

 a great deal said about the matter, and interviews with the collector of 

 internal revenue, Mr. Coyne, were also published. Last week, on Fri- 

 day, two or three of the papers came out with extensive headlines and 

 articles regarding the frauds in oleomargarine, and being inspired by 

 the other side, claiming that there was not a great deal of fraud in 

 Chicago. I went into the Record office we regard the Record as one 

 of our most reliable papers and told the city editor that I did not 

 want any more interviews in the matter, because what I said would 

 simply be contradicted the next day; but I said, "If you will give me 

 a reporter for one day 1 will show you whether there is any fraud in 

 Chicago in the oleomargarine business." They gave me the reporter, and 

 we went to three places. The result of the trip to those three places 

 was published the next morning there in the Eecord. With your per- 

 mission I will pass these papers around [producing a number of small 

 bundles]. Mr. Haltmau, I believe, is the name of the reporter whom I 

 had with me. 



I want to show you some of our experiences at these same places. 

 Of course the articles that we purchased together he took up to the 

 managing editor, to show him what he had found. That was necessary. 

 So right after him. I sent out a number of people to make purchases at 

 the same places. And here are the bundle of the purchases which they 

 made [indicating bundles already mentioned]. When it came to a 

 test of the matter I sent a man into Broadwell's, the same place where 



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