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tant as affecting the value of their steers to the extent of a couple of 

 dollars a head. It was really one of the most important things done 

 there. 



Mr. SEVILLE. Is it not true that practically all of the cattle shipped 

 to Chicago from the Sixth Nebraska District, which I represent, there 

 being 33 counties there whose chief product is cattle, sheep, and horses 

 is not it true that those people ship practically all of their cattle into 

 Chicago? 



Mr. TOMLINSON. Yes, sir. 



Mr. NEVILLE. So that, in your opinion, you ought to be familiar with 

 the individual cattlemen of that country as to their notions of this 

 matter? 



Mr. TOMLINSON. Well, I know a few of them. I have attended a 

 good many of those meetings at Rapid City there, and I guess a good 

 many of you come down there. I notice that the Western Nebraska 

 Stock Raisers' Association was represented there. 



Mr. NEVILLE. If you had received personal letters and petitions 

 from nearly every cattle owner in that country, urging this tax, you 

 would not feel that the people had been represented there, would you, 

 when this resolution was passed? 



Mr. TOMLINSON. From that country? Do you mean to say that the 

 cattlemen out there are not opposing this? 



Mr. NEVILLE. I mean to say the cattlemen are not opposing it. 



Mr. TOMLINSON. Answering your question, I must say that on the 

 promises of your statement I would say that they were not represented. 

 I think there must be some grave mistake. 



Mr. NEVILLE. Do you remember the name of the chairman of the 

 committee? 



Mr. TOMLINSON. Matt Daugherty. 



Mr. NEVILLE. W^s John Bradt there, too? 



Mr. TOMLINSON. I could not tell you. There were 1,500 delegates 

 down there, and while I know a good many of them I would hardly 

 undertake to say who was and who was not there from Nebraska. 



Mr. NEVILLE. I am satisfied that Daugherty opposes this bill. 



Mr. COWAN. Are not the range cattlemen out there opposed to this 

 bill? 



Mr. NEVILLE. No, sir; except a few range cattlemen who have a 

 few thousand head of cattle and are interested in the Omaha stock 

 yards, and I do not know but they are interested in some of the pack- 

 ing houses. They are opposed to this bill. But my opinion is that the 

 cattlemen of that market are the other way. 



Mr. TOMLINSON. If there is any other information the committee 

 desire me to give to them with reference to oleomargarine, I shall be 

 glad to do so. 



The CHAIRMAN. If you have anything in addition to what you have 

 said which you would like to send to us, address it to the committee in 

 writing at any time, and we shall be glad to have it. 



Mr. STOKES. Mr. Chairman, we have here to-day a committee repre- 

 senting the cotton-oil industries of South Carolina, North Carolina, and 

 Georgia, and I ask that they be heard in this connection. .The follow- 

 ing gentlemen are present in this delegation: Fred Oliver, Charlotte, 

 N. C.; George S. Barber, Augusta, Ga.; C. Fitzsimmons, Columbia, 

 S. C.; Thomas Taylor, jr., Florence, S. C.; F. K. Barden, Goldsboro, 

 N. C., and A. C. Phelps, Sumter, S. C. These gentlemen have their 

 counsel present, Mr. Fred Oliver, of Charlotte, N. C., who will present 

 their case. 



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