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legislation, said that that was his opinion, that that was the tendency, 

 and he stated that it applied to all parties; and then on the other 

 question, as to why that should not be passed, was it not your state- 

 ment, Mr. Oliver, that you undertook to say that that would be the 

 tendency of this legislation, and not that it was already going on, except 

 to a very limited degree? 



Mr. HAUGEN. But he stated this was his opinion, and as the repre- 

 sentative of the cotton-seed industries of North and South Carolina. 

 There will be other parties, as I understand, from other States that 

 will ask for hearings before this committee. 



Mr. BAILEY. I would like to ask what States he thinks this counter- 

 feiting of butter is carried on in? 



Mr. OLIVER. Every one. 



Mr. BAILEY. In every State of the Union? 



Mr. OLIVER. Yes, sir; wherever there is a smart Aleck of a farmer 

 that can make butterine. Any mau can make it. 



SATURDAY, March 31, 1900. 



The subcommittee of 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 W. S. HANNAH, PRESIDENT OF THE KANSAS CITY 

 LIVE STOCK EXCHANGE. 



The CHAIRMAN. Mr. Hannah, will yon state in your own way your 

 views on this bill that is under consideration, commonly known as the 

 oleomargarine bill ? 



Mr. HANNAH. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, I am 

 here in an official capacity representing the Kansas City Live Stock 

 Exchange. Believing that the legislation proposed by the bill under 

 consideration by your committee means a loss and damage to the live- 

 stock interests of the whole country and that we Western people are 

 particularly affected, and while we disclaim any technical knowledge 

 of the oleomargarine industry, we feel that our knowledge of it makes 

 it appear to us that it means a loss and damage to the live stock trade, 

 and that, as a consequence, we feel like protesting against the passage 

 of this bill. 



Now, the growth of the packing industry from the earliest days, from 

 its inception to the present day, while I am not able to trace it in all 

 its details, yet it is a well-known fact, and can be substantiated by my 

 colleagues on our committee and doubtless, by members of your com- 

 mittee, that there was a time in the history of the packing industry 

 when a good deal of the product went to waste, when the hoofs and 

 horns, and blood, and other parts of the animals slaughtered went to 

 absolute waste, and as the packing business grew and developed, and 

 they learned how to utilize the product, the time came when the dis- 

 covery of the butterine or oleomargarine gave another use for beef fat, 

 certain beef fat, and as a consequence there was a utilization of that 

 product and, as well, another use of the leaf lard of the hog, and in 

 that way the matter has grown and developed, and has presented a 

 good food for the human family, and we have found a natural demand 

 for it, and we believe it to be a pure, wholesome food. We believe 

 there is need for it, that the public demands it, and wants it, because 



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