724 OLEOMARGARINE. 



I thank you, gentlemen, for the privilege of allowing me to come before 

 you. 



Mr. ALLEN. Just one question. What proportion of the oil produced 

 from the cotton seed is used in the manufacture of oleomargarine? 



Mr. ALEXANDER. I am not prepared to answer that question fully, 

 because I know nothing at all of the butterine industry. I only know 

 that they use our oil in the manufacture of it. I understand it has 20 

 per cent, but there are gentlemen here who can answer those questions. 



Mr. ALLEN. To whom do you sell or ship the most part of your prod- 

 uct; to whom does it go? 



Mr. ALEXANDER. To Chicago, Louisville, New Orleans, Cincinnati, 

 and other places. 



Mr. ALLEN. Do you export it? 



Mr. ALEXANDER. We sell to exporters, and we sell to Kansas 

 City 



Mr. ALLEN. That is all. 



Mr. ALEXANDER. I manufacture only the crude oil, and do not know 

 anything about the butterine industry at all. 



Mr. ALLEN. You do not manufacture the refined oil? 



Mr. ALEXANDER. No, sir. 



I would state that in giving the price of cotton seed I said that I 

 had paid $20 a ton for the last seed I bought. I want to say that is 

 not the average. That is the last that I bought, and is the highest 

 price I paid during the season. I do not want to convey a false impres- 

 sion. 1 will also state that that has not been the price of cotton all 

 through the year. 



STATEMENT OF MR. J. W. ALLISON, PRESIDENT OF THE ENNIS 

 COTTON OIL AND GINNING COMPANY, AT ENNIS, TEX., AND 

 PRESIDENT OF THE TEXAS COTTON SEED CRUSHERS' ASSOCI- 

 ATION. 



Mr. ALLISON. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, after 

 the addresses which you have heard from the members of this delega- 

 tion, there really remains but little to be said on this side of this case. 

 Appreciating that you have the facts, and all the facts in this case, we 

 are here, with no pretense at speechniaking, to take up and discuss 

 this business with you as a business proposition. Nearly every single, 

 or every, member of the delegation here present is either directly or 

 indirectly, either as a producer of cotton seed or a mil) owner or a 

 dealer in the products of cotton seed, directly interested in the question 

 which is before you to day, and it is our object to give you our side of 

 the case as it appears to us from our several individual points of view. 

 For, after all, it is a selfish motive that brings us here. I am here as a 

 mill owner and as a representative of the Cotton Seed Crushers 7 Asso- 

 ciation of Texas. The State contains about 132 cotton-seed oil mills, 

 one-third of the yearly product of cotton, and has nearly one-third of 

 the cotton-seed product that is made in the United States. We are not 

 butterine people any further than that one component portion of but- 

 terine is our product cotton-seed oil. The butterine case has been 

 very ably taken care of by the gentlemen we had the pleasure of hear- 

 ing yesterday, and we propose to defend only our portion of it. 



I do not know that it is charged at all here, and certainly it is not 

 proven, that butterine is an unhealthful product. We who are engaged 

 in the manufacture of cotton- seed oil know that it is not unhealthful. 



