732 OLEOMARGARINE. 



Mr. COONET. All these mills are acting independently 1 



Mr. READY. Entirely so. 



Mr. COONEY. Absolutely? 



Mr. READY. Yes, sir. 



Mr. COONEY. o connection? 



Mr. BEADY. No, sir; none whatever. 



Mr. ALLEN, No trust in them ? 



Mr. KEADY. No, sir. There is one of the mills that is under the so- 

 called American Cotton Oil Trust. 



Mr. WILLIAMS. Is not it a fact that the cotton-seed crushing trust 

 business is one of the few instances of a trust which is not a success? 



Mr. READY. Yes, sir; I would say that I was connected with the 

 American Cotton Seed Oil Trust and left it in 1897 and went into busi- 

 ness on my own account, and I did not fear it, and I think the three 

 independent mills there in my town are hitting it pretty hard. 



Mr. WILLIAMS. Independent mills are springing up everywhere? 



Mr. READY. Yes, sir ; everywhere. Two were built right close there 

 last year. 



Mr. WILLIAMS. Yes, one was built right in my own town. 



STATEMENT OF ME, W. H. WRIGHT, PRESIDENT OF THE PINE 

 BELT COTTON OIL COMPANY, OF LITTLE ROCK, ARK. 



Mr. WRIGHT. I think, Mr. Chairman, that about everything has been 

 said that ought to be said from the crushers' standpoint. There are 

 other gentlemen here in different lines of the business who have not 

 been heard, and I had rather give up my time to them. 



STATEMENT OF MR. MARION SANSOM. 



Mr. SANSOM. Mr. Chairman, I have to go away to-inorrow and I am 

 here representing the cattle interests of Texas, and I will only detain 

 you for a minute just long enough to cast my vote and if you will 

 allow me I would just Hke to do the voting act for you, as they sent me 

 up here. As I come up here representing these people I would like 

 to get before the committee, and I am obliged to leave to-morrow. I 

 have here a letter from the live stock association and they just simply 

 wanted me to appear here in opposition to this bill as representing 

 them, and also I speak in the interest of the cotton-seed oil industry. 



The CHAIRMAN. We have made this arrangement for this day's 

 meeting for a cotton-seed oil meeting. 



Mr. SANSOM. I will just read this letter so you will understand what 

 my credentials are. 



(Mr. Sansom here read the letter referred to.) 



We come here to show you the interest we feel in this matter and we 

 put forward our best people here yesterday to take this matter up. We 

 wish to show to you, however, that Texas is interested in every single 

 article that enters into the manufacture of oleomargarine except the 

 coloring, so-called, and I do not know but we may manufacture that; 

 but I do not know what it is. But we do raise about one million head 

 of cattle which are slaughtered annually and which you understand, 

 as has been gone over to you a number of times, enter very largely 

 into the .product. We raise about one- third of the cotton raised in the 

 United States. We are third on the list of hog raisers of the United 

 States. So, you see we are very materially affected by this legislation. 



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