OLEOMARGARINE. 749 



The CHAIRMAN. The demand for dairy products has been greater 

 than the supply ! 



Mr. CHEEK. Yes, sir. 



The CHAIRMAN. How large a place is South Omaha! 



Mr. CHEEK. Twenty-five thousand. 



The CHAIRMAN. What character of industries have you there! 



Mr. CHEEK. Packing houses, stock yards, and miscellaneous manu- 

 facturing a few foundries, and things like that but the principal 

 industries there are the stock yards and packing houses. 



The CHAIRMAN. How many people are employed there! 



Mr. CHEEK. Eleven thousand men, I think. 



The CHAIRMAN. Can you tell this committee which there is the most 

 consumption of there, dairy butter or oleomargarine! 



Mr. CHEEK. I should say the principal consumption was dairy but- 

 ter. A large amount of oleomargarine is consumed, but the principal 

 consumption is dairy butter. 



Mr. DAHLE. Do you have a dairy commissioner! 



Mr. CHEEK. I never heard of any. 



Mr. DAHLE. You do not have one in your State! 



Mr. CHEEK. No, sir. 



Mr. DAHLE. Do you have any State official to see that the law is 

 enforced as refers to butterine? 



Mr. CHEEK. Our city has a health inspector, who looks after every- 

 thing of that kind. He looks after the purity of the meat in the meat 

 shops and the purity of the groceries. He is a health commissioner. 



Mr. HAKE. I want to make an explanation. Mr. Cheek said that the 

 butterine was a little higher than the butter. I presume that the com- 

 mittee understands that while oleomargarine is made out of the fat of 

 the animal altogether, butterine is supposed to be one- third pure butter. 



The CHAIRMAN. We draw no distinctions between them. 



Mr. HAKE. It is a mixture; it is part butter and part oleo oil. 



Mr. DAHLE. Is it butterine that is sold with you, or oleomargarine! 



Mr. HAKE. It is both. 



Mr. DAHLE. Both! Then, when you spoke of it being half the price 

 of butter is that for butterine or for oleomargarine! 



Mr. HAKE. It is for oleomargarine. Butterine comes a little higher. 



Thereupon, at 12 o'clock m., the subcommittee adjourned. 



COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, 



HOUSE OP EEPRESENTATIVES, 

 Washington, D. 0., Wednesday, May 16, 1900. 



The committee met at 10 o'clock a. m., Hon. Herman B. Dahle in the 

 chair. 



Present : Representatives Wadsworth, Henry, White, Bailey, Wright, 

 Haugen, Dahle, Williams, Stokes, Lamb, Cooney, Allen, Neville, and 

 Wilson. 



STATEMENT OF HON. GEORGE W. WILSON, COMMISSIONER OF 

 INTERNAL REVENUE. 



Representative BAILEY. Mr. Wilson, the committee has asked you 

 to come before it for the purpose of giving it such information as you 

 have in your possession in regard to the internal revenue, and the 

 enforcement of the laws in regard to the manufacture and sale of oleo- 



