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Representative HAUGEN. You had some estimate in your mind when 

 you made that assertion, did you not? You certainly would not make 

 a statement of that kind unless you had. 



Mr. MILLER. You mean the amount of cotton -seed oil manufacturedt 



Eepresentative HAUGEN. Yes. 



Mr. MILLER. I am not prepared to give you that statement, because 

 I am not in that business. 



Eepresentative HAUGEN. On what ground do you base your state- 

 ment that the passage of the Grout bill would destroy the cotton-seed 

 industry in the South, unless you know something as to the proportion 

 used in your industry? 



Mr. MILLER. For the reason that if they could not use these 

 10,000,000 gallons of the refined oil in the manufacture of butterine, 

 they would have to sell it in its crude state; and it would place a ban 

 upon what little export business they had, and kill that. Therefore, it 

 would practically ruin the industry. 



Eepresentative HAUGEN. It would be necessary to know what per- 

 centage the 10,000,000 gallons is of the whole production, would it not? 



Mr. MILLER. I make the statement that it would destroy the indus- 

 try for the cotton -seed oil people. 



Eepresentative HAUGEN. It would cut off the sale of the 10,000,000 

 pounds annually, would it not? 



Mr. MILLER. Well, it would cut off the sale of more than that, because 

 they export considerable. If the sale of the product was killed in this 

 country, the exporters would not buy it. 



Eepresentative HAUGEN. The 10 per cent tax would not affect the 

 export of cotton oil ? 



Mr. MILLER. It would kill the butterine industry. They would not 

 have any use for the butter oil here; and if they went to export it, the 

 people on the other side would say, "That product is under a ban in the 

 United States; why should we buy it? w 



Eepresentative HAUGEN. You state, then, that you have no knowl- 

 edge of the number of gallons or the number of pounds of cotton-seed 

 oil produced in this country? 



Mr. MILLER. No, sir. 



Eepresentative HAUGEN. And yet you make the statement that this 

 bill would destroy the cotton-seed industry of the south? 



Mr. MILLER. I make the statement as I get it from the cotton-seed 

 oil people. 



Eepresentative NEVILLE. I wanted to ask one further question when 

 I was interrupted a while ago. You state that you are now selling but- 

 terine in Nebraska because the lower courts have held that the law 

 was unconstitutional? 



Mr. MILLER. Yes, sir. 



Eepresentative NEVILLE. You know that that matter has been car- 

 ried to the Supreme Court, do you not? 



Mr. MILLER. No, sir. 



Eepresentative NEVILLE. And you also know that the case was only 

 decided a few months ago, do you not? 



Mr. MILLER. No, sir. 



Eepresentative NEVILLE. When was it decided? 



Mr. MILLER. The cases that were decided in the lower courts were 

 only decided a few months ago, and have never been carried up. If 

 they have, they have been carried up without my knowledge; and 

 they were our cases, and we handled them. 



