788 OLEOMARGARINE. 



Eepresentative NEVILLE. I understand that they have been carried 

 up, notwithstanding you have no knowledge of it, but that the deci- 

 sion was only rendered a few months ago. 



Mr. MILLER. Yes, sir. 



Eepresentative NEVILLE. Now, then, is it not true that you sold 

 batter all last year and the year before in violation of the law! 



Mr. MILLER. No, sir; we did not. We sell our goods in Kansas. 

 There is no law in Kansas. 



Eepresentative NEVILLE. But at the same time, you sell in Nebraska 

 also, do you not? 



Mr. MILLER. We sell in Kansas. Our goods are sold in Kansas 

 City, and not in Nebraska. 



Eepresentative NEVILLE. But you sold them to your Nebraska cus- 

 tomers ? 



Mr. MILLER. Yes, sir; we did. 



Eepresentative NEVILLE. And you knew that if they sold your prod- 

 uct there, colored, they either had to sell it as butter or colored oleo- 

 margarine, in violation of law, did you not? 



Mr. MILLER. As soon as the law went into effect the cases were 

 brought up to see whether the law was unconstitutional or not; and in 

 the meantime the retailers went ahead and sold. 



Eepresentative WILLIAMS. Being advised by their counsel that the 

 law was unconstitutional? 



Mr. MILLER. Yes, sir. 



Eepresentative WHITE. Has the law been finally adjudicated in the 

 last court of the State of Nebraska? 



Mr. MILLER. No, sir ; not in the last court. 



Eepresentative STOKES. Do we understand you to say that the pas- 

 sage of this law would destroy the cotton industry of the South? 



Mr. MILLER. Yes, sir; the cotton-seed oil industry. 



Eepresentative STOKES. That is the point I wanted to bring out. 



Mr. MILLER. Yes; the oil part of it. 



Eepresentative STOKES. Have there not been published statements 

 I do not know that you are aware of what was said before the com- 

 mittee here, but I think the statements were made by the cotton-seed 

 oil men here that that would be the effect on their business. 



Mr. MILLER. Yes, sir. 



Eepresentative COONEY. Now, Mr. Miller, I would like to ask a ques- 

 tion for my own special information, which I have not heard explained 

 here, while I have been here, anyway. This cattle industry cuts a 

 bigger figure in this matter with many of us than has been given atten- 

 tion. In my country, the cattlemen, the cattle raisers and hog raisers, 

 are under the impression that they now receive from $2 to $3 per head 

 more tor their cattle, and from 20 to 30 per cent more for their hogs, 

 than they will if this bill is passed; and I believe they get the informa- 

 tion from Kansas City. Now, I am very anxious to know if that is a 

 fact, and I will be very glad if you can figure out and show to me how 

 these parties living in my country get that additional amount of money 

 out of their cattle and hogs. 



Mr. MILLER. I will explain it in this way: We use only the choice 

 fats of the beef in the manufacture of oleo oil. 



Eepresentative COONEY. Will you give the figures and facts, so that 

 I can be satisfied on that point? 



Mr. MILLER. The rich caul fat which we get out of the beef will aver- 

 age about 40 pounds to the steer, and in using it in the manufacture of 

 butterine it has an enhanced value over ordinary tallow. Of couise 



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