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amount would interfere witii the sale of oleomargarine for exactly the 

 same reasons, would it not 1 ? 



Mr. LAVERY. Yes, sir. A law of that kind would be a pretty good 

 thing for the oleomargarine manufacturers. 



Eepresentative NEVILLE. Now, is it not true that if oleomargarine 

 were not put up in such shape that it could be sold apparently as but- 

 ter, oleomargarine would sell to the poor people, who, you say, want it, 

 for a much lower price than it does in its present form ? 



Mr. LAVERY. I do not think so. I think the vast majority of the 

 oleomargarine sold in this country is sold for oleomargarine. 



Kepresentative NEVILLE. Now, then, you know that a majority of 

 the States in the Union have laws prohibiting the coloring of oleomar- 

 garine in imitation of butter, do you not 1 ? 



Mr. LAVERY. Yes, sir. 



Eepresentative NEVILLE. In those States which have such laws will 

 you explain to me how you sell oleomargarine as Such, and yet colored 

 as butter, without violating those laws? 



Mr. LAVERY. Well, 1 can only say that the people want oleomar- 

 garine even in the anticolor States, and, regardless of the fact that there 

 are laws on the statute books prohibiting the sale of the product col- 

 ored yellow, there is such a demand for it that in a great many of the 

 States there is very little attention paid to the enforcement of that law. 

 Take the Southern States, for example. 



Representative NEVILLE. Now, would not the same thing be true 

 with reference to the peddlers of green goods, if there were such a 

 demand for them? 



Mr. LAVERY. I do not think that is a fair comparison. 



Eepresentative NEVILLE. Perhaps not; it may be extravagant. 



Eepresentative WILLIAMS. By the way, Mr. Neville, do you contend 

 that the law of the State of Nebraska forbidding a man to manufac- 

 ture colored oleomargarine in Kansas and ship it into Nebraska in the 

 original package is a constitutional and valid law? 



Eepresentative NEVILLE. Why, I confess that, like all other matters 

 of the kind, it comes under the police-regulation law; but I say that 

 when the packages get into Nebraska and are broken, if their contents 

 are then sold as colored oleomargarine they are sold in violation of law. 



Eepresentative WILLIAMS. Your opinion and mine, then, coincide, 

 of course? 



Eepresentative NEVILLE. There is no question about that. I think 

 we both know what the law is. But you can not ship oleomargarine 

 there, and break the packages and sell it, except in violation of law. 



Eepresentative WILLIAMS. No; that comes under the local law. 

 But these people who manufacture oleomargarine in other States are 

 not amenable to any law of Nebraska. 



Eepreseutative NEVILLE. Mr. Lavery, let me ask you just another 

 question. In what sized packages do you ship colored oleomargarine 

 to the retailers in Nebraska? 



Mr. LAVERY. Our packages range from 30 to 60 pounds; that is, for 

 the retail trade. 



Eepresentative NEVILLE. In one caddy! 



Mr. LAVERY. Yes, sir. 



Eepresentative NEVILLE. When the retailer gets it in Nebraska, he 

 is compelled, if he sells it pound by pound, to break the package, is he 

 not? 



Mr. LAVERY. We sell 



Representative NEVILLE. Answer that question, 



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