SUMMARY AND REVIEW OF EVIDENCE. 



Appearing in behalf of the Grout bill were: 



Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture. 



Hon. S. C. Bassett, president Nebraska State Board of Agriculture. 



Hon. John Hamilton, secretary department of agriculture of Pennsylvania. 



Hon. G. L. Flanders, assistant commissioner of agriculture, New York. 



Hon. F. J. H. Kracke, assistant commissioner of agriculture of New York. 



Hon. H. C. Adams, food commissioner of Wisconsin. 



Hon. J. C. Blackburn, food commissioner of Ohio. 



Hon. W. W. Grout, of Vermont. 



Hon. W. D. Hoard, president National Dairy Union. 



Hon. James A. Tawney, of Minnesota. 



Chas. Y. Knight, secretary National Dairy Union. 



Luther S. Kaufman, attorney for Pennsylvania Pure Butter Protective Association. 



John H. Habacker, butter merchant, Philadelphia. 



Isaac W. Cleaver, retail merchant, Philadelphia. 



Joseph C. Sharpless, farmer, Westchester, Pa. 



E. D. Edson, butter merchant, Philadelphia. 



W. F. Drennen, butter merchant, Philadelphia. 



Thomas Sharpless, farmer, Chester County, Pa. 



Isaac W. Davis, president Produce Exchange, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Samuel Jamison, wholesale butter dealer, Philadelphia, Pa. 



C. H. Royce, from Norton's farm, New York. 



J. J. Dillon, editor Rural New Yorker. 



E. B. Norris, master of New York State Grange, and representing National Grange. 



W. A. Eogers, from Watertowji, N. Y., Produce Exchange. 



Summerfield B. Medairy, president Baltimore Pure Butter Protective Association. 



James Hewes, president Baltimore Produce Exchange. 



Food commissioners not present, but filing letters of approval of the Grout bill were 



Hon. Elliott O. Grosvenor, food commissioner of Michigan. 



Hon. B. P. Norton, food commissioner of Iowa. 



Hon. J. B. Noble, food commissioner of Connecticut. 



LAWS OF THE STATES. 



The strongest evidence we offer Congress of our claim of protection 

 against a counterfeit article is the fact that thirty -two States, with 

 over 60,000,000 of the 74,000,000 population, have condemned the 

 article we seek to tax 10 cents per pound through its absolute exclu- 

 sion from commerce in their borders, so far as State laws can do so. 



The map upon the opposite page appears on page 557 of the com- 

 mittee testimony, showing the States which have passed these laws 

 absolutely forbidding the sale under any condition of oleomargarine 

 colored in semblance of butter, and Montana has levied a tax of 10 

 rents per pound upon such article. 



A synopsis of these laws, prepared by the Agricultural Department 

 of the Government, will be found in the testimony before the House 

 Committee on Agriculture, beginning at page 593. 



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