884 INDEX. 



THOMPSON, WILLIAM H., president National Live Stock Exchange Against the bill 

 Number of cattle in the United States Damage by passage of Grout bill Health- 

 fulness and inspection of oleomargarine, 182 Whom oleomargarine benefits 

 Why not color one if the other Attempts to tax one industry at the expense of 

 another, 183 Price of oleomargarine, 184 Resolutions of National Live Stock 

 Association, 185. 



TOMPKINS, A. D., Charlotte, N. C., representing cotton-seed oil mills Against the 

 bill Loss of $2 per ton on cotton seed Price of cotton seed, 315 Right of peo- 

 ple for color, 316 Why no petitions from the South Will hear from constitu- 

 ents Anything the matter with the coloring, 317 Cotton-seed oil has color in 

 it, 318 Once prejudice against cotton-seed oil Workingmen do not question 

 what process butter is made by, 319 Some who help pass Grout bill will stay 

 home and run dairies, 329 Estimate of proportion of total product of cotton- 

 seed oil used in oleomargarine in this country Interest in oleomargarine, 121 

 Healthfulness of oleomargarine Bacteria in butter, 514 Butter made of swill- 

 fed cows, 515 Use of cotton-seed oil in Holland and Germany Mixed flour 

 law Sold as butter, 516 Charge renovated butter makers back of bill Farm- 

 ers' interest Resolutions condemning Grout bill defeated, 518 Resolutions from 

 Cincinnati Denial that oleomargarine is sold as butter in Cincinnati, 520 

 Cotton-seed oil's interest in oleomargarine ^Proportions of crop, 521 Effect of 

 sales of oleomargarine on butter Why not oleomargarine occupy whole field, 

 522 Where oleomargarine took prize as butter, 522 Bacteria in butter Decep- 

 tion in coloring butter, 524 Why butter is colored, 525 Color of butter at dif- 

 ferent seasons, 527 Standard of Philadelphia market, 528 Evidence of dodging 

 national law White butter in England, 529 Most butter consumed by farmers 

 unco'lored, 530 Failure of attempts to sell white oleomargarine in Cincinnati, 

 531 How much has duplicity brought oleomargarine business into disrepute 

 Claim 90 percent oleomargarine sold as butter in Chicago Why not remove 

 stamp as easily as fail to affix Why increase of penalty. would be unwise, 532 

 No interest in enforcement of branding clause of national law, 532 Coloring 

 uncolored oleomargarine, 533 Tax will be collected, 534. 



TILLINGHAST, FRANK W., president Vermont Manufacturing Company, makers of 

 oleomargarine, Providence, R. I. Against the bill Communication from Hol- 

 land Butterine Company, 199 Grout bill will not raise revenue State laws are 

 sufficient Rhode Island satisfied, 200 More fraud where colored oleomargarine 

 is prohibited How oleomargarine is sold in Rhode Island Three-fourths sold 

 in Massachusetts in original packages Not more than 25 per cent sold as butter 

 Every ingredient from farm, 202 Fraud could be stopped by Wadsworth sub- 

 stitute, 203 Effect if not colored Is an imitation of butter, 204 Healthfulness 

 of, 205 Dr. Wiley's statement, 206 Difference in grades of oleomargarine, 

 206 Average digestibility of oleomargarine and butter, 208 Eastern dealers try 

 to market goods honestly, 210 The present law, 212 Hotels and restaurants, 

 212 Senator Mason's report Change in Grout bill suggested, 213. 



WADSWORTH, Hon. J. W. Explanation of statement regarding letters in House Agri- 

 cultural Committee minority report, 159 Appears .for Mr. Lorimer How substi- 

 tute will prevent fraud Grout bill too drastic Ocular demonstration of workings 

 of Wadsworth substitute, 568. 



WALDEN, G. M., president Kansas City Live Stock Exchange Against the bill Cat- 

 tle killed at Kansas City, 119 Loss on cattle, 120 Investigation of manufacture 

 of oleomargarine requested Committee invited to go to Chicago and Kansas 

 City, 674. 



WILEY, Dr. HARVEY W., chief chemist United States Department of Agriculture 

 Invited to testify Exhibition of chart showing difference between oleomarga- 

 rine and butter, 768 Stearin in butter, 769 Composition of fats explained and 

 compared, 771 Palatability of foods, 773 Study of the oleomargarine question, 

 773 Color in butter extracted, 773 Variations in the color of butter, 774 

 Uncolored butter at Dehnonico's, 775 Use of glucose in oleomargarine as a pre- 

 servative, 776 Stearin in oleomargarine and butter, 777 Renovated butter 

 discussed by Dr. Wiley, 778 Corrected statement of amount of stearin in oleo- 

 margarine and butter, 809 Degree of heat necessary to destroy tubercle germ, 

 809 All food products carry dangerous germs, 810. 



WILSON, Hon. GEO. W., Commissioner of Internal Revenue Invited by committee 

 Regards 10-cent tax on colored oleomargarine prohibitive, 750 Recommenda- 

 tions as to change in law to make it more effective Impossible for department 

 to enforce present law with means at hand Violations not all for fraudulent 

 purposes, 750 Marked all paper in store "Oleomargarine" Policy of revenue 

 department in handling cases Compromising with violators, 751 No moonshine 

 oleomargarine made No trouble in collecting the tax Professor Morton quoted, 



