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societies and other kindred organizations said to the 

 Governor: "We want a commission appointed, we want an 

 investigation made, we want to know if it is not possible to 

 bring about a condition where our consumers will not have 

 to pay such high prices for foodstuffs and on the other hand 

 we want to know if the producers in our state and without 

 our state who patronize our markets are receiving a fair 

 return for their products." 



Governor Dick appointed the commission. He appoint- 

 ed "William Church Osborne, a splendid man at the head of 

 it, and on that Commission w^ere two or three other good 

 men, splendid men, earnest men. One of them was my 

 friend Tuttle, a man for whom I have great regard and of 

 \'\hom I am extremely fond, and that Commission, after sit- 

 ting several months reported that there was a waste between 

 the dock in New York and the consumer of $150,000,000. 

 annually in the foodstuffs that were handled there. Was it 

 jQiy wonder that the consumer Avas complaining and was it 

 any wonder that the producer was complaining? 



Now I was deeply interested in this investigation ; T 

 was in very close touch with it ; I had the honor of furnish- 

 in g all the questions that were to be asked of those who were 

 investigated on the subject and some of them did not like 

 those question very well. They were quite pertinent, they 

 were questions that might have been asked b}^ an insider or 

 one who knew more about the business than they cared to 

 have the wide, wide world know, but the questions were 

 asked and the answers were given and the report made. It 

 slept. Then a gentleman came on from Chicago, he was a 

 hig shipper of foodstuffs to this eastern country, sending 

 millions upon millions of dollars worth every year and meet- 

 ing with more or less difficulty, especially in New York 

 City, regarding the condition in which his goods arrived, 

 regarding the condition in which they seemed to be on ac- 

 count of sales, and regarding the prices returned and 

 regarding their method of quoting prices, and this gentle- 



