90 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



The Dairy Union has for a number of years simply been 

 on the defensive. They have watched adverse legislation and 

 have been able to stop it. Now we feel the time has come when 

 we should take the initiative. There is no use in waiting until 

 they have their forces sufficiently arranged to go ahead. We 

 shall present a bill of our own that will settle the oleomargarine 

 matter for all time to come, and all get behind that bill. The 

 present bill is not satisfactory and not doing the work it was in- 

 tended to do, and we should get something that will do the work, 

 so that the dairy interests will know where they stand in refer- 

 ence to the oleomargarine situation. 



Mr. : Have they settled on anything that they want 



to bring before the congressman? 



Mr. Credicott : The Dairy Union has a bill. Unfortu- 

 nately, as I did not expect to have to talk on this subject, I have 

 not a copy of the bill and I could not quote it to you, except very 

 roughly. It provides for a nominal tax. The amount of that 

 tax is not settled as yet. The idea is to make it just as small as 

 possible and furnish sufficient revenue to cover the cost of the 

 inspection and looking after the enforcement of the law. Just 

 what that amount will be, it is hard to say. It will possibly be 

 in the neighborhood of a half-cent to a cent a pound, Imt the 

 idea is to make the tax as low as possible. It will call for an 

 original package limited to one, two, three and five-pound 

 sizes, oleomargarine to be sold only in these packages, each to 

 carry a revenue stamp, and of course marking will be specified, 

 so that the name ''Oleomargarine" will stand out conspicuously 

 and there will be no chance for such frauds as are perpetrated 

 at the present time. The color proposition will be a matter of 

 the standard to be established by the Bureau of Standards at 

 Washington, and any color above that standard will be prohib- 

 ited, no matter whether produced by the blanching of oils or by 

 artificial coloration. It will be impossible for them to manufac- 

 ture oleomargarine of a higher color than that. In the past 

 oleomargarine has been produced without artificial coloration as 

 high as average butter on the market. Frequently at Cincinnati, 



