ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. IO9 



Mr. Long. — Have you any figures relating to the output for oleomar- 

 garine for the month of December? 



A. — I have not; it is too early in the month. 



A Member. — I am glad to know what the word " artificial oil" meant 



A. — It reminds me a good deal of the gentleman out went in a res- 

 taurant. A waiter came in and says, " Tea or coffee." The man said 

 41 1 will take tea." The waiter replied, " Take coffee; we have no tea." 



I will explain. When we counted noses, we had about two majority 

 in the senate that we could count on. When our bill came up in the 

 senate their plan was to recommit it to the agricultural committee, the 

 plea being that it was not thorough enough. So we counted noses, and 

 when we got to Ohio, the attitude of the two senators was unknown. 

 Thanks to the letters and telegrams Hanna received, he was very soon 

 converted. He read the hand-writing on the wall. With Senator Foraker 

 it was a different proposition. He said it had been represented to him 

 that you can't make oleomargarine with yellow in it, aud that we claim- 

 that the natural color of butter was yellow. We took the raw materials 

 and tried to demonstrate to him how it could be made without same shade 

 of yellow, but it was so light it would almost come under the 10c tax. 

 A piece of white oleomargarine looks pretty white against white paint, but 

 when against snow it has aa decided tint of yellow he said, and said he 

 couldn't vote for any Bill that stuck at the industry that way. But he 

 said he was willing to go the length of preventing any manifest intent of 

 defrauding. His vote had it. If he had voted against us, it would have 

 "been a tie and we would have been lost. We knew exactly how we stood 

 and did the best we could, but it looked for awhile like an absolute throw- 

 ing up of the fight. We had to accept that amendment. He was work- 

 ing on a speech against the Bill, but when we accepted that amendment, 

 he came over. 



We think with time we can educate some of those other senators that 

 will stop that loophole in some way. I don't know how we are going to 

 do it, but it has to be done. But we could not have made the Bill as it 

 is but for that amendment. 



I was rather unprepared to come up here and talk, but am glad to 

 have been able to talk to you. 



