ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 95 



Whereas, The State Board of Agriculture is in sympathy with all the 

 legitimate business represented by their constituents ; and 



Whereas, The laws passed by the legislatures of the States, to regulate 

 the manufacture and imitations of or substitutes for butter, are greatly at vari- 

 ance, and have failed to protect consumers of butter from impositions ; and 



Whereas, While we do not favor any attempt to suppress or prohibit the 

 manufacture or sale of butter substitutes not injurious to health, we are in 

 favor of compelling them to be sold by all parties, from manufacturers down to 

 consumers, under their true and proper name ; therefore be it 



Resolved, That we respectfully request Congress to enact a law putting the 

 manufacture of oleomargarine, butterine or any substitute for or imitation of 

 butter, under the control of competent Government Inspectors, to the end that 

 such articles shall be branded and sold under their proper names and on 

 their merits. 



The butterine interest offered the following as a substitute : 



Resolved, That this Board is in favor of the establishment, by Congress, of 

 a National Bureau of Inspection, for the purpose of securing, by the most effect- 

 ive system possible, the suppression of the manufacture and consumption of 

 all unwholesome, adulterative, deceptive or fraudulent preparations, and the 

 sale of any article or commodity used as human food, drink or medicines. 



The matter was under discussion by the Board from 9 o'clock a. m. until 

 3 o'clock p. m., when President Landrigan referred the matter to a Committee 

 of five, as follows : Gillham, Chester, Reynolds, Lewis and Washburn. Said 

 Committee reported a majority and a minority report. The majority report 

 was signed by Gillham, Chester and Lewis, and embodied the essential points 

 of our resolutions. All the changes made received the approval of your 

 Committee. The minority report was signed by Reynolds and Washburn, and 

 contained nothing of itself objectionable, though the object was plainly to kill 

 our resolutions by substituting something which covered so much ground that 

 it would kill itself. These reports were discussed at some length, and finally 

 the majority report was slightly amended ; when the minority report was laid 

 on the table, and the majority report was passed unanimously. 



Your Committee consider that resolutions from our State Board of Agricul- 

 ture will have weight in Congress, and the butterine interest was evidently of 

 the same opinion, or they would not have contested the matter a whole day. 



The following are the resolutions as passed : 



Whereas, The State Board of Agriculture is in sympathy with every 

 effort to secure pure and wholesome food for the human family ; and 



Whereas, There seems to be, at present, no adequate protection against 

 unwholesome and deleterious adulterations of dairy products afforded by law ; 

 therefore be it 



Resolved, That we respectfully request Congress to enact a law placing all 

 dairy products and all imitations of or substitutes for the same under the con- 

 trol of a competent Government Inspector, to the end that such articles shall be 

 branded and sold under their proper names, and on their own merits. 



