Savannah morning news., 1886-06-18
0LE0'S WH0LES0MENESS.
CLAIMS OF THE INIITATORS
HOTLY REFUrED.

Physiological Tests the Only Way to
Settle the OuestiOn--ChemicRl Analy-
slv Claimed 20 bo WorthIess-rhe
value OF Cows - eclAred Decreased SI0
Psr Head Ivy the New Industry.
WASHINGTON, juno 1.-THE friends OF
oleomargarlne concluded the pre-.
sentatiOn of their side of the argument
before the Senate Committee on Agri-
culture to-day, with a statement from
representative Of Hammond u Co., Of
Chicago, and an exhibition of the pro.
ducts OF Armour & Co. The statement
was much in the line with that Of MIR.
Webster yesterday.
Gardiner B. Chaplin, OF Boston, adj
dressed the committee in behalf Of pure
butter. lie said the Massachusetts State
law was not well enforced. as had been
represented by Prof. Babcock. He had
been told by manufacturers that fats were
collected once week in the rural towns
aud once day in Boston. Dressed beef
shipped by Armour a. Co. from Chicago
was largely sold in Boston, and the fats
therefrom were collected from provisiop
dealers.
TOO OLD TO BE FRESH.
The beet usually reached Boston week
or ten days after the animal was slaugh-
tered. He desired to put this in evidence
in contravention OF the statements made
by the experts that fat must not be more
than twenty-tour hours old.
). +. Hubbard, OF Boston, corroborated
the statement OF MIR. Chaplin.
Col Il. NJ. Lttler, Secretary Of the Chi.
cago Produce Exchange, said the state.
ments OF two or three scientifcs who
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ture were untrue. He read from a Ger.
man work to show that parasites did ex.
ist in the fat Of animals. He pro-
tested, as farmer, against the
right of OleO manufacturers TO vend
counterfeit butter. There was no dis.
tinction between the selling of bogus but.
ter and bogus money. The State law OF
Iowa has been found Ineffective, and as an
Iowa farmer he wanted the general gov
ernment to stepin and make law which
would be effective.
COWS LESS VALUABLE.
The average value of each dairy COW ia
the United States had decreased $40 since
the oleomargarne business commenced,
aud he put this statement in evidence
against the assertion that each animal
was worth S3 more because OF the value
OF the fat used In oeOmargarine manu-.
facture. The value Of the butter and
cheese product had also been diminished
by SIC, 600. 900 since that time On one
short line Of railroad of Iowa nineteen dis
mantled creameries bore testimony to the
ruin inflicted on honest datrymen by the
sale OF bogus butter. lie was personally
willing to compete with oleO manufac.
| turers, but desired the manufacture OF oleo
under its true name and its coloring so as
to distinguish 10 from genuine butter.
There should also be tax sufficient to
secure a proper administration Of the law.
lie believed 30 per cent OF all the oIeO sold
was sold fraudulently.
DOING HIS DUTY BY HIS COUNTRY.
Considerable merriment was occasiOned
by statement OF the witness that after
serving his country In Mexico he had per-
formed his duty las had the occupant OF
the White House recently, b v taking unto
himself Wis., He added that eight sons
and daughters bore witness that he had
DISCHARGED his duty TO his country faith
fully. Laughter long and hearty
by me committee and audience.l
He had just begun TO think thai
after years Of toll he might
get his wife a sealskin sacque and one OF
these daughters a piano when along came
Armour Co. and nearly. ruined his bust.
meas by selling cOunterfeits of his butter
Messrs. Fuller of Pennsylvania, and
Seymour Of New York, gave evidence OF
the inefilcIency OF the State laws, aud
asked the enactment OF national law.
THE ONLY TEST OF wHOLEsoMENEss
The latter gentleman put In evidence
statements made by chemists of the New
York Produce Exchange, Prot. Waller. OF
the Columbia School OF Mines, and other
eminent scientists before the New York
Dairy Commission, TO the effect that the
whOleeOmeness OF Oleomargarine could
not be proved by chemical analysis, Dut
must be ascertained physiologIcally. He
had no positive kno wledge as to the whOle-
someness of oleo, but would not eat il
himself or allow his family 10 eat it.
Mr.. Seymour said that formerly tha
United States held the tallow trade OF
Europe. Since the manufacture of oleo-
margarine had commenced only Door fats
were used in tallOw manufacture, and the
consequence was that the United States
could now ship no tallOw. Tue effect 10
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