HEARINGS BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE J. Conques HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SEVENTIETH CONGRESS OLEOMARGARINE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Tuesday, April 17, 1928. The committee met at 10 o'clock a. m., Hon. Gilbert N. Haugen (chairman) presiding. The CHAIRMAN. The committee has met this morning to give consideration to H. R. 10958, as bill to amend the definition of oleomargarine, etc. [H. R. 10958, Seventieth Congress, first session] A BILL To amend the definition of oleomargarine contained in the act entitled "An act defining butter; also imposing a tax upon and regulating the manufacture, sale, importation, and exportation of oleomargarine," approved August 2, 1886, as amended Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 2 of the Act entitled "An Act defining butter; also imposing a tax upon and regulating the manu-· facture, sale, importation, and exportation of oleomargarine," approved August 2, 1886, as amended, is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 2. That for the purposes of this act certain manufactured substances, certain extracts, and certain mixtures and compounds, including such mixtures and compounds with butter, shall be known and designated as oleomargarine," namely: All substances heretofore known as oleomargarine, oleo, oleomargarine oil, butterine, lardine, suine, and neutral; all mixtures and compounds of oleomargarine, oleo, oleomargarine oil, butterine, lardine, suine, and neutral: all lard extracts and tallow extracts; and all mixtures and compounds of tallow, beef fat, suet, lard, lard oil, other animal oil or fat, vegetable oil, annotto, and other coloring matter, intestinal fat, and offal fat-if (1) made in imitation or semblance of butter, or (2) calculated or intended to be sold as butter or for butter, or (3) churned, emulsified, or mixed in cream, milk, water, or other liquid, and containing moisture in excess of 1 per centum. This section shall not apply to puff-pastry shortening not churned or emulsified in milk or cream, and having a melting point of one hundred and eighteen degrees Fahrenheit or more." STATEMENT OF A. M. LOOMIS, SECRETARY NATIONAL DAIRY UNION Mr. LOOMIS. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, this bunch of material I am bringing over here is not nearly so formidable or lengthy as it looks. I will make a very brief opening statement and attempt to give the committee the purpose of this amendment, then bring you two or three witnesses who know a lot more about the subject than I do. My name is A. M. Loomis, I am appearing here as the secretary of the National Dairy Union, an organization composed of large and small butter manufacturers with a membership in about 25 States. Mr. CLARKE. Cooperatives? 1 |