TABLE 31.-Regulations pertaining to oleomargarine: Specified foreign countries, 1946-47 United Kingdom.. British Honduras 1. Aden ... Ceylon 1.. New Zealand 2 Trinidad 3 Union of South Africa 4. Canada Argentina 1. Bolivia 1. Brazil. Chile. Colombia 1 Cuba... Dominican Republic 1. Ecuador 1. Guatemala 1. 1 None. 2 Manufacture and sale prohibited. 3 Imports prohibited. Manufacture permitted only under emergency control law expiring July 1, 1948. Manufacture and sale prohibited. TABLE 33.-Regulations pertaining to oleomargarine-Specified foreign countries, 1946–47 ? No specific regulations-registration with Department of Public Health required of all packaged foods. 3 Manufacture and importation prohibited. Specified.. Permitted. Specified.....do. Source: Compiled from reports of Foreign Service officers of the United States to the U. S. Department of Commerce. Some of the reports have been published in Industry Haiti 1 Mexico 2 New Zealand 3. Nicaragua 1 TABLE 34.-Violations of the oleomargarine law, number of violations, quantity and value of oleomargarine involved, and penalties collected, 1902-47 1 "Several hundred thousand pounds." Source: Compiled from reports of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Mr. HOLMAN. I would like to file for the record a telegram which has come to me unsolicited from Mr. George F. White, president of the Louisiana Jersey Cattle and Dairy Association, opposing the pending legislation, and a letter from Mr. Gavin W. McKerrow, of Milwaukee, president and general manager of the Golden Guernsey Dairy Cooperative, which explains a much-discussed position taken by that association a few weeks ago. I might say that the letter, which is brief, points out that there were two instead of one resolutions passed; that one resolution related only to the local affairs of the State of Wisconsin and the other resolution related to these bills before the committee. The position of the Golden Guernsey Dairy Cooperative is in opposition to the pending legislation. (The telegram and letter referred to are as follows:) CHARLES W. HOLMAN, HOMER, LA., March 9, 1948. Secretary National Milk Producers Federation: Louisiana dairy farmers, breeders, and processors oppose Corbiett and similar bills and urge retention of such controls as will prevent infringement upon our products by uncontrolled use of yellow oleo by oleo interests to imitate butter. In the American way of fair play oleo interests must not be allowed to sell their 'product for something which protection of our industry by requiring that oleo be sold for what it is and not in imitation of a product of the dairy industry. LOUISIANA JERSEY CATTLE AND DAIRY ASSOCIATION, GOLDEN GUERNSEY DAIRY CO-OPERATIVE, Mr. CHARLES W. HOLMAN, Washington 6, D. C. DEAR MR. HOLMAN: In order that you may have a clear statement of the attitude of our cooperative on oleomargarine legislation, I am writing you this letter. We, at our annual meeting on February 25, passed two resolutions on oleomargarine. The first one restated our position in favor of the present national legislation, which maintains a 10-cent tax on colored oleomargarine. It also supports our present Wisconsin legislation, which prohibits the sale of colored oleomargarine in Wisconsin and licenses manufacturers and dealers in oleomargarine. The second part of the resolution asks for the repeal of the Wisconsin 15-cent per pound tax on uncolored oleomargarine. It also asks the repeal of the State's tax on consumer's imports of oleomargarine. There seems to be considerable misunderstanding regarding our resolutions. We wanted it clearly understood that the present Federal law is favored by our cooperative. The small one-quarter-cent tax a pound on uncolored oleomargarine in the present Federal law is needed for enforcement purposes and is an entirely different matter from the 15-cent tax on uncolored oleomargarine in the Wisconsin law. We realize the difficulty of protecting the natural color of butter from imitation and want everything to be done to continue to protect the public from fraud along this line. Yours very truly, GOLDEN GUERNSEY DAIRY CO-OPERATIVE, President and General Manager. Mr. HOLMAN. May I also file as a part of our testimony a booklet entitled "Colored Oleo Sold as Butter." This is a very short booklet and it substantiates some statements which I will make in a few minutes in my written brief. The CHAIRMAN. Without objection, it will be made a part of the record. Mr. POAGE. Mr. Chairman, wait a minute. Do I understand that he proposes to make this book, all the pictures and so on, a part of our record? Mr. HOLMAN. Not the pictures, Mr. Chairman, only the text. Mr. POAGE. Mr. Chairman, this is a substantial book. Frankly, it seems to me if we are trying to fill our records with this sort of thing that we might as well bring in the Library of Congress and put their volumes in our records because this is just the kind of thing you might get in any newspaper. We are not going to put advertising in the record, are we? The CHAIRMAN. We do put advertising in. I do not believe the gentleman should object. Mr. POAGE. I will not object. Put it in, but I want to call attention to what we will have in the record when we get through because this book is what the gentleman is asking be put in the record. Every member has it. Mr. GOFF. I do not have it. Will the witness see that I get a copy? Mr. HOLMAN. I will be very glad to. The CHAIRMAN. As the Chair understands it, the pictures are not being offered. I do not think they will be reproduced in our transcript anyway. If there is no objection, the Chair understands that they will be made a part of the record. |