Department of Agriculture, before Hon. James Wilson, secretary of agriculture, in the matter of the prohibition under the meat inspection amendment of June 30, 1906, of the transportation and sale in interstate commerce of lard substitute prepared in the United States, from imported oleo stearine and vegetable oil : in connection with and as supplementary to the letter of the G.H. Hammond Company, addressed to the secretary of agriculture, dated March 2nd, 1911, we submit the following statement and argument upon the legal proposition involved in the determination of the question referred to and submited in said letter.