Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-07-30
Old Kentucky Whisky.
TIE CONGRESSIONAL TRUST COM
MITIEE AT WORK.
NO TRUST IN KENTUCKY.
No poetored whisky in the countey-rhe
Pure Quill Is Good Enough and Cheap
Enough-A Northern WINS.
Ky Trust.
ky Trust

WASHINGTON July 2s.-The house COM
mattee on manufactures resumed its In
yesttgation into trusts, taking up the
whisky trust. The first witness was j.
Nd. Anterior, n distiller of Louisville.
Mr.. Anterior disavowed any knowledge
whatever of a whisky trust or combina-
ton to advance prices. The arrange
! ments which have been entered between
distillers was for other purposes than to
effect market prices. He said an ar
rangement had been entered into be-
tween the distillers for distillation of fine
whistles. 1t was In the form of the Ken
lucky Distillers' association, the purpose
OF which was to agree upon some tech
ntcal points of law construction. The
principal political work of this associa-
ton, organized in 1875, was to ask con-
Rress to extend the the bonded period.
No action was ever taken by the associa-
ton to control this amount of manpfac-
ture. The organization which succeeded
the Kentucky association, and which is
now in operation, never formed a trust,
combination or other organization to con-
troll the manufacture, sale or market for
whisky. The great list of distillers in
Neutrality-suspicious. 100 in all-are small
distillers, making about three barrels a
day, MASKING probably sixty bushels a
day. They are run in conjunction with
farmers. None of these men are in the
association and do not enter any arrange
ment for the suspension of work or pro-
curoment of legislation. Those in the
organization, those who have signed
agreement, mash 100 bushels a day and
| upwards. Those who have signed to close
down in Kentucky during July would
make about 1, 500, 900 gallons in 1888.
The meeting of Kentucky distillers in
May last, at Louisville, agreed to limit
the production in the year 1889 to H.
0Qo, 900 gallons, SO as to improve in age,
but, although the effort has been made
there is little prospect for carrying out
that agreement. There is in Kentucky,
he said, IA, 500, 900 gallons of whisky still
In bond, that was MAIDS in 1885, about
10000, 900 gallons made in 1887, and
probably $500, 900 gallons yet in bond
which was made in the present current
year; AL this is fine Kentucky whisky,
anaAshe tax must be paid on the most of
1t within the next thirty days. There is
in Europe about 5000, 600 gallons made
from y to 1888, and between 900, 900
1864 and 8. 1t was. shipped abroad to
eyade the taxes, and was sent to the Per-
m4das to Hamburg and Bremen, Ger
many.
During the cross-examination by a
member Of the committee, Mr.. Atherton
asked If any foreign article entered
into the manufacture of Kentucky fine
whisky, meaning to ask il there was
arbitration.
sNo,sir," replied Mr.. Atherton, stnoth-
ing Is put into the distiliatien. It is
pure. Our prohibition friends say, how
ever, that there is q foreign article put
into the whisky in Kentucky. 1t is un-
true. It is good, enough as it is, made
plain. / do not believe there is, ccrs.
mercially speaking, my doctored whisky
in the United States. There is no object
in doctoring. The whisky is as cheap as
the foreign article itself"
AS to the quality of alcohol whisky
manufactured in the United States, the
witness said it aggregated about 10, 000,-
600 gallons last year, and of this about
35, 600, 900 or 40, 000, 900 were consumed
as a beverage. He stated that the import
duty on whisky wa no protection to the
prefer o reduction of the internal tax.
however, to at least fifty cents a gallon.
Going back to the trust question, Mr..
Anterior said, that while there was no
combination, trust or pool, in Kentucky,
he understood that there was q trust in
| which were nearly all of the dis
tillers north of the Ohio, with headqusrt-
ers at Pearia, Ills. 81. B. Greenhut is
president, located at Peoria; Adolph
Woolner is a trustee, also of Peoria. w.
N. Hobart Of Cincinnati, is also trustee.
T. w. Shelley followed Mr.. Anterior.
He is a member of the distilling firm OF
Z. L.. Mills s. Co. He was a member OF
q committee to secure signatures to the
! agreement to limit the production OF
1889 to 1900, 900 gallons. Only about
20 per cent. of those who signed the 1889
agreement have signed the new one. BY
the 1889 agreement, 100000 gallons Of
the production was to distributed among
/ the signers in proportion to their capac-
ity, while 1900, 900 gallons were left, to
be distributed in the discretion of the
committee among those who, in previous
years, had not oyer-produced. The dis
tillers held back from signing the agree
ment till they could fndIout how much
Of this {, 000, 900 gallons each was to get.
VIII. Thomas, also of Louisville, a whole
sale whisky dealer, testified that he knew
of no agreement among Kentucky fine
whisky distillers other than that men
toned by Mr.. Atherton.
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