Evening star., 1899-06-13


the glucose industry. Mr.. Mas is the
process manager Of the Glucose Sugar Re-
filming Company.
SubcOmmfssfOn Selected.
The Industrial commission has named
Senator Kyle and Commissioners A. L. Har-
ris of Ohio and Eugene D. Conger Of Michd-
gan as special subcommission to take
testimony upon agricultural conditions An
the northwest. The inquiry will be largely
as to the control of prices of agricultural
products by combinations of railroad and
elevator companies. The probability Is
that the subcommssion will sit during Au-
gust and hear witnesses at different places
in the section indicated.
Another special subcommission authorized
is to consist of Commissioner NJ. d. Ratch-
ford of Indiana. former Senator Lee Mantle
of Montana and of Representative John G.
Bell of Colorado. Its inquiry will be as to
mining conditions in the states west of the
Mississippi river. Mr.. Ratchford has been
selected to preside and to direct the in
quiry. The probability Is that the subcou-
mission will begin its work in the early
part of July.
M. Friend Of Washington to make digest
Of testimony and bills in Congress touching
fictitious dealings in agricultural products
Glucose Sugar Refining Company.
Prof. Mas gave long and detailed state
ment Of his connection with the Glucose
Sugar Refining Company. He had signed a
contract for five years with the Glucose
Sugar Refining Company of Chicago, and
after receiving fourteen months pay from
them he was called on to sign testimonials
saying that substitutes secured from glu-
cose were harmless In order to offset news
paper reports current at that time Qast
winter) as to the injurious effect of glucose.
He had engaged himself as a chemist and
did not think he could conscientiously sign
such a testimonial He declined to do so.
This at time when bills were pending
In Congress to prevent authorizations of
food.
stopped His Salary.
Upon declining to sign these testimonials
his compensation of $500 per month was
stopped. His contract not only called for
this amount Of salary, but for royalty Of
1 per cent of the sales of corn oil made
by the company. He endeavored to collect
this 1 per cent, but had been unable to do
SO. He could secure no statement from
them to the amount of such product
sold. He estimated that he would receive
from that source alone SIT 900 year, and
that was his greatest inducement to sign
the contract,
Prof Mas explained the different bi-pro-
ducts secured from corn, which are glucose:
sugar, which results from starch, dextrine,
corn oil. rubber substitutes, etc. He
claimed that he had established for the
company a process for refining corn Oil,
with hnseed oil, and had taught this pro-
cess to other chemists Of the company. He
found later that this process was patented,
and that the specifications contained near
Iy the identical language he had used in
his report to the president of the glucose
company. He had said that the process
could not be patented, as it was known in
foreign countries for fifty years, and he
was very much surprised when he found a
patent had been granted for it.
Speaking of the testimonials which he
was asked TO sign. he said: Il did not feel
like signing that paper, because L was not
satisfied, and am not yet, that forine IS
equal to wheat flour. that glucose is as
good sugar, that corn oil is as good as
HnSeed OIL and that rubber substitutes are
as good as rubber"
The witness said that while he could not
prove that the Glucose Sugar Refining Com
pany is a part of the American Sugar Re-
fning Company. or the sugar trust, yet
when he engaged himself with that COM
pany, and asked as to the liability of the
concern, he was given to understand that
Mr.. Havemeyer was behind it. and it was
largely this guarantee that caused him to
feel confidence in it's stability.
He says that this company produces from
90 to 95 per cent of the entire product of glu-
cose in the United States. Speaking of the
effect of the consolidation of the glucose in
teTeSt in this country, he said that when hs
was engaged by the Glucose Refining COM
pany the price of glucose was about eighty
cents a hundred. After the consolidation
had taken place, in short tims the price
was advanced to 81 go, and today it is 81 80.
He said that crude corn oil was 81. 25 for
one hundred pounds while the refined was
produced at 81 per hundred pounds. 1t had
come to his knowledge from about twenty
people purchasing the corn oil that they
had received the crude oil instead of the
refined, and he had complained to the COM
pany in regard to that. but had no salts
factory explanation. He said that the cara-
pany appeared to BE- doing about as il was
lately testified the Standard Oil Company
did with its oils.
1t appeared that they were able to sell
either the crude or ths refined oil out of
the same can and to charge for one or the
other accordingly. He was satisfied that
the prices of the product of the Glucose
Company are fixed by the trust, and that
they are not regulated by ordinary meth
DDS Of supply and demand
Plants Could BE Duplicated for
$4,000 900.
Prof. Mas said that while the plants of
the Glucose Company are capitalized at
$4OOOOOOO, he was satisfied that they could
be duplicated. including the cost of real
estate used in connection with them, for
S.0OO.oO. 1t was a matter of public re-
port that one glucose plant that had cost
G5,0OO had been purchased by the trust for
$JOO.OOO. The witness said he believed there
was remedy for the evils of trusts. He
would have such trusts as the glucose
trust subjected to an internal revenue tax,
which would result in opening it's books
to the public or to the government officials
he would also take or the import tariff
on articles that are monopolized by trust
Claus DOscher Testifes.
The commission resumed the taking Of
testimony at $40 this afternoon, when Mr.
Claus Doscher. the sugar refiner of New
thsa s.fa nd