Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-01-18

etCC1slIy ANU IOlGSlSuI VI hSpi GSSutd-
tive Marshall of North Dakota the
way is opening for the establishment
in the northwest states of large plants
for the distillation of oenaturized al
cohol for use in the arts and sciences,
in general manufacture and in vari-
ETY. of other practical ways. The gen
eral plan as outlined looks first to
suitable legislation in congress at this
session, and then getting together
capital for investment in these distill-
ing plants.
If this scheme is worked out, even
in small way, it will develop many
new lines of industry in the north
west, give the farmer permanent mar
ket, at good prices, for his potatoes,
corn, sugar beets, and other crops pos
sessing quantities of starch and sug-
Standard Oil company a terrific body
blow.
IN a general way, the scheme is the
most ambitious of it's kind that ever
has been undertaken for Minnesota,
the Dakotas, Iowa and Wisconsin, and
its potentialities are almost without
limit. Capital in abundant amounts
has already been promised Mr.. Mar
shall, and as soon as there can be
legislation in congress, the work of
building the plants will be begun.
The legislation alluded to looks to
the repeal of that section of law which
levies an internal revenue tax of $2.07
a gallon on alcohol for use in the arts,
etc. Europe has already discovered
the wisdom of legislation in this
| character, and in France and Germany
especially, the manufacture of denat-
t1rized alcohol has been carried on
| for several years with astonishing
success. The result is that is it i'm.
possible for American manufacturers
of certain lines of goods, such as
drugs, druggists sundries, ETC., to
compete in this country with the for.
eign trade. In Europe the alcohol
used in these goods is free of tax
while here the $2.07 per gallon is
levied. @&
By the denaturizing process, the al
cohol is mixed with certain percent
age of wood alcohol, or other similar
product, thus rendering it poisonous
and therefore unfit for use as bev
erage. This denaturizing will, o!
course, be done under the immediate
direction of the revenue officers OF
the government, and will be rigidly
safeguarded so as to prevent any i'm
proper use of the product There il
now no provision in the revenue laws
by which alcohol may be used in the
arts and in manufacture without tbs
payment of, Uhe regular revenue above
referred to- The legislation required
will provide that alcohol, after distilla
tion, shall be poisoned, and then the
revenue shall be removed. IL =.
Representative Marshall has beer
giving this question careful attention
for number of months. He has sew
eral conferences in this city before
! the holidays, and during the presen1
week, at which there were present
/ in addition to himself, Representa-
! tives Hill, of Connecticut, and Muir
dock of Kansas, and certain capital
lists of the New England states, tht
latter being anxious to furnish al
the money that will be- needed t.
equip as many large alcohol distiller
les in the northwest as will be need
ed to take care of any crops the far
4 mers may raise with view to further
ing this new industry. It Is the plar
| of these gentlemen to take up th,
work of an active campaign at once
| Petitions will be circulstef over Thu
country, for general signature, asking
congress to enact the desired 1egisla
! tion, and other petitions will be pu
/ into circulation with a view to haVins
them sent to certain members of tn.
two houses from voters along abou
February 20, to Justify a meeting ol
that day of the ways and means com
Imittee to consider the proposed Iegia
lation Several bills have alread.
been introduced bearing on this ques
ton, but Representative Marshall lha,
/ intro duced a bill which he thinks viii
obViate many objections heretofor,
raised to such a measure.
The chief opposition to the legiala
ton will probably come from B th,
Standard Oil Co, which always ha
friends Ii congress- The manufactur
on q large scale OF denatarized alce
hol III the United States. free from
revenue duty, for commercial pun
poses would cut tremendously int
gasoline and kerosene consumption
Just as II has dome III Great Britain
finance. Germany Belgium, Hollan,