Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-27
Legislators Looking to Neigh
boris Experience in Dealing
With Twine Question
FIND ARGUMENT TO OPPOSE
Legislature Of Minnesota, After Com
mencins Manufacture Of Twine,
Found Same Reasons Existed for
Making of Harvesting Machinery by
the State.
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Des Moines, May 27.--Iowa legisla-
tors are looking to the action of the
Minnesota legislature In relation to the
binder and harvester trust as an in
dicatioV of what Iowa will be asked
to come to if the bill to manufacture
binder twine is ever enacted here into
law. The first action in Minnesota was
the enactment of a bill to manufacture
binder twine at the Saltwater peniten-
tiary. The next step was an inyesti-
CATION Of the International Harvester
Company to ascertain whether or not
it was trust. The committee ap-
pointed to perform the work reported
that it was trust and the legislature
enacted then bill to manufacture
binders and harvesters at the state
penitentiary and instructed the state
board Of control Of Minnesota to in
vestigate and ascertaiIpwhether or not
binders and harvesters could be thus
manufactured The board was further
directed If 1t found 1t feasible to pro-
ceed to manufacture binders and har-
vesters at the state penitentiary.
The report of the Minnesota legisla-
tive committee was quite thorough. 1t
tharvester< companies in the eastern
states, but that none dare invade
the northwestern territory Implement
men claim that the committee did not
hear testimony from any implement
dealer or jobber and claim thus that
the evidenca on which it based its re-
port was inaccurate. The report of
the company is somewhat contradic-
tory to the experience of ex-senator
D. A. Lyons, of Cresco, who Is an im-
plement adealer and who bucked sthe
trust in his county to the detriment
of the trust. He finally was given the
field clear for independent machines.
Furthermore there is in this city a,
branch office maintained by the Acme
Harvester Company, which is an inde
pendent concern.
Iowa legislators who have opposed
the binder twine bill for various reas-
ons are arguing now that if Iowa
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twine at the state penitentiary 1t will
next to be asked to manufacture farm
machinery of various kinds. and If it,
continues such course to Its logical
end there will be no end of manufact-
uring enterprises that will be carried
on at the state penitentiaries.
A new era for manufacturing enter
prises has opened in Iowa. BY avail
ing themselves of the advantages guar
anteed by an obscure section of the
law of 1888, and which has been in
operative for almost twenty years, 1t
will be possible for the industries OF
the state to secure raw material on a
basis which will make competition with
outside industries feasible while bya ex-
ercising their rights under the new joint
rate law, they will be able to expand
their markets to a substantial degree.
But once in nineteen years has the
railroad commission been called upon
to approve contract between man
ufacturer and a railroad covering the
shipment of raw material TO the fac
tory at a reduced or special rate Yet
a section of the so-called Larrabee law
provided for that sort of a contract.
In the case of the projected cement
factory in Des Moines the promoters
and the Rock Island Railroad company
have reached an agreement, covering
the shipment of stone from Winterset
to Des Moines for the use of the fac
tory ,at an extremely low rate. This
contract was submitted to the attorney
general Of the state and he approved it,
while the railroad commission, acting
on it's judgment and with his opinion
before the members, also approved it.
acter on record.
This is amdzing to the people who
have been giving some attention to the
subject Of late The law has been there
all the time. Last winter a prominent
public man prepared a bill to empower
the railroad commission to inaugurate
special rates for factories desiring to
secure raw material. It was then that
the section of the Larrabee law re-
ferred to was discovered.
It is believed that 1t will be taken
advantage of, extensively from now
on. There are innumerable industries
and many towns which can gain benz
eft from it's administration.
Cement manufacture. for instance,
requires certain ingredients. Particu-
lar kinds of stone, shale, sand, etc,
are required. Providence located at
Mason City all of the ingredients. At
Des Moines providence located every
thing except limestone. This is found
in quantities down at Winterset. Lime
used to be burned near Winterset ard
fame still attaches to the kilns located
there in an early day. Without the
stone the Des Moines cement plant
could not be operated; with 1t 1t can be
managed successfully. 1t was impos-
sible to ship in the rock at the regu-
lar rates
It has been announced by State
Dairy and Food Commissioner r. r..
Wright that after June new policy.