Evening journal., 1913-01-17

CptCldl 10 ItiFJ EN FNl4NO JOAiAN<AE
{ WASHINGTON. ID. c., Jan 1.-THE
Fertilization Appropriation bill. which
has been reported to the House. shows
that Col. f. G. Buckner. Of the T.. l.
dupont de Nemours Powder Company
in Wilmington, made emphatic de-
NAL before the House Appropriations
Committee. Of charges made against
the company by r. S. Waddell, of
the Hoynes Powder Company, of
Cleveland, O., which latter company
has not been able TO get from the
Federal Government all the powder
contracts it desired
Mr. Waddell went to Representa-
tive Sherley while the Notifications
subcommittee was holding its hear
ings and told him there is no use
looking for competitive prices on the
millions of pounds of powder the
government buys because new
company would have to use its entire
capital in maintaining an opposition
lobby in Washington, d. c., so as to
Offset the influence of the supposed
DUPONT lobby
Mr. Sherley was interested and
asked for further information Mr.
Waddell replied there was not the
slightest intimation of reproach upon
officers of the army and navy Yet,
he added, the dupont company's pres
tige had been fostered in very expert
fashion by the supposed lobby.
The four big companies, which
were separate concerns originally, he
said. have been consolidated and have
been declared by the courts to be a
monopoly.
AN Independent concern that
would invest a capital Of. say, $780,
000," he stated. Sin a plant to do
business against that kind of pres
tge would be very foolish, and you
will never get it"
He went into considerable detail in
explaining his opinion that new pow
der companies, formed solely to sup
ply the government would die young.
Mr. Sherley asked him about an en-
terprise with which Mr. WaddeIl and
several others had been connected
and which had not become a success
ful competition of the so-called
trust
Have you any evidence" he asked,
that warrants you in the opinion
that The government in any way un-
Certook TO interfere with or throw OBJ
stacles in the way of the creation OF
new company, or whether there was
anything in the attitude the govern
mont took which gave you the right
to assume that that company, if Or
ganized and an actual competitor.
would not receive the treatment il
was entitled to expect?'
Mr.. Waddell replied that as far as
he knew the officers Of the army and
navy never heard OF the proposed
competitor to the trust" After that
he opened his guns on the trusts"
lobby.
"They maintain here a Mr. Buckner
who was president of the interna-
tional Smokelcss Powder Company
and is the president Of the dupont
trust. He devotes his entire time
and attention to Washington busi-
ness. When I was with the company
they paid their Yice-president 100000
a year, and ! presume he is getting a
good rich salary and a liberal account
for expenditures.
Il know there is a great deal OF
money spent here for entertainment
not extensively. ! would not use IL Ia
that sense-but in the sense a sales
department always does. They enter
tain their customers and treat then
| DO Wti do AhfA hhD0 HOW-
Representative Shorloy considered
this a serious statement He con.
sidered It a charge that army and
navy men would not take time TO con.
slider the powder Of another manu-.
facturer who did not spend big money
in being agreeable"
ITO answer that fully" continued
Mr.. Waddell, ~ do not believe there
oil .f f.,n
ence ON the army and navy officers"
What might influence any one
though, he added. was the publicity
bureau Of the trust" which inhu-
ences not only the people who place
the orders, but even the Department
of Justice and the United States
Courts by statements (which have
been made in the House or Repre-
sentatives) that during the Spanish
American war, because of the wonder.
ful patriotism of the DUPONT trust
they made a rebate on brown .pris-
matte powder to the army and navy
Ito the navy particularly-an that
was the result OF patriotism.
Now, if that were a fact. il would
influence an army or navy officer, and
properly So"
10 you KNOW whether OF not IL II
lrue?" asked Representative Sherley
I'know it is not true"
His explanation of the rebate was
in the nature % an explanation OF
an overcharge in accounting.
The entertainment program of the
trust" said Mr. Waddell includes
the maintenance of a steam yacht
Tech, supposedly the private property
of t. c. dupont, president of the pow
der combine. "The Tech is regular
visitor in Potomac river waters in
this neighborhood." said Mr. Waddell
THE skipper told me" he contin-
ued, that it is for entertainment pur.
poses and that its larder is magnif-
Gently supplied with everything that
would contribute to that end. This
yacht made excursions between Wash
ington and Indian Head. and the gen
cral Information of the country in
regard to the actions Of the powder
trust in Washington was sufficient foi
any one to have information in re-
gard to them.
The officers of the army and navy