Evening journal., 1913-01-17

particularly of the army, come into
intimate contact with Senator Henry
A. DUPONT of Delaware. chairman Of
the committee on military affairs of
ihe Senate. That position gives him
strong influence compared with
that OF an outside manufacturer In
stating this | do not want to reflect
on any officer, but at the same time
me influence of man high in au-
thorlty in-the Senate and at the head
OF West Point does have a potent
power over the officers Of the armx
and il would be foolish for me to ig-
more that fact.
Your army and navy officers come
INTO intimate relations with the du-
Points as inspection officers in all
their plants These relations are
agreeable, and you can see that natu-
rally they have their social influence
with these officers All these things
so to create the prestige Of the du-
Pont people, and il is something no
other corporation could acquire with
out the expenditure Of an enormous
amount of money and long waiting"
Mr.. Waddell added that powder Of
tered by a possible competitor would
be scrutinizcd to a degree not reach
ed in analyzing the DUPONT product.
He said the DUPONT plant at Haskell.
y. j., had imposed on the navy three
or four years ago by deceiving an
olfcer Of the navy who had been
slightly lax in his inspection.
Col. r. G. Buckner Of the dupont
Powder Company. described as being
at the head Of the lobby of the pow.
der trust was given an opportunity
to say anything he wanted on the
subject; and he used plenty of time
in denying nearly everything Mr..
Waddell had alleged
He said.
There never have been in the his
tory of the company any relations
that could be construed into a ques-
tion of a lobby / can say truthfully
that up TO the year 1910. / think Il
was. ! did not have a half dozen ac-
quaintances in the House; that I
never talked 10 any of the members
on the subject of my business. | can
state positively that we never in the
history Of the company Interested
ourselves in single bill that was
ever presented to this House for the
appropriation Of money for the pur-
chase Of powder. We we're powder
makers and We wanted the business
after the government had determined
to buy powder. and We knew that il
was at the ordnance department for.
US TO so and get our contracts and
got the business But such thing
as trying to produce a business by
lobbying with the House or the Sem
ate never entered our heads: in fact.
We never permitted such a thing to
exist And ! tell you that when. in
1910 due TO what this gentlemen is
now doing before this committee on
ly done in a different way. through
circulars and letters addressed to the
House and to the Senate. and articles
published in the newspaper, he Great
ed a sort of antagonism TO our COM
pany. and on the floor of the House
and in the Senate charges that were
unjust 70 us and false in every par
ticular were made, and VIC finally
| felt that it war incumbent upon us
TO answer them. and / started out 10
accomplish that end. II you call me
a lobby was a lobby. for then came
down and ! sought out and sought to
1 be introduced to different members
/ va lht iAOhcf anu VI tue o'lhtNt anu
! sat down and I told them wherein
we had been uniustly treated and had
been unjustly accused"
Col. Buckner said the story Of the
Tech, as put by Mr.. Waddell, is false
He explained:
He states that the Tech was kept
here for months at a time: that We
brought her here for the purpose OF
entertaining members OF Congress
and members of the bureau OF
ordnance and army and navy officers
The Tech was never here i'm this city
on the Potomac river, except on one
occasion. when it was sent here for
my special pleasure
Mr. DUPONT was going to Europe
and he wrote TO me that | might have
the Tech for a week or, I think. pos
sibly two weeks; at any rate he gave
me the exact number of DAYS / should
have her and then some other mem
Der of the company was to have the