The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-05-01
|OATS COMPANIES
ASK FOR PARITY
THEY DO NOT ASK FOR PRoTEc-
TioN---Ask FOR EQUITY.
CANADA GIVEN THE ADVANTAGE
| II Congress Allows 10 Cents Duty on
Oats and Allows Products in Free
the Canada Manufacturer
Would Control Trade.

/ National Oates company and j. X.
lCasselman, owners of oatmeal mills
at Peoria and Cedar Rapids. and c.
M. Rich and the Purity Oats COM
pany, owners of mills at Keoknk and
Davenport, have united with other
American manufacturers of oatmeal,
rolled oats and oat bulls, in asking
the ways and means committee to put
oats and the manufactured products
ltherefrom on a parity. . "'s'"
The mill owners do not ask the
committee for protection, but they do
mittee If it Is going to put oatmeal,
rolled oats and oat hulls on the free
list, then to make oats free.
The petitioners in statement to
the committee, say that a duty OF 10
cents per bushel on oats, with oatmeal
and rolled oats free, would give the
Canadian miller an advantage of 81
per barrel and would force the indie
pendent mills of the United States
out of business. The argument of the
petitioners is set forth in the follow
ing paragraphs: -. ......
The largest manufacturer of rolled
oats and oatmeal in the United States,
and in fact, in the world, has large
mill in eastern Canada and a second
one in the Caadian Northwest about
to start, and the above provision III
the tariff bill would enable them to
still further gain control over the oat-
meal business as against smaller
American manufacturers having no
mills in Canada. ...
The Canadian Cereal Co, with head
quarters In Toronto. Canada, is an
oatmeal trust, being combination OF
about one dozen Canadian oatmeal
rnillers, with plants located at Tor
onto. Tilsonburgh, Lnsay, Wood
stock, London (Canada) etc, and this
and the above mentioned
American manufacturer could posi-.
lively control the oatmeal trade In
the United States. ...
g II you decide to allow the duty OF
10 cents per bushel TO remain on
oats, as it takes 10 bushels OF oats to
make barrel of $50 pounds of rolled
oats or oatmeal. ,. .. a... r ...-..
Canadian oats are generally cheap
err than oats in the United States,
and IL duty of 10 cents bushel Is
placed on oats II will prevent the In
dependent American mills from COM
peting on an equal basis with the
mills OF Canada. 49,
We trust your committee will give
serious consideration TO the above
request and respectfully relterate our
claim that the tariff bill paragraphs
1873 and SCI as now framed Will give
the control OF the oatmeal business or
the United States to combination OF
Canadian mills and 10 the largest
American manufacturer, who has
mills in both Canada and the United
States, and will force the smaller in
dependent mills in the United States
out of business"
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Representative Kirkpatrick today
that he had recommended
Ed Z. Swank for postmaster at Rich
land and George w. Bensler at Delta.
The recommendation have gone to
Postmaster General Burleson.
A hard blow was struck at state
railroad commissions by the court OF
yesterday. In the Shreve-
port rate case il upheld the interstate
commission and decided
the orders of the Texas commission
reducing rates in Texas must give way
before orders of the interstate COM
merce commission as to Interstate
rates. If the supreme court takes the
same view in the Minnesota case, &C.
cording to lawyers of the department
of justice and the interstate commerce
commission, the state commission will
be largely stripped of power.
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The arrest of Charles c. Glover, mil
lionaire president of the Riggs Nation.
al . Bank, by the house sergeant-at-
arms, and his appearance before the
house ON a charge of contempt be-
cause of his assault few days ago
upon Representative Sims of Tonnes
see, was recommended TO the house
today by the subcommittee of five APP
pointed by Speaker Clarke TO investi-
gate the affair. Glover will probably
not be brought before the house I'M
til the tariff bill is passed. - Z 4
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Rfe9lueHt WILSON Indue MS uTst Trip
on a government owned yacht today.
Weary from his eXertions In the pre-
partitions of the tariff bill, his innum-
cradle conferences with office seekers
and the strain of the Caiifornia7Jap-
anese developments, the president de-
cided 10 get good rest. Accompan-
led by his daughter. Miss Eleanor Will
son, and his physician. Surgeon tray
son of the Navy, the president board
ed the yacht "Sylph" and started on
a cruise down the Potomac and into
the bay. He planned to remain on the
yacht until some time tomorrow night.
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Potent argument in favor OF an en-
actment OF constitutional amend
ment which will grant the women OF
the nation the ballot were made be.
fore the senate committee on woman
suffrage by scores OF women OF ma
tional prominence. Included In the
number We're DR.. Anna Howard Shaw.
president OF the national woman's suf-
fTage association; Mrs. William Kent,
wife OF the California representative;
Mrs. r. l.. Sutherland. wife OF Senator
Sutherland OF Utah; Mrs. Robert NJ.
LaFollette. wife OF the Wisconsin sen
lator; Miss Helen Gardener, Miss