The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 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.

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Washington, ID. c., April 26.--The
| 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,
lrolled oats and oat hulls, in asking
the ways and means committee to put
oats and the manufactured products
therefrom on a parity. -
The mill owners do not ask the
committee for protection, but they do
ask for equity. They ask the com.
mittee II it is going to put oatmeal,
rolled oats and oat hulls on the free
list, then to make oats free. ..
The petitioners in a statement to
the committee, say that 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 a large
mill in eastern Canada and a second
one in the Caadian Northwest about
TO start, and the above provision in
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 or
about one dozen Canadian oatmeal
with plants LOCATED at Tor
onto, TilsOnbuTgh, Linsay, Wood
stock, London (Canada) etc, and this
and the above mentioned
manufacturer could posi-
lively control the oatmeal trade in
the United States.
& If you decide to allow the duty OF
10 cents per bushel to remain on
oats, as it takes 10 bushels OF oats TO
make a barrel of 1870 pounds of rolled
oats or oatmeal. ...-... 81 49,.
Canadian oats are generally cheap
er than oats in the United States,
and if duty of 10 cents bushel is
placed on oats 1t will prevent the in
dependent American mills from COM
peting on an equal basis with the
mills OF Canada. .H
We trust your committee will give
serious consideration to the above
request and respectfully reiterate our
claim that the tariff bill paragraphs
1873 and 567 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"
=. 49,
' Representative Kirkpatrick today
announced 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.
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A hard blow was struck at state
railroad commissions by the court OF
commerce Yesterday. In the ShreVe-
port rate case it upheld the interstate
commerce 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 VIII
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 sergeantat-
arms, and his appearance before the
house ON a charge of contempt be-
cause of his assault a few days ago
upon Representative Sims of Tennes-
see, was recommended TO the house
today by the subcommittee OF I'VE APP
pointed by Speaker Clarke TO inyesti,
gate the affair. Glover will probably
not be brought before the house I'M,
til the tariff bill Is passed. ~ = ls
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/ President Wilson made his first trip
on government owned yacht today
Weary from his exertions in the pre-
parations of the tariff bill, his innum
cradle conferences with office seekers
and the strain of the California7Jap
anese developments, the president de
icided 10 get a good rest. Accompan
led by his daughter, Miss Eleanor vii
son. and his physician. Surgeon tray
son OF the Navy. the president board
ed the yacht 'Sylph" and started or
a cruise down the Potomac and into
1.-The bay He planned 10 remain on tbs
yacht until some time tomorrow night
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Potent argument in favor OF an en-
lactment OF a constitutional amend
ment which will grant the women o
the nation the ballot we're made be
fore the senate committee on woman
suffrage by scores OF women OF ma
tlonsl prominence. Included in tn,
number were DIR. Anna Howard Shaw
president OF the national woman's sui
lfIage association: Mrs. William KEN
wife OF the California representative
Mrs. II. L. Sutherland, wife OF Senate
Sutherland OF Utah: Mrs. Robert NJ
LaFollette, wife OF the Wisconsin ser
Iator, Miss Helen Gardener, Mis-
lHalan q R0e well, genafor ghafF0th q