Evening journal., 1916-05-09
House APPROVES
Federal OWNED
NITRATE PLANT
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the bill passed tho House, Senator
Underwood, Of Alabama, openly ac-
cused the dupont Powder Company OF
having fought the nitrate proposition
in the House. Senator Underwood
Is interested because the Alabama
Powder Company i'm his State is desir-
GUS OF establishing a nitrate plant
at Mussels Shoals. in the Tennessee
River which is one OF its water
power projects The feeling was in
tense in the House on the nitrate
proposition. which was finally voted
back into the bill by the House be-
fore adjournment Several repre-
sentatives, particularly Representative
Ferris. Of Oklahoma and Representa-
tive Dent, Of California. accused the
DUPONT Powder Company Of fighting
the government nitrate plant project.
although Senator Underwood's ac-
cusations In the Senate were publicly
answered boy the company some weeks
ago. Representative Thomas W. Mil
Ter. Of Delaware, was given time to
answer them. and part of his re-
marks follow:
"Mr Speaker. | intend to support
the Lenroot amendment because i'm
my opinion the United States gov
ernment will have its interest look
ed after in the best manner. with re-
spect to this proposed nitrate plant.
IL il is adopted
"As preface TO what ! intend 10
say in the few minutes OF my time,
! beg 10 state that ] favor gov
ernment nitrate plant, if Uncle Sam
is going TO come out ahead on il; /
favor a government armor plate fac
tory IN Uncle Sam comes out ahead
on H. That is plain English, IL can
not be misunderstood. and | mean II.
with all due respect to my friend
from Oklahoma (Mr. Ferris) he did
an unfair thing. in my opinion, within
he brought up the bugbear of the
dupont Powder Company. stating
that they were opposing and fighting
this nitrate proposition He put them
up as "a straw man and knocked them
down in order to get votes for his
proposition.
"Now. ] know whereof I speak, be-
cause 7 have taken the trouble to ac-
quaint myself with the truth and
facts in view Of the attacks and ac-
cusations made against this company
when the nitrate proposition was con-
sidered in the Senate. The Hay bill
went through the House with Section
so. the nitrate proposition. voted out
of il by vote Of 224 to 179. The 1S0
Republican members voted against it,
as did A Democrats. while ia Demo-
Gratis and 3 Republicans voted 10 re-
tain H. When it was taken up in
the other body a very distinguished
Senator man whom I look up to as
possessing marked ability and integ-
rity. saw iit 10 look after the inter-
ests OF certain water power COM
pany in his particlar locality, and i'm
doing this he made similar accusa-
tions, viz. that the dupont Company
was fighting the nitrate proposition.
"In the few minutes that have
cannot bring out all the points in the
controversy that ensued between this
company and the distinguished SEN
ator. but if the gentlemen will read
what was said In answer TO the re-
marks that he made on the floor you
will see complete refutatiOn OF the
statements made by my friend from
Oklahoma (Mr. Ferris and other gem
tlemon on the floor today. II was
stated few minutes ago that The du-
Points were writing letters. | presume
TO members Of Congress and other Of
ficials in opposition TO the nitrate