Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-01-14
WOtCOTT
RESENTS CHARGE
AGAINST DU POINT CO.
Denied That II Was Making Any
Effort to ThWart Govern
ment Plans.
IT HAS ALWAYS
SHOWN COOPERATION

Washington. Jan. 14.--During the dis
oussion of the amendment to the bill be-
fore the Senate ''to provide further for the
national defense TO establish sef-sus-
tanning Federal agency for the manu-
facture, production, and development of
the products of atmospheric nitrogen for
military, experimental and other pur-
poses, and TO provide research labore-
tories for the development of fixed-nitro-
gen. Senator Wolcott of Delaware re-
sented the charge made by certain Sena-
tors that the du Pont Powder Company
were seeking 20 defeat the measure.
'The powder people do not manuiac-
ture nitrates," Senator Nolcott said
They purchase nitratcs; and If this bill
will result in giving cheap nitrates 20 The
people Of the United States, is II not mani
fest that the powder people, being just
as much consumers Of nitrate as the
farmers, would be delighted 20 see the bill
passed and The cost Of nitrates come down,
and their great raw material therefore re-
duced to them2 The du Pont Powder Co
is a purchaser. II odes not buy nitrates
and cell them 90 other people 20 use If,
by reason Of the erection of this plant,
they can get cheaper nitrates, is Il not
reasonable TO expect that they would
Hke TO see the plant upPrAttn(
"Does not the Senator know that this
so called powder trust during the war
was not afraid Of government competition
and thought nothing Of it +; in fact. II was so
regardless Of its own business as TO build
for the United States government more
modern plant than itself had. duplicating
the du Pont Powder Go. s capacity, with
out one single cent Of charge 20 the United
States government And vet in the face
Of that record. does the Senator think
that any man with any show Of reason
can assert that THE du Pont Powder Go.
is coming here and trying % throttle the
proposition Of buil1ing a nitrate plant for
fear that in time df war this powder COM
pany, which showed the utmost self
sacrifice and self-d dmial, would suffer as ?
competitor
THE plant would manufacture nitrates
in time of war as IN time Of peace, and II
would manufacture thing that all pow
der makers want to buy; and If the gov
eminent throurH+ils plant could make
this commodity cheaper, as 10 Is claimed
il can, than il obtained from the present
source Of supply, it stands 90 reason that
any powder maker would want 20 sec the
government embark in the business, he
cause it could then buy IFS raw commodity,
nitrates, at lower price.
"As 10 the intimation coming from the
Senator from Alabama that there is a
telepathic communication between the
du Pont powder people and myself,
want TO say 10 the Senator that / resent IT,
because the fact of the matter is that !
have nothing to expect from those powder
people. If | manifested ordinary human
feelings ] would oppose them, because
they have in politics opposed me But ]
shall not sit here and have great business
concern, which made contribution 20
this world struggle unequalled by any
other private concern on the face of the
earth, uniustly assailed as coming here
and fighting a measure when there Is no
shadow of evidence TO sustain it