The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-08
DYE MONOPOLY IS WORKING ON THREE CABINET MEMBERS.
 -FREAR
wisconsin Representative Brazen Effrontery Unsur- passed By That of Any
 Invisible Government
By Associated Press

washington. August 7.-The charge, that the dye monopoly headed hv the chemical Foundation company mas sought to influence three mem- oers of President Hardine's cabinet In an effort to perpetuate it's pres eht eAciuslVe power in this countrv,' IS made by Representative Frear. re- puolican' Wisconsin, in letter to chairman Penrose of the Senate com mittee considering the tariff bill. The communication was made public today by Mir Frear with the an- nouncement that copies had been sent to the President and to others who would seem to speak with authority on matters contained in ifs
 rhe Wisconsin rnSmber who isd the successful fight in the House against the dye embargo in the Ford ney bill, referred specifically to the letters written to Senator Penrose by secretaries Weeks and Denby. who u'sed continuance of the embargo so that the country might be provided with chemicals in the event of war Al General Daugherty had failed to &C., knowledge or act upon his letter Of July Is, asking that legal proceedings be instituted to set aside the Chem ical Foundat tion company
 Brazen Effrontery
 | NO invisible government" said MT. Frear, has ever shown more brazen effrontry than this dye monopoly. We may well be concerned over the power of these dye interests that reach the three cabinet offices in 1 their effort to perpetuate their pres ent exclusive power in this country. Not one line of evidence in all the hearings, am informed suggests 1 that this government depended upon or received aid from any dye estab- lishments in the country during the recent war, and the argument that we should preserve this half-billion- dollar domestic dye monopoly with it's excessive prices and enormous power because of approaching war and through need of private protection is both preposterous and ridiculous
 Secretaries Weeks and Denby are reported by the press to have writ ten your committee simultaneously that the dye embargo should be con tinued for that reason If so. they
 
 which to base such statements and caution Is thrown to the winds when dye interests bring these two letters to your committee on the same day to influence committee action
 No Fear of Influence
 T have no fear of their influence either in your committee or in the body you represent. but do express concern over any power that can se- cure such letters from such high sources and more important that ap- parently has endeavored to smother efforts made to have the government bring legal proceedings in order to set aside the Chemical Foundation company. Failure for possibly three weeks to receive any reply from the sight and it is impossible to believe failure to acknowledge receipt of an official courteous letter was due to an oversight
 MT. Freor then went on to say that in his letter to Mir. Daugherty. which was published in the Congressional Record on July IS. he stated that Francis P. Garvin and Joseph Choate Jr.. while appointed by the govern mont in the alien property custodian's office in positions of control, con- ceived the idea of seizing alien pa- tents then on file in the patent os- flee and taking them over to them selves and their associates in a pri- vate capacity under the name of the
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