The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-14
Chemical Foundation One Of
the Concerns Hit by Moses.
Republican of New Hampshire
in Sensational Speech Today.
.DU POINT AND TEXTILES NAMED
Dye Frauds Are Basis of Speech
to United States Senate.
"ChemicaI Warfare Section Of
Army Made ExpOsitiOns."

Washington, July 14.-Charges
against the Chemical Foundation. Inc.
the E. l. Dupont De Nemours COM
pany and thu Textile Alliance were
made today IN the senate by Senator
Moses, Republican, New Hampshire,
in a prepared address. in opposition
to the dye embargo provision of tho
administration tariff bill.
Senator Moses said these organiza-
tions were three of the actors ''in the
gigantic fraud" he was opposing, and
added:
Charges All Lines of Graft.
These three are significantly inter-
locked in their related personnel and
in their activities and 1t is they whose
subsidiaries, officers, stock holders,
lobbyists paid propagandists and
faxed and kept organizations have
been the most aggressive, avaricious
and insolent of all the profiteering
crew who pertinaciously push this leg
islation."
Senator Moses declared that what
ever the outcome of the government
proceedings against the Chemical
Foundation, he always would believe
fostered by falsehoods. He charged
that the conspiracy" was formed by
Francis p. Garvan, its president, his
associates in the office of alien prop
! manufa cturers of the country"
Calling attention that the founda-
ton was organized in the winter OF
1919, Senator Moses said that on Feb
ruary rs Of that year, Acting Secre-
tary Polk signed an executive order
(which had been carefully prepared
for his signature by the foundation,
authorizing licensing of seized enemy
patents and trade marks by the or
ganization.
Trade Body Approved?
In this connection he presented
memorandum of a conversation he
said he had had with an unnamed fed
eral official setting forth that Mr..
Polk. who was acting in the absence
in Europe of Secretary Lansing ana
President Wilson had explained that
he had signed the order upon rep
resentations that the action to be
taken was with the full approval OF the
federal trade commission, which was
licensing the patents under authority
of trading with the enemy act.
The memorandum set forth also
that Mr.. Polk seemed very much dis
turbed," and several conferences with
officials of the trade commission and
had '1ntimated very strongly he had
been made the victim of false repre-
sentations to induce his signature to
the executive order"
A week after the order was signed.
Senator Moses continued, Mr.. Garvan
became alien property custodian, and
''as such on April 10 sold to himself
for $250,0O0 property whose earning
capacity thus far disclosed indicates
it to have been worth many millions"
Other Letters Shown, Too.
Senator Moses introduced a number
of letters to show that the Chemical
Foundations agents had had the bu-
reau of education under former Com
missioner Claxton distribute articles
about chemistry, written by r. Z.
Rose of the chemical department OF
the Dupont company.
AS another illustration of how, he
said, great agencies of the govern
ment were victimized by the dyemak-
ers of the country and our public
agencies turned to use in private
correspondence designed to show that
the dye exhibits recently shown at
Chicago, Philadelphia, Rochester. N.
Y. Washington, d. c., and other
cities. and now in the national mu-
scum here. had been financed by the
dyemakers, having been prepared In
the chemical warfare section of the
war department.
Senator Moses added that for more
than a year he had heard nothing Of
the imperiaHstic plans of the Dupont
in Europe or in the Orient. and that
the probability that both schemes
have crashed to the ground" was sup
ported by the pressure the Du-
points now are making for a dye en-
barge '1n order that they may mulce
from American consumers the funds
which they have found themselves
unable to take from war stricken
Europeans or simple minded Orsen-
tails"