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Show fllNSiJlF . I ELIMINATE GRAFT I Iowa Senator Urges Manufac- I ture of All War Munitions By Government Plants. SHOULD ACT PROMPTLY I Would Make It Impossible for Any Man or Firm to Make Money Out of War. Washington, Jan. 19. Elimination: of private profit as an influence for war by government manufacture of all war munitions was urged in the sen- ate today by Senator Cummins of Iowa, Republican.' He pleaded for H prompt adoption of his measure which H would authorize a special committee to inquire into the most feasible plan for acquiring and constructing plants H to supply the army and navy with all arms, ammunition and equipment in- eluding warships, and to report on H the legislation necessary to prevent H private manufacture of such products. H "I agree that war may come to this' IH country," Senator Cummins declared, H "but if comes it must be the result M of the calm, dispassionate, loyal pur- . M pose to meet the awful scourge be- M cause there Is no other way of de- M fending our civilization, our institu- H tiono and our honor. H I do not assert that every person or corporation which may profit from fl war would Incite war, but I do assert M that all such persons and associations M are not competent to judge the con- M troversies which may lead to con- fllct and Inasmuch as they cannot bo removed from the great panel of tho fl republic, they ought to be removed M from the business out of which the M interest grows. It ought to be made M impossible, so far as the power of the M government is, concerned, for any man H or corporation to make money out of war. H Present Attitude of Arm3 Makers. H "In this critical moment what is the M attitude of the makers of arms and munitions? Without exception so far M as I know they are insisting upon H the most comprehensive program H which it is possible to conceive and H they are employing through all the M channels and all the instrumetalities -H which mould public thought, all the H resourves at their command, for a H completeness of preparation that H would turn this country into a mill- : H tary camp and practically destroy all J H ambition, save the ambition to over- ' H come by force of arms the entire j H world." 1 Effect of European War. jH Emphasizing the effect of the Euro- H pean war on private munition makers H in the United States, he told the sen- H ate that since the war began there H had been 174 new corporations organ- H ized in this country for the manufac- H ture of munitions and the value of H arms and munitions exported in fif- . H teen months had aggregated $161,964,- H 27S. H He submitted a table showing the H following estimates of the amount of H war contracts of some of the larger IH corporations: i H corporation isomracts. iB American Car and Foundry $35,000.- iH 000; American Locomotive" $66,000- B 000; American Steel Foundries, $15,- H 01)0,000; Baldwin Locomotive Works, H $100,000,000; Bethlehem Steel com- H pany, 11,000 shells per day together : with field guns and other like arms; 'H Colorado Fuel & Iron company, 35,- 'H 000 tons of steel rounds; Crucible 'H Steel of America, $10,600,000; General i'H Electric $68,000,000; New York Air- I H brake, $20,242,000; Westinghouse Air- H brake, $20,000,000; Westinghouse ! H Manufacturing company, $100,000,000. I H "This doeB not include," the sena- k M tor continued, "the contracts of the f 1 Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing com- I flH pany of shrapnel shells or the Du j M Pont Powder company of explosives j H or the Electric Storage Battery com- jH pany or tho General Chemical com- jl pany or the General Motors company, H or of the Lackawanna Steel company, fl or o tho Tennessee Copper company, ;H all of which are immense concerns ! and. have been largely engaged in tho M same general business." H |
