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Show IWAR PROFITS mm si i Utah Senator Classes Cyanide Cya-nide Firm With Robbers WASHINGTON'. May 4. Charges , that the Roessler Haslacher Chern ! ical company of New- York, a for-! for-! mer German owned concern, made 'UriconscloiAble profit-' during the I world war. were made Wednesday In J tho senate by Senator Smoot. Repub-', Repub-', lb an (Jtah, during a general cross fire of debate as to whether the company com-pany should be give-n a tariff pro-: pro-: tection of 10 per cen1 ad valorem on its production of cyanide. "Robbery if you please for that's ' the only way to charac terize the profits," prof-its," declared Senator Smoot. Both he and Chairman Mi Cumber of the finance committee, cone eded that the company had a monopoly of the production of cyanide In th I United Slates and WAS the sole agent I of the German cyanide cartel, but ithey argued for the 10 per cent duty I proposed by the committee on the ground that without It the Industry j in this country would be destroyed. . and Germany and Canada would control con-trol the American market. Senator Smoot said he had no doubt that If I he American industry ! were ruined Germany would drive the I'anada company out of business I and then make the American user i cyaplde pay dearly, as they had made, users of other products pay under similar circumstances in tho past. Senator Plttman. Democrat, Nevada, Ne-vada, opined the debate on the cyanide- paragraph, declaring that the proposed duty was in Ui interest only of a single company and Its subsidiaries sub-sidiaries and that with It in for-o ibis company would charge- "what the citrus fruit growers and the tnln-ei tnln-ei of this country can afford to pay." |