Denatured Alcohol; Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Sixty-Fourth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 11256. July 14, 1916 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ...that we would get this practical information from Germany, but there was nothing whatever in the German practice or the United States practice to give us assistance. Then the matter was delayed because investigations shewed that no matter what the intent was of the law of 1906 and the amendment of 1907, it was not operative as a farm proposition. Officially and unofficially this was repeatedly pointed out to Congress. Special commissions were sent to Europe, one composed of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and the Chief Chemist of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. This last commission went to Europe in 1908 and made specific recommendations to Congress that the law be amended along the lines on which it was ultimately amended by the Sixtythird Congress. See the Report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue relating to the production and use of denatured alcohol for year ending June 30, 1908. We maintain that the law as amended by the Sixty-third Congress is a good law. In fact, in my judgment, it is as good a denatured alcohol law as is in existence in any country in the world. The regulations adopted by the Bureau of Internal Revenue for the administration of that law are good regulations, taking into consideration the necessity of protecting the revenue. Mr. Anderson. You think the law now on the statute books, so far as the law itself is concerned, would permit the manufacture of industrial alcohol? Mr. Hampton. I do. I think we have a very broad, liberal law, and I think it will permit the Agricultural Department to act along almost any rational lines, but I do not think any group of men can give any positive recommendations to any group of farmers as to what the equipment should be or its cost. That is all to be determined by experimental plants. Fo...