Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1909 — CALL PAPER TESTS WASTE [ARTICLE]

CALL PAPER TESTS WASTE

Congressman Scott Says Cornstalks Proposition* Is an Impossibility. Washington, Feb. s.—ln the house the bureau of plant industry was given a raking over by Representative Mann who charged that the money appropriated for testing paper making plants had been wasted. Representative Cole made a strong plea for an appropriation of $20,000 for experiments in the manufacture of paper from cornstalks. • V Representative Scott declared that while it had been demonstrated that paper could be made from cornstalks, the proposition was chimerical and not a commercial possibility. By way of a substitute an amendment was offered appropriating SIO,OOO for breeding fibrous plants which’may be used. for paper making. The amendment was adopted.