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WASHINGTON NEWS
The American Economist, an organ
of tho Protective Tariff league,
chaTges that Mr. Stlmson, the new
secretary of war, is a free trader.
Congressman Pujo has announced
his candidacy for senator from
Louisiana. Governor Sanders and
Congressman Broussard will also be
candidates.
Mr. and Mrs. Taft issued more than
8,000 invitations tg their silver wed
ding anniversary, which was cele
brated Juno 19 th.
Attorney General Wickersham re
ported that no criminal prosecutions
had been prepared against the Tobac
co trust and Representative Byrns, of
Tennessee, introduced a concurrent
resolution directing Mr. Wickersham
to proceed at once against these offi
cers under the criminal section of the
anti-trust laws.
Disregarding the plea of counsel
for the American Sugar Refining
company that a recital of certain
facts might prove prejudicial, the
house "sugar trust" investigating
committee compelled Acting Presi
dent E. F. Atkins to tell all he knew
regarding the conduct and organiza
tion of the American Sugar Refining
company.
Senator Lorimer has announced his
intention to remain in Washington
until a vote is taken on his case,
following the reinvestigation of his
election.
A United Press dispatch, under
date of Washington, June 14th, says:
For the first time in its history the
house of representatives today hdard
socialism expounded by one of its ex
ponents the first member of that
party who ever sat in the national
legislature. It was the debut of
Representative Victor L. Berger of
Wisconsin.
He pledged his support to the
democratic wool revision bill "be
cause it was in line with social and
political evolution; because it tended
to destroy the old tariff superstition
and break down the barriers between
nations."
Berger denounced the protective
tariff principle as a "fallacy." He
declared there was no such thing as
protection for labor in the tariff bills.
"That pretense was simply an
after-thought because the working
men have votes," Berger added.
"If the workingman wants to be
protected he must commit a crime.
He must steal or get drunk and dis
turb the peace, or become a vagrant.
Then he gets the protection of the
jail or penitentiary.
"Labor has protected itself by
strikes and boycotts, which have been
declared illegal by the United States
supreme court. I hope labor will
continue to use them to resist tho
forcing down of the standard of the
bulk of our population to a Chinese
level.
"The average of wages, the social
privileges and the Independence of
wage-earning and agricultural popu
lation, when compared with the in
crease of wealth and social produc
tion, are steadily decreasing. Some
day there will be a volcanic eruption.
A fearful retribution will be enacted
on the capitalistic class as a class, and
the innocent will suffer with the
guilty."
When Berber concluded there was
a burst of applause and a number of
representatives, who sat near him,
crowded around to congratulate him.
Kahn (rep., Cal.) aakcd to be al
lowed to question him and for fifteen
minutes Berger stood with folded
arms under a rapid fire of questions
from all sides of the hall.
An Associated Press correspondent
said: "Intimation of doctoring tho
now famous Day portrait voucher, a
consequent lively colloquy between
Secretary Knox and Chairman Ham
lin, of tho house investigating com
mitter, and testimony of Disbursing
Officer Morrison's white messenger
that ho found the voucher on the
floor near Morrison's desk after the
archives had been ineffectually ran
sacked, featured in a state depart
ment investigation.
"Correspondence between Secre
tary Root and Consul General
Michael at Calcutta indicated that
the mysterious difference between tho
amount of the voucher and the actual
amount paid to the portrait painter
was applied to emergency accounts,
probably Chinese matters, according
to Mr. Michael.
"The exchange between Mr. Knox
and Mr. Hamlin was brief and tho
feeling manifested subsided quickly.
"The sudden discovery in the state
department of the Day portrait
voucher, found a week ago on tho
floor of the office of Disbursing Clerk
Morrison, was not cleared up by Mr.
Knox.
"The secretary explained to tho
satisfaction of the committee the pay
ment of $5,000 to Frederick Hale,
son of former Senator Eugene Hale,
of Maine, for services in connection
with the Canadian boundary negotia
tions. Mr. Knox produced the sec
tions -of the treaty in 1908 which
authorized negotiations jWith Canada
to establish the line through Passa
maquoddy bay. Mr. Hale was em
ployed for this work, performed his
duty to tho satisfaction of Secretary
Root, and Secretary Knox approved
his bill of $5,000 a few weeks after
coming into control of the state department."
Senator Pomerene of Ohio de
livered a speech in the senate in
which he demanded that the attorney
general prosecute the heads of the
Oil and Tobacco trusts.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Washington, dated June 15th, says:
"How the sugar interests combined
in first one form and then another
and how the American Sugar Refin
ing company achieved power in the
sugar world was the theme of the
story to which the house sugar In
vestigating committee listened today.
In point of Interest the story was
rivalled in the day's proceedings only
by the refusal of the committee to
excuse Joseph F. Smith, head of the
Mormon church, from responding to
the subpoena to testify before the
committee. Mr. Smith must appear
next week.
"By far tho most Important wit
ness before the committee today was
Lowell M. Palmer, director of the
American Sugar Refining company
from 1899 to 1905, and head of its
traffic department for years preced
ing that.
"At the outset of his testimony,
Representative Madison of Kansas,
who conducted the examination, in
troduced as a basis of his questions
a page from the minute books of the
company's board of directors.
"It bore the date of September 6,
1898, and its paramount feature was
the authorization of a committee to
buy outside refineries. It read:
" 'On motion a special committee
consisting of the president, vlco
president and Mr. Thomas wero ap
pointed to fix tho price of refined
sugars; thoy woro authorized, in
their discretion, to make the price of
granulated sugar not less than
above tho prico of centrifugals at 90
test; other refined sugars to corres
pond. They woro authorized and em
powered to purchnso for account of
tho company or hold any portion of
outside refineries at a price and upon
terms to bo fixed by them in their
discretion.
"With this as a ba'sls from which
to get at the policy of tho Ameri
can Sugar Manufacturing company,
Judge Madison questioned tho wit
ness about tho first combination of
sugar rofinorles in 1888 and combi
nations or acquisitions during the
period Mr. Palmer was a' director.
"Incidentally tho witness told of
the rebates received by the company,
claiming it merely had got its share
of tho rebates in tho days when such
wore in fashion. He also defended
as legitimate the company's lighter
age charges on shipments of sugar in
New York harbor."
Joseph F. Smith, head of tho Mor
man church, has been summoned to
tell the sugar trust committee what
he knows of tho formation of tho
sugar company in Utah.
Frank B. Kellogg, special counsel
of the department of justice in the
prosecution of the Standard Oil com
pany, and known as the "trust
buster," told tho Stanley Steel trust
Investigation committee that ho had
for years been the special counsel of
subsidiary companies of the United
States Steel corporation in Minne
sota, and that he had no apologies to
make for it.
tlon providing for direct election of
senators, In order to havo anothpr
vote upon it. was lost In tho sennto.
.33 to 33. Tho democrats hoped to
uo aulo to reverso the vote, because
It Included tho Bristow amendment
for federal supervision of election.
Tho house of representatives In
approaching tho election of senators
by the people passed a constitutional
amendment, first providing for tho
election of senators by tho pcoplo and
then amending section !, article 1 of
tho constitution to put the times and
manner of holding tho senatorial
elections under tho control of tho
legislature of each state. Tho Bris
tow amondmont cuts out this pro
vision and loaves tho section as it
stood before, ns follows: Tho tlmos,
places and manner of holding elec
tions for senators and representatives
shall be prescribed In each state by
the legislature thereof, but tho con
gress may at any tlmo by law mako
or alter such regulations, except as
to places of choosing senators.
An effort to recall the joint resolu-
An Associated Press dispatch,
under date of Washington, Juno
lGth, said: Tho story of tho birth
of tho American beet sugar Industry,
Its trials and temptations ever slnco
and how tho Oxnard brothers wero
enriched by more than half a million
dollars through "tho little transac
tion" of selling their cane sugar re
finery In Brooklyn to the first sugar
"trust." in 1887 woro tho features in
vestigating committee. Mr. Oxnard
gave today to tho house sugar In
vestigating committee. Mr. Oxnard
was on the stand all day and will bo
followed Monday by James II. Post,
president of the National Sugar Re
fining company.
Mr. Oxnard assigned his reason for
attempting to Introduce the making
I of beet sugar in this country and tho
Mr.
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