The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-28
SUGAR KING SEARLES
confers With the Beet Sugar
rien of Utah..
THE GREAT MAN Is SILENT
BUT OTHERS TALK.
Is interested in Beet Lands in Colo
rado and His Visit to Utah is
Not Without Significance-Sees
Sights and Goes on to the Coast.

JUN +. SearleS, secretary and treas
urer Of the American Sugar Refining
company, or as it is popularity known
the Sugar Trust" was the guest yes
terday morning of Governor Wells and
Hon. George Q. Cannon.
The sugar king had a definite object
in stopping at Salt Lake, en- route to
the Pacific coast. His farreaching
corporation has Matched a scheme for
the cultivation of the sugar beet in
several of the western states. Utah
Is one whose soil invites the propaga-
tion OF the saccharine tuber. Colorado
is another and while in Denver a few
Gays ago Mr.. Searles had a conference
with David H. Moffatt on this very
project. Mr. Moffatt is interested with
MI Searles in the Rico-Aspen CONSOLE
dated mines at Rico in that state. For
the past year a suit has been pending
IN the Colorado state courts for the
regal possession of a vast tract of land
IN the southeastern part of the state
under what is known as the La Junta
and Lamar canal. Mr.. Moffatt has al
ready admitted that the tract and the
canals are wanted for sugar beet Gull
ture- He also intimated as much. as
year ago that Utah and Colorado
might become in the near future the
home of a great sugar beet enterprise.
Regarding his business in Utah Mr..
SearleS maintains silence. He declines
to talk for publication in any event
and no newspaper man has ever sue
ceeded in getting a succinct statement
from him about anything in which he
IS interested, much less anything about
sugar, and on this topic Mr.. SearleS is
even more SphynX-like than the late
Mr.. Gould was on the subject of rail-
ways However, reliable persons pre-
pare to give a joint indication Of
what Mr.. Searles refrains from doing.
The sugar baron reached the city
by the Rio Grande Western on the late
train Friday night. His special car,
Wildwood, was the conveyance in
which he Travelled. In the party were
Mr.. and Mrs. J. E. Searles and
daughter, Mrs. Chapman, Miss Chap
man and Mr.. Oxenthal, private secre-
tary of the great man.
SEEING THE SIGHTS.
After luncheon with Governor Wells
at the Alta club, Mr.. Searles was
Joined by his party, all of whom were
driven to the city and county build
ing, then to the heights above the city,
thence to the office Of President Wood
ruff where an informal chat took place.
Hon. George @. Cannon accompanied
the visitors to the tabernacle where an
organ recital was performed in their
honor; thence to the z. c. NJ. I. estab-
lishment and finally to the chamber of
commerce, at all of which the sugar
king and his party expressed them
selves as immeaSurably entertained.
Some of. the time was devoted to bust
ness. The trip to Saltair was aban-
doned because of Mr.. Searles' intention
to leave for San Francisco by the noon
departure over the Western.
TFXOW WAS AFTER HIM
Mr.. Searles attracted national at
tention Just before President McKin-
ley's Inauguration by refusing to obey
a summons to appear before a Lexow
committee appointed by the United |
States. senate to investigate the oper- |
atoms of the sugar trust in 1894. While |
the summons was in full force, Mr.. |
Searles was visiting the president-elect |
at Canton and presumably making a
plea for the vast interests of which he |
IS the moving spirit. When it suited /
the sugar merchants pleasure, he
finally came before the commission, |
but so far as its members being able |
to worm anything from the Shrewd /
financier, they might as well have |
fined him for contempt and let it go at |
that.
SMART DIALOGUE.
a bit of the dialogue ensuing be-
tween Mr.. Searles and Senator Allen, !
when the senator asked the trust sec
rotary about the part he had taken in
lobbying is given below:
Senator Allen-You have been here,
YOU say. for the purpose of influencing
legislation upon the
sugar schedule?
Yes, sir
THAT was your sole business in
this winter, was it not?''
1t was
you are in the habit of attending
sessions of congress when any legisla-
ton affecting the sugar refining inter
asts is pending?"
Il have been here more or less since
the Forty-fifth congress for just that
thing"
And you come here for the purpose
Of getting congress to levy tax that
viii be beneficial to sugar refineries?'
Il have been coming here for the
purpose of explaining the intricacies
IF the sugar business to people who
10 not understand it, with the hope
hat some changes would be made"
These replies show the keen brain
hat it was not possible to trim by the
ordinary fencing of legal technicality.
In all national campaigns Mr..
searles' trust has been an important
actor 1t was said that Searles' con-
TiDGllCn TO the A1Chlul6N campaign :
und was 5000, 000 For his services as
secretary and treasurer Of the Amer
can Sugar Refining company he re- ]
elves an annual salary of $4,000. He
llso owns several millions of dollars ]
Il the sugar trust stock, and it is gen
rally conceded that he conceived the
tremendous monopoly which now con-
rolls the purchase and sale of sugar /.
nd the manipulation of that commod- !
~ in the markets of the world. {
THE RECITAL.
Among the selections rendered by \
'rof Mcclellan at yesterdays organ !
ecftaI at the tabernacle for the edit =
alton of the Searles party were parts i
f Lohengrin, the intermeZzo from a
,avelliera Rusticana, variations on
heme from Kreutzer Sonata, 20 Thou $
ublime, Sweet Evening Star" from !
'annhauser; the overture from the 7
'aliph of Bagdad and 20 My Father" e
ranged by the performer. .
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