The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-06-07
Reported Interest in Beet
Factories Given as
Reason.
REBATE PLAN INSISTED ON
Opposition Hold OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Compromise Not Pressed to Final Ac-
ton in View of Beet Sugar Objection.
Ex-Minister Taylor's Testimony

Icy for granting commercial relief to
Cuba as outlined in the tariff reduction
bill agreed to by the Republican mem
bers Of the Committee on Cuban ReIa-
lions, have adopted new tactics to pre-
vent an agreement, the sugar trust. how
ever. still being the bugaboo exhibited
to the eyes of timid Senators.
Ever since the Senate took up the
question of Cuban tariff reduction the
charge has been made by Senator Teller
and the beet sugar Senators generally
that in attempting to pass q bill reduc-
ing the tariff on Cuban imports the Re
publicans are actuated solely by a de-
sire to put money into the pockets of
the sugar trust in return for political
faEors received and expected The state
ment has been made over and over
again that the sugar trust owns the
bulk Of the sugar crop OF Cuba and that
1t would buy the remainder as soon as a
tariff reducing law is passed.
Sugar Trust May Oppose Cut
no attention has been paid TO this
threat by Senators in charge Of Cuban
legislation, but yesterday the paradox
cal charge was made from a Republican
source that Havemeyer and the other
sugar trust officials, instead of desiring
the passage of a Cuban tariff reducing
act, as claimed by Senator Teller and the
beet sugar Senators generally, are auxi-
Gus to defeat the Republican party bill.
Tor the reason that they have bought
large interests in beet sugar factories
IN the United States.
The pioneers Of tbs interesting dis
coyery, in bringing IL to the attention
OF the Senate and the public. give the
solemn assurance that it is not rumor
mat Nj Havemeyer has bought beet
sugar stock, but a fact, which. however
is intended to be artfully concealed unit;
after Congress shall have IegfsIated or
the subject of Cuban tariff.
The fact has long been known to Sen
ators on both sides Of the chamber that
officers of the sugar trust have pur-
chased stock of beet sugar factories in
Michigan, Nebraska. and elsewhere. bit
yesterday for the first time the com
mittee has heard that for this reason
as 1t is claimed, the sugar t.ust Is OBJ
posing the passage of q Cuban tariff re-
ducing bill
Sugar Trust Views of No Weight.
As a matter OF fact. Senator Piatt.
chairman OF the Cuban Relations Com
mittee. thinks II of no Importance one
way OF another what the sugar trust
wants or What il does not want. so far
as the proposed legislation is concerned,
and it has never affected his course in
attempting TO frame a bill that will
meet with the support Of the RepubIi-
cans Of the Senate.
President Roosevelt, following out the
policy OF President Mckinley, recon-
mended 20 Congress the granting of
tariff concessions to Cuba; the House
passed a bill, the Republican members
of the Committee on Cuban Relations
rave perfected ii. and handful Of Re-
publican Senators representing beet
sugar States. and for other reasons. are
attempting to defeat II, and that's all
there is to the question. in the opinion
OF Mr.. Platt and majority Of the Re
publican Senator's
There were several informal confer
ences yesterday. chiefly among the beet
sugar men. who are still holding out for
a law so framed as TO pay TO the Cuban
government a rebate out of the money
collected on Cuban imports These Sen
ato-s insist upon q rebate or nothing
and have been so persistent in their
campaign that their Republican oppon-
ents deem it unwise to press the Spoon
er compromise agreed TO by the Repub-
Jicans on the committee, although. If if
should be reported, It would undoubted-
ly receive the support Of more than
forty-fve Senators, which is majority
of the Senate.
Ex-Minister Taylor's Testimony.
The beet sugar Senators on both sides
of the chamber profess 10 be much
eIated at the alleged fact brought out By
the argument CT Esnnis Taylor, ex-min-
lister to Spain. before the Spanish Claims
Commission. the other day. to the ef-
feet that the Cleveland Administration
were advised that the action Of the Span
ish government had recognized the bel
Ifgerency OF Cuba two or three years
before it was known to the public. and
concealed it At the suggestion Of the
American ownsrs o: sugar planta lions in /
Cuba
Senators Teller and Stewart. in par /
ticular, are making much Of this more
or less important statsment-which was /
denied at the tine ME. Taylor made il /
by John c. Carlisle, who was Secretary
of the Treasury in Cleveiand's Cabinet
and are using ii as an argument in be-
half Of their claim that the Americans
who have capital invested in Cuban
sugar lands are directly responsible for
the effort now being made 10 pass a bill
reducing the Cuban tariff.
Messrs. Teller and Stewart even 20 so
far as 10 say that il Secretary OIney
had Tot concealed his important knowl-
edge, Congress would never have passed
the act Of Intervention. and there would
have been no Spanish-American war
Thursday. Truman G. Palmer. of Cali
fornia, a promoter Of beet sugar facto-
ries. gave the committee a list % Amer
leans who Own sugar plantations IN
Cuba Mr.. Teller points TO this list as
evidence Of his claim that II the Cuban
tariff should be reduced the benefciaries
would be those Americans and not the
Cuban people.
Mr. Palmer's list was made UP from
q digest of the claims pending before
the Spanish Claims Commission. and he
failed to accompany it with the expla-
nation that two-lhirds or more Of the
claimants are CUbans, who had taken
out naturalization papers here for the
protection Of their property, and many
OF them do not even 1--we in the United