New-York tribune., 1902-06-06
GIGANTIC DEALIN SUGAR
CONTROL OF BEET INDUSTRY
SECURED By TRUST.
THE POWERFUL PRESSURE on con-
GREss TO DEFEAT RECIPROCITY
WITH CUBA EXPLAINED.
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Washington June 5-Ou authority that "a
entirely trustworthy II can he announced "a
fact and not mere rign"r. thst Henry O.
H5vemeyer- president Of the Srear Trust. John
d. Rockefeller and finsnciars cl"seIy ssso-
cisted with them IN Various enterprises OF mag
nitude have heau fuatlv bu- ing up STOCK in
the large beet sugar factories ard corporations
in the country f"r several months past and
that they nov prscticsIIy control this indUstrg.
the object being ultimately u cornbins the beet
sugar industry with the refining interests that
are already controlled BY the Havsneysr-
Rockefeller group Of fnancisrs " Is said that
not until Congress definitely settles the Cuban
reciprocity question viii any formal ownership
or control Of the beet sugar business in the
United states by the Havsmeyer- Rockefeller
people be made The reason for this Is ohyl
o,Is and the important bearing the transaction
has on the Cuban reciprocity struggle in cen
gress is to the initiated almost too plain 70 need
elaborate explanation
\ MYSTERY SOLVED.
ApparentIy-or perhaps. sdmittsdly is 2 bets
ter vord-few members Of either branch Of Con
gress are aware Of the deal that has been going
on in sugar while they have been graphing with
the problem of how to aid the economic sttua-
tion in cuba now that they have enabled the
f-ubans organize and equip independent
government When they learn the real truth
policy viii understand for the first time what i
is that mas been making their task so difficult
They viii doubtless also understand the reason
for the evasiveness and the mystery withal Of
so many Senators. as well Representatives..
with respect the Cuban reciprocity prcpost-
ton. This. of course. does not mean that any
Senator or any Representative has deliberately
deceived tha friends of the proposition as TO his
attitude. II means merely that Just about the
time many members of Congress had formed
their judgment to the merits Of the propost-
ton and had let one side or the other under
stand what they intended TO do powerful press
ure unexpectedly was brought TO bear on them
from home either wholly to abandon their posi-
tion or hold in abeyance their judgment until
convincing reasons could be shown why they
should withhold active support from the move
ment for straight reciprocity. Persons ac-
quainted with the temperament Of Congress can
on this theory account for the actions of Repre-
senta tives and Senators who usually are frank
and outspoken ev5ry important legislative
proposition and whose views. expressed either
publicly privately, nearly invariably forecast
their action on every measure
| Not for long time has any situation in Con-
! gress been SO fuH Of contradictions and uneer-
! tainties as has this reciprocity business e 4
a Senator has been fer reciprocity to-nsorroyv ~
| has been for the rebate plan. the next day he
has been wholly opposed to any tariff legislation
for Cuba. Thus for month il has been ag-
gravatfng case Of TOW YOU see it and now you
don't until the most experienced Judges have
confessed utter lack of ability to tell what to
expect, In spite of this. however. the conseu-
sus of expert Judgment now is and always has
been that in the end Congress would support
the ADMINISTRATIONS policy. though in Just what
form that policy will be made a success by
Congressional action it is not entirely Practcs-
bic even at this advanced stage Of the discus
LIKELY To BE \ BOOMERANG
The Sugar Trusts purchase of beet sugar
factories in various parts of the country un-
doubtedly has contributed more to the complica-
ton of the case than has any other active in
fuence As before remarked. few members Of
either branch Of Congress probably are aware
of the Sugar Trusts direct and immediate in
terest in the beet root industry. and il goes
without saying that when they find about it
the Sugar Trust-undoubtefIy the most unpoPu-
lar in Congress of all the trusts-will feel the
weight of this unpOpularity- In other words It
is confidently believed that. with few notable
exceptions the men who are now most assertive
in their opposition to authorizing the President
10 negotiate a reciprocity treaty with Cuba
because OF their fear that the Sugar Trust viii
share more largely in the benefits of such
commercial arrangement than any other interest
of the country will quickly reverse their course
and enthusiastically support NtSSi1SAA Gun
tention that the highest considerations of moral
ity demand that the United States make tariff
concessions to Cuba in return for like conees
sons on the part Of the new republic
II is firmly believed that If the subcommittee
of the Senate Committee on Relations with
Cuba which is now investigating the charge
made by Senator Teller. of Colorado, that the
Sugar Trust owns the bulk Of this years sugar
crop will again call Henry o Havemeyer before
IL and examine him the question OF the pur-
chase by himself and associates OF controlling
interests in beet sugar enterprises. IL win be
developed that what is here stated is substsn-
tally correct When Mr.. Haveneyer vas be-
fore the committee twice last month no ques-
ton touching on his financial interest in the
beet root business asked. and IL is said BY
those who know Mr. Havemeyer best that ff he
had been questioned on this point he would have
told frankly and fully of his efforts to absorb
i'm the Sugar Trust the majority Of the beer
root refinerfss in the country That he is DE-
termined still to remain master Of the sugar
business in the United states is not doubted BIZ
anybody who knows him. and that he can COM
rnand al the capital needed carry out 50
huge an undertaking Is known by the financial
world.
BELIEVED TO FAVOR REBATE PLAN
In this view of the case il is shown that IN.
men most largely interested IN the SUGAR Trtfst
care less fer the OF the reciprocity move
ment than has been loudly proclaimed bv ths
Oxnard group Of sugar manufacturers In poirt
Of fact the Havemeyer people never have been
much concerned one way or the other about ths
reciprocity dispute But since they have
quired a controlling interest IN the oeet rcos
industry they undoubtedly wculd prefer thas