The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-19
FORDNEY JUMPS
 ON SUGAR TRUST l
(contlnued from First Paee)

nois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine Michigan, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Ne braska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Dakota. Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island South Dakota, Vermont, Wash Ington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming with a total of 263 votes.
 Panama No Issue.
 MT Grosvenor said the Panama ques- tion would not afford the democrats an issue, and in this connection said there was no Aguinaldo down there as all are on the side of the isthmus.
 Referring to a statement made Dy d preceding speaker based on remarks made by the late President Mckinley MT. Grosvenor said if any one read in any statement made by Mr. Mckinley that he favored reciprocity to the extent of tear ing down any American industry he had misread the statement MT. GrosVenor spoke for over an hour and was loudly applauded on the republican side.
 Mir Richardson of Alabama said that the benefit to the cotton industry of the south which will result from the 40 per cent reduction on the cotton schedule in the Cuban treaty was the reason for his support. There are other interests in volved in the treaty besides sugar. The south, he said, had increased the number of her cotton spindles in the last two years three times the increase of spindles in Great Britain and England combined.
 Mr Loud republican of Michigan, speaking in opposition to the bill, said the adoption of the Cuban measure would ieopardize the home sugar industry; would retard and impede the growth of that industry and lessen the revenues by $10, ,000O00 As a business proposition he al chances heinz taken to secure a net result of a few millions MT. McMorran. republican of Minnesota, who also opposed this bill, said the republicans had joined hands with the democrats to pass this bill, which he characterized as a free trade measure riff-for-revenue-only.
 An "lnfernal Bill"
 Mir Fordney vigorously opposed the measure as an "infernal bill" which he said would wipe out the sugar industry in Michigan. Continuing, he said:
 Some one has said that it makes no difference whether you put this measure into law or not. If that is so, why was Mir E. F. Atkins of Boston, here nearly two years ago? Why was that-(here MT. Forney used adjectives considered Iibellous in most newspapers.) Thurbel here? Why has he been here? Why has he been snealking around this capitol ever since I have been in congress-Who after ward admitted that he was paid by the sugar trust and lied when, before tho committee on ways and means, the gen. tleman from Minnesota (Mr. Tawney asked him if he had received any money from Mr. HaVemeyer of the sugar trust | in any way. shape or manner and said 1 no. but few days later when placed on | oath testified that he had received money | from Havemeyer and also testified that he ] had received money directly from Major | General Wood, military governor of | cuba 9"
 Trust Would Fix Prices.
 | Mir. Fordney said that with the reduc- | tion of the tarff on sugar which would | follow this bill the trust at it's will would reduce the price of sugar to a point with which the beet sugar manufacturers could not complete, and when they had crush ed them out, would raise prices. He said that every pound of sugar coming from Cuba goes either through the refineries of the American Sugar Refining com pany or Arbuckle's, one having capacity of forty thousand barrels a day and the other twenty thousand barrels a day a sufficient capacity to supply all the sugar to all the people of this country for many years. Speaking of beet sugar pro | duction he said;
 What they want is to wipe this out, | They have come into the state of Mich | igan and have become interested in ten out of twenty factories and what for