The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-19

was ID. F. Atkins of Boston here nearly two years aEo7 Why was that (nere Mir. Fordncy used adiectfves considered It. bellous in most newspapers.) Thurber here; why has he been here as he has shocking around t1is Capitol ever since have been in Consre&s-who afterward admitted that he was paid by the sugar trust and lied when. before the Commit tee on ways and Eeans, the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Tawney) asked him If he had received any money from Mir. Havemeyer of the sugar trust in any way. shape or manner. and he said no. but few days later when placed on oath testified that he had received money from Havemeyer and also tegtffied that he had received money directly from Major Gen. eral Wood. Military Governor of Cuba"
 Weapon for the Trust.
 Mir. Fordney said that with the reduc- tion of the tariff on sugar which would follow this bill. the trust at its will would reduce the price of sugar to . point with which the beet sugar manu- facturer could not compete and when they crushed them out. raise the price He also said that every pound of sugar coming from Cuba goes through the re fineries of either the American Sugar Re. fining Company or Arbuckies. one hay ing capacity for 400oo barrels and the other 5000 barrels day. sufficient ca pacity to supply all the sugar to all the people of this country for many years. Speaking of beet sugar production, he said:
 -what they want Is to wipe this out. They have come into the State of Michf- gan and have become interested in ten of our twenty factories and what fori They were afraid of that competitor. IL Is cheaper there to buy up those factories and sell them for scrap iron and get the benefit of the enormous sum that would come to them from the benefits of this measure than 1t Is to fight this compe- tition."
 MT. Bell (Dem., Cab followed in op- position to the bill. saying the farmers Of this State wanted the same measures of protection now afforded them and he urged that the beet sugar growers need ed the protection. He said the Republi- cans who feel so certain that California will be iu the sure Republ'can coiitmn should go to that State and see how all the people there feel on that subject.
 When you pass this Jaw, you strike blow at one of our great industries" he said.
 Mir. Gardner Rep., 1fich.) explained why he had changed his views and now favors the passage of the bill. Tn the first place. conditions had changed in the last two years. He said the President of beet sugar plant in his district favored the bill. In conclusion he said the meas ure was the policy of the President and his cabinet, of a majority of the Senate and House and those who stood out against 1t, stood out against great ma jority.
 MT. Burgess (Dem., Texas) characteriz- cd the bill as an outrage and said his party could not hope for success at the polls next year if 1t continued the policy of making tariH agreements affecting the agricultural and stock interests of the country.
 Reading an extract from an article writ ten by Thomas B. Reed. Mir. Burgess said:
 ''Thls simply means stripped of all ver- blaze and the bare facts stated. that S2o,- 900 was appropriated from the Cuban funds ous vouchers issued by Leonard Wood endorsed by the War Department of this admInistration. reciting on theil faces that they were for the purpose oI influencing public opsnaon in the United States in favor of this bill"
 He continued: eBut to pursue the dirty and surreptitious methods tthe facts concerning which had to be dragged out of Thurber's throat in a Senate commit. tee )is disgraceful and ruinous' to any ad. mlnistration under the sun. No wonder postoffice thievery obtains in the land when such acts as that can be notorious ly done in open sunlight and nobody com ments upon such political thievery."
 Mir. Shafroth (Dem., Col.) added his op- position to the bill. saying 1t was un- democratic and unrepublican and fraught with danger to American industries.
 The House at D. m. adjourned.