Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1906-03-14

cry trunk line in the East and its traf.
fic officials and the executive heads of
the sugar company are involved.
Subpoenas are out for half a hun.
dred witnesses and for important pa.
pers. Indictments will be asked
agairst II o. Havemeyer, Lowell NJ.
Palmer and other officers of the Sugar
Trust. as well as against the officials
of the New York Central Pennsylya.
mia, Philadelphia and Reading, Della.
ware, Lackawanna and Western New
York, New Haven and Hartford. the
Erie and many other lines. A dozen
specific complaints have been filed
with the Attorney General by Hearst,
and II is upon these complaints that
the Government is acting. The cases,
in scope and importance, promise to
be far more important than those In.
stituted against the beef packers.
The President is deeply interested,
and Attorney General Moody and Dis.
trict Attorney Stinson have declared
the proceedings. in their estimation, to
be the most important ever instituted
by the Government in any prosecution
along these lines. The evidence as
submitted shows an astounding maze
of gross favoritism, fragrant rebate
and vicious Partially. Letters, circu.
lars. private agreements, initiated me.
more nda of private understandings Of
special allowances and private refund
are all in the hands of the Government.
Every trunk line East of the Missls.
sipDi Is involved, and indictments will
be asked against many of the biggest
railroad officials in the country.
The District Attorney applied to tho
! Federal Grand Jury on Tuesday for
subpoenas. These subpoenas are re.
! turnable tomorrow. and It is believed
with the return of the subpoenas the
net of the Government will be drawn
tight. enough evidence elected TO get
the indictments necessary and a score
OF railroad and sugar trust officials will
find themselves in the meshes OF the
law.
The facts concerning the tangle Of
rebate granting and disregard OF law
were brought to light last December.
a most careful and searching investi
cation of the facts was undertaken.
When the facts were clearly establish.
ed representative of Hearst called
upon Attorney General Moody In
Washington and placed the evidence
before him. The Attorney General Wis.
tied the President and informed him of
the facts in his possession. The Pres.
ldent expressed the deepest interest
and urged that proceedings be started
at once and that no one be spared. II
\ is believed the Attorney General will
appear personally in the cases and
that the suits will be the most sensa
tional in point OF revelation that were
ever undertaken by the Government,
TIE relations existing between the
|, American Sugar Refining Company and
: the railroads who are members OF the
Joint traffic association. as revealed IN
/ the suits brought by the Government,
against these corporations for grant
! ing rebates and infractions of the In
terstate commerce law, are of a mos
[ startling character. Just how the In
: dustry could be built up or destroyed
! by granting of special privileges II
clearly set forth How the ruin of thu
s beet sugar men in the Northwest wa
D accomplished il revealed. How hun
r dreds OF thousands OF dollars rollet
r hack into the Golfers of Havemeyer q
: the sugar company in special TRAIN
Ifavors Is indicated, and how compeu
ton was throttled is all outlined.