The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-29
NDICTS SUGAR MEN
SENATOR CULBERsoN DRAWS MEss-
 SAGE FROM ROOSEVELT
President sends ts Senate Tnfcrmatfon' Tenching Upon an Alleged yfe- /
 iation Of the Sherman Trust Law.

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 Washington. Jan. zs.-Responding - Senator Culberson's resolution calling upon the Attorney-G Generai for relating to the alleged violation of the sherman law by the so-called sugar trust. in connection with the failure of the Real Estate Trust Company of Philadelphia. Presi- dent Roosevelt today sent to the Sen ate special message, aud all corre- spondence relating to the case.
 The President said:
 .In' accordance with my direction. the Attorney-General has forwarded to me the enclosed papers In response to the resolution Of Senate of Jan. 22. 1909, In reference to sending to the Senate copies of all correspondence in the Department of Justice relating to an alleged violation of the act of July 2, 1890, by the American Sugar he- lining Company, in connection with an alleged loan by tlIe company to one Segal. in which was pledged as se- curity therefor q majority of the cap ital stock of the Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Company, with voting power thereon, and under which, it Is ai- legged. an agreement was entered into that the Pennsyivania Sugar Refining Company should not engage in busi- ness. and herewith transmit them to the senate.
 The message went on the table. It Is expected that Senator Culberson will call if up later.
 The correspendence includes many letters that passed between George H. Earle, Jr., receiver of the Real Estate Trust Company Of Philadelphia. which failed in 1906, and between Earle and former Attorney-General Moody, and between Earle and Attoyney General Bonaparte.
 MT. Earle first wrote President Roosevelt Sept q. 1906. calling atten- ton to the failure of the Real Estate Trust Company and suggested that he may have been misied as to the most potent cause of that calamity by its published explanation. that loans to Adoiph segai. promoter. by President Tibpler of the Institution. were respon- sfble..
 MT. Earle told the President that the explanation was the truth, but not the whole truth.
 In asking executive co-operation. Mr. Earle suggested that the President had a plain duty and added: @
 T write you because the information before me satisfied me beyond a doubt that these loans would have been largely. if not entirely. iiquidated. but for the criminal conduct Of the so- r f y
 Tt is my deliberate conclusion. after weighing the evidence that I have col- Iected with the greatest care. that had 1t hot been for a criminal conspiracy of the most odious character, not of Segaf or Nipple. but of the sugar trust this institution and Segai himself would have been perfectly solvent to- day"
 The letter was . sweeping tndict- ment of the sugar trust" which Earle declared permeates the financial life of the country.
 President Roosevelt referred the whole subject to former Attorney Gen eral Moody and later 1t was surren- dered to Attorney General Bonaparte and both of these officials corresponded with MT. Earle looking to proseeu- ton of the sugar trust.
 The Attorney-General quoted the. de- cislon In the cases of the United States against E. l., Knight & Co, aS his reason for not proceeding against the sugar trust on the facts submitted by MT. Earle.