The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-27
MORMON HIERARCHY
/ AND SUGAR TRUST
|fleyeiand Press Makes Direct
Charges As to Smooi and
AldriCh.
PROPOSED INVESTIGATION
MAY BE HEADED OFF
'Cayprnment Said to Have Proof
of Deal Made; Big SenSa-
ton Brewing.
sp.cIal tc The Tribune.


WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.-Yciled
,harpes made in the Senate vhlo Tbs
,sn6 bill was under consideration at
The special session last summer that
.,be sugar trust and the Mormon
hierarchy are in league and control 81
per cent of the beet sugar production
of the United States arc now being
,,oea.ed with more directness and at.
|tsption 70 detail and Il sensation TO be
followed by congressional inyesli.
stion seems imminent.
Il IL has already been announced that
Hampton s Magazine, which has been
pnnting a series Of articles by ,Iudsou
la Welhver exposing the sugar trust
,rd It's methods. would deal with the
bet sugar monopoly IN Its January is
'pe
Startling Story.
Now comes the Cleveland Press. and
pripts under a Washington date the
tstement that the attorney general S
office is actually in possession Of in
formation showing the coIlusion be
. Tween the trust aud tine hierarchy. in
.lhs form Of actual stenographic re
ports of the meetings oC sugar trust
5irectors covering 4 period of seven
sesro These, il is claimed. were fur
.nished by q former director of The
.uust These documents. IL is asserted,
.are locked mp in the safe of the attor-
. ay generals office. The dispatch 10
.ihe Cleveland Press says these records
show among other things of a
Rusational character, why Senator
drich turned over to Senator Smuot
.d Utah the management Of the sugar
shedues on The floor Of the Senate
|Fben the tariff act was under cousid
ration Senator Clay Of Georgia.
/ sho made an attack on the sugar trust
/ dnring the tariff debate, adverted TO
/ ihe fact that Joseph T. Smith WAS ac
L iyc in sugar trust management.
\ Control Of Factories.
The charge is made that for five
/sfsrs no new beet sugar factory has
bea started in he intcrmountain
y sisies except with the approval of the
Mormon hierarchy and the sugar trust.
a Ilt is understood that Senator Joseph
4 u Barstow Of Kansas. who made an
unsuccessful fight against The sugar
fyst at the special session. Will de
raud toe senate Investigation and
pfohsbly introduce u resolution calling
% the attorney general for the evi-
lrnce in possession of that officer. The
shargc is made that This evidence viii
Nos Senator Aldrich TO have been the
ceieDdcr of the sugar trust at all times
p the senate and reveal the relations
d other public men 10 the unhoIy we'd
Atk between the trust and the hlCr-
sehy.
Policy of Silence.
The attorney general and his assis
'apls decline To discuss The report that
rf} have incrImiuatiug evidence
%Ecd uD in the government vaults
SI II is certain that either Senator
@isIow or Senator Borah viii find
y II possible. The executive depart.
pa might refuse to furnish the docu-
,enls on the ground. as has sometimes
gen put forward. that "'it would be
sempatlblc with the public interest
90 so" Undoubtedly certain states
en VIII try 10 prevent the opening
the vaults TO bring out the docu-
Eats II half the things alleged arc
gnlalncd in the minutes of sugar trust
aeetors meeting. of which The govern
M is said TO have copy il is q
is bet that the senate cbloroform will
applied before the resolution of IN
.LngatoD gets beyond the stage of a