The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-11-16
MAGNITUDE OF
SUGAR INQUIRY
EXPECTED THE CASE WILL RANK
WITH INSURANCE UPHEAvAL
IN 1905.
AIR OF UNCERTAINTY
Seems to Engulf the Proceedings
Rumors Of Reaching "Men
Higher Up" Heard in
New York.

New York, Nov. 15.-The air OF un-
certainty surrounding the sugar fraud
cases Is interpreted by those who
have followed the progress of the cor
Iporation investigation to foreshadow
an inquiry which may rank with the
insurance upheaval in 1905. 1t was re-
ported today that the government will
probably attempt to obtain back dates
due on sugar at Boston and Phlladel-
phia. The investigation in New York
Is accompanied by runors Of reach.
| ing "men higher up" Henry l.
Stimson, the governments special at
torney, declined to discuss the mat
tier.
Collector Loeb is reticent, but re-
Ipeated that it was through the de
termination Of Roosevelt that the
prosecution was undertaken.
When denial came from Washing
ton today by James b. Reynolds. for
mer assistant secretary Of the treas
Jury, that he opposed the investigation
while in office Richard Parr, through
whose statements Reynolds action
and motives were placed open to
criticism, announced that he had been
misquoted and misunderstood. parr
who is still engaged at the customs
house, issued the folowin:
In regard to the statement that
Reynolds ordered Special Agent Isarl
to Cuba, then to San Francisco. for
| the purpose of preventing Parr from
pursuing the sugar investigation fur
ther, Parr stated that there was mis-
apprehension. and he did not charge
| that Reynolds ordered him to Crba or
San Francisco for any improper pur-
pose, and that the reporters msun
derstood his statement The trip to
San Francisco was ordered by Rey'
nolds at the request of District Attor
ney Stimson, who feared that PARIS
health was being undermined by the
strain of the investigation.
AS to other statements he had
/
Investigation, Parr said he would pro
duce evidence in support thereof at
| the proper time.
Reynolds, in his denial from Wash.
ington said, concerning the more OF
less general implication that the
office of the secretary in charge OF
the customs was somehow in league
with or under the influence Of, the
lsugar trust: I can only assert most
positively that in the four years and
La half Of my tenure of office saw
lno indication that trust attempted
to exercise such influence. No ap
Iproaches were ever made to ME b.
any of its officials or agents, and
performed my duties with none bu
the most common knowledge OF tht
Iexistence of such an organization
One of the few outward develop
ments in the situation in New Yort
today was the transfer of one of the
most important cases set for tria
fro mthe federal jurisdiction ci
Brooklyn to Manhattan. Accordingly
James F. Bendernagel, former gener
lal superintendent Of the American
Sugar Refining company in Williams
burg. will plead tomorrow in the fed
eral court of Manhattan. His trial
with others included in the blanket
indictment, will begin on the 29th.
IBendernagel is charged with defraud-
ing the government by false weights
Declines in stocks of the American
Sugar Refining company were re-
corded today as the investigation pro
ceeded. This. company recently paid
the government more than $2,e00,o00
recompense for short weights and
later settled out of court a civil suit
brought by the Pennsylvania Sugar
Refining company, rival which It
put out of business,
1t was upon the strength Of evil.
| (Conalfldad IN SjYth paRpl