The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-05-27
he Times Article Last Sum
day Published as Pub
lie Document.
DETAILS OF FRAUDS
EhT ID IN RECORD
c6oa - ing Wide Publicity
Ia Request Of SEN
or Owen.

cent TO the Capitol today
distribution, hundreds OF
public document contain
Of the American Sugar
Ipany frauds written for
{ last Sunday evening by
ert. jr.
~ le result of an order Of the
the suggestion of Senator
of kIahoma that the sugar
disclosed IN The Times and
lanying cuts be printed at
expense Cor general distri-
alt of this action The Times
II gain the widest possible
throughout the country. The
the sugar frauds as disclosed
mes have already been pub
ls. the Congressional Record at
ta st Of Mr.. Owen
Not In Record.
which accompanied the
,vVever, were not used in the
1nal Record. Mr Owen con
.em to be so important that
Id be used in a subsequent is
Record. Senators Smoot of
aa GalIinger of New Hampshire
N the ground that It was the
the Joint Committee on Print
Trninate illustrations OF ali
the Record.
e suggestion Of Senator Gcre
ma, Mr.. owen then obtained
S consent 70 have The Times
d the accompanying cuts pub
document form at the expense
lvernment.
lcument. which is known as
socznent No. &C. went 20 TIE
mt Printing ofhee last nisht
morning thousands Of copies
TO the House and Senate for
of members Of Congress and
nbers were sent TO the folding
ment Vooms for public distri-
III rring TO the necessity for
ribution Of the Sunday Bven-
s article, DIR. Owen said:
Review of Frauds.
3nday called the attention OF
ate 10 a critical. paRstakiag
the frauds which have been
ed upon the people OF the
itates by the American Sugar
Company. It was an account
recent frauds, in which they
/ themselves guilty of having
ot less than 5000. .o00. ana paid
e Treasury Of the United
having been detected in this
nd corrupt conduct which has
over a period OF years.
ttention to this account. which
its face that this great cor
engaged in this fraudulent
cheating the United States Of
during a period OF years, had
daily record OF fraudulent
by which they had defrauded
pie of the United States. This
shows that this was the sew
ferent way in which they had
ed the people OF the United
those methods being:
by throwing water on the plat
the scales when the tare
were being calculated.
Id to have the checker put his
on the beam of the scales. by
fraudulent weight was given.
Truck Frauds.
T. after the Government detected
a fraud in the trucks which were used
and caused new trucks TO be made and
painted red, so that they might be iden-
titled, these trucks were hnmedia tely
afterWard changed IN weight so as 70
/ perpetrate a fraud in the weights OF
sugar imported into this country
Fourth, by the action of the extra
! paid hired weighers of the Sugar trust
! in moving the balance ball on the scales.
Fifth, by the hanging Of weight
/ in the scale house, so as 10 give a frat
dulent weight.
sixth, by taking the sweepings right
under the nose Of the Government of
dcials, as the account states. Ind not
/ weighing them at all.
/ Seventh, this last process Of the
/ needle, made of corset steel and in
/ jected into the scales through a hole
bored in the standard, by which the
/ scales were made TO falsely register the
weights, and by which over S2.000, 900 was
/ cOnfessedly stolen.
/ In Objecting to the printing of the
1 cuts In the Congressional Record show
/ ing clearly how the frauds We're per
/ petFated, Senator SmOOt. who later in
/ the day made a speech for the main
/ tenance of the duty which pours mill
/ lions annually into the Golfers of the
I Sugar trust. declared.
Il do not think there is one member
of the Committee on Printing who
doubts for a moment that these frauds
have been committed. /, for. one. say
now that I condemn them Just as
strongly as does the Senator from Okla
hOma.