Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-11-17
SUGAR PROBE
GOES DEEPER
Surveyor of the Port at New
York Makes List of
UndesirabIes
MORE INDICTMENTS RETURNED
twenty-five Weighers in Dan.
ger of Being Dismissed From
Service.

New York. Nov. ia report per.
sistent here today is that indictments
have been found against a number OF
government weighers in connection
with the frauds perpetrated by the
American Sugar Refining Company at
the Williamsburg docks. A report from
Washington that a list of % assistant
weighers had been furnished to the
! United States civil service commission
by the collector at New York OF men
implicated in frauds is confirmed by
Deputy Surveyor of the Port Richard
Parr. Parr admitted that a list of
"undesirables" had been prepared bt
him. He intimated, however, that the
list is much longer than %. The be-
lief is general that a congressional in
vestgation of the New York custom
house will be ordered. President
Thomas of the American Sugar Re
fning Company today denied the truth
of the report that he is to resign.
| Anderson Knew Too Much.
New York, Nov. IA new figure
/ was introduced last night in the in
| vestigatiOn of frauds charged to the
| American Sugar Refining Company
when Edwin l. Anderson, a former SUI
| perintendent of docks for the company
! and a close personal friend of the late
| Theodore 0. Havemeyer, announced
! through his attorneys that he is the
man referred to by James B. Rey-
nolds, former assistant secretary Of
! the treasury, as the one who gave the
! department the first specific infoTma-
tion concerning the frauds. Ander-
son has filed claims with the customs
! authorities for compensation which
he estimates will reach $1,000, 600.
For the last two years, he says, he
has been furnishing evidence to the
government and it was through him,
he ass rts that Richard Parr, who
| how figures so prominently in the
case, gained his commission.
! Anderson absolves Mr.. Reynolds OF
any attempt to check the investiga
tions, declaring that the former as
sistant secretary was enthusiastic in
his desire for prosecution. In fact
the first activity came as the result
of encouragement which Mr. Reynolds
save him, he says.
! Anderson says that the American
Sugar Refining Company requested
his resignation after Mr.. Havemeyer's
death in 1903 on the theory that he
knew too much He had then been
in the companys employ thirty-twc
| years.
He says he came into possession Of
positive proof that the government
was being defrauded of at least $500,
600 yearly at the refinery where he
had been employed.
! Anderson says that while his inves
legations were in progress he was con
stantly shadowed by detectives ant
was so far CONVINCED that 1e was il
E oanger of attack and possibly assas
. sination that special secret service
agent was assigned to act as his bod!
: guard
Civil Service Men Guilty.
: Washington, Nov. 17.--Twenty-twt
assistant weighers in the New Yorl
, customs house are known to have beer
) implicated in. or are under suspicion
in the so-called sugar trust frauds.
This is set forth in a statemen
= by Chairman Black and Messrs
Mccarthy and Washburn, of the civi
service commission, in charges tha
appointments and removals in tn
. New York customs house were at tn
dictnm OF the trust. Their infOrma
: ton regarding the twenty-five assist
ant weighers came from the New Yor
e customs house. Two of the assistan
: weighers were appointed without Gel
l tification by the commission, the re
q naming twenty having been appoint
l. cd by certification from 1885 to 1901
The examination by which thes
: assistant weghers have been chose
| during the last fifteen years, says tn
u commission have all been prepare
= and rated at Washington. The el
i aminations are conducted by the Il
It cal boards at New York or elsewhert
y The statement of the committe
q concludes:
What the commission desires t
emphasize to the press is that it ha
Ised not only all of the precaution
:. possible in the selection of its elig
bles but it has left in the depar
e ment unimpaired power OF sitting sue
appointments when once made, to tn
q bottom and exercising the power {
. removal at any time that the interes
g of the public service requires"
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