Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-04-15
RAINEY SCORES
PRESIDENT and
WICKERSHAM
ILLINOIS CONGRESSMAN DECLARES
SUGAR TRUST WAS CREATED
WITH THEIR AID.
TAFTS BROTHER Is INCLUDED.
Says Statute Of Limitations VIII Bar
Court Proceedings Unless Action
Is Taken Soon.
TAFTS BROTHER Is INCLUDED.
PROBE RESOLUTIONS ARE BURIED?

WASHINGTON, d. G., April IA
In delivering a scathing denunciation of
the American Sugar Refining company in
! the House Of Representatives today,
Representative Rainey of Illinois did
not hesitate to make bold suggestions
concerning that most corrupt and rotten
trust ever created by the protective tariff
system" and President Taft Attorney
General Wickersham and Henry w.
Taft. brother Of the President
Mr.. Rainey referred to President
Iaft's message sent to Congress about
year ago III which the President advised
against an investigation of the sugar
frauds by Congress for the reason that
1t might, by giving immunity and other
wise, prove an embarrassment in secur-
ing conviction of the guilty parties"
Reviews History of Trust.
Reviewing the history of the sugar
trust and especially recent fraudulent
acts IN underweighing raw sugar for
the purpose of defraudng the govern
ment of millions Of revenue, Mr.. Rainey
said
The situation in brief is as follows: Prom.
inent stockholders and directors of the
sugar trust are in grave danger. or at least
tbey We're not long ago; the doors of our
penitentiaries were opening for many of
them. They have, however, succeeded
through their control of the Republican
party, in bringing about this most delight
ful arrangement.
The attorney general of the United States
was until his appointment a sugar trust at
Iorney, familiar with the methods of the
sugar trust, exhibiting even now remark
aDle sympathy for its officials in their diff
culties.
The general counsel for the sugar trust is
an eX-asslstant attorney general of the
United states, loyal to the Republican party
familiar with the methods and with the
secrets Of the attorney generals office
The brother of the President of the Unit
sugar trust.
J. E. Parsons the father of the ex-presi
dent of the New York county Republican
committee, is under Indictment on account
or his ofense against the law in Philadel-
phia.
And the President of the United States
mas ADVISED against Il congressional investl-
CATION OF the sugar trust. for the reason
that 1t might prove embarrassing.
Statute May Bar Action.
The last of the frauds committed by the
sugar trust occurred the 20th day of
November, 1907. The statue of limitations
Is running every day and will soon become
complete bar against any criminal prose,
Cutlon that may be brought The ReDub.
ican party is charged with the adminiStra.
ton of affairs in this House Two hundred
and nineteen Republican members sit on
the other side of this chamber and since
the message Of the President of the United
States was read in this House. not one of
them has lifted his voice against the sugar
trust or in favor of an Investigation bv
Congress.
In a carefully prepared speech. Mr.
Rainey proceeded to review many Incl
dents in the career Of the sugar trust
which he declared reached out through
political parties and corrupted men las
no other law defying corporation has
ever been able to do"
For fourteen years, through it's almost
absolute management and control of the
Republican party" declared Mr. Rainpv,
the sugar trust has been able to wreck
great financial institutions: it has been
able to shape tariff schedules. through
tariff schedules framed to suit its
purposes. it has been able to steal in
directly from the people; and. by brib-
ing Republican officials, it has been able
to steal directly from the treasury of
the United states untold millions of
dollars"
Again referring to the Presidents
message to Congress advising against
an investigation of the sugar frauds. Mr.
Rainey insisted that such an inyestiga-
ton would not have granted Immunity
to witnesses called before a committee
of Congress as suggested by the Presi
dent. He cited the language of the con
stitution and of statutes to sustain that
contention.