Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-14
ATTACKEDBY RA|NEY
Sugar Trust Target of Scath-
ing Denunciation.
CRlTICISES TAFT'S MESSAGE
Urges Congressional Investigation Of
Refining Company.


In delivering 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 con
corning that most corrupt and rotten
trust ever created by the protective tarin
SYSTEM" and President Taft, Attorney
General Wickersham and Henry W. Taft
brother of the President.
Mr. Rainey referred to President Tart s.
message sent to Congress about year
ago. in which the President advised
against an investigation of the sugar
frauds by Congress, for the reason that
lit might, by giving immunity and other
wise, prove an embarrassment in securing
conviction of the guilty parties.
Reviewing the history of the sugar
trust, and especially recent fraudulent
acts in underweighing raw sugar for the
purpose OF defrauding the government OF
millions of revenue, Mr.. Rainey said:
Situation in Brief.
( THE situation in brief is as follows:
Prominent stockholders and directors or
the sugar trust are in grave danger, or
at least they were not long ago; the doors
of our penitentiaries were opening for
many of them They have, however. sue
ceeded, through their control of the re-
publican party, in bringing ABOUT this-
most delightful arrangement:
/ .sThe Attorney General of the United
States was until his appointment a SUI
gar trust attorney. familiar with the
methods of the sugar trust, eAnsoltlns
even now a remarkable sympathy Tor its
officials in their difficulties.
1.-The general counsel for the sugar trust
lis an eX-assistant attorney general OF the
United States, loyal to the republican
party. familiar with the methods amo
with the secrets of the Attorney Generals
.aThe, Brother OF the President of the
United States is one of the attorneys for
the sugar trust.
Il. r.. Parsons. the father of the ex-
president of the New York county re-
publican committee, is under Indictment
on account of his offense against the law
in Philadelphia.
| And tie President of the United States
has advised against a congressional in
vestigation of the sugar trust, for the
reason that it might prove embarrass-
ing.
the sugar trust occurred on the 10Th day
of November, 1907. The statute Of limi-
tations is running every day and will
soon become complete bar against any
criminal prosecution that may be brought.
administration of affairs in this House.
Two hundred and nineteen republican
members sit on the other side or 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 by Congress.
Declares Law Is Defied.
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 its almost
absolute management and control of the
republican party declared Mr. Rainey,
1.-The sugar trust has been able to wreck
great financial institutions; it has been
bile to shape tariff schedules; through
tariff schedules framed to suit It's pur-
poses it has been able to steal indirectly
from the people and, by bribing republican
officials. 1t has been able to steal directly
from the Treasury Of the United States
untold millions of dollars.
Again referring to the Presidents mes
sage to Congress advising against an III
vestigation Of the sugar frauds. Mr..
Rainey insisted that such an investiga-
| ton would not have granted Immunity
| to witnesses called before a committee
| OF Congress, as suggested py the Presi-
dent He cited the language of the Con-
stitution and Of statutes to sustain that
contention.
Unwillingness to Investigate.
| "And yet,' he said, that message OF
the President fell like wet blanket on
! the Congress AS result of 1t four or
| Ave resolutions. including one of my
own, providing for CONGRESSIONAL IN
vestigation of the methods or the sugar
| trust sleep the sleep that knows no wax
| ing in the committee on rules OF the
| House. and this committee will continue
| to be In the future, as II mas Deen In the
past, the graveyard OF those meIitofious
measures which might, II reported out,
prove detrimental to- the progress Of the
| republican party.
Treasury. the imposstbility OF providing
city mail delivery In Twenty-Five or thirty
cities Of the country, and picturing the
hopeless efforts of old soldiers to obtain
| modest increases OF their pensions. Mr..
Rainey made a further Remuneration OF
the sugar trust as a prominent cause OF
tie eovernment's embarrassment because
1t had stolen millions from tne treas
ury:" .,.. .a s.,a .sn.nd
this season Of the year cruising in the
Mediterranean, or at fashionable Florida
hotels, watching automoDiies break rec
ords along the beach, still representing
| themselves TO be honest men; the couh-
try is In debt. and the men who nave con-
tributed millions to the republican CAM
paign fund are under republican adj
ministration, permitted to now reimburse
themselves by stealing from the Treasury
| of the United States
Charge Of Partisanship.
He was aware, he said, that he was
| again rendering himself liable to the
Icharge of partisanship.
II will probably be again excluded by
the republican majority from serving on