The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-04-14
REPRESENTATIVE Rainey Of Illinois
Demands Congressional
Investigation.
ATTACKS PRESIDENTS STAND
pselares Sugar Trust Has Been in Al
most Absolute Control OF Repub-
liean Party for the Past
Fourteen Years.

WnEnlllklOlls
scatblng dcnunciation of the American
sugar Refining company, in the house
~ CONSERVATIVES today Representa-
tive Rainey of Illinois, did not hesitate
to make bold suggestions concerning
chat most corrupt and rotten trust
oyer created by the protective tariff
svstem." and President Taft, Attorney
General Wickersham, and Henry w.
taft. brother of the president.
Mr.. Rainey referred TO President
Taft's message sent to congress about
wear ago in which the president ad-
yised against an investigation of the
sugar frauds by congress for the rea-
son that "it might, by giving immunity
and otherwise, prove an embarrass-
mcnt i'm securing conviction of the gull
y parties
Reviewing the history of the sugar
trust, and especially recent fraudulent
acts in underweighing raw sugar for
the purpose of defrauding the govern
ment of millions of revenue, Mr.. Rain
cy said;
The situation in brief is as follows:
Prominent stockholders and directors
Of the sugar trust are in grave danger,
or at least they were not long ago; the
doors of our penitentiaries were open
ing for many of them. They have,
however succeeded. through their con-
troll Of the republican party, in bring
ing about this most delightful arrange
ment:
THE attorney general OF the United
States was until his appointment a
sugar trust attorney familiar with
the methods of the sugar trust, exhib-
iting even now a remarkable sympathy
for It's officials i'm their difficulties.
"The general counsel for the sugar
trust is an ex-assistant attorney gem
eral 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
United States is one of the attorneys
for the sugar trust.
"And the president of the United
States has advised against congress
sonal Investigation of the sugar trust,
for the reason that it might prove en-
barrassing.
For fourteen years. through its al
most absolute management and control
of the republican party" declared Mr..
hp ah
to wreck great financial institutions;
it has been able TO shape tariff sched-
ules, through tariff schedules framed
to suit its purposes, 1t has been able to
steal indirectly from the people; and,
by bribing republican officials. IL has
been able to steal directly from the
treasury of the United States untold
millions of dollars"
And yet" he said. that message of
the president fell like Il wet blanket on
the congress. AS a result of it four OF
five resolutions, including CrG of my
own providing for a congress onal IN
vcstigation of the methods OF the sugar
trust sleep the sleep that knows nc
the house, and this committee viii
continue TO be i'm the future as il has
been in the past. the graveyard of those
meritorious measures which might, II
reported out, prove detrimental to the
progress of the republican party"
Citing the growing" deficit in tho
treasury, the impossibility of providing
city mail delivery in 25 or 80 cities OF
the country, and picturing the hopeles:
efforts of old soldiers to obtain nodes
Increases OF their pensions. Mr.. Rane,
made a further denunciation of thu
sugar trust as a prominent cause o.
the governments embarrassment be
cause II had stolen millions from th'
treasury"
And these thieves" he said, "spcnC
this season Of the year cruising in tn
Mediterranean, or at fashionable Flor
ida hotels, watching automobiles breal
records along the beach; still repre-
sentlng themselves to be honest mer
Inc country is in debt and the mel
VINO have contributed millions to tn
republican campaign fund are, under
republican administration, permitted t
how reimburse themselves by stealin
from the treasury of the United States.
lie was aware, he said, that he wa
again rendering himself liable to tn
'harse of craftsmanship.
Going into the details of tariff legis
iation Mr.. Rainey declared that tn
sugar trust had employed the method
vi the Standard Oil Monopoly in at
tempting to control the production {
sugar Tar beyond the boundaries {
'"e United States. BY manipulatin
legislature he said they. had crushed III
spreckels Co., and possessed them
seNes of the sugar supply OF Hawai-
al 'he time he said the trust wa
Non'rlDuting to the republican can
paign fund, and when deemed advisa
Die II gave to the democratic part
Ouoan annexation or independence }
sa'u depended upon the interests of Il
uus' IN exploiting the raw sugar
'''' island. When the purposes OF u