The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-04-14

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
by congress"
In a carefully prepared speech Mr..
Rainey proceeded to review many in
cidents in the career of the sugar
trust which he declared reached out
through political parties and corrpt-
ed men "as no other law defying cor
poration has ever been able to do.
For fourteen years, through it's al
most absolute management and con-
troll of the Republican party" declar-
ed Mr.. Rainey, "the sugar trust has
been able to wreck great financial in
stitutions: it has been able to shape
tariff legislation, through tariff sched-
ules framed to suit its purposes, 1t
has been able to steal indirectly from
the people; and, by bribing Republi-
can officials, 1t has been about to steal
directly from the treasury of the
United States untold millions of dol
lars..'
Again referring to the presidents
message to congress advising against
an investigation of the sugar frauds
Mr.. Rainey insisted that such an in
vestigation would not have granted
immunity to witnesses called before
committee of congress as suggested
by the president He cited the lam
! guage of the constitution and OF
statutes to sustain that contention.
"And yet" he said, that message
of the president fell like wet blanket
on the congress. AS a result Of it
four or five resolutions, including one
of my own, providing for congress
sional investigation of the methods Of
the sugar trust sleep the sleep that
knows no waking in the committee on
rules, of the house, and this commit
tee will continue to be in the future
as it has been in the past, the grave
yard of those meritorious measures
which might, If reported out, prove
detrimental to the progress Of the Re-
publican party"
Cause Of Deficit.
| Citing the growing deficit in the
treasury, the impossibility Of provid-
ing 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 denunciation of the sugar
trust as prominent cause of the
governments embarrassment because
it had "stolen millions from the treas
ury."
And these thieves" he said, spend
this season of the year cruising in the
Mediterranean, or at fashionable
Florida hotels, watching automobiles
break records along the beach; still
representing themselves to be honest
men. The country is in debt and the
men who have contributed millions to
the Republican campaign fund are
under Republican administration
Fpermitted to now reimburse them
selves by. stealing from the treasury
of the United States"
He was aware. he said, that he was
again rendering himself liable to the
charge of partisanship.
II will probably be again excluded
by the Republican majority from serv-
ing on the Investigation committee of
this house." he added. when you
discuss on this floor the attempted
offenses of men high in the councils
of the Republican party, they answer
by misrepresenting what you say and
by charging you with partisanship.
am well aware that the offense of lese
majestic has been fully recognized
here fully recognized here by insur-
gents and regulars alike on the other
side Of this chamber. and have been
adjudged guilty of it; but propose
to again render myself liable to the
same charge. In the early days of
the republic the old rule prevailed
that man in public life must be
above suspicion; the rule now is that
you must not suspect
The annals of congress he said
would be searched in vain to find an
other message by president advising
against a congressional investigation
under similar facts.
Going into the details of tariff legis-
lation Mr.. Rainey declared that the
sugar trust had employed the meth
DDS Of the STANDARD Oil monopoly .
in attempting to control the produc-
tion Of sugar far beyond the bound
aries of the United States BY manipu-
lating legislation he said they had
crushed the Spreckels company. and
possessed themselves Of the sugar
supply Of Hawaii. All the time he
said the trust was contributing to the
Republican campaign fund, and when
1t deemed advisable 1t gave to the
Democratic party. Cuban annexation
or independence he said depended up
on the interests of the trust in ex-
plotting the raw sugar Of that island.
When the purposes Of the trust could
be served best by the annexation of
Cuba he declared revolution would
be started in that island. The free
admission of 100000 tons of Philip
pine sugar he insisted was but move