El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-04-14
Representative RA|NEY ALSO ATTACKS
BROTHER Of PRESIDENT IN SPEECH
Declares Sugar Trust Prosecution Has Been Held UP
Because of Connection OF People in High Places
Assails Record of the Attorney General
and Presidents Brothers Connec-
ton With the Trust

been fully recognized here by insur-
gents and regulars alike on the other
side Of this chamber, and / have been
adjudged guilty of it; but 1 propose
! to again render myself liable to the
! same charge. In the early days of the
! republic the old rule prevailed that a
man in public life must be above sus-
| picion; the rule now Is that you must
not suspect
Presidenf ial Precedent.
The annals of congress he said would
| be searched in vain 20 find another mes
sage by a president advising against a
! congressional Investigation under sim
liar facts.
Going into the details of tariff legis-
lation, Mr.. Rainey declared that the
sugar trust had employed the methods
of the STANDARD Oil monopoly" in at
tempting TO control the production of
sugar far beyond the boundaries of the
United States BY manipulating legis-
lation he said they had crushed the
| Spreckels company, and possessed them
selves Of the sugar supply of Hawaii
All the time. he said. the trust was con-
tributing TO the Republican campaign
fund. and when it deemed advisable it
gave to the Democratic party. Cuban
annexation or independence he said,
depended upon the interests of the trust
in exploiting the raw sugar of that
island. When the purposes of the trust
could be served best by the annexation
of Cuba, he declared. a revolution would
be started in that island. The free adj
mission Of 200 tons of Philippine su-
gar. he insisted was but move TO help
swell the Golfers of the sugar monop-
oily.
Trust Methods.
Coming down to the building of the
Pennsylvania sugar refinery in Phila-
Irrf ", hx- Irf, 1,a
showed how that concern, created to
be sold to the sugar trust had by a
process of lending money for its COM
pletion drifted into the control of the
trust. Being sued by the Pennsylvania
Sugar Refining company. he said, it be-
came necessary for the trust to engage
additional counsel and they turned TO
the firm of Strong & Cadwalader. "one
of those important New York city legal
firms 10 which great corporations ap-
peal for aid when they propose to vio-
late the laws of the land. or when they
have violated the laws of the land
Taft and Wickersham.
Citing the names of this firm as in
Guiding those of George w Wickersham
and Henry W. Taft. he again gave the
list of the firm after president Taft's
inauguration when Mr.. Wickersham had
become attorney general and Henry w.
Taft had been moved up from fourth to
second place in the list of members.
When the case of the Pennsylvania
Sugar Refining company, against the
trust came up on March 20, 1908, In the
circuit court for the southern district
of New York the name of Henry W.
Taft. he said, appeared as counsel for
the sugar trust.
This situation" he said. "discloses
the fact that in the hour of their great
est stress the managers of this most
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resourceful as ever. Matters had been
so arranged that sugar trust LAWYER
became attorney general of the United
States, and the brother of the president
of the United States became openly one
of the attorneys for the sugar trust"
He was aware. he said, that the at
torney general had had read into the
Congressional Record a statement de-
nying that he had been an attorney for
the sugar trust.
1T may be that the attorney general
was not consulted in this suit, and it
may be that he did not render any serv-
ice in connection with IT," said Mr.
Radney. But the attorney general has
not yet stated how the enormous fee the
firm of Strong & Cadwalader received
was divided Did the attorney general
refuse TO accept any portion of il? The
country would like to know. He neg
Iected in his letter, to state that the
partner to whom he refers. the member
of the firm of Strong & Cadwalader.
who was active in the defense of the
American Sugar Refining company in
these cases, was the brother of the
president of the United States
Il submit that the attorney general
ought not to seek to avoid even an in
active connection with this Infamous
trust by throwing the entire burden
and the disgrace of such connection upon
4 81
ed States"
4 Wickersham Letter
But he continued on June 81 1909.
the ~attorney general wrote to John s
Wise. Enited States district attorney for
the southern district Of New York. q
letter which Mr.. Rainey thought should
go into the Congressional Record. al
though already published elsewhere In
this letter Mr. Xickersham suggested
to Mr. Wise in respect to the sugar
fraud cases that "a strong effort will be
made tomorrow to persuade the president
TO interfere in some way to prevent the
indictment
It respectfully contend" concluded
Mr. Rainey, that the Republican major
fty in this house can not afford to
longer delay congressional investiga- !
ton; and the millionaire malefacrors
who control the sugar trust and WHO
are responsible for the preparation or
these gigantic frauds ought to be held |
ND TO the contempt OF the country. I'm !
Pittsburg they have learned how to /,
reach the men higher up.
They simply propose Immunity to the |
men whose conviction is not important |
hut who are only tools in the hands OF
the principal malefactors and as re- |
suk minor city officials were a few davs
ago coming by scores in Pittsburg TO |
the office of the prosecuting attorney
and telling their stories duplicating the
real criminals And the time NAV NOT |
be far distant when men who pass in |
Pittsburg as respectable citizens will
paw the penalty TO which their criminal |
conduct has rendered them liable ,
The attorney general of the United |
States. however, commences his prosecu-
tons and ends them with unimportant
officials and SIS a week checkers. and |
the real persons guilty of the most I
colossal fraud in the history of our
government are permitted TO go about
Without punishment, without exposure,