The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-04-14
Rainey of Illinois Styles 1t Most Rotten Trust
Operating Under Protective Tarif---Refers
to Taf's Message to Congress---Attorney
General Euinces Sympathy for Trust
OGcials---Summary of lndict-
ment Against Trust.

message to congress advising against |
an investigation Of the sugar frauds
Mr.. Rainey insisted that such an in
vestigation would not have granted i'm
munity to witnesses called before
committee of congress as suggested by
the president. He cited the language
of the constitution and of statutes to
sustain that contention.
"And yet" he said, that message
of the president fell like a 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
republican party"
j Citing the growing" deficit in the
treasury, the impossibility of provid-
ing city mail delivery in 25 or 30
cities of the country, and picturing
the hopeless efforts of old soldiers to
obtain modest increases of their pen
! sions, Mr.. Rainey made further de-
nunciation of the Sugar Trust as a
prominent cause of the governments
} embarrassment because 1t had stolen
} millions from the treasury"
: "And these thieves" he said, "spend
: this season of the year cruising in the
= Mediterranean, or at fashionable Flor
ida hotels, watching automobiles break
! records along the beach; still repre-.
a senting themselves to be honest men.
b The country is in debt and the men
: who have contributed millions to the
l. republican campaign fund are, under
/ republican administration, permitted
to now reimburse themselves by steal
L lHS lIOu luS tiSaouAy VI eho oAeSN
l. States"
e He was aware, he said. that he was
e again rendering himself liable to the
e charge of partisanship.
81 will probably be again excluded
# by the republican majority from serv
r ing on the investigating committee o
this house." he added. when yol
( discuss on this floor the attempted OF
e. fenses of men high in the councils 0
t. the republican party they answer b.
st misrepresenting what you say and b,
charging you with partisanship. ! an
d well aware that the offense OF les
s majestic has been fully recognized her
st by insurgents and regulars alike OF
a. the other side of this chamber, and
have been adjudged guilty of it; bu
ID l propose to again render myself liza
le BILE to the same charge. In the earl
le days of the republic the old rule pre-
" vailed that man in public life mus
te be abop suspicion; the rule now
IN that you must not suspect"
IN The annals of congress he sal
a. would be searched in vain to find al
70 other message by president advi
a. ing against congressional invest
a. cation under similar facts.
s. Going into the details OF tariff legi
Id lation Mr.. Rainey declared that th
IT. sugar trust had employed the method
st of the STANDARD Oil monopoly" in a
by tempting to control the production
sugar far beyond the boundaries
Ir. the United States. By manipulatin
in Legislation he saidSthey had crushe
ar the Spreckels company, and possesse
ut themselves of the sugar supply
pt- Hawaii All the time he said u
or trust contributing to the republics
campaign fund, and when It deemt
al advisable 1t gave to the democrat
IN party. Cuban annexation or iadepen
ed ence he said depended upon the !
en- terests of the trust in exploiting u
IN raw sugar of that island. When Il
riff purposes of the trust could be serve
les best by the annexation of Cuba he d
las clared a revolution would be start'
he in that island. The free admission
Of 100000 tons of Philippine sugar ne
,ct- sisted was but a move to help sw'
ted the Golfers of the sugar monopoly.
Coming down to the building OF t
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