El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-04-14

ering a scathing denunciation of the
American Sugar Refining company, in
the house Of representatives, repreSen-
tative Rainey, of Illinois. did not hest
tate to make bold suggestions concern
ing that most corrupt and rotten trust
ever created by the protective tariff
system and president Taft. attorney
general Wickersham, and Henry W.
Taft, brother of the president
Mr.. Rainey referred to president
Tafts message sent TO congress about
year ago in which the president adj
vised against an investigation Of the SUI
gar frauds by congress for the reason
that lit might, by giving immunity and
otherwise prove an embarrassment in
securing conviction of the guilty par
ties
Reviewing the history of the sugar
trust. and especially recent fraudulent
acts in underweighing raw sugar for the
OF millions of revenue, Mr.. Rainey said:
Trust Controls Republicans"
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 penftentaries We're open
ing for many of them They have, how
ever. succeeded, through their control
of the Republican party, in bringing
ment-
1.-The attorney general of the United
Sta ties was until his appointment a SUI
gar trust attorney, familiar with the
methods of the sugar trust, exhibiting
even now a remarkable sympathy for
its officials in their difficulties.
THE general counsel for the sugar
trust is an exassistant attorney general
of the United States, loyal TO the Re-
publican party. familiar with the meth
DDS 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.
j Z. 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 the president of the United
States has advised against congress
sional investigation of the sugar trust,
for the reason that it might prove en-
barrassing.
The Last Frauds.
The last of the frauds committed by
the sugar trust occurred on the goth
day of November. 1907. The statute
of limitations IL running every day and
will soon become a complete bar against
any criminal prosecution that may be
brought. The Republican party is
charged with the administration of af
fairs in this house Two hundred and
70 Republican members sit on the other
side of this chamber, and since the mes
sage 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 investiga-
ton by congress"
In carefully prepared speech Mr..
Incl
dents in the career of the sugar trust
which he declared reached out through
political parties and corrupted men "as
no other law defying corporation has
ever been able to do"
The WreckaEe.
For II years, through its almost alb
Solute management and control OF the
Republican party" declared Mr. Rainey.
the sugar trust has been able to wreck
great financial institutions; it has been
able to shape tariff schedules, through
tariff schedules framed TO suit it's pur-
poses; it has been able to steal indi-
rectly from the people; and, by bribing
Republican officials, it has been able
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
Mr. Rainey insisted that such an investi-
cation would not have granted immunity
TO witnesses called before a committee
of congress as suggested by the presi-
dent. He cited the language of the con-
stitution and of statutes to sustain that
contention
Resolutions Buried.
And yet" ne said. that message of
the president fell like wet blanket on
the congress. AS a result of it four or
five resolutions including one o. my
own. providing for a congressional ~
vestfgation of the methods of the sugar
trust sleep the sleep that knows no
waking in the committee on rules Of the
house, and this committee will continue
to be in the future as 1t has been in the
past, the graveyard of those meritorious
measures which might, if reported out,
prove detrimental to the progress of the
Republican party
Citing the growing deficit in the
treasury, the impossibility of providing
city mail delivery in % or 80 cities
of the country, and picturing the hope
less efforts Of old soldiers TO obtain
modest increases of their pensions, Mr..
Rainey made further denunciation OF
the sugar trust as a prominent cause of
the governments embarrassment because
1T had stolen millions from the treas
ury."
"Tbieves and Their Pleasures"
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-
senting themselves TO be honest men.
The country is in debt and the men who
have contributed millions TO the Re
publican campaign fund are. under
Republican administration. permitted to
now reimburse themselves 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.
Il will probably be again excluded by
the Republican majority from serving
on the Investigating committees of this
house." he added When you discuss
on this floor the attempted offenses of
men high in the councils of the Repub-
lican party, they answer by misrepre-
senting what you say and by charging
you with partisanship. / am well aware
that the offense Of lese majestic has