Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-21
TAMrAET HALL EETIO1E1
New York Politicians ed Sub
sidiaries Dissol
MYSTERIOUS REsoLUn
Havemeysr Proposition Ca &c Be
Found by Officials.
SEVENTEEN REFITEREs UNITE
wItBes. Asked what Efforts We're
Made 10 Get Other. Into the
Btnatiou--Pssitfon of
Politicians.

NEW YORK.. n1ly .3.-Iohn r. Parsons.
former counsel for the American sugar
Refining company. today told the special
congressional COMMITTEES investigating the
so-called trust. MIS- version of the formation
OF the sugar cumbins. He said at first
thas he was willing to share all the
blame III there II any
The mysterious resolution whicn p. ..
Eavemeyer put through the board of di-
rsctors OF the American sugar Refining
cumpany in 1871 approving applications
made BY political parties" is strangely
lost The COMMITTEES instructed Secretarv
Freeman OF the company 70 produca that
resolution. but Freeman today said hts
search for the important paper had Jailed
Mr Parsons followed Mr.. Freeman on
the stand. 4 am willing to take the blame
for originating the idea OF consolidating
the sugar interests into the big company
in fSBT" said Mr Parsons Mr.. Parsons
went further and said that this was the
first big combination. even preceding tfls
standard on. and Representative Madison
of Kansas remarked All here is the real
father OF the trusts
There hnd been many makers OF sugar
prior to 1ss7 continued Mr Parsons. Il
was counsel for many OF them was
counsel for Fl o. Havemeyer Theodors A.
TIavsmeyer. OF Havsmeysr q Elder, and
John e. SaRries."
He MD ke Himself.
who suggested to you the Idea Of
bringing these independent companies IN
1SsT into the sugar rsfinertes company
We'll I think IT was in all their minds.
I'm the man though. who deserves credit
or blame for actually forming that conn
pany. which. under reorganization. be-
cansa of the Sherman antitrust law be-
came che present American sugar Refining
company. I thoroughly believed IN tho
combination az capital. in labor and any
other interest for the benefit OF those tn
tsrsstsd when II il legal
."Thara were tweuty-three ref1nsr7es IN
the United States at that time that you
welded seventeen of them int1 tas Sugar
RafiusEsea cpTppHrH af 1hs1. szta MT. fsur--
retr. can you tell me what efforts were
made 70 get in the other refinsr1ese.'
'.T-hs only man VIM can tell you is now
aead. THAT - John Il. Sear4e.''
''How ionw aid the rsfIner4es company
lastY"
rnmmannx Hall Mentasned-
'srae change in its Affairs began when a
political party brought suit to disorgznizs
tha NORTH River Rafinery COMPANY said
Mr.. Parsons
what partyr' cried most OF the con-
greHHnen.
We call it rnEnmany Hall"
Then all OF snam wanted to know why
well. that was shDur the opening shot
OK a political war against the trusts and
both parties have kept II Up ever ance-
That's why I am not a good party man
now
The court Mr. Parsons said. dissolved
the North River company because II was
q corporation and had no right to Join
a partnership which was the form OF the
sugar Rerlnaries company.
Mr. Parsons explained how John E
searies had paid s70o.0o8 for the Es0.0o0
North River property and dis
mant5ed the refinery Then Searies ''zftsr
killing the North River company's actual
self entered IL partner in the sugar
Rsfinsr4es company This the court OF
appsais declared TO be illegal. thus killing
body thax had already committed
suicide.
50 you see" continued M Parsons.
there II even lot OF bunc0mhe In our
own highest court
Evndea ouesefan Aboaf Waasr.
"Was there nut he was asked "A great
dead of water in the first x0.0oo.O0o stock
OF the American sugar RefininG company
II the rsfineries obtaining the trust