Arizona republican., 1911-06-29
WOULDN'T TACKLE TRUST
Letters to Him Concerning the Demanding of the Pennsylvania Refining Company Were Suppress ed.

Washington. D. c. June 2S-That former President Theodore Roosevelt has lost preference for large game" following the wrecking of the Real Estate Trust company of Philadelphia in the Pennsylvania Sugar Refining company deal in 1906. was asserted today before the house sugar investi- sating committee by George H. Earle, Jr., receiver for the trust company. The Pennsylvania refinery was ac- quired by the American company and promptly closed Earle also said that considerable of his correspondence with Roosevelt in relation to the case was not communicated to the senate when the resolution was passed call ing for all the papers. Earle sub mitted to the committee two letters, he said he wrote to Roosevelt subse- quent to one bearing the date of Sep tember T, 1906, submitted to the senate.
 That letter is not all I wrote to Roosevelt" said Earle in response to a query by Chairman Hardwick T wrote several that never saw the light of day and l have been able to find two Of them"
 Read them," said Hardwick.
 "On October l, 1896" Earle replied, nothing having been done by the government in this case. I wrote an- other letter to Roosevelt. The letter follows in part: Seriously, the mat ter of the Wrecking of the Real Estate Trust company by the sugar trust, if justice be done. needs the promptest attention from the attorney general. I have seen a number of the conspirators who wrecked this institution at the instigatiOn of the sugar trust and | am myself a maga- zine of evidence against them; but while we have been waiting and dO- ing nothing others have been intense ly active and these very persons who were hot to help me are now with holding all documents and evidence at their command.
 It has often happened that you have been able to punish the Oppres- sOrs of the public but there has really been no occasion when there has been substantial evidence against SD many Of the first rank; and I totally mis- judge your character if you have lost your preference for large game
 MT. Roosevelt had lost his prefer ence for large game and I was mis- taken" said Mir Earle. when he con- cluded He then read another letter which he wrote to MT Roosevelt un- der date of october 27, 1906. Mir. Earle declared he had not talked with Attorney General Moody because the latter had been appointed to the supreme bench and could not under take the case.
 .Purdy told me-" said Earle, that he wanted all the details. l gave them to him. After he heard them he jumped up and said We will send them all to jail. He said they wanted to get the best man in the United States as special counsel in the case. and asked me how James NJ. Beck. former assistant attorney gen eraI. would do. I said | thought he would be all right"
 That was before MT. Beck became counsel for the American Sugar Re lining company, was it nOt?" asked Mir Hardwick.
 Yes. you know after a man makes a success as a trust buster he does not continue to serve the people long"
 The witness criticised former Attor- ney General BOnaparte and said that when he assumed office he despaired of government action and began civil suit in the federal court of the southern district of New York.
 MT Bonaparte never submitted anything except briefs favorable to the American Sugar Refining com pany and they were very bad briefs at that" MT. Earle declared. NIT. Earle then related the history of the case by Philadelphia capitalists in the organization of the Pennsylvania Sussar RpfiDiDo cOr1on1pV