Arizona republican., 1913-06-17
0F BEET SUGAR TAXES
 LOBBY STAND
Henry T. OXnard, Vice President of American Beet Sugar Company. Tells Committee of Work ings of His Concern
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WASHINGTON. June 16.-Henry T. Oxnard, known as the father of the beet sugar industry and vice president
 of the American Beet Sugar company, was the principal witness today before the senate lobby investigating com
 mittee Oxnard was on the stand for
 several hours and proved an entertain
 ing witness He told the committee
 how the New York bankers who help
 ed to organize the beet sugar com pany insisted on putting about $l5,oOo.- 900 water in the $2O.000.000 corporation. how he and his brothers made about one million by the sale of their share
 of watered stock and gave warning
 that the Underwood bill. with its free
 sugar provision would result in his op-
 inion in the formation of a new sugar
 trust" which would not violate the an
 ti-trust law.
 The committee members took OK
 nard over most of the ground the other
 anti free sugar witnesses covered. He told them he received S10.000 q year in his official capacity, but it was not
 for Legislative work" The questioners learned he had been fighting reduc- tions of sugar duties for many years and heard with interest that he knew something about sugar at a glance" the celebrated pamphlet that was made senate document and sent over the country postage free under the frank of Senator Lodge.
 The committee got a surprise today when A. Y. Moore, owner of the Fargo. N. D., Courier News, and \. M. Baker, general manager of that paper gave 1 testimony about an editorial recently | printed in the CourierNews which Senator Gronna thought was a reflec ! ton upon him and led to their being subpoenaed. Both these men had made ! the long trip to Washington in answer 1 to a senate summons and then declar-
 ed under oath that they knew nothing | until they saw it printed It was writ
 ten they said, by James A. Metcalfe. of Glendive. Mont, temporarily employed while Baker was away from Fargo. Both Moore and Baker said they had
 no reason to doubt Senator Gronna's political and private integrity and hon | esty and Moore said a retraction might
 be printed Metcalfe had written the l editorial they thought, merely in a
 flippant way.
 l Another witness was Herman Cove. of Denver, employed at $5000 per year 1 bv the Great Western Sugar company, 1 who said that he had given up the last eight years to a study of the economic | side of sugar and to convincing con 1 gressmen of the soundness of his views
 for duty on that article. Cove testifi- ed that before his employment by the 1 sugar company he had been superin- l tendent of the schools in Denver.
 Although the thermometer outside the committee was trying hard to step over the one hundred mark and tive l electric fans were kept busy all day in an endeavor to make a cool spot in the surrounding heat, Cove sat for an hour
 in the witness chair. He had not talk l ed to many senators he said, but re- . nlefnbered dinner with Senator Bris- tow at which he tried to convince the senator of the necessity of the "Dutcf
 1 standard" instead of convincing Bris-
 tow, he explained, he came away con . vinced that the Dutch standard wa: unnecessary. Twice in eight years ht
 l had appeared before committee O . l congress and had delivered addresse: . before various organizations on th' sugar question.
 Harry A Austin employed by Tru l man G. Palmer Washington represen r tative of the United States beet indus $ try was the last witness The com ! mittee spent nearly two hours in al I attempt to find out just what happenet f to sugar at glance" after the senat
 had ordered much material printed a ? a public document and it's actual ap . pearance in pamphlet form They en