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SUGAR Men USED
FARMERS UNION
MonOpO|izod Meeting in Inter-
est 0i High Tariff
WOULD SUB. UJEl:.iA ALDRICH
National Manufacturers Ask Lobby
& Probers to Summon Once Prominent
Officials In MulhaIrs Charges.

Washington. July 1u.~zTurning aside
at least for the time from the Wall
street activities OF David Lamar and
Edward I.autcrbach, the senate lobby
investigating committee heard wit
nesses regarding the work OF the wool
and sugar interests in connection with
the tariff BAL
& Senator Overman announced that
the National Association Of ManuIact-
urers had requested him to subpoena
ex-senator Aldrich, eX-Speaker Can,
non and about forty other men, once
prominent in congress and official life,
to testify regarding Mulhall's charges
1--WE won't issue any suhpOenas,' said
the senator. until We find out what is
proved about the association
A d. Baldwin, of Cleveland, O., was
the first witness. He is an attorney
with sugar intrests in Hawaii and rep
resents he firm OF Alexander & Bald
win, OF New York and Honolulu. His
salary is $50 a day while in Washing.
ton.
q don't think I earn it, said Bald.
win; who declared his activities had
been limited to calling on about twenty
senators He said all OF the cane sugar
interests made common cause in their
demands for duty on sugar.
l. A. Smith, of Tennille, Ga, presi
dent OF the Georgia Farmers Union
described "a meeting called III New Or
leans by DR.. Bowen, Of Texas, i'll
which the sugar men monop0llZed the
meeting, named the committees and
attempted to give an impression that
the farmers unions of the south Vert
back OF the demand for high duties on
sugar and cotton manufactures. The
meeting was called ostensihly TO aid
"the greater consumption Of cotton.
Smith said that Rowen paid his eX,
penses The witness declaIel he wrote
letters 10 Senators Bacon and Hoke
Smith, urging them TO stay out OF the
Democrat caucus on the cotton tariff.
s'It appeared there were more men
than members. said Smith. speakine
8of the New Orleans meeting. Senator
KOyerman read newspaper statement
that Smith approved OF what was done
lat the New Orleans meeting. Smith
denied this.
lsen I got home i found out that
= 4 s,ss u mixed ii III a bad efewd.
said Smith ''Bowen deceived me and
was there in the interests of sugar
men instead of cotton growers"
H. S Mobley, president of the Ar.
kansas Farmers Union. corroborated
much of Smiths testimony.
"The New Orleans meeting has been
generally condemned by farmers un'
ions as a fake meeting, hasn't it?'
Senator Overman asked. Yes" re,
piled Mobley.
William Whitman. of BrOOkline
Mass, director in a dozen textile fac.
tories at Lawrence and New Bedford
Mass: Calhoun, S. c., and Pawtucket
R. l., which produce silk, cotton and
woolen yarns and cloths and which
have a combined capital Of S20,000,000
was called in company with Thomas
o. Marvin and Winthrop L. Marvin, OF
Boston. to testify regarding the lobby
for wool
Whitman said that his factories had
been unable to run full time largely
because of market conditions, and not
because of labor difficulties He said
the market had been bad since 1909,
but was worse today than ever before
Whitman, for many years president
of the National Association of Wool
Manufacturers, could remember only
a few details about funds collected for
that association and became restive
under Senator Reeds questioning.
sTsike a church. the association was
USUALLY in debt" said Whitman. LAS
sessments formerly were based on the
numher of carding machines in each
mill, but now are computed on the
basis of wages paid