Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-06-18
SENATE COMMITTEE USES THE
STRONG ARM" ON THE
ALLEGED LOBBY.
letters PROVE INTERESTING
FILES SHOW HOW CAMPAIGN
FOR PUBLIC SENTIMENT
WAS CARRIED ON.
newspapers were USED
Even the Railroads Were Included in
Those the Anti-Sugar Men In-
listed in Their Battle.

WASHINGTON, Juno 1.-THE
trail OF the lobby" that the senate
has been following more than two
weeks led today in the private files
of the men in charge of the Wash
nrtou office of the United States
Beet Sugar Industry, the leading in
strument OF the campaign against
free sugar and by originals Of letters
and kilograms and whIt purportcd
To bee copies of others, developed
testimony of what appeared tO be ar
attempt at far reaching campaign
to create public sentiment against
free sugar through the columns of in
diyidual newspapers and the facilities
Of press associations.
1t was u trail So long, so compli-
Gated and so winding that after more
than two hours Of patient effort the
committee had succeeded in reading
INTO its record only small part Of
he mass of correspondence which
senators believed had produced the
most sensational evidence yet deycl-
oped.
secured ffINNIt ftpfI-.
BY subpoena duces tecum the com
mittcc got possession of copies OF
letters and telegrams Of Clarence II.
Hamlu. "a Colorado Springs, Colo,
newspaper owner aud beet sugarman
in charge of the WASHINGTON office
Of the American Beet Sugar associa-
tlon two years ago. The papers in
cluded what purpOrted to be carbon
copies Of letters, unsigned but fur
uished as genuine by Harry Austin,
clerk in the Offices of Truman q.
Palmer. representative of the beet
sugar Industry.
The "industry' succeeded the AS.
sociation" about two years ago ana
Palmer succeeded Iiamlin in charge.
While the committee was after the
private papers of Palmer after
conference with Senator Clark OF
wyoming, Hamlin's uncle was wiring
Hamlin urging him to get lawyer
to represent his interests. The com
mittee had knowledge of that ana
hurried the letters into the records
without regard to sequence. More
iournment was taken tonight.
Those read into the record were
directed to managers of beet sugar
companies. officers of the American
Beet Sugar Association and friehds
Of Hamlin indicating that Hamhh III
the time OF their writing was an ac-
tive figure in a campaign TO organ
ize support for the protection OF the
beet sugar industry and secure pub
Ilcitv against tariff reductions.
Nation Wide Campaign.
Some told of Hamlin travelling to
large cities, giving out interviews
others written in Washington ihdi-
Gated that he was trying to circulate
matter in defense of a sugar duty
through newspap rs, the Associated
Press and other channels, to oifse'
what he thought misleading state
mcpts put out by sugar rciincrs. some |
letters referred to plan lauhcheu
by Hamlin to have the large peet
sugar companies take over S53,ooo
I'm bonds of the Chicago lnter-Oceah'
Other letters disclosed attempts to |
interest big railroad systems in the |
anti free sugar campaign ana TO nave
professors of agriculture appear be-
fore committees of congress with ar
guments favorable to the beet sugar
men.
None OF the letters disclosed that
the railroads had been Interested OF
that the great news agencies had been
extensively used or. that the Inter