The evening times., 1913-05-28
REPORTS MAY BE
READY NEXT WEEK
sor. Senator's Declare Many Items
Probably win be chansed-Inter-
esting Tilt Between Democrats oc-
Cured in the Senate Yesterday.


Mo,v. items. some senators declareo'
probably will be changed.
Another Tilt in the Senate.
with the tariff hearings ended, e !ne
a. thev came from the house Is pc
Sors the various subcommittee. Ine
teriy VAS the subject of lively dis-
s,,ssion IN the senate late yesterday. q
feature Of the debate being announcer
tilt between democratic senator's On
the sugar question. T.,
SENATOR Thomas Of Colorado, IN
speech during which he declared ne
would supr ort the Underwood Dill as
il comes from the finance comml..se
branded as q false renection ol puo
Tic sentiment in his own state pro-
~. ~ "ratrst the sugar schedule for
warded to the senate by bankers ana
COMMERCIAL organisations OF Denver.
rhis communication had been SUD-
n,itted by Senator Shafroth OF Colo
raHo Nv reouest. Senator Thomas de-
scribe6 the protest as the part OF an
organized effort being carried on Wy
"the beet sugar monopoly TO manu-.
facture artificial public sentiment anu
bring II to bear on the senators from
Colorado"
Many Communications.
r Many communications from people
in Colorado urging the senator 70
stand by the democratic program were
read. One charged that employees OF
the sugar mills there rad neen oroer- .er.
ed to write letters to their senator's
anc TO President Wilson protestine
saainst the Underwood bill. and TO
advise the heads of their respective
departments when they had written
the letters. A man named Price.
formerly employed by the Great West
ern Sugar company had enclosed 9
letter received from the 3headz q 80
company rsstrtettng him e write VII. 81 I. T
letter Of protest The writer said Inc ne
yseeSAs vSeS NJ a sppiis IN tssas Tor work .ha
was taKeh back at reduced wages.
q, ..because Of the uncertainty about the
tariff" Mr.. Price also had inclosed
a letter from the Great Western sugar
company to farmers stating that un-
der the proposed tariff the best that 1t
could pay for sugar beets would. be
$3.50 ton.
Forced to Pay More.
"Rirht here said Senator Thomas,
"I want to call attention to the fact
that some years ago the beet sugar
manufacturers of the state notified the
farmers that $3.50 would be the price
they would pay for beet sugar that
time. the farmers refused to grow
were forced to pay higher prices
which it has been demonstrated they
could we'll afford to do"
Senator Thomas attacked the over
Capitalization Of the beet sugar COM
panies, declaring that the $50.000.OOO
Capitalization Of the companies in COL
orado was $30.000,000 water, upon
which they paid dividends on the
preferred and watered stock" and
that one of the companies had sur
plus in excess of $10.000.000." "At
least they did have such surplus" tho
senator continued, before they began
this false propaganda against the tar
ife bill. How much they will spend
for that and how much of it hereafter
will be treated as cost of production I
don't know. These heavily over-cap-
italized industries want to continue to
rob the people to pay a profit on their
capital invested and manufactured
with printing presses and fountain
pens"
Most of Capital "Good WILL
Senator Reed Of Missouri called
attention to figures showing that a
Michigan beet sugar company had a
capitalization Of over $4,000, 900, five
good will"
"Yes." said Senator Thomas. ''and
Of the $141, 100000 capitalization of
this industry in America 100000, 900
is water, good will. bad will or any,
thing except actual capital. and an in
cumbus in the productive energy Of
the country and these manufacturers
charge the Colorado consumer of their
sugar the New York price plus the
freight charge from New York to
Denver. i hear no protests to the sem
ate Of the United States from the
bankers and commercial organizations
about this
No Reflection Meant.
spoke Of remarks made by Senator
MARITIME. referring to the Louisiana
senator's as Calamity inowlers." Sem
ator MARITIME replied that he had not
meant to reflect upon the Louisiana
senators.
But" Senator MARITIME continued,
II deny the right Of the senator's from.
Louisiana to come to the people Of
New Jersey and demand that we shall
hold them up by the chins to keep
their heads above water. You have
known for a long time what was
coming and why in heavens name
haven't you adjusted yourselves? II
you can't grow sugar, grow something
else"
The sub-committees closed their
hearings on schedule time tonight.
leaving unheard some persons who
VIII be given an opportunity. to file
briefs. Senator Johnson's slib-com-
mittee sat later than the others hear
Ing score OF cotton manufacturers.
r. x. Mcl.ea. who served at q cotton
expert tariff h0ard told the s,,h 49,.