The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1913-06-19
LOBBY INVESTIGATION
TRAILING CONSPIRACY
%TO"DOCTOR' RECORDS
Would Know Why Lobbyist Was
Permitted to Change Off
cial Document.
PRINTING CLERK CALLED
Sugar Man Reads LetteeO Quoting
Wilson, But President Did Not
Say Hs Was Against
Free Sugar.

Washington. June. 17.-John I'll.
Carroll, OF st. Louis, attorney for Hill
system OF railroads, In the lobby in
v~estigation testified here that his
only tariff activity was the fling of a
ltngton roads, dealing with ~creosote
OIL.
I want to hat the so-calIed
Hill railroads have no one in Wash
ington trying to influence legislation"
ne said, Mr.. Carroll added that James
j. Hill and possibly other officials of
the Hill roads had been In Washing
ton recently, but that they did not
come In connection with legislation.
Anselm Void. the printing clerk.
testified about the orders for printing
Sugar At a Glance and anti-free
sugar argument prepared by Truman
@. Palmer. representing beet sugar in
t~erests. and circulated free in the
mails by hundreds of thousands Of
copies, under the ranking privilege
OF Senator Lodge, saving the sugar in
terests $2S,000 in postage.
The committee has developed testi-
mony on whether Palmer was permit
ted to change the document after the
Senate had ordered 1t printed. Void
told of the procedure of printing a
public document and turning to Sem
ator OVerman.. referred to a previous
conversation about the incident, and
added:
He Was Suspicious.
Il told o then somebody had been
monkeying with orders here and I still
think So"
Void could not throw much light
on h situation, and other Senate
employees may be called. When F.. H.
Hathaway, OF the Michigan Beet Sugar
company. took the stand. hostilities
broke out again between Senator Reed
n Senator Nelson. Senator Reed in
sisted on having the witness answer
In n way and the witness persisted
In answering in another.
Chairman Overman sided with SEN
ator Reed and Senator Nelson sided
with the witness.
The Minnesota senator finally quit
his place at the committee table and
took a sea with the audience.
Senator Nelson returned to the ia
BILE after Reed ended his examination
n took Hathaway in hand.
Hathaway e several letters that
passed between himself and w. III.
Wallace n III. A. Douglas explaining
what they understood the position of
President Wilson to be on sugar be-
fore election.
How Wilson Fooled EN-.
Douglas wrote Hathaway that after
a meeting at the Detroit armory Sep
TENDER 20, 1919, he had seen Mr.. VIII
son n that he had beer assured
hat the beet sugar interests need
have no fear.
You need not be n bit afraid
of me, sir" Douglas quoted the presi-
dent as saying.
In the letter to Wallace about that
conversation Douglas added, after the
quotation:
Il don't believe that Mr.. Wilson will
take n steps that will annihilate
or retard as great an industry as ours
is. He impressed me with his ear
n]estness in this"
Henry T. Oxnard, vice president Of
the American Beet Sugar company,
n owner OF lands devoted to beet
sugar growing, testified as to his &C
t~iCities in Washington. He declared
he had sold most OF his stock In beet
sugar companies because OF fear of
free sugar. He and his brother a
owned Jointly $4,000, 900 of beet sugar
stock in companies operating in Colo
RADIO. Nebraska and California, n
now had $1,4O0, 100000 invested in
cane sugar in Louisiana.