The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-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 Letters Quoting
Wilson. But President Did Not
Say He Was Against
Free Sugar.

Washington, June 1T.-John FL.
carroll. of st. Louis. attorney for Hill
system of railroads, in the lobby in
vestigation testified here that his
only tariff activity was the fling of a
brief for the Great Northern and Bur
lington roads. dealing with ~creosote
Oil.
4 want to say that the so-caIled
Hill railroads have no one in Wash
lngton trying to influence legislation,,
ne said. Mr.. Carroll added thai James
.. Hill and possibly other officials of
lhe 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
terests, and circulated free in the
mails by hundreds of thousands Of
copies, under the ranking privilege
OF senator d Saying the sugar in
terests s2S,ooo in postage.
me committee has developed testi-
mony on whether Palmer was permit
ted to change the document after the
NV Cu ~ Pj iillGd. NNOlu
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 l still
think So"
Void could not throw much light
on the situation, and other Senate
employees may be called. When f. III.
Hathaway, of the Michigan Beet Sugar
company, toe the stand, hostilities
broke out again between Senator Reed
and Senator Nelson. Senator Reed in
sisted on having the witness answer
In one 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
o a seat with the audience.
Senator Nelson returned to the ta-
bic after Reed ended his examination
and o Hathaway in hand.
Hathaway read several letters that
passed between himself and w. Fl.
Wallace and H. A. Douglas explaining
what they understood the position of
President Wilson to be on sugar be-
io'S
How Wilson Fooled EN-.
Douglas wrote Hathaway that after
a meeting at the Detroit armory Sep
TENDER 20, 1912, he had seen Mr.. VIII
son and that he nae beer assured
that the beet sugar interests need
have nc fear.
You need not b. one 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 believe that Mr.. Wilson will
TAX any steps that will annihilate
or retard as great an industry as ours
Is. He impressed me with his ear
nestness in this"
Henry T. Oxnard, vice president of
he American Beet Sugar company,
and owner of lands devoted to beet
sugar growing, testified as to his ac-
ticities in Washington. He declared
he a sold most of his stock in beet
sugar companies because of fear of
free sugar. He and his brother bad
owned Jointly $4.0 200, 900 of beet sugar
stock in companies operating in Colo
RADIO, Nebraska and California. and
now had s1,40O, 900 900 invested in
cane sugar in Louisiana.