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POLICY OF PRESS
IS EXPLAINED
Associated Press Manager Re-
plies TO Sugar Agent,
NEWS MERIT" STILL RULES
Senator NeWlands Tells Probers He
Had No Relations With Sugar Man
on the Philippines.

nav W. fSiokiohS sSiLii S0Jdi an
on the Philippines.
Washington, June 20.-Melville E.
Stone, general manager of the Asso-
ciated Press, testified at his own re-
quest before the senate lobby commit
tee regarding the claims contained in
some OF the correspondence of Clar-
ence G. Hamlin, as to the publicity the
beet sugar men had hoped to obtain
through the Associated Press.
Stone presented all his letters and
records bearing on the demand of the
beet sugar interests for publicity. He
testified that ON Oct. II, 1911, John
Arbuckle, a sugar refner, when leav-
ing for Europe, had given out state
ment favoring free raw sugSr. That
statement was carried by the Assoz
ciated Press, he said.
On Oct. Is, a shortsstatement given
out by Clarence c. Hamlin, at Colo
RADIO Springs, answering the Arbuckle
staement, was also carried by the AS
sociated Press. The Arbuckle state
ment, he said, was about 1000 words
long; the Hamlin statement about $50
words.
Hamlin then wrote Stone asking
that the beet sugar interests be given
as good treatment as the sugar refin-
erS.
81 am frequently more or less
amused" Mr. Stone told the commit
tee, 'at the popular notion in respect
to matters of this sort, and, perhaps,
l may in fairness say, that both as 10
the Associated Press and as to all
press associations and as to newspa-
pers, l am frequently impressed that
injustice is done by the refusal to
meet the wishes of applicants for pub
licity.
whenever man comes into a
newspaper Office, or into an Associated
Press Office, and asks for publication
Of anything, he is met with degree
of suspicion. They all think he has
some axe to grind, and he has very
poor show of securing justice. We
have rule in our service that has
been in existence for many years that
no publicity agent can give us any
thing. We will not accept anything
from him.
GAS an illustration of what l have
said a number of railroads have pub
licity agents and the rule is absolute
that the publicity agents cannot fur
nish us anything. We VIII NOT aecer1
anything from them
Before Mr.. Stone testified, Senator
Newlands took the witness chair to
make brief statement concerning the
use of his name in some of the cor
respondence introduced. Senator New
lands statement concerned references
in one of Henry T. Oxnard's letters
that Oxnard was trying to have New
lands put on the senate Philippine
committee in 1907.
81 have observed with amazement," ;"
said Mr.. Newlands, "the reference to
my name aud that of Senator Teller
wish to state most emphatically that
my application to go on the Philip
pine committee in 1907 was not sug-
gested or Influenced by Mr.. Oxnard.
had been in the Philippines with the
Taft party in 1906 and came back with
ippine policy. l urged that we should
adopt Immediately policy which
would enable us, with due regard to
our moral obligation, to withdraw from
the Philippines, and that it would BE-
unwise to tie those islands to us by
reciprocal and trade relations such as
were contemplated gegarding sugar
and other commodities. A Democratic
caucus placed me on the Philippine
committee in 1907, where | urged the
above views
"In this contention, the refners. in
Guiding the sugar trust" said Sena or
Newlands, ''the Spreckels and the Ar
buckles, are on one side and the best
sugar factories are on the other. I Goa
denim the methods and practices OF
both as disclosed by the evidence, of
which l had little realization until re-
Gently"
Frank C. Lowry. one of the leaders
of the free sugar campaign, was re-
called to be questioned about the
wholesale grocerS' committee" Low
ry could not produce any files OF cor
respondeice, and said they had just
got lost" He told OF circulars issued
by the committee" and kilograms urg
ing others to urge free sugar on mem
bers of congress.
Don't you call that lobby?" ask
ed Senator Cummins.
mot a lobby at all-that's the di-
rect primary idea,'' returned Lowry.
Lowry testified that while Sugar
at Second Glance" the reply of the
refners to the beet sugar argument,
had been printed as public docum mt
by Senator James, it never had been
circulated under his frank.