The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-06-20
new LEAF TURNED
over IN HUNT
FOR LOBBY
COMMITTEE HEARS STORY OF
CAMPAIGN WAeED BY ADvo-
GATES OF FREE SUGAR.
ADJOURN FOR CAUCUS TO-DAY
Chairman overman Does Not Know
When Hearings viii be Resumed
Examination Of Frank c. lowre>
Featured Closing Session.
ADJOURN FOR CAUCUS TODAY

w WdbuluktOut Suh0 6ts Inv SNAAe~sS
committee in pursuit of the lobby"
turned over new leaf in the story OF |
sugar yesterday and heard the details |
of the nationwide and long-continued
campaign the advocates of free sugar |
made to remove the duty on that arti-
Gle. Frank @. Lowrey, sales agent Of
the Federal Sugar Refining Co., secre-
tary and organizer of the committee
of wholesale grocers," wrote the free
suear chapter for the committee while
Senator Cummins acted as guide
through the smoke of the battle of ar
guments and Senators Nelson and
Walsh lent their assistance when the
issues seemed to become obscured.
Last night the committee adjourned
subject to call of the chairman. The
three Democratic members will be re-
uuired to attend the Democratic eau
Gus on the tariff bill which begins to-
day and Chairman 0verman did not
know when the hearings would be re-
sumed.
Robert S. Lovett, chairman of the
Union Pacific board of directors had
not been summoned to appear last
night and his subpoena may not be
served until the inquiry is taken up
again.
Lowrey's examination featured the
closing session of the committee. He
told Of his attempts to accelerate pub
lie opinion and to persuade Congress
men and Senators and spoke frankly
of his efforts in the national campaign
of last fall. He said he furnished mos
of the sugar information which ap
peared in the Democratic campaign
text book; that he prepared data oil
free sugar for Democratic campaign
document which the present Secretar,
of the Navy, Mr.. Daniels, said woul'
get circulation of million in pamph
let form, and that he had wired ure
ing every member of the resolution
committee at the Baltimore conver
tion to put a free sugar plank in tn
Democratic platform. The witnes
was on the stand for four hours an
when he left he promised to produc
any correspondence in his files rela
ing to the organization of the grocer
committee or the refners.
Lowrey testified that he had conduc
> ed his fight solely for the Federal COZ
pany and that other rehners had NJ
figured in it. He thought the expense
had amounted to about $4,000 in fo'
years, exclusive of his salary and col
mission as sales agent amounting
about $6S,OOO in that period. He
nothing for his tariff work, he sal
After many questions by Senator Gu
minis the witness agreed that althou
the sugar refiners did not seem to fav
free sugar, they would benefit only
less degree than the Federal by a
duction in duty. Lowrey said, he
ever. that an official of the Americ
Sugar Refining Co., the so-called tru
had told him that free sugar "wo'
put US out of business"
Senator Nelson was especially int
ested in the committee of wholes
grocers, and wanted to know just h
it was formed.
There was no formal meetin
said Lowrey 81 wrote to 25 or
wholesale grocers and suggested t
we form such committee"
They were just dummies the
suggested Senator Nelson.
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