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More Letters Show Activity Of
Beet Sugar Men. /
HIREO WILEY TO LECTURE
Purported to Show They Wrote Repuk-
lican Campaign Tariff Argument
and Tried to Reach Roosevelt.

Washington, June 19.-More letters
and kilograms from the private files p{
| C. c. Hamlin and others of the anti
free sugar lobby" put into the recos8
Of the senate investigating commlitss
purported to show that the beet sugai
| men furnished the sugar tariff arGsF
| ments contained in the Republican Ms
tional campaign text book of 1912; en-
gagged Dr. Harvey w. Wiley, formeE
| government pure food chief, to deliyt5
lectures; expressed great doubt is
connection with the 1905 campaign -ot
former President Tafts ability to
carry such states as California, Idaho
Utah and Colorado" and added, il
we don't head him off we might be able
to get promise relative to the sugar
and tobacco industries"
Letters also were read showing that
the sugar lobby at Washington tried
to reach the White House during the
latter par. of the Roosevelt adminisi
tration in it's efforts to influence leg1sa
lation.
Under date of Dec. 26, 1907, II. II
Oxnard wrote to Truman G. Palmer5
Il have seen Colonel Edwards and gop
him to agrae with me that it is pood
policy fCT Taft to push this matter
this winter, and l am going to try and
bring him to that way of thinking. j
also saw Loeb, who agrees with me-
that the whole subject had better be.
postponed and will talk to the pres15
dent along that line. While l have lit{
tie hope of success, shall keep at it
upon those lines"
This apparently referred to MR.
Taft's effort as secretary of war to-
have Philippine products admitted freeI
of duty.
A hundred or, more letters werei
seized by deputy sergeant-at-arms of
the senate, and many of them We're!
hurriedly read into the record, forms
ing the most startling developmentl
that so far has marked the quest OF an
"insidious lobby
The correspondence read included
letters of a private and confdentialI
character between high officials of the
beet sugar producing organizations of
the country, letters to United States!
senators and communications outlin-S
ing the publicity campaign to be wagedS
by the beet su gar. nterests-
to get the great railway interests of
the country behind them and that they
had a plan to buy the Chicago Inter-
Ocean.
The letters say that the late Vice
President Sherman and former Speak
er Cannon were interested in seeing
this newspaper deal put through.
One of the letters introduced in eyi-
dence said that the Hardwick sugar
trust investigating committee OF the
house had been entertained by H. /.
Oxnard, vice president of the Amerl-
can Beet Sugar company in New York.
"H. T. entertained them in New
York with, as I learn, good effect was
what one Of the beet sugar missionar-
les wrote to another.
The Hardwick committee consisted
of Representative Hardwick, of Geor-
sia: Baker, of California; J. A. Con-
way, of Arkansas, and Sulzer, of New
York, Democrats, and Fordney, o,
Michigan; Madison, of Kansas; Kinds,
of Maine, and Malby, of New York,
Republicans.
Many men of national prominence,
mentioned in the correspondence, un-.
dps1btedly will be summoned to tes-
tify, and from a plain investigation
of the interests of senators themselves
in the tariff bill, the inquiry now prom
ises to broaden out into an inquiry into
all the influences which are alleged to
have been brought for and against leg
islation in recent years.