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make such absurd" charges in the
senate based upon communication
apparently unsigned.

make such absurd" charges in the
senate based upon a communication
apparently unsigned.
The senator from Colorado does
not have to take instructions from
the senator from New York or any
one else" said Senator Thomas. He
is responsible to the people OF his
own State. He does not care whether
the senator thinks this is absurd or
not"
Senator Page offered to give $50
for the name OF any Vermont banker
who received this circular, declaring
he was in position to affirm that no
banker In Vermont had ever received
1t. Senator Smoot said he could say
Utah.
Senator Lane came to the assistance
OF his Democratic colleague by stat
ing that he did know a banker who
had received such a communication
He refused TO give his name.
As result Of this circular, Sena-
tor Thomas said, banks did retire cir
culation and did call many loans and
laid the basis for the panic. Senator
Smoot produced figures from the sta
tistical abstract showing that circula-
ton of national bank notes had in
creased steadily from 1891 to 1896.
Mr.. Thomas declared the panic Of
1907 had been manufactured by the
Standard Oil company or allied inter-
ests to get through the Tennessee Coal
and Iron deal" and to embarrass the
president OF the United States.
Senator Ransdell resumed his ar
gument against free sugar by advocat-
ing the view that people Of Louisiana
did not reply upon that part of the
Democratic platform praising the
deeds OF the Democratic congress
which passed a free sugar bill but
the business plank" which stated that
no legitimate industry should be de-
stroyed. He quoted at length from
campaign speeches Of President Will
son and maintained that in no speech
had the president proposed free su-
gar
The senator read letter prepared
by Representative Broussard, a sena-
tor-elect from Louisiana, who was a
member of the subcommittee Of II o,
the platform committee at Baltimore.
contending that the platform never
indorsed the Underwood free sugar
bill of the last congress nor had the
party indorsed it,
Nowhere in that celebration (the
platform)," Mr.. Broussard wrote,
can there be found any intimation
that the Underwood free sugar bill OF
the house met with either the appro-
val OF the committee OF IL, OF the
committee on platform and resoiu-
tions acting as a whole or of the con-
vention itself as contended by the
senator from Kentucky"
Mr. Broussard pointed out that the
senate finance committee gave the I'm
derwood free sugar bill q hearing.
after which mot single senator.
Democrat, Republican or Progressive,
approved It."
OF the Baltimore convention he
wrote:
II must appear to you and in fact
to every fair-minded man, that with
the chairman Of the convention, the
senator from Kentucky. pleading to
the body over which he presided for
free sugar and with the sugar trust BY
kilograms imploring the convention to
declare for free sugar, IL was not an
oversight on the part OF either the
subcommittee or IL OF the full COM
nittee on platform and resolutions or
the convention that IL was not writ
ten In the platform. as the senator
from kentucky now attempts to read
1t. that the Democratic party stood or
s'ahus Tor free sugar. On the con-
trary. this action was the deliberate
conclusion that the Democratic party
stood against the Underwood free
sugar bill and in favor OF q duty on
sugar.
The Louisiana senator concluded
with personal appeal to his colleagues:
In Gods name not to vote for free
sugar and put the Louisiana industry
to DEATH
Senator Williams asked why it was
that Senator Ransdell and his col
league resisted just as obstinately in
the past any reduction in the duty on
sugar as they now resist free sugar
and why they voted last year against
a