Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-06-25
DEMANDS PROBE
Of LOVETT CHARGE
Quiz to Be Made by Senate of
Influence in Congress-"
U. P. DISSOLUTION IS CITED
Rail Head Declared That Officials Had
Been Approached by Persons Pro-
Tossing to Have "PuIl"-Let-
tiers on Sugar Are Read.

Washington, June 2O.-An order of
the senate directing a thorough in
Yestigation of the charges made by
Judge R. Loyett, chairman of the
Union Pacific's executive board at
New York, put the prospects of an
early settlement of the tariff and
currency tangles by congress further
in the background than ever Wednes-
day.
The senate ordered it's lobby inves-
tigation committee to get to the bot
tom of these charges, which told of
individuals who claimed to have all
kinds of influence in congress, and
who had tried to get paid for that in
fuence in the Union-Southern Pacific
dissolution.
Chairman Overman of the commit
tee warned the senate that the extra
order would require an additional ex-
tension of the committees time, but
the senate wanted the work done.
The result is that neither tariff nor
currency legislation can be carried
out until the lobby hunt" is over.
The tariff is to be ready for Demo
cratic senate caucus, but little head
way is in prospect before next week.
Earlier in the day the committee
had made public over the protests of
q lawyer representing Henry T. Ok
nard and Truman G. Palmer, a series
of letters written by these two beet
sugar representatives, showing long
continued effort to influence legisla-
ton in Washington, to control con-
gressional committees and to direct
national political affairs in support of
the continuance of a protective sugar
tariff.
Chairman Overman has not deter
mined when the railroad phase of the
investigation would be opened. A
summons was sent to Charles B. War
ren of Detroit, president of the Michi-
gan Sugar company, and one of the
men to whom many of the Hamlin let
ters were addressed. Mr.. Warren was
asked to appear before the committee
and it is expected he will be asked for
more details of the beet sugar pub
licity campaign.
The committee abandoned temper
arily the sugar protection lobby and
took up the free sugar side, calling
Frank c. Lowry of New York, who
directed much of the free sugar pub
Iicity under the association name OF
the committee of wholesale grocers.
VT. Lowry admitted he was employed
u the Federal Sugar Refining COM
)any and under questions by Senator
Cummins agreed that free sugar
would benefit the cane sugar retlners.
The Oxnard-Palmer letters, pro-
duced at the close of the committee
morning session, we're the CHIEF fea-
ture of an exciting day. They covered
a period from 1906, when Philippine
free trade came up, through the bal
ance of the Roosevelt administration,
the political campaign of 1908 and In
to the Taft administration.
Most Of the Oxnard letters were
written in long hand and signed Hen
ry T. Oxnard." Some of the Palmer
letters were typewriter Glrbon
copies. but were identified by Harry
A. Austin, clerk in Mr.. Palmer's of
fees.
Assurances that certain senators
would be in the senate Philippine
committee; that "no stone was being
left unturned to get real protection
lists" on the house ways and means
committee, and that strong pressure
could be and was being brought to
bear upon members Of both houses to
accomplish various ends, appeared fire.
quently in the series of letters.
The committee granted the request
of Melville E. Stone of New York,
general manager Of the Associated
Press, who asked to be allowed to tes-
tify regarding claims made in some OF
the Hamlin papers, as to the publicity
the beet sugar interests hoped to Sc