Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-07-30

Colorado, Nevada, California, ana
many other states, as well as the
protests coming from individual
members OF the Democratic party
! in all points of the country against
the attempt to force the adoption
| OF free sugar, furnish conclusive
evidence that the placing Of SUI
gar on the free list was not con-
| tempiated as possibility by the
great majority of those who sup
ported the party ticket in the last
campaign.
i Do you remember that bulletin
that statement In Bulletin II?
Mr.. Carter. / do not. ! do not
know whether / have read Bulletin
i Ii or not.
The Chairman. What was that
statement issued for?
/ Mr.. Carter. To get that informa-
tion out before the public.
/ The Chairman. Before the sena-
Itors?
Mr.. Carter. Before the senators and
i members of the house and the public.
The Chairman. Was that state
Iment made to influence senators from
Louisiana, Michigan, Ohio. Montana,
Colorado, Nevada and California?
Mr.. Carter. It was made to point
out that fact to them.
The Chairman. For the purpose OF
influencing their vote?
Mr.. Carter. NE want to appeal to
their reason in every way we can.
The Chairman. Was it done to try
to influence their vote?
/ Mr.. Carter. Not at all. We want
them to understand the situation.
The Chairman. Why, unless you
wanted to influence their vote?
j Mr.. Carter. Self-preseryation is the
first law, and we want every senator
i to understand what he is doing be-
fore he does it.
ed to influence his vote, why did
1 you make such statement as that?
/ Mr.. Carter. We want him to IN.
derstand the situation thoroughly,
Senator, If / may be pardoned for say
ing SO, before he votes.
The Chairman. You decline to say
that 1t was done to influence him?
Mr.. Carter. Not reprehensibly; not
| fllegitimately.
The Chairman. I am not saying
that am not charging anything OF
that sort.
Mr.. Carter Certainly, it is a de
sire to influence him in one way;
Ives.
j The Chairman. understand that
II do not charge there is any corrup
ltloh there at all,
/ Mr.. Carter If / may be permitted,
/ want to say that we In Hawaii felt
4 that when the papers reported and
our Democratic delegate came back
from the Democratic convention and
said that we need not be alarmed
about free sugar, that sugar would moi
be campaign issue
! The Chairman. That is what some
body told you?
! Mr.. Carter What is that?
The Chairman. That is what some
body said when they came back?
i Mr.. Carter. One of the delegates is
here who was delegate to that con
vention, Mr. Harry Irwin.
i The Chairman. / have no doubt II
is true / am not doubling it at all.
4 Mr.. Carter. want to say, Senator
If I may be pardoned, if ] may &c
lon
The Chairman. / thought yot
thought | doubted what he told you
& did not doubt that at ALL
4 Mr.. Carter. The word that came
back to us was that we need not be
lalarmed about sugar, and then wher
the bill was introduced, naturally
many were somewhat surprised
The Chairman Do you not thinl
this is somewhat misleading, to say
that 1t was not contemplated as posi-
BILE by those who voted the Democrat
ic ticket that there should be free
sugar?
4 Mr.. Carter. No; / do not think Il
is misleading. From the information
4 get think it is about right.
The Chairman Do you know
whether that was discussed in thu
campaign or not?
Mr. Carter | am told there was ;
telegram sent to the Democratic com
mittee asking them to put plank ii
for free sugar. and the committee de
clined to put the plank in ard desire.
to avoid the issue il the campaign.
The Chairman Do you think thu
majority OF the people were toll
that?
Mr. Garter. do not know abou
the majority of the people; but hav,
yet to learn where sugar was dis
cussed and how it was discussed.
The Chairman You Go not know
that it was not discussed in the cam
lpaign?
Mr.. Carter / do not know.
The Chairman If you do not know
: that. how do you know that il was no
an issue?
q Mr.. Carter | am yet to be in
, formed where it was an issue an,
! when it was an issue.
81 Senator Reed. 1t was not an issu
in the campaign; but the result O
the campaign proves conclusiveiy, az
cording to this statement in this Gil
cular, that it was an issue; is tina
, your logic?
II NJ