Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-07-03

"AOI1lNNIOEt, JUNE IL lie IFdfi
of "the lobby" the senate has been
following more than two weeks led
today into the private files of the men
in charge OF the Washington offices
of the United States beet sugar in
dustry, the leading instruments of
the campaign against free sugar, and
from originals of letters and tele-
grams and what purported to be
copies of. other developed testimony
of what appeared to be an attempt
at far reaching campaign to create
public sentiment against free sugar
through the columns of individual
newspapers and the facilities of press
associations.
1t was a trail so hong, so compli-
Gated and so winding that, after more
than two hours of patient effort, the
committee had succeeded in reading
into its record only a small part Of
the mass of correspondence, which
senators believed had produced the
most sensational evidence yet de-
Veloped.
Gets Copies of Letters
BY subpoena duces tecum the com
n1ittee got possession of copies of let
tiers and kilograms of Clarence G.
Hamlin, a Colorado Springs, Colo,
newspaper owner, and beet sugar
man, in charge of the Washington Of
fices of the American beet sugar as
ISOLATION, two years ago. The papers
included what purported to be carbon
copies of letters, unsigned, but furn-
Eished as genuine by Harry A. Austin,
a clerk in the offices of Truman G.
Palmer, representative of the United
States beet sugar industry. The I'm
dustry' succeeded the Association"
about two years ago, and Palmer sue
ceeded Hamlin in charge.
While the committee was after the
private papers, Palmer, after a con-
ference with Senator Clark of Wyom-
ing, Hamlin's uncle, was wiring Ham
lin urging him to get a lawyer to
represent his interests. The COM
mittee had knowledge of that and
hurried the letters into the record
without regard to sequence. More
than 20 had been read when adjourn
ment was taken tonight.
Active Figure i'm Campaign
Those read into the record were di-
rected to managers of beet sugar COM
panies, officers of the American Beet
Sugar Association, and friends of
Hamlin, indicating that Hamlin at the
time of their writing was an active
figure in campaign to organize sup
pert for the protection of the beet SUI.
gar industry and obtain publicity
against tariff. reduction
Some told of HamliH travelling to
large cities, giving out interviews;
others written in Washington indicat-
ed that he was trying to circulate
matter in defense of sugar duty
through newspapers, the Associated
Press and other channels to offset
what he believed misleading state
ments put out by sugar refiners. The
text indicated that his attempts at pub
licfty had not always been as success
full as he had hoped. Other letters re-
ferTed to a plan launched by Hamlin
to nave the large beet sugar compa-
MES take over $4,000 in bonds floated
by the Chicago Inter Ocean.
Other letters disclosed attempts to
interest big railroad systems in the
anti-free sugar campaign and to have
professors of agricultural colleges APP
pear before committees of congress
with arguments favorable to the beet
sugar men,
Dissatisfied with Efforts
None of the letters disclosed that the
railroads had been interested or that
the great news agencies had been eX-
tensigely used or that the Inter Ocean
bonds had been bought. Letters in
troduced did show that the sugar men
had been dissatisfied with their eff
forts to get interview" carried by
the Associated Press. !"
Arstin and a seFgeant-at-arms CT
the senate brought big box Of the
kilograms and letters to the commits
tee room this afternoon. The commit
tee suspended the examination Of wit
nesSeS, and Chairman O~erman, Sen
atorS Reed and Walsh began reading
/ them into the record.
Two kilograms were exchanged be-
tween Hamlin, Senator Clarke and
| Truman G.. Palmer. The first of these,
given out by Palmer after the commit
tee adjourned tonight, read:
Senate Sergeant-at-armS has requir-
ed Austin 10 produce box said TO con-
tain your private and business papers.
Have talked with your uncle and We