The Washington times., 1923-05-11
PROBE Of SUGAR
GOUGE To CO
DEEPER
Manly Goading Department OF
Justice Into Activity,
Hard Declares.
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there must have been strong
downward movement in consump-
! ton from somewhere near the very
| beginning of the year.
But that fact, say these same
| officials, would deprive the sugar
refiners of much of their lustlflca-
| ton for following the upward prices
of the Sugar Exchange during the
recent skyward furry. the re-
finers. it is argued, must nave
| known that consumption was de-
! Ginning. They therefore must have
1 known that the soaring prices when
| the Sugar Exchange produced In
| it's speculative quotations were 1ar
| from being justified by the trade
| facts.
Following this scent, and also
numerous other similar scents the
Government today is going along
the lines anticipated in these col
umns and is expanding it's actlV1ues
far beyond the scope of the in1unc'
ton sought in New York.
Relief through that injunction.
as appealed to the United States
Supreme Court. is in any case ex.
tremely unlikely at this time be-
cause of the approaching adjourn
| ment of the Supreme Court for Its
summer vacation.
GOaded To Action.
Relief has to be sought in other
directions. 1t is now being sought
in two forms-immediat and ultis
mate.
In the matter of immediate relief
an inquiry has been instituted into
h11n nh
as illustrated by the decline in the
consumption of sugar and as dis
tinguished from the speculative quo
tations Of the sugar exchange: and
1t is expected that this inquiry will
lead to overt governmental action
within a few days.
Without such action it became
apparent that Mr. Basil Manly and
the Peoples legisla tive service and
the Congressional Progressive
Group" would attach themselves to
the Republican elephant like
tropical jungle gad-fly and drive
It mad with daily announcements
of all its alleged faults and fail
ures
Mr.. Manly's daily dissection of
the Department Of Justice was to-
day as. follows;
ManIy's BrOadside.
THE form of action which the
Government took in its suit in the
court in New York and the form
of behavior which it followed in
conducting that suit are ample
proof either of utter incompetence
or else of total absence of any
desire to achieve results"
Mr. Manly thinks that the Gov
eminent should have gone into the
hooks of the members of the
Sugar Exchange and should have
followed the clues in those books
to the laifs of the dealers in actual
physical sugar: and then. by coa4-
bining the books and the lairs,
according to Mr.. Manly, a whole
pirate crew of couspirators would
have been detected and captured
Ii was calculated today that the
Department of Justice would pres.
entity go ahead and crafty Mr..
Manly and look for the pirate crew
in the places where he saws it is.
This would be the immediate
relief part of the Governments
endeavors. 1t is to be understood,
however. that it would involve
prosecutions rather than injunctions
and that therefore it could not be
accomplished in few days. but
would presumably drag along
through many months.
MOre-ReguIatiOn.
Therefore ii might perhaps be
still struggling forward when the
ultimate relief was reached and
was delivered
This ultimate relief seemed likely
today TO be nothing less than pro-
posal for legislation which will
bring all our commodity exchanges
sugar. grain. cotton, coffee. and
everything else-under one general
supervisory and regulatory Gov
ernmental BODY clothed with power
10 oversee and administer all com
modify speculation whatsoever
A prominent governmental Off
cial in touch with the whole sugar
situation was found today to be
making an official study of the
operations of all commodity ex-
changes, both in the United States
and the principal European coun-
tries. for the purpose OF arriving
at the best ideas regarding gov
ernmental regulation.
May ForestaII PrOgressives.
No doubt is here entertained that
by the time the next Congress
meets and by the time Mr.. Basil
Manly friends in the Progressive
Group come forward with their
sermon on the sins of sugar, the
Administration will be prepared TO
step up and sing song Of its
own in two stanzas as follows:
One. We have hunted sugar nj
rates from the farthest parts of
Cuba TO the deepest cellar vaults
of Omaha
Two. Moreover here you see us
with little bill which anyhow will
make hem all hereafter into hon
est business men.
Copyright, 1929. by Washington Press
Service