The Washington times., 1925-02-12
CITE COURT
RECORDS
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tha former so.called "Sugar Trust"
by a United States circuit court
forbidding Mr.. Warren's company
and other sugar companies from
continuing practices in restraint OF
competitor.
Odd Prospect Presented.
Mr.. Warren, on the eve of the
effort to secure his confirmation by
the United States Senate as Attor-
ney General, Is thus presented by
Mr.. Manly with the prospect of be-
ing restricted or punished not only
by the Federal Trade Commission,
but also by the Federal judiciary
operating through the machinery Of
the Department of Justice itself.
Mrl Manly maintains that it
would be odd and awkward IL an
Attorney General Of the United
States, having been held to be in
contempt Of court by Federal
Judges, should be obliged to sum-
mon his own marshals and bailiffs
in his own Department of Justice
to put himself into Jail.
Friends Of Mr.. Warren's there
upon came forward to denounce the
Federal Trade Commission for be-
ing, as they claim. the constant In
stigator OF charges that turn out to
be baseless.
Mellon Case Cited.
They drew attention to the fact
that the Federal Trade Commission
has recently brought charges
against Secretary of the Treas
ury Mellon and his Aluminium
Company of American, and that the
United States Circuit Court of Ap-
peals for the third circuit has re-
Gently handed down decision sid
ing with the Aluminium Company OF
America and denying the petition
OF the Federal Trade Commission.
They point out that the Federal
Trade Commission. In the course of
its career, has been upheld by the
Federal courts in fourteen cases,
and has been overthrown by the
Federal courts in thirty-five cases.
They admit that the Federal
Trade Commission, in attacking
members of the Cabinet and in at
tacking proposed appointees of the
Presidents to Cabinet positions.
certainly shows a magnificent in
dependence Of cha3acter and Of ac-
ton. In fact they claim that this
freedom Of behavior by the Federal
Trade Commission is an absolute
proof OF the impartiality and neu-
traIity of the present Administra-
tion In the matter of the enforce
ment of law.
They further claim, however,
that the Federal Trade Commis-
- h.
courts and that a mere charge
brought by the commission against
q man is far indeed from being
any establishment of his guilt.
An independent survey of the
situafion shows the following facts:
/. Mr.. Warren was undoubtedly
at one time a representative of the
American Sugar Refining Company
(the sugar Trust''1 in the MAIN
.tenance of certain holdings in GER
tain beet sugar companies.
2. The American Sugar Refining
Company has long SINCE ceased 20
be a trust" and it now produces
only a relatively small minority OF
the total output of refined sugar in
the United States.
8. The American Sugar Refining
Company, which principally is en-
gagged in changing Cuban raw
sugar into American refined sugar
on the Atlantic Coast, has been re-
ducing it's holdings in beet sugar
companies in the Central West and
In the Far West.
T. It still, however. owns some
thirty-four per cent of the stock of
the Michigan Beet Sugar Company,
Of which Mr.. Warren (till a few
days ago) was president.
Pulp Sales Combined.
s. The Michigan Beet Sugar Com
pany and seventeen other beet
sugar companies, extending fror1
Michigan to California, are now
charged before the Federal Trade
Commission with selling all thejI
refuse beet-pulp (after the sugar has
been extracted from it, through ONE
company, the Larrowe Milling Com
pany.
8. The beet sugar companies have
had great difficulty in finding AMI
market at all for their refuse beet
pulp (which is a feed for cattle)
and in their view they have beer
driven to selling this pulp to the
one company which seemed to know
how to promote it and sell it di
rectIy or indirectly to farmers.
Z. The beet sugar companies thlnI
that they have acted in accordance
with economic needs and economic
useful developments. The Fedora
Trade Commission, which some pen
pie say is bigoted, but which nobody
here denies to be honest, think!
that the beet sugar companies II
question have violated the let1el
and the spirit of section Of tn