Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-19
ATTORNEY REVEALS
CUBAN RETAINER
D. C. Man Says Sugar Inter
ests Employed Him on
Machado Inquiry.
BY the Associated Press.

John H. Carroll, Washington attor-
ney said today before the Senate lobby
committee that he had been employed
by the Cuban Co., sugar importers, to
obtain information regarding charges
against President Machado OF Cuba, so
If they came before the Senate foreign
relations committee the Cuba sugar
people would be prepared to answer
them.
The witness said he was getting $4,000
month and that he was paid $1,000
retainer by H. c. Lakin presioent OF llle
Cuban Co Carroll said he was PEI
sonal friend of President Machado, but
added: IF charges made against him
are true he is not fit to hold Office"
Trip Is Contemplated.
A contemplated trip to Cuba to in
vestigate the charges against Machado.
he said. had been postponed because OF
i'll health. Among the matters he plan
ned to inquire into were the claims
against the Cuban government by
Joseph Barlow. who maintains that his
property in Cuba has been confiscated.
Carroll said he had been told by
Senator Moses of New Hampshire that
the charges against Machado were
likely to reach the Senate foreign re-
lations committee through its in
vestigation into claims American cltl-
zens were making Senator Borah,
Carroll testified, had asked him II he
would send the foreign relations COM
mittee a copy of his report to Lakln.
The witness said he had been en-
ployed by the Cuban Embassy as a
counselor at a salary of $4,000 a year
and that Lakin thought he would be
a good man to help sustain MachadoS
government"
Supporter of MachadO.
ct am trying and intend to try in
every way can to sustain the Machado
government" Carroll asserted, adding
he received his first $4,000 June !. and
had received 1t regularly each month
since making q total of $27 1000.
The witness said he also represented
the ROYAL Dutch Shell Co. at salary
of $25 900, and a number of railroads,
including the Chicago, Burlington q
Quincy, Northern Pacific. Baltimore q
Ohio and the Van Sweringen interests.
In addition he testified he was en-
ployed bv the United Fruit Co. at a sal
airy of $4,000 year. He said he re-
ceived $4,000 from the Burlington q
Northern Pacific, $4,000 from the Bal
timore Il Ohio, $12 900 from the Chesa-
peake & Ohio and Hooking Valley, and
$4,000 from the Erie Railroad.
Agreement Is Revealed.
An agreement between the Corn
Sugar Products Refining Co. Of New
York and domestic sugar producers to
help each other was testified to today
by w. r. Cathcart, chemist Of the Corn
Products company, before the lobby COM
mittee.
Catchcart said that at q meeting in
new York the domestic sugar interests
agreed to help remove restrictions on
corn sugar in return for aid in obtain
ing highe: duty on sugar. The witness
denied that "a trade" had been made,
asserting that both interests merely
agreed to work for what they already
believed to be necessary.
No DlshOnOr Seen.
"I fail to see anything dishonorable
in the arrangement" he said.
Chairman Caraway OF the committee
asked Cathcart IL he thought IT was
in the interest of the public for com
binations to trade In legislation"
"Then you were doing what you don't
mo. This was good legislation"
Says Legislator Aided.
Cathcart said Representative Cole Of
Iowa had aided in bringing the corn
sugar people together with the cane
and beet sugar representatives and that
he and Senator Capper, Republican OF
Kansas, had been told that the sugar
interests were in agreement. Cole is CO.
author of a bill to remove restrictions on
the use Of corn sugar.
Caraway asked Cathcart II he knew
The Associated Corn Products manufac-
turers had contributed $4,000 to the
Domestic Sugar Producers Association.
Cathcart said he did not.