The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-01-14
THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE. TUESDAY, JANUARY ID, 1880
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by II. G. Lakin. president Of the Cuba
company, to advocate a low sugar
duty the report said:
1T is undeniablc that those sccur-
in.s his services labored under the
belief that nc was al intimate friend
of the president Of the United States.
AT least Lakin, in a voluminous cor
rcspondence. again and again asserted
that he. Shattuck. sustained the
closest relations to the president, had
access to him at all times and was in
frequent consultation with him on the
sugar tariff.
Shattuck Denied Statement
"Shattuck denied he had ever
talked with the president about the
tariff or that he ever told anyone he
did" the report continued. Anyway.
that consideration led Lakin to adj
wise his principals that Shattuck
should be paid at act SIS, 900, though
he modestly stated that, though
nothing had been paid him. he ex-
pected something more than $25, 900.
Shattucs insisted throughout that
he was employed solely as q lawyer,
but the part of the work done by him
falling within the scope Of what is
ordinarily understood to be legal
services was. negligible"
The report added that "a particu-
larry reprehensiblc part of the pro-
pram carried on by Lakin was an
effort to stir up hostility to the
United States in Latin American
countries upon the assumption that
it, by its tariff policy, vas mistreating
Cuba" -
Had Salary of S15O.00O
Referring to the employment of
John H. Carroll, Washington attor-
ney, by Lakin and Shattuck at q SAL
airy Of $4,000 a month, the report said
his income from a number of other
concerns ran his annual salary to
more than $4,000.
1T did not appear, after diligent
questioning" the report said, that
Colonel Carroll had done anything or
was in a situation to do anything in
return for this liberal income" It
said Carroll was about IS years old,
in feeble health, and 'haS not actual
ly tried a lawsuit for many years, in
deed since his youth"
Cubans Hired Crowder
The remainder of the report was a
review of testimony before the com-
mittee by various representatives Of
sugar companies. Even the appear
'ance of Mrs. Gladys Moon Jones,
publicity representative Of the United
States Sugar association, who charged
the committee with playing politics,
drew no adverse observations.
Concerning general Enoch Crowder,
former American ambassador to
Cuba, the report said:
Gen. E. H. Crowder labored in
unison with Lakin and Shattuck, his
employment apparently coming from
Cuban sugar interests acting through
President Machado, to whom he, as
we'll as Lakin and Shattuck, re-
ported"
Flags Grafters
Caraway made this assertion in
| presenting to the senate a report Of
the committees investigation into the
activities of sugar interests on the
pending tariff bill.
u nope tnaC responsible business
men will cease paying tribute to these
lobbyists, these grafters in the Dis
trict of Columbia who have nothing
to SELL" Caraway said.
THE whole matter is nothing but
simple graft" he continued. Its
worse than that because it plays upon
the public and undermines the con-
fiIo,,co nf tho ArocriCon roCplo IN tho
integrity of their government"
The report which Caraway pre-
sented said that advocates and OPP
ponents of a high tariff had spent
more than $500, 900 during the con-
sideration Of the tariff bill and it abb
solved President Hoover of any i'm
propriety in connection with any eff
forts he might have made to bring
the sugar interests together to work
out a sliding scale plan for sugar duty.