The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-07
BEHIND | THE SCENES
 lN WASHINGTON Hv RODNEY DUTcHER-s Democrat Washington
 Correspondent.
Fight Over Sugar Proves Lobbyists
 Not Better--Just
 More Numerous

Washington, May 7.-The New Deal school for lobbyists may not be graduating more effective practi- tioners than any previous adminis- tration, but it has matriculated them more rapidly and in considerably greater numbers.
 For proof, look among the swarm of lawyers, lobbyists, producers, re- liners and hangers-on who have assembled here to influence the sugar quota legislation which will replace the Jones-C -Costigan act at the end of the year.
 Sugar in the raw cost American
 consumers S490,OO0,000 last year,
 and of that amount the cost of
 protection through the quota sys-
 tenn and the tariff was $354, OO,OOO.
 No one proposes seriously to save
 consumers any of that $354, ,0O0, 900.
 The big fight centers on the ques-
 tiOn of how various sugar interests are going to divide the Swag.
 Possibly in time the Sugar Section of the AAA will put up commem- orative tablet to the flower of it's youth which marched away, to fight on all sides in this war. Upon It you would find the name of Jack Dalton, former head of the section, now generalissimo here for the U. S. Cane Sugar Refiners Associations lobby. And James Dickey, former assistant chief, now representing Puerto Rican sugar interests with the aid of Dudley Smith, another erstWhile AAA expert.
 Chauncey Wightman, another former Sugar Section official, is battling for the Hawaiians against proposed discriminat tiOn based on their inSularity. Dudley Brown and Meyer Marlynski, respective
 Iy the sections former adminiStra-
 tive assistant and economist, are working for the American refiners under Dalton and the three oc-
 cupy a mansion in the embassy district, where entertainment is
 said to be scaled lavishly as befits
 an expensive lobby.
 All these boys had their train-
 ing i'm Sugra and met their present
 bosses at government expense.
 Prev Savoy, brilliant former head of the processing tax unit in the AAA legal division, now represents Florida and Louisiana cane growers, among other clients. He had much to do with writing the Jones-Costi- gan act. So did Charles F. Boots, who was with the Senate's legisla- tive counsel and is now with the American Sugar Refining Go. Elisha Lee Jr. left the AAA Sugar Section to join the National Sugar Refin- ing Go.
 Hero" of Sugar Picture"
 And, of course, former Under secretary of Agriculture Rex Tug well is now an official of the Amer ican Molasses Co.,, which is very much interested in sugar legisla- tion. But neither Tugwell nor nis boss, Charlie Taussig-another for mer New Deal brain truster"- have been lobbying here.
 The "freak" in the picture is Dr. Joshua Bernhardt, present head ot the AAA Sugar Section, who is said to know more about sugar than any other man in the United States. Bernhardt is brains" of the admin istration sugar program and you'll find his outstanding record in Who's Who. The astonishing thing about Bernhardt and his able assistant, Dr. Carl D. Robbins, is that no sugar interest has been able to en- tice them away from the public in- terest or even to influence them. Bernhardt is heroized by many sim