Show JOBBERS IN POOLS w mm v v v TO JO KEEP UP PRICE Admission Made in Trust Anti-Trust Suit by Official of Western Sugar Company REBATES GIVEN FAITHFUL i Government Puts in in- in Evidence Letters Showing How Competition Corn Com petition W Was s Stifled c l FRANCISCO n Jul July 25 Additional Additional SA SAN I. I evidence c tending to show that com com- petition was ns ma made e Impo Impossible In tho the open opell market was offered today at al the h hearing here In the government suit begun two years cars R ago O In New York tl to determine time the extent of the thc control ex exercised ox- ox by br time the American SU Sugar ar Refinery err cry and the time II O. O Un Interests over ocr the time sugar ur industry W. W II Hannam secretary Fcc of ot tho the Western SU Sugar ar Refining company acknowledged on on time the stand that the Jobbers In tho the west vest had entered Into a combination to keep the price of ot sugar ugar at Its Its' top top- figure Ho lie admitted to Knapp that there w were re two organizations organizations organ organ- one representing California Washington an and Oregon and the other taking In the time mountain states with headquarters In Denver The Denver merger was as known a as the Colorado Colora o commercial and trading agreement and the thA d local organization nun had 0 no I name M 1 I C UlO Ui U o. o ii ix i u nu M lUll i o. o When sugar was selling to time the Jobbers JollI jobbers Job Joll- I I bers berli at nt five cents a pound the jobbers in iii either cither one of tho the associations paid five rI and a quarter quarter- or for fOI Jt It In Inthis Inthis this wa way the prices to the tho consumer I and retailer were bolstered At certain perlo periods 5 rebates of one one- I fourth Qt f a a. cent would ouM bo ho na c to the tho Jobbers who had faithfully ll maintained the ton top tor price All those In the poo pool who d to keep the a agreement ro- ro no rebate and suffered fines tines Id d Letters r Assistant Attorney General James R. R Knapp produced letters which admitted In evidence h by Special l' l Ex Examiner Ex- Ex x- x Drice In which HIl discussed discussed discussed dis dis- cussed the enc encroachments of at Independent Inde hide pendent firms upon the trusts trust's territory torn terri tor tory and the best hest methods of blocking the progress of the time smaller companies was waa called upon b by Knapp to Identify all of tho time correspondence copies cOllies of at which are In the tho possession of ot the government attorneys s When hen tho the deal whereby the time California Califor nia Hawaiian Sugar company compan plant pant at nt Crockett Cal us closed was vas drawing I Ito to a conclusion arid and the tho Hawaiian peo- peo plo wore preparing to enter the tho field again as ns active competitors laid plans to thwart that purpose became concerned with tho the I seriousness of at the situation in 1906 after the time California Hawaiian compan company com corn pan pans pany had been paid a year nr for three years by t the te le Spreckels Interests to close the plant at nt Crockett and re retire retire re- re tire from the time market et a as I. I was brought out yesterday eme Havemeyer's letters letter to Hannam show Rho that ho lie had hall trouble Inn in n nt g with the time Hawaiian people on account of ot th time the absolute repugnance nance they have ve to negotiate on anything any nn- timing thing that has a a. L C end to it The Tho mo mORt t important lott letter r rea read 1 dur dur- ur- ur Continued on Page Pago 2 2 Column 2 2 JOBBERS JOBBERS IN POOLS 10 TO mm PRICE Admission Made in Trust Anti Trust Suit by Official of W Western estern Sugar Compan Company Y Page Pago One OncY JuS' JuS dhu lio ho morning session Cession W was one written written written writ writ- ten b by lIa to J J. J T T. Witherspoon his New Orleans representative c on on January S 8 1906 at a time when the California Cal Cal- Ihl ryas about to resume operations It Informed Witherspoon that there will ho be a rote rott on- on on thc th Pacific coast about March 1 and that the tho Crockett people intended bringing down tho the price on refined sugar This condition would bo ro- ro on the tute Missouri river territory Ila r Ba said ald and Instructed WIth WIth- th to make ml an effort cHart to have huv tho the railroads give Ie him rates on New NOW Orleans Orleans Orleans Or Or- leans shipments of sugar so that ho to could enter th the tho Missouri field CleM on on onn a n footing footIng foot foot- In Ing with tho the Pacific coast Things ma may be adjusted to conditions condItions conditions condi condI- as they exist on March 1 that I-that that Is 18 ra raw sugar mn may be bo a n. II little tt Ie lower ho he wrote The Now New Orleans refinery refiner will have hn to run at no profit to take care earn of ot this condition I should like to know what t tile the Illinois Central people will be willing to do before February J the I-the the sooner the better belter It was shown that the Hawaiian sugar sugar sug Sug- ar nr people acting through Charles J J. J Welsh sh a sugar broker of ot vow Now York sou sought ht to arrange with tho the Western Sugar Refining company compan for third one-third of or the Western estern refinery business but that H Hannam and the Spreckels people refused to consider tho the proposition Late In iii 1905 all negotiations looking lookin toa to tp ton a n settlement of ot the situation on these lines were dropped Then according to the corre correspondence that followed began beg the crushing operations opera opera- I |