Show SENATOR SMOOT IN S1 STATEMENT TAKES UP SUGA PRICE J Shows vs That Democratic Candidate Candidate Candidate Can Can- Errs in Figures on Sale Price of Product CHICAGO RATES ARE LOW Illinois Metropolis DUl Dumping Ground for Excess From All Over Country IF TF sugar iP were selling at 1450 in Chicago inasmuch as the carload rate fate from 41 that L point uL to Utah 1 1 is only ti JU o IC llUY be uc money in iu it for someone if r he could get in ill Utah for th that thai 1 same sugar In other words it is not true that the price of sugar is or has been in Utah when it was in Chi Chi- cago This is the answer of ot Senator Reed Heed Smoot to the tho assertion couched in th the form of ot a question by Thomas Democratic candidate for tOr Congress Congress Con Con- gress anent prices on ot sugar Mr r. r Thomas asked Why h I Is sugar sold at 40 In Chicago when It is sold at in Utah Senator Smoot who i reached cached Salt Lake yesterday from Spanish Fork where he took this topic the night before belore in tn a n sp speech ech pointed out that sugar sold suld for tor in Chicago cau bo be laid down own in Salt Lake Lako for I If the Importer could sell that in competition with other wholesale prices of or he could easU easily make make- a a. fortune Senator Smoot stated that thal as a matter of or fact the thc Utah sugar companies sell sugar to the the Utah jobbers for tor 55 i a hun hundred rell t the tho tho cost price to to the Jobber who sells bells it t to the retailer for fOI G per hundred cash said the senator II While there is no uniform retail price I on sugar suar in Utah nor Jot for that matter i I is there In any an- state In Salt Lake City I it can be purchased for a hUn hundred IThe I IThe The wholesale price of or sugar u rr In In Chicago o Is quoted by tho the senator at jO or 4 42 cents over o the Utah price instead of oC 2 as Mr 11 Thomas seemed scorned to allege e Very ClY Utah sugar isso is so sold III in Chicago o lie he pointed out but tl the thelast e last sold there II by a II Utah company brough h a hundred Si Since then a decline of or 7 5 cents nW has taken place on the Chicago market marlet Chicago o is tho the dumping ground of or tl the e United States Stales for surplus sugar said Senator Smoot Smout and in orl order pl r for 01 UL th companies B to marl market et their theil product t I there they must meet th the Atlantic seaboard sea sen- I board product which enjoys the excessively low lute freight rate late Into that 1 point of ot 22 n cents a hundred Tin The price of or Utah n sugar tuJa today at I points between hero here anti and Chicago j IH is isn I n much uchu higher than the Chicago j JH price nce Ce Salina Sulina Wichita and null J Jan Kan an purchase Jar largo large quantities of or Utah I sugar augar al' al The wholesale salo price at al at those points Is 11 given m I h by local aU authorities as 51 or 01 a difference of only 11 H cents between tho Utah price and the tho price o there At t other between here hero and Chicago sugar m sells wholesale for tor I about the same price as as' as It does In n Utah |