Show SMOOT SUGAR Senator Is Said to Have Received Exclusive Rep Reports Reports Re Re- p ports From Brossard WASHING 30 A AP P- P The part played by y Chairman Smoot of the senate finance committee Inthe in inthe inthe the celebrated sugar tariff Controversy controversy controversy contro contro- versy was inquired into today by bythe bythe bythe the senate tariff investigating com corn Edward P. P Costigan a member of ot the tariff commission told the Investigators in investigators investigators In- In that while the sugar case was under consideration Senator Senator Senator Sena Sena- tor Smoot telegraphed the commission commis commission sion from Salt Lake City In March 1923 advising against reducing the tariff has nothing to do with speculation In sugar the telegram said Rate ad advanced but 16 cents per pounds Cub Cuban n sugar controlled controlled con con- trolled trailed by sugar refiners If they succeed in reducing tariff rate to destroy the American sugar Industry Industry Indus Indus- try may God help the American indus indus-I consumer J r- r ir CHAnn r T Th The lt witness continued t ed that Commissioner Com Com- missioner Brossard then a member of ot the commissions commission's advisory staff became known as a rather active partisan of the sugar beet Interests Inter inter- ests and was reported to be a friend of Senator Smoot He has been seen frequently passing between the office of oC Senator Sena Sena- to tor Smoot and the chairman of ot the commission without reporting to any other members of ot the Uie commIssion commission commis commIs- sion Costigan said He also declared the national tariff tariff tar tar- iff council started a program In 1924 t to raise to get a protectionist protectionist pro Democrat to succeed Lewis and to break breakdown dow down the opposition in the South io to ioa a protective bureau |