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Show TRIALS OF AN INDEPENDENT SUGARREFINtR NKW VORK. July 24. More secrets of the wars between the American Sugar Refining company and its rivals were expected to be unearthed today, when a subcommittee of the congressional congres-sional committee which is investigating investigat-ing the alleged sugar, trust went to New Psltz, N. V., to take the testimony of John Arbiurkle, fur many years a vigorous rival of the Havemeyers. Mr. Arbuekla is an old and feeble 1 man, and his physician said he could not stand a trip to this city to give testimony. tes-timony. The committee is anxious to find out from Mr. Arbtiekle whether the long and bitter conflict with the American Ameri-can eompanv was ended with an agreement, agree-ment, or whether both aides by common com-mon consent decided to Jet each other alone. Meanwhile other members of the congressional con-gressional committee will continue their investigation of the sugar matters in this city with t'laus A. prerkels, president pres-ident of the Federal Sugar Refining eompanv of Vonkers, ready to continue his testimony which began last week. Story of Ooaat Shipment. Mr. Spreckels, when he took the stand today, told of his venture of shipping ship-ping sugar to the Pacific coast, which resulted in breaking the market- there, although incurring- a personal loss to himself. Ife said: "We had a surplus product last yenr and the price in Han Francisco was rVr to 70 points higher than in New York. i shipped the sugar by steamer around the Horn and on rts arrival there was airproaebed bv William Haas of a firm of wholesale grocers, who wanted to purchase the entire shipment, but I refused. re-fused. "The shipment consisted of from 30.000 to 40.04)0 barrels and when I offered to aell it n't 12 to 15 pointh under the market the grocers refused to buy it, as tbey were afraid they could .not get any future gooda from the interests on the coast. "I was approached by Mr. ftusman-of ftusman-of another wholesale grocery company, who took an option for forty-eight hours. . He came to me next day and said my brother, John D. Spreckels, president of the Western Refining company, com-pany, wanted to know if I would agree that thia would be the only shipment sent by me. I refused to make such an agreement and finally sold my sugar direct to the retailers." Cargo Broke the Market. Mr. Spreckels said the aalc broke the market from t5.A0 to 44.70 per hundred pounds and the retailer benefited bene-fited during the three months the selling sell-ing was going on. - Mr. Malbv wanted to know who finally obtained possession of the stock of the Philadelphia Spreckels concern. Mr. Spreckels thought it waa the American Amer-ican Sugar Refining company and he believed be-lieved it still holds possession, though it may have sold. Mr." Malby, having taken up the matter mat-ter of the malicious breaking of machinery ma-chinery in, and the fouling of product, of Mr. Spreckels' Philadelphia factory Mr. Sprockets said the trouble began a few days after the factory started oper-ationa. oper-ationa. He had employed aeveral men who bad worked for the American Sugar Refining company. He knew of no men in the building who were sot in his emplov. Mr. Spreckels aaid among other differences dif-ferences he had to contend with the filling of barrels ao they would be from twenty to thirty pounds light. He caught the man responsible sad die charged him. |