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Show NO ATTEMPT TO DICTATE, -SAYSCUTLER Tells Senate Committee Havemeyer Never Sug- . gested Officers. WASHINGTON, June S3. Henry C. Havemyer, during all his connection with th Utah Idaho Sugar company, of which Joseph F. Smith, head of the Mormon church, is president, never named or suggested a director or officer of that corporation, declared Vice President Thomas U. Cutler of that eompacy, before the house Sugar trust committee of inquiry today. Mr. Cutler testified that Havemeyer, who had acquired interests i several of the original Mormon ecmpaaies. st first objected to the onaolidation Into the Utah Idaho Sugar company. "Mr. Havemeyer waa very much opposed op-posed to the proposed merger st first, said Mr. Cutler. "H said ha preferred pre-ferred to have hia stock in th various companies remain as it est. It did make eonaiderable difference with the western stockholders and oar people peo-ple and it took a great deal of argn- ment, stretching over several memos, to eoavines Mr. llavemever that th eonsolidatioa effected in 1V07 was bne ficisl. , "Some of th stockholders feared that Mr. Havemeyer and th American Sugar Refining company sought to get control.. For this reason an agreement was drawn up which Mr. Havemeyer waa asked to sign providing that the. original stockholders should same. three directors, the eastern--salsnsls throex aad these aiz s seventh. "I ssked Mr. Havemeyer next about th seventh man, or who should be president. I told him. that if agreeable to him w would very much desire that the president of the Mormon church be resident of the company, on account of ia influence with the people and hia deep intent in the business enterprises enter-prises of the people. ."'All right, Mr. Culler,' Mr. Hsvs-raeyer Hsvs-raeyer at once replied, ' that ia all right, just th thing.' President Smith was named president of th company and Mr. Havemever never afterwards sag gested sn officer or s director." Mr. Cutler said that only about SO per cent of the slock of the company a held by Mormons and soma of the directors sre not Mormon. |