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Show WI1YVMS: SUGAUNOT FORFEITED? District '' Attorney Wlse Frankly Admits He Can , , . NotTelL: QUESTION ARISES . IN SUGAR PR.0BE Wise Says Other Sugar Of-fleers Of-fleers "Were Mannikins" While Haremeyer Llred. . WASHTNOTOlC 'on 10. Henry A.' Wise, TJnlted BtMes diitrlci attorney attor-ney of Wear Tork, frankly admitted to the konaa cxunmltte o expeadltnrea In the. department ef Justice today, that ha could not say why it waa that the government had been,, content merely )o collect dutlee . in tfee aagar , fnnd eaete and had hot aelaod and eonfla- cated tha mllllona of dollars worth of sugar lnrolved In the frauds. , When Mr. Wise apecifically , waa asked' why the. sugar itself, bad, not-been not-been .declared forfeited to the government, govern-ment, he eaid: -,. .. , ; ' ""I em unable to. answer that question, ques-tion, beea use the policy of the govern- meat had been determined before I became, be-came, diatrict. attorney. I don't want to reflect oa any one, but I any that I have exacted av pound of flesh in every ilstanc where I have beea concerned-" Want Other Customs Dodger Get. Chairman Beall said he bad noticed tkat women and ethera who tried to defraud de-fraud -the government were usually required re-quired to forfeit their imports and he considered it a great misfortune that the .augar importers had not ' been treated likewiae. v Mr. Wis, in discussing another phase of the sogar proeocutiona in New York aaid every man ''higher up" who could be reached had beea proceeded againat. "1 think President Havemeyer of the American Sugar Kefiaing company could have -been-prosecuted aad convinced, con-vinced, " eaid . Mr. Yise.. Mr. Havemeyer Have-meyer died shortly after the fraud were discovered.- 1 - yther officers ef th sugar eorporatlon 1 Mr. Havemeyer 'a day . were alluded to by Mc Wis a "mere maanikiaa." ' Chairman- Beail' at this point quea Honed Mr. Wise as t the recent -indictment ef cotton speculators ' on charge of attempting to corner the not ton market. Why Cotton Indictment Waa Withheld. . Mr.. Wit aid the reason the second sec-ond indictment against th cotton buyer buy-er waa withheld from July to December Decem-ber Waa that ona of the men uadei indictment was out of th country. He testified that the indicted men , were charged with dealing with not more than ooe-thirty-flfth of th tire supply- . - Mr.Beall wanted to know why so much activity had . been - manifested againat th ma who had dealt in so small quantity of a commodity, while no stops had beea 'taken toward legal Sroeeediags agaisst-tbe officials ef the tandard OiL tobacco- or at eel corporation.. corpora-tion.. Mr. wise explained that until very recently interpretations jaf) toe Sbermam anti trust law were conflicting- |