Show CUTLER EXAMINED IN HEARING ON ON S. S SUGAR PROBE Witness Testifies as to Con He Had With Jesse Jess Knight night I Direct examination of or Thomas R. R Cuter Cutler Cut Cut- ler er former vice president and arid genera general manager of or the Utah-Idaho Utah Sugar company com corn pany was concluded today at the hearing before the federal trade commission of or the Utah-Idaho Utah Sugar company the Amalgamated Sugar Ernest R. R Woolley A. A P. P Cooper and E. E F F. F Cullen Culen The respondents are with havIng having haying hav hay ing violated 5 of or the federal trades commission act by In Individual In- In competitors engaged in interstate interstate inter inter- state business Mr Cutler was questioned as to the conversations which he had with Jesse Jessa Knight of Provo prior to the erection at of or the Mapleton Springville-Mapleton sugar factory in which Mr Knight George M. M Reynolds and others were in In In- interested Mr 1 Cutler declared that he had told Mr Knight that the erection of or orth th tha factory would cut into the supply of ot beets which farmers In the district had been supplying to the SpanIsh SpanIsh Spanish Span Span- ish Fork FOIk factory of or the Utah Idaho com corn pany Mr Cutler said he lie asked Mr Knight if It he was not aware that the Utah Utah Idaho Idaho company company- had for years contracted contracted con con- ct for beets s with the f farmers e of sf the h district t t had b built dumps s and spurs u at Its own expense with a view that when the time came the Utah-Idaho Utah company w would uld construct a factory KNIGHTS KNIGHT'S REPLY Mr Knight replied according to Mr Cutlers Cutler's testimony that the people be believed believed believed be- be that the factory had been un unnecessarily unnecessarily un- un nece necessarily sarny delayed and that the farmers were willing to contract n for a a. a larger r number num nurn- u d ber of beets than had been 1 supplied the Utah Idaho company in Jn order to insure a sufficient supply to the new factory Mr MI Knight said ld according to Mr Cutler that while he realized that there were many nany objections toi to the factory factor he lie had given his word t to his asso associates s. s and that his word was as as' asgood good as s his bond f Mr Mi Cutler declared that he had never had conversations with United States Senator Reed Smoot regarding transactions transactions of of the the sugar suar company or regarding private transactions and he did not know whether or not the senator is or has been a stockholder of ot the Utah- Utah Idaho company Henry Ward Beer cial attorney for the trade commission then introduced into evidence a telegram purporting to have been Written by Merrill Merrill Mer- Mer rill nil Nibley to C. C W W. Nibley care of ot Senator Sen Sen- ator alor Smoot at Wa Washington In which an appeal was made for the use of or German war prisoners at Ft Douglas Douglal In the harvesting harvesting har har- vesting of ot the be beet t prop crop rop air Mr Cutler de declared declared de de- dared that he lie had no knowledge of ot the transaction Uon but that he he- had heard from Mark Austin general agricultural SUperIntendent superintendent superintendent super SUper- for tor the company that such an appeal had been made The tele telegram ram was written In 1917 s READS EXCERPT From this same telegram Mr Beer read an excerpt except pt to the effect that thiat Ed Dyer of or orthe the Dyer Construction company of ot Cleveland Cleveland Cleveland Cleve Cleve- land the firm which contracted factories thinks he for the Utah-Idaho Utah company can call call all all' off oft the Springville proposition if the factory can be located elsewhere At the hearing Wednesday Mr Cutler de denied denied denied de- de nied that It was was was' the c custom of or the Dyer company to ask 1 s advice regarding the construction of or possibly competing factories fac fac- factories tories in Utah and Idaho Mr Cutler declared declared de de- de- de dared that none of or the alleged negotiations contained in the Nibley telegram introduced today had come to his attention atten atten- tion Inquiry Into the transaction between the Utah Utah Idaho company and the Oregon- Oregon Utah Sugar company for or the acquisition of ot the Oregon company's Interests Interests' interests failed failed to elicit information from Sir l Cutler who declared that he did dd not recall the o. les-o. S |