Show A SUBJECT the sugar trust has again been victorious and has once more proved its immense anwer notwithstanding the open charge that IV V S senators had bad taken advantage of their inside knowledge of the lakes that were to be fixed to enter the market and through agents agent make heavy investment invest investments meni s in in sugar stock before these rates were announced noun ced thereby clearing enormous profits from the subsequent inflation in fla tion notwithstanding the fact that their broker was in jail for refuting to tell the investigating committee who the guilty parties were the republican senators have made a caucus agreement in regard 0 to import duties on sum sugar ar fixing them at a much higher rate the trust had reason to hope for in the face of recent revelations and these rates rate are the ones which will no doubt be inserted in the pending tariff bill it is charged a that the caucus agreement was kept secret until the senators senator through throng tb their gir accommodating bad purchased all the stock they wished that their business sagacity 0 was rewarded is evident from the fact that within thirty six hours after the proposed schedule was wa made public sugar stock rose roee 0 5 3 2 cen cents 16 per bhare making an increase on the total capitalization of the sugar trust olover of over four our million dollars this schedule fixes the import tax on raw sugar under seven seventy ty five degrees ie aces at oie per cent per pound and on refined sugar at cents had the import duties on raw and refined sugars been fixed at the same rate a year would ba have ve found its way into the depleted treasury instead of into the pockets pocket of the trust this would certainly have been a much more satisfactory arrangement to 10 ake people who bear frear the burden of the tax in addition to the twenty millions above referred to it has been estimated by an expert that the trust will clear up another ten millions anil ions on its great advance importations of raw sugar under the wilson tariff rate this is a kwet subject forthe far the senators Se natora who got in on the ground floor but bat they are modest and are not boosting boasting of their little perquisites |