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Show SUGAR CROP OF CUBA I Senate Committee to Inquire I Into Ownership. I INVESTIGATION IS ORDERED Charges That tho Trust Holds the Greater Part of the Present Sac-charlno Sac-charlno Crop of the Island Will Be Looked Into Teller Resolution the Basis for the Inquiry It Will Be n Scotching Inquest, and Committee Commit-tee Is Empowtied to Send foi Per. sons and Tapers. Washington. April 55 Iho Senate Committee on Cuba todas decided to Institute an Investigation Into the charges that the Bieater part of the ptepnt ci op of Cuba sugar Is held b Hip sugar trust of this couiitrs, as dl-lected dl-lected by the lesolutlon Introduced In tho Senate by Ml, Tellsi cut the 19th Instant. The action of the committee wns favorable fa-vorable only to the tlrst half of the resolution, which provides for an In-nulrs In-nulrs affecting the present hnldlngs of Cuban sugar. It was decided to strike out that portion of tho resolution requiring re-quiring an Investigation of the normal cost of making sugar In Cuba, and also Into the general question of leelproclty with Cuba. The committee hi Id Hint those questions are alwasa before the committee, and that lo adopt that portion por-tion nt tho resolution would be equivalent equiva-lent to InsliuctliiB the committee to perform Iti ordinary duties. oiviin till iowr.it. A provision was addon empowering the committee to send for persons nnd papers, und a sub-committee consisting of Hennlors Piatt (Conn ), llurnham nnd Teller, was appointed to bear the teslltnnn). Senator Piatt announced that It was bis purpose to extend nil facilities to tbosp making tho charge that tho Cuban plantets would not get the benellt of the pioposed reduction In duties, to prove these charges, adding add-ing thnt be would do ull In Ills power lo render the Inqulty exhnustlve. The resolution v.as adopted, and the prc-umlilu prc-umlilu upon which It Is based, follows. nniit: is resolution. Whtrpas, It has been currently reported that nearls the entlrn crop of Cuban su- ftar has been purchised and Is now held i what Is Bene rails known as tho ' sugar trust." wliii h Is the principal consumer of raw susur lu tho United mates, and thnt any conclusions given to thn raisers of rune sugar In the island of Culm, or uny mensuris Intended for their relief by admitting ad-mitting their sugar at reduced rates of duty Into the United Htntew, will only benefit tho said sugnr trust, nnd thnt tho Cubans will receive no real benellt from such concessions, and. Whereas, It is alleged that a larBA num. ber of rttiztus of the United mates have acquired 1 irgo holdings of cano producing laruls In Cuba nnd ure now especially tllg-lng tllg-lng the reduction of duty on sugar under the claim that such reduction will benefit tho people of Cuba therefore, bo It ltesnlvid, Thnt the Commlttco on neli. tlona with Cuba be, and hereby Is directed, direct-ed, to make an investigation as to the truth of such chari,o and to report to the Benate. |