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Show Sugar, Senate and Charges of Scandal HAND A ff QV&lWf( CHARGES of a two-sided scandal in connection with ' the sugai schedule of the tariff bill In the senate sen-ate caused a furore that resulted In a general demand for an Investigation. Investiga-tion. Senator Pat Harrison (Dem., Miss.), who provoked the row, first charged that the United States government had attempted to Intimidate Cuba Into restricting her sugar crop for the year to 1,500.000 tons, so as to protect American cane and beet sugar producers pro-ducers from competition. He accused Senator Smoot (Hep., Utah) of writing a letter to Mujor General Crowder, In Cuba, "proposing "propos-ing that if Cuba would reduce her crop to 2,500,000 tons, this country then would take under consideration' the maintenance of a reduction In the present rates on sucar.'' The Mississippi senator then read from a newspaper copy of a document purporting to reveal an agreement between be-tween certain unnamed senators and the sulfur Interests whereby In lieu of an Increase of four-tenths of 1 cent a pound in the duty on mikmt, as demanded de-manded by American cine nml lif t producers. Iftev were to be paid a su:-nldy su:-nldy of $14.:'.:;!!,:;!! I. Acenrd:n to ' l!i;Kcd plua, tl.ls money wus to In raised by American refiners ef Cuban sugar by arbitrarily adding one-fourth of cent to every pound of Cuhan sucnr sold In this country. The letter was signed for the "United States and Cuban Sugar Producers' Pro-ducers' Agreement Syndicate, Inc.," i by "Alfred drover." Grover gave his address as 17 State street, New York city, where, Senator Harrison said, he was In the office of Henry W. Pea-body Pea-body fc Co. Strenuously denying any knowledge of (inner, lils syndicate or any such agreement as alleged. Senators Smoot, Lodge and Nicholson or Colorado. Ite-puhllcnns, Ite-puhllcnns, demanded that there KhonM lie an Investigation. Senator Harrison "gladly accepted the challenge." h.m! Introduced a resolution providing f ; an inquiry. |
