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Show SUGAR COMMITTEE . TO BO TOGOTHM WASHINGTON. July 13. When tho house "sugar trust" Investigating com. nmtcc goetf to Ne'York noxtwoSc fo coiitlriua rts Inquiry" ItVlli i -,! MbcomiftlUtf f IheTiom J" of Joh'n Avbuckler-head- of tha'-WnfaL J?J" .buck.tfnrrothers, If -ASfe TEoT nt th c there5 no is too ill to como to Woshlnctnn lu response i0 the committee s Z il mM in -nmnnnFiin m i in Tin W quest, and probably vvil) not be ublo m to attend tho New York hearing. i Mr Arbuckle, whose Interests aro 1 competitivo with those of tho AnierL )1 can Sugar Rotining company, is ex- J pected by the committee- to reveal -1 vital iniormdtion concerning the op- A orations of the "trust" and Its control W of various sugar businesses. Today !I Milton D. Purdy, former asbistant at torney general, told the committee ,, jr that he did not know why former At- ,J j- torney General Bonaparte did not prosecute "sugar trust" officials for $ violation of the Sherman anti-trust t law in the Pennsylvania sugar refin- . ery transactions, atter Purdy had rec- ommended th.it tho case be pressed ( In 1906. Tho tariff was a subject of lon' 11 discussion between members of tho fi committee and Frank C. Lowry of the S Federal Sugar refinery. Lowry advo- i catcd reductiou of the dutv In sugar h He referred to the beet sugar inanu- facturers as "allies" of the Anierlcau fj Sugnr Refining company!' -M He said he did not believe that the M? nnernraent'3 Pen(llng claim of S100- W 000 against the "sugar trust" for un- WZ derwelght frauds would be pressed. W and if it was it would be defended. M, ,nSePSeHtatle FordnJ- of Mlphigan 1 said the department of justice In- formed him today that the claim S would be pressed as sooq as tho ossis- " M tant attorney general, who has charge of the case, recqvers from a protracted pro-tracted Illness. p |
