Show BREAKING A TRUST HAD CORNERED HEMP AND WAS RAISING PRICES new york jan 2 A special to the new york herald from washington frays secretary root taken measures to break alie corner in hemp aa a result of discussing the matter with the president he has cabled aliis instruction to major general otis apparently specula the corner jn hemp here Is raising prices to great injury legitimate consumers desirable to get south hemp ports open soon as practicable this instruction is due to the protests made by prominent cordage manufacturers and by farmers calling attention to the tact that the opening of ports in northern luzon today would afford no relief to the hemp situation and earnestly requesting that southern ports be garrisoned and opened to the trade the important hemp ports of the philippines are Cal bayog la granja baranas Par anas Sur igoa burgo baybay legaspe Legas pl tabaco Sor sogan and cordage manufacturers are anxious that these shall be opened in a letter written by mr Melk lejohn assistant secretary ot war the writer hald that if the hemp now at the frev eral ports of the philippines were exported it would be immediately to this country by steamships at low rates of freight and bo manufactured into binder twine in sufficient elmp for the farmers nse |