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Show ! PALMER IS BLAMED BY SUGARPROBBB ATTORNEY GENERAL CHARGfp WITH EXCEEDING AUTHORITY IN FIXING PRICES. Asserted That Legalistic Meth0J Adopted Was Wholly Ineffective" as Means of Price Control and Gave Sanction to High Prices. Washington. The sugar investi,, ing committee, In a majority t presented to the house on June 2 it clarcd that Attorney General id, bad used his power as chief prosec,,,. ing officer of the government "for ., purpose of fixing maximum sellinl prices of sugar in Louisiana, ami J so doing acted wholly without ail. thority of law and in violation f own construction of his official duty The report, prepared by Represes. tative Husted, Republican, New York as chairman, charged that, the legal! istic method adopted by the attorney general was "wholly ineffective as a means of price control" and that "it gave apparent government sanction to extremely high sugar prices, which ei. cited the cupidity of Cuban producers and caused an advance in the Cuban market." There were eight findings in the ma. jority report, the resolution Introduced Intro-duced by Representative Tinklmui, Republican, Massachusetts, calling for an investigation, confining the committee com-mittee inquiry to Louisiana transactions. |