Show COMPANIES MUST FURNISH FIGURES House Committee Calls for Information In Information In- In 5 formation About Profits 5 3 1 J 0 on Sur Sugar lr S Washington 8 Dec t It developed dc d. d at al atto to today's a Js hearing or of the ro se c committee m the sugar trust trUit that Claus Glaus A A. A Spreckels of or th the Federal Fed Sugar company com corn pail pany panr was the tIme only subscriber to the Wholesale Grocers Grocers' association whose hose secretary F F. C Ix Lowry wry testified d before the committee Mr oIl Lowry admitted d authorship of ot letters to orators farmers and other r publications containing arguments for the removal l of oC the tariff on sugar At the conclusion of oC tol today's rs session the committee un until tIl utter alter the holl- holl lays daya J. J haY have been issued pr many farmers Today roday roda on the tho request of oC Representative Fordney of Michigan 1 a call was made male on th thud 5 American American- Spreckels Arbuckle and beet sugar interests for sworn statements st. of oC the tho cost of or production of Imported and domestic su sugars ars the prices char charged e for them to the he consumer and U tle e net profit en earned bp the companies ompa les S Albert Alhert of Longmont of LonS' LonS ont Colo Cob con concluded cop cop- eluded his tel testimony to today a lIe He charged that the tho su sugar ar company compan controlled the editorial and news columns of ot thirty five Colorado ColOla o newspapers Mr r Lowry testified that that- sugar Imports produce 17 per cent of ot the revenue of the government Ho lie contended If it a necessity of ot life li be compelled to yield this tIn tion of or lc revenue nue all aU sugar should pay paUs Its sitar share Sugar from RIco Hawaii the Louisiana na and the SU sugar factories in iii the United States pays s of r the dut duty Mr Ir Lowry r said sald his hia a as at advocated the removal remo of d duty ty Tale the Ule rl le dIH duty ditty off oCt rn ran find And refined I I b I Q Mt t nm Will VL 1 yuJu me the world Iq et the price of sugar and n b o- o Intel hitch protect th the c n mn ts from roni In- In r f-r ase asef In the price of sugar Of said Mr 11 rS Lowry S In a statement mt made e public toda today for for- m ins mar r G Governor vernol Henry A A. Buchtel of of- Colo Cob rado vl vigorously denied that condl conditions n ap- ap peonage e existed In tho the sugar sugar- beet et fiel fields fields' s' s of Colorado S I Tho The statement referred to the testimony of oC James Bodkin of Colorado before the time House blouse l sugar Investigation atlon committee that men men arid wom women n in the beet boot tl worked sixteen hours hours n a a. day ay at back breaking la la- la bor Governor Buchtel explained that these men and women were Russians or Italians Hallam who worked b by the job not by bv the the- day By the time aid of oC his wife nife ani and children one of these men Will make more mom In one month In money Colorado than the they could make mako in two years ars In Russia or Ital Italy said the former Cormer governor go Usually that t man will own his o own farm at the time end of or two years Ho no anti and his his' wife will ivIll each ench earn about 5 3 a da day In the beet fields and each of oC his bibs children will earn about W 3 a n. da day day |