The Washington times., 1894-03-21
BETWEEN YOU AND ME.

just at present it Ia the sugar trust which Is
holding the country up by the nape OF the
neck. OF course the sugar trust would make
money without much protection on refined
sugar, but it would make many millions
more--s15, ,0OO. 900 more, as it is estimated
with the proposed duty kept on. 1t is the in
tervention of Mr.. Searles, the treasurer of
the American Sugar Refining Company, of
Mr.. ID. o. Havemeyer himself now and then,
and OF others, like Mr. Reed. of Nash, Spaul-
ding Il Co., OF Boston, which holds the tariff
bill up in committee In order to have it come
out no way at all II not in their way.
The intervention of the sugar people has
been notorious in the hotels. in the Hobbies of
the Capitol, and even in committee-rooms
and Senate chamber. The lead trust wanted
the duty on silver and lead ores taken off.
They own big smelter at Kansas City con-
troll the railroads running thence to Mexico,
and own or control the Mexican silver mines.
They wanted ore admitted free. They fought
for it and got it. but the lead and silver ore
men of Montana, Utah, and other western
silver regions bounded in here. Lead prod
ucts, which the lead trust also controls. were
also put upon the free list by way OF retali-
alton. This was unpleasant enough to cause
small duty both on lead ore and or the manu-
factured products.
1t has been observed in these recent contro-
versies over sugar, whisky, lead, and other
protected things that the lobby has moved
inside the Senate and House themselves. not
merely in the persons of ex-mcmbers, who are
entitled to enter within the portals of the two
branches, but among not a few of the Sena-
tors and members themselves. 1t is not to be
assumed that these men are interested from
venal motives; perhaps they have only been
influenced by powerful friends at home; per-
haps they have not realized that they have
been influenced at all. But most of the
special things which now come here for
special legislation find ready advocates, sup
porters. hustlers and whips within the Senate
as well as the House. For example, we all
wanted to know, when the sugar schedule
was under discussion. not what two or three
so-caied kings OF the lobby were saying and
intending, but what two or three leading
Senators said: for whatever the motives Of
the persons who came here to represent their
special interests. they dealt direct with the
Senators themselves. There was no interven-
ton of the ordinary lobbyist, unless it has
become true that the ordinary lobbyist is the
representative OF the special interest, ,,who
comes 10 Washington. stays at swell hotel,
sends out his rninions here and there, has his
minions come to him. often out of the Senate
and House perhaps, and in general runs
things.
notice several things about Mrs Stanford
She has not been compelled to deny the rumoI
that President Harrison and herself had mat
rimonial intentions because some alert and
considerate San Francisco reporter discovered
strung across the chair of the late SENATOR
piece of tape, which indicated that Mrs. ctan
ford intended that nobody else than the Sena
tor should ever occupy it. 1 notice that Mrs
Stanford is selling $4,000. 900 OF her railroad
stocks. and We may all be sure that she is
doing it in a business-iike way, for during the
Senator's life Mrs Stanford frequently kept
him from lavishing thousands of dollars upon
perfectly worthless objects. She didn't entirely
succeed in doing that. the Senator was so
generous. She was aided very much. how
ever. by the watchfulBess of Private Secretary
Joha Mccarthy, now attached to the fortunes
OF Senator Perkins. Mr.. Stanford used to say
that John Mccarthy was worth $50, 900 a year
to him for the beggars and sehemers that ne
kept away.
The opposition 20 the Jersey bridge Is
mainly inspired by Senator William Pitt Frye,
Of Maine. His relations with the Huntington
and other railroad interests are notorious;
but it is not known that he has personal in
terest in the North River Bridge Company.
the charterless rival of the Jersey bridge. His
nephew, Mr.. Cutler, is secretary of that con-
cern. and It is well known to the friends Of
the New York and New Jersey Bridge Com
pany that Fryes opposition is chiefly inspired
l.. C.
ment statements that the Jersey bridge is q
great Tammany job, and he is trying to in
duce Republicans to vote against it on that
ground. 1t is probable that some may be
found who will be swayed from their purpose
to support the enterprise by certain railroad
pressure. The Senators are aware of Mr..
Fryes own motives. and 1 think they are
having little weight.
~ had to laugh" sale the eurbstone states
man, ''when 1 read that letter of Chauncey
Depew declining the Secretaryship of State.
What solemn old Joker Chauncey Depew is
anyway Do you know he actually went to
the Chicago convention thinking that he had q
chance.to be nominated for President? And he
actually thought it helped him to have Elliott
Shepard tacking uppictures ofhim all over the
Ml uclut, q -NcW 1Oihclt
desired, or appeared 10 desire, that New
York man should have shy at the nomina-
ton. The idea, of course. was for Morton
for Vice President all the time. Why, if De-
pew had been nominated for President. you
would have seen pictures OF a four track
railroad scattered all over the granger states.
Depew wouldn't have come within a thousand
miles of being elected.
Now see he gives to an aching public this
letter. in which he declines the Secretaryship
of State. You notice that he does not give any
letter from Harrison offering him the place.
He quotes the conversation, though; and what
a generous and sentimental conversation it
wasi 1t was in this that Mr.. Harrison told
him that he only had half a loaf to give,
but that later it would have been
a whole loaf. 1t would not have been any
thing to gain Even if Mr.. Harrison had been
elected, his places would all have been tied
up with promises, and he would have broken
them all and scattered all his fortune with
another line of Job lots of remnants and mis-
fits Depew could not have had anything.
The most he could have expected would have
been a tender note from the man who would
have been elected, and VINO consequently
would have felt very comfortable himself, eN
pressing fearful regret that a gallant leader
had fallen outside the breastworks.
Going to the Gun Test.
After taking up the O'Neill-Joy election