Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-06-08
From our regular correspondent
WASHINGTON LETTER.
wAsnrSeToN. June 4, 1894.

'ieepiy regret having allowed The two
newspaper correspondents who de
lined 10 tell the sources Of the iufor
nation they published in connection
With the sugar trust scandal, 10 even
stand chance of beins indicted hy tho
grand jury. The correspondents would
Ike nothing better than atrial in court
which must follow if they are made to
ak who would make it plain that
heir charges represented only small
part of the crookedness which has beer
going on among democrats, and who
will never be called by the Inyestiga
ing committee and some of whom
would refuse 10 answer questions fol
The committee if they were He'd.
Even with the easy methods of the
investigating committee, which seems
10 be largely dependent upon volunteer
testimony, the suhStanti facts in the
charges made by The newspaper men
have been shown to he true. Notwth-
standing the copious explanations with
which the admissions are accompanied.
there is no getting around the fact that
Senator Mcpherson of New Jersey
speculated in sugar stock and made
money out of it; nor that the sugar
schedule IN the present tariff was most
ly written by Secretary Carlisle. These
facts, as well as that heavy democratic
influence, was brought, By agents of
the sugar trust, to bear on Representa-
tive Warner of New York, TO make him
stop working TO have sugar put on the
free list, have been testified to by the
men named. This week some sensa-
tional testimony is expected from the
widely advertised wire manufacturer
Senator Hills resolution for open SEES
sions of the committee has stirred up
the senator's, but it is not probable that
it will be passed. When the Credit
Mobilier scandal was being investiga-
ted, more than twenty years ago, the
senate adopted a resolution instructing
the committee, which had been working
behind closed doors, to conduct the in
vestigation openly; but that is the only
similar case known.
Senator Henderson of Nebraska,
while making an earnest speech in
favor OF the continuation of the sugar
bounty of the Mckinley law, used Ian
guage that should be committed to
memory by every member of congress,
and which was all the more striking
because it followed the cringing apollo
gy of Senator Blanchard of Louisiana
for supporting the Wilson bill in tn e
house with its free sugar clause, and
then after getting in the senate de-
handing protection for sugar as the
price of his vote. Senator Henderson,
after expressing the hope that the
selfish protection sentiment of the
Louisiana senator, which proposes
merely to benefit locality, would one
day grow into sentiment broad
enough to favor protection for all in
dustries, said: Il vote here, represen--
ting prairie state, not only for protec-
tion on beet sugar and on the products
of the farm, but / vote for protection
to the loom, to the factory, to the foun
dry, to the lumberman and to the
miner. / do not represent on this
floor simply part or the whole of the
state of Nebraska. / AN A SENATOR
OF THE UNITED STATES. And whether
am in the other house as a represent
tative, or here as senator, mo peDt
up Utica like district or like state can
contract my legislative powers"
Democrats are pretending TO be very
much surprised because of ex-Spesker
Reeds assertion that silver and the
tariff are questions which ought to be
settled together; but there is no &C.
casion for surprise, as the same idea
has been advanced by prominent re-
publicans before now. 1t is we'll known
that it was entertained by the late
James g. Blaine, and that it was in
cluded in the results he expected from
his reciprocity policy. Senator Lodge,
in strong speech against the tariff
bill, took the ground that the two
questions were closely allied, and Sen
ators Cameron and Pettigrew have also
referred to the matter in their tariff
speeches. SO il is nonsense to pretend
that Mr.. Reed has made new depart
ure to please anybody He is travelling
in good republican footprints, as he
usually does.
The democratic senators will be on
pins and needles until they see the
sugar schedule of the tariff bill formal
ly adopted: aud in order to hurry up