The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-29
THE SUGAR INVESTIGATION.
Very Little Testimony Has Thus Far
Been Secured.

very Little IeSL1mouy mas mus dA
Been Secured.
Washington. May 2S.-Secretarv Car
Isle will in all probability be summoned
before the Senate investigating commit
tee. It is expected that the committee
will also summon all the senator's who
had anything to do with preparing the
tariff bill. the sugar schedule of which
has caused so much adverse criticism.
So far the committee has proved It's
utter inability to get any information
from the witnesses who have been sum-
moned TO appear. The investigation was
brought about by newspaper charges,
yet the authors of some of these cock and
bull stories find it utterly impossible to
prove them The Mail and Express, that
admirable repu blican and Blblican organ
of New York, challenged an examination,
yet, when it was brought before the COM
mittee, was unable TO substantiate its
claims and prove its charges. Its CORE
p6ndent sideJrackcd all questions on the
ground Of conscience. The same was
tSue Of the other witnesses.
There is no way in which these tender
conscienced gentlemen can be made to
testify. for the hands of the committee
are tied. The members of the committee
are now contemplating going before the
Senate and asking for authority TO send
recusant witnesses to Jail.
The committee has also been nagged by
questions as to why 1t does not summon
Senator Vest, Senator Brice and Secre-
tary Carlisle This sounds plausible. but
what can be learned from these gentle
mem If they favored a duty on sugar TO
reimburse the sugar trust for funds
donated to the democratic national cam
paign, it cannot be expected that they
will testify against themselves in the
matter. If MIR. Carlisle is summoned, he
will simply deny the truthfulness of the
newspaper reports, and the COMMITTEES
would be again forced TO fall back on its
own ignorance.
Secretary Carlisle refuses to talk him
self He is ignoring the charge that he
recommended a duty on sugar for the
benefit of the trust. But Senator Jones,
of Arkansas, denies most positively that
Secretary Carlisle said that the trust had
made large contributions to the campaign
fund and must Oe taken care of, and also
of the other branch of the story, that the
secretary had written out a sugar
schedule in excess of what the committee
was willing to give, and demanded that it
be adopted
80 far as these stories are concerned, "
said Senator Jones, Il would dismiss
them by saying that neither, generally
nor specifically, is there any truth in
Them
The committee has hardly begun its
work. There will be many weeks more
of this dark-lantern business. The COM
mittee has been upbraided for holding it's
sessions behind closed doors, yet this is
the only means by which it can be hoped
to bring to light any important testimony
on the subject.
The most renowned names in the DEM
ocratic party have been brought into
these stories, and the faint of iobbery
has been put on every public man who
helped in the formation of the sugar
schedule. 1t is due to every man
mentioned in the matter, to German,
Vest. Brice, Jones of Arkansas, Harris,
Voorhees,, Carlisle, and even the Presi-
dent himself, TO probe every suspicion,
let alone every charge, to the bottom If
there is a skeleton in the democratic
closet, let it be brought out into the clear
light of day Either that or prove every
charge, innuendo or suspicion to be a lie.
The committee is untiring in its search
for information, in its hunt for witnesses
who can and will tell what they know, or
claim to know Senator Lindsay is al
the capitol clOseted with Senator Gray,
chairman of the committee, every morn
ing by 80 o'clock, and with the excep
ton of the little time necessary to vote
on pending amendments to the bill, is
hard at work until O'Clock in the even
ing, and oftentfmes much later.