The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-05-30
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Senators Cafrsry, Voorhees,, Jones and
vest, Ex-Congressman Lefevre and Con-
gresham Cochran Declare the Pub
Iished Statements UnquaIintdIy False.
vIndicnting Secretary Carlisle.
WASHINGTON, May Ex-senator Gray. Mt
the close Of speech in the senate on the
tariff yesterday by Senator Pettigrew, pre-
sented to the senate the report of the in
vestigating committee delegated to inves-
tigate the charges of improprlety in the
framing of the sugar schedule. There
were some objections to its presentation,
but Senator Faulkner, in the chair, de-
cided that 1t was u question of the highest
privilege, and that the report should be
read.
The report details at length the exam
nations of the newspaper men, Edwards,
Gchrivcr and Walker, substantially as al
ready published and then givbs the testi-
mony of Senator Caffery, Representative
Bourke Cochran and ex-Representative
Ben Lefevre. The paragraphin Mr. Ed
wards letter to the Philadelphia Press
In which he had referred to Mr. Caifery in
connection with the preparation OF the
sugar schedule was read to Mr.. Gallery.
and he said:
'In so far as this statement connects me
with any conference with the men named
here as belonging to the sugar trust
Havemeyer, Terrell and Mayer-the last
two of whom l do not know, 1t is unqual-
thedly false. In 80 far ns the statement
M axes me the draughtsman df schedule
which Mr. Havemeyer accepted, and when
j wrote it was looking over my shoulder,
that is unqualifedly false. Ihad no CON
ference with Mr.. Hnvemeyer nor any one
OF the sugar trust"
Mr. Caffery said he had met Mr. Have
meyer one day going out of the Capitol,
and was introduced to him md had had
one conference with him, which was held
- two or three weeks before the finance COM
mittee reported the specific sugar sched-
ule. That conference was held at Senator
Brice's house. "a was asked" he said,
''to see Mr.. Havemeyer. lie commenced
an argument in favor of the ad valorem
rate on sugar in preference I'd the specific
rate, and n number of figures were pre-
sented to show or attempt to show the
correctness of his argument"
In reply to n question as to whether
there had been any other senators present
at Senator Brice's house when he met
Mr.. Havemeyer there, he said there
were several other senators present.
Among them were Senator White, of
Louisiana, and Senator Hill, pf New York,
and his recollection was that Senator Cor
man had also been present but Mr. Have
meyer did not meet any of the gentlemen
but himself.
Asked if he had ever been present at
meeting Of the finance committee at the
Capitol on Sunday. Mr.. Gallery said he
had slipped into the building once on the
Sunday before the bill was reported on
the following Monday, and had met Sen
Ators Jones and Vest, of tho committee,
there on that day.
Congressman Lefevrc denied explic-
lily the statement in Mr.. Edwards letter
concerning the Sunday meeting at the
Capitol. He said he had not been in the
employ OF the sugar trust and had not
mot been at the Capitol with any of its
members.
During the course of his testimony Mr.
Walker stated that he had Aeen senators
at the Arlington go up stairs with gentle
men whom he was told were members of
the sugar trust, and go to Mr.. Hpvemeyer's
room. He said he had seen \, nator Brice
go to Havcmeyer's room in the Arlington
hotel repeatedly while the tariff bill was
pending in committee, lie said he had
heard Mr.. Roessle, proprietor of the Ar
lington, talk of slipping the senators up
the back way. He had also seen senator's
come in at the ladies' entrance and also
representatives of the trust He had he
said, in his reports mentioned Joe Hickey
as a go-between between Senator Vest and
the sugar trust II have seem he said,
"Joe Hickey with Mr.. Vest, hnd in n little
while go with Mr.. Reed OF Mr.. Terrell
and get in a quiet spot and talk" He
had, however, only once seen Hickey with
Mr., Vest, and on that decision he had
him, vii in t,,,
with Mr. Terrell He had also seen Hickey
around the finance committee room doors.
Hon. Bourke Cochran said Walker had
asked him upon one occasion whether he
was the attorney for the sugar trust, aud
he had told him that he had never been
the attorney for that organization, but
that he had declined to represent the trust
in the courts in New York In 1856 or 'sT.
He also denied having told Walker that
he favored n duty on sugar.
The Investigating committee continued
its inquiry yesterday, and examined Sena-
tors Voorhees,, Jones and Vest, of the
finance committee in regard to the allie
cations made concerning the efforts of the
trust to influence legislation, They made
n general denial Of all the charges made
of the exercise of influence by the sugar
trust, and specifically eontradicted the
story that Secretary Carlisle had made a
secret visit to the committee and de
manded that the sugar interest be pro-
tected because of the Democratic party's
indebtedness to the sugar trust. They
agreed that Mr. Carlisle hal never made
such "A visit TO the committee, and that no
such demand had been made upon the
committee for the reasons given in MIR.
Edwards letter, or on any other account.
They also denied the report that a meet
ing had been held by the committee on
the Sunday before the tariff bill was re-
ported for the consideration of the sugar
schedule, and said that if the sugar peo-
Pile had been together in an adjacent room
while the committee was in session at any
time they We're not cogniZalt of the fact
Senator Vest denied emIhaticaly that
he had informed Joe Hickey of the pro
gress of the committee in considering the
sugar schedule while the bill was in COM
mittee
The committee adjourned over until
Thursday. The examination of members
of the finance committee will be RESUMED
at the next meeting.
More Industrials Sent to Jnil.
HELENA, Mont, MAY 3O.-Leaders of the