The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-17

Washington June Ex-senator Ran
som created slight sensation when
he appeared ,efore the Senate sugar
investigation committee today. He
was asked. as We're others vino were
before the committee, the following
question by Senator Lodge:
Has any member of your family or
any person in your employ or any clerk
employed under the laws of The United
StaaeS. lin your service been. to your
NneNlsdge, interested, in any OF the
ways indicated in any Of the preceding
questions, in any transactions in sugar
stocks or certificates during the period
mentioned?"
Replying to the question, MIR. Ram
Som asked leave to make a statement.
On the night of last Thursday he had
been visited at his nome by Mr.. How
tend. correspondent OF the New York
Press. who asked him, substantially,
the same question as had been put 10
him by the committee. Mr.. Ransom
denied 1T, whereupon Mr.. How
land informed him that q brokerage
fIn in the city. Silbee & Co. had an
an5ry IA their books which indicated
What the senator had speculated in SUI
gar stocks during the period of the
z5mff debate.
Mr.. Rowland continued Mr.. Ran
SIM. asked me if 1 knew any other
person by the name Of Ransom in the
CITY. l told him j knew of but one per-
son in the city by tihe name of Ran
som, ana that was my son George, who
was my clerk. He asked where ne
was. and 1 said ne was in the paTlor
and l would step in and bring him out.
Il was, perhaps, more cautions than
The occasion required and / said to Mr..
Rowland that / would thank him to
come with me 10 THE door 50 that he
could see no communication should
cake place between me and my son.
| went to the p7Tior door, where my
son was, and beck Jne1 h1ll 10 come in.
1 did not speak 20 him ar see him Le-
tween The par-lor and my room, and
when we got into my room, l asked the
gentleman to st@te his business 10 him
and told my sen whatever the matter
was to tell the truth about it.
He then st7ited~to the gentleman in
my presence that he had bought some
sugar stock on the 18th, or 18th of Ap-
Til He put up a margin of SO, which
he paid the broker on sugar stock. He
said on the same day he put up a mar
Sin Of S25 on cotton.
A He said he lost the cotton and made
sl0 on sugar and after that he repeated
the same bet on sugar, but not Of cot
ton. and I think he lost the second. He
then stated he ana Captain Barnes,
messenger here at the commit ee
room, after that on two occasions,
bought $40 worth Of sugar stock.
They went in together and 1 asked
the correspondent to examine my son
fully as he pleased. and to examine
CAPTAIN Barnes. too"
M. Ransom proceeded TO relate that
: a6tut Two weeks ago Captain Barnes,
f6ne viously alluded TO. had come to
him to tell him that a friend had in
formed him that he (tlle SENATOR had
been Specuiaeing in sugar. The senator
denied the story fnd sent Barnes to in
vestigate it. The latter returned with
the assurance that there was no basis
for the assertion. The senator had told
the correspondent. Rowland, about this
incident, Withholding the name of
Barnes informant, which had been
communicates to him in confidence.
Senator Ransom advised the COM
rnittee 10 examine Mr.. Barnes and see
If his story did not correspond with
yhat had just been stated to the COM
= Senator Gray asked: Had You any
knowledge whatever. until this inter
view with Mr. Rowland, on the even
ing you speak Of. of the bets of your
SOP with Ghls broker in sugar and cot
Senator Ransom replied: q never
dreamed of such a thing. l never
thought it. I would not have believed
It. The truth Of it Is Z went to my
sen with a great dead of confidence and
told him that this correspondent wan
ted TO see him. The paper shows that
T1hen he bought eI--s sugar stock I was
out Of the city. The 18th OF April was
when We were at Senator Vance's fun
eI'al ait Ashville. I may state TO the
committee that I have no interest what
ever and never had stock or trade or
anything else since l have been in the
Senate
Senator Brice reiterated his declara-
tion in his letter 10 Chairman Gray. in
which ne said that he had not bought
or sold a single share OF sugar stock
or dealt in industrial stocks of any
kind
Mr.. Brice was very explicit and en-
phatic in his denial of any knowledge
Of campaign contributions from :he
Sugar trust. He knew nothing of the
contributions in 1882, Previous to July
l. 1892, when he was in charge there
were no contributions from the Sugar
trust CIR anyone connected with ii. so
far as he knew. He never ATTENDED a
hfleeting on Bersedict's yacht at which
pledges were made in the sugar inter
ests.