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Indictments Withheld.

WASHINGTON, June 19th.-The Senate
Sugar investigation has reached crisis.
The three principal charges in The Press
exposure of May 14th have been proved.
These are:
First. That the Sugar Trust contrib
uted large sums of money to the Demo-
cratic campaign fund in 1892.
Second.-That the Trust absolutely
controlled a sufficient number of Demo
cratic Senators to compel the Adoption
of a sugar schedule which allowed the
Trust free gift of from S4O,OO0,OOO to
$4,000, 900 at the expense of the people.
Third, That the Administration con
sented to this great public wrong to the
extent, at least, that Secretary Carlisle
personally wrote the Sugar Trust sched-
ule and that he did not write any one of
the 700 or more other schedules of the
tariff bill
These facts have been proved by Sec
rotary Carlisle, by President Havemeyer
and Secretary Searles OF the, Sugar
Trust, and by Senators Jones and Vest
of the Senate Finance Committee under
oath. Here the committee rests, and
splits. The writer of The Press expos
ure of May 18th, Mr.. Edwards, is to be
=. indeed by the Grand Jury tomorrow,
Nor what?-for legal contempt of the
Senate in refusing to divulge the sources
on the information which the Senate
Committee has already investigated and
partially verified. The other details,
but AN important ones, as to the specu-
lation in Sugar stocks by United States
Senators; as to the amounts of the cam
paign subscriptions of the Sugar Trust,
and as to the mysterious pool of 10000
shares of Sugar stock which Terrell, the
Z A., ~ Noc Ia
testified that he managed while the
sugar schedule was in process of forma-
tion-these and other essential facts the
Senate Investigating Committee has not
made any strenuous effort to bring out.
Yesterday the committee agreed to
hand President Havemeyer and Secre-
tary Searles over to the District Attor-
new for Indictment with the corresponds
ents for refusing to answer vital ques-
tions. To-day the same mysterious
powers which forced the sugar schedule
through the Senate without a visible
champion, without single voice raised
in it's defense, is holding back the in
dictments of HavemeXer and Searles.
The explanation to the public is that
Senators Lodge and Davis, Republicans,
and Allen, Popullst, want the sugar
kings indicted, while the Democratic
Senators, Gray and Lindsay, do not. 1t
is announced that the split in the COM
mittee cannot be healed, and that the
two Democrats Zone of them Secretary
Carlisle's successor in the Senate), are
to prepare minority report declaring
that the questions which Havemeyer
and Searles refused to answer were mot
pertinent to the committees inquiry"
and that they ought not to prosecuted.
The tremendous power of the Trust is
thus again manifested. A malign party
influence SO irresistible as to Overawe
the proud and honorable Gray and the
able and discreet Lindsay, is viewed
with amazement even in Washington,
and everyone is asking tonight what
the outcome of the dark scandal will be-.
The Press inadvertently did Secretary
Carlisle an injustice above when it
affirmed that he wrote the Sugar Trust
paragraph of the Senate tariff bill and did
not write any other of the 700 or more
paragraphs in the bill. When the Press
Washington correspondent wrote this
statement it was true, but it ceased to be
so a few hours later. Secretary Carlisle
has again thrust an interfering hand into
the Senate Finance Committee room, and
it has fallen heavily upon the carpet
schedule. This and its allied wooden in
dustries, employ about 100000 American
wage earners. The Sugar Trust employs
$500 people. With one hand Secretary
Carlisle increases the protecrion to the
Sugar Trust and with the other he has
taken away the protection from the car
pet and wooden workers.