The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-08-03
THE SUGAR BRIBERY.
Report by Democrats. Repub-
licans and a PepuliSt.
DEMOCRATS walTEwAsH THICK.
Republicans Say the Sugar Schedule
Just Suits the Trust.
The fopuli.t Reviews the Evidence
Agaiast camden. smith and Guar
Smith Admits Specializing IN W hssAy
Senate Passes suadry Civu BnL

WAsHISeroy CRY, Aug. Senator
| Gray, chairman Of the sugar investigation
/ COMMITTEES. presented the report TO the san
ate today aIid asked thar the committees ee
/ discharged. The main report is signed hy
ali the members OF the committed Lodge
and Davis viii present supplementary
/ report. and Alien will present his own
views on some features OF the case. The
report rseites the facts which have been
1 published as 10 the refusal of Correspond
emf Edwards to answer questions Secre-
sary Carlisle is exonerated. and the parts
/ OF the article in the Philadelphia Press re-
/ aecting on him are declared 10 be without
/ foandaIlon, except that il is fact, ac-
/ eoTding 10 Secretary Carlisle's testimony,
| that he did, at the request of Senator Jones,
| draft an amendment 90 the sugar schedule.
| The conduct OF Edw ards, says the report,
in publishing specific charges against pub
lie men without having personal knowl-
edge OF the facts calls for the serious repro
hation of the senate. The committee also
says:
There has been no testimony presented
before your committee. and your commit
tee has been unable To discover any. tend.
ing to show that the sngar schedule was
made up, as IL then stood in the proposed
amendment 20 the tariff bill, in considera-
tion OF large or any sums of money paid
tor campaign purposes Of the Democratic
party. No witness has testified before
your committee that such WAS the fact.
and ali the Democratic members of the
finance committee aud all the senators
whose names have been mentioned in the
public press especially interested in
protecting the sugar refining industries. or
IN whose states sugar retlneries existed.
have under oath denied that they had any
knowledge or information as to any sums
OF money, large or small, having been
paid for the campaign purposes of the
Democratic party by the sugar trust. by
those connected with IL or by anypody as
consideration Tor favorable treatment
of its interests by said party
The committee also reports the sub
stance of the testimony of the sugar re-
hners as saying that the campaign con-
tributions were made only TO the local
| committees, and were not for tho purpose
of influencing national campaigns. nor for
the purpose OF securing or defeating
national legislation.
"No other testimony has, = the commit
| tee says, "been Offered. suggested or dis
| covered which would tend to support the
statements of Edwards in this regard. Nor
| is there any evidence in support of the
/ statement that either Of the Messrs. Have
meyer had an interview with President
/ Cleveland on yacht in the Summer Of
/ 1892 or 1883 In regard to sugar the Hawai-
ian islands or any ether sugar interests, or
the policy of the administration I'm regard
TO them. On the contrary, it has been
afirmatively shown that the state
/ ment is untrue AZ to any such
interview having occurred. 1t is shown
/ by the evidence that one or more officers
4 snff ha frfta in a.bt
/ City and that they saw several senators,
/ generally those representing states in
/ which sugar refineries were located, with
the view of influencing legislation, but
these gentlemen deny the use of any i'm
proper motives 10 that end Both the
/ members OF the trust end Of the senate
/ committee denied that any meeting took
| place between them at the capital or else
/ where, was stated in the Edwards let
ter, and there is no evidence ia support Of
the statements IN this regard"
The committee also unite in saying that
no evidence has been adduced eDding to
show improper conduct on the part of
those engaged in the framing of the sugar
schedule in the tariff bill. The committee
strongly deprecate the pressure to which
congress and its members are subjected by
the representatives of great industrial com
binations, whose enormous wealth tends
| 10 suggest undue influence and TO create in
the public mind demoralizing belief in
the existence OF corrupt politics"
The committee reports In the negative
upon the question: whether any soma
tor has been speculaling in sugar stocks
during the consideration of the tariff biIl2"
AS TO the latter branch of tho inquiry,
which brought Photographic copy of an
order to buy sugar stocks. dated March 2.
.s.1, -, 81 Ii.
/ Camden. the committee gives credsnee to
the denial of Senator Camden and says
that Battershall, whose testimony was ex-
pected TO bear up the inference from the
Photographic copy, is q man of doubtful
character. Senator Smith Is also exoner-
ated from blame
Summing up. the COMMITTEES SAYS that
no charge or charges have been lied be-
fore them alleging that the action Of SEN
ators has been corruptly or improperly in
flueneed ia the consideration OF the tariff
bill, and that no attempt had been made to
in ntiaence legislation. All the testimony
taken by the committee is submitted as q
part of the report.
Messrs. Davis and Ledge. Reps. sub
mitted a supplemental report devoted en-
tirely to the subject OF tho influence Of
the sugar trust, so-cailed. on the making
OF the sugar schedule as ii now stands ln
the tariff BILL They say that no evil
dence has been submitted 10 the commit
tee which proves that the sugar schedule
was made up in order 10 fuiiill obligations
10 the sugar trust for campaign
contributions" but they consider is
their duty TO 20 into some details
as 10 the method employed Ia making
up the sugar schedule, for which the Dem
ocratic members OF the finance committee,
IL Is pointed out. are publicly responsible.
at u also admitted. . says the report.
''and It Is proved by the sworn testimony
OF every witness called. that the platform
Of tue schedule was that planned BY rep
resentativss Of the reEners or the sugar
trust"
The three interests concerned in the
sugar schedule are stated 10 be those wlth
no local or peenniary interests who be-
iieysd In free sugar, the producers Of raw
sugar and the retIners 1T soon became
evident after the house bill came 70 the
senate" says the report, '-hat no bill
could pass that body whieh eid not fegaFd
both the latter interesfs The Interests Of
the pro4nceFs and Trhness. then, Is j.
said, came into conflict. the rehners
fayorinT an 81 vAIersn duty on rsE sugar
nov embodied IN sns ball" The repent
SAYS: IL spyssfs - the tesllmoss of
senator Vest that Senators BFice. HoFnEn.
ssnnh. White aBd Caf-ry. aiter SAID con-
ference ef Democratic senators. came 10
tie rooms Of tie naaacs com1nIttss