The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1894-06-08
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, June ], 1894.

WASHINGTON, June ], 1894.
Does the sticky trail of the SUI
gar scandal lead to the white
house? Statements made by dem
ocrats, mind you, not republicans.
first indicated that it did, and the
action of the investigating CON-
, mittee, in pretending to be greatly
exercised because three newspaper
correspondents-one of them
democrat, and Senator Murphy's
private secretary-have declined
to give the names Of those who
gave them information, has not
weakened the indications. The
committee may be perfectly honest
in its attempt 10 make the cor
respondents tell the names of
their informants, but experience
should warn them of the time they
are wasting. There is probably
not a newspaper correspondent in
Washington who would not go to
Jail and stay there rather than TO
tell the name of any man who
had given him information in con-
fidence, and nobody knows this
any better than the senators on
this committee; hence, the belief
that they are merely using the
correspondents in making a play
for time, instead of asking the
men whose names have been di-
rectly connected with the scandal
for the information that will es-
tablish the truth or falsity of the
charge that the sugar trust die
tated the sugar schedule of the
tariff bill. The present actions
of the committee confirm the i'm
preston of those who predicted
from the first that the whole in
vestigation would be as great a
fizzle as that part of it which
dealt with the alleged attempt to
bribe senators.
Several votes in the senate
having demonstrated that the last
bargain took in all of the demo-
Gratis, except Hill, as we'll as the
populists, and that the tariff bill
as bargained for is going to get
their votes, it is probable. although
not yet certain, that the republi-
cans will in few days agree to
the setting of day for the final
vote on the bill. The sugar
schedule will be reached this
week and an effort will be made
to upset it, but for the reasons set
forth above it will hardly succeed.
Civil Service Commissioner
Roosevelt has got his fighting
blood up. During the debate
which preceded he democratic
attempt to drop the appropriation
for the civil service commission,
representatives Pendleton, of w.
Va; Enloe, of Tenn, and Stocks
dale and Williams, of Miss, made
statements rejecting upon the in
tegrity OF the commission, and ac-
ensing it of always favoring re-
publicans. Mr.. Roosevelt sent
communication to Representative
DeForest, chairman of the house
committee on reform in. the civil
service, branding each and every
statement made by the four repre-
sentatives as unqualifedly false,
and daring them TO attempt to
prove them in an investigation,
which he suggests be made.
There is no likelihood of an in
vestigation, as it is we'll understood
that the statements were made
largely to placate disappointed
constituents who had not been
provided for and who might be
disposed to make trouble in nom
mating conventions.
Gold, like everything else, is
afraid OF this administration. At
least, it gets away from it quite
fast. Notwithstanding the $780,
OO0, 900 III gold received from the
late bond issue. the gold in the
treasury is today below $SO,OOO,-
900, and, according to the opinion
of many of the shrewdest OBJ
servers i'll congress, including