Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-06-02

Washington, May 28, I8o4.-Does
the sticky trail Of the sugar scandal
lead to the White House? State
ments made BY Democrats, mind you,
not Republicans first indicated that it
did and the action of the investigating
committee. in pretending to be great
ly exercised because three newspaper
correspondents-one 0 fthem a Demo-
crat. and Senator Murphy's private
secretary-have declined to give the
names OF their informants, has not
weakened the indications. The com
mittee may be perfectly honest in its
attempt to make the correspondents
tell the names of their informants, but
experience should warn them of the
time they III wasting. There is
probably not a newspaper correspon-
dent in Washington who would not
go to Jail and stay there rather than
to tell the name ofany man who had
given him information in confidence
and nobody knows this any bet
ter than the Senators on this commit
tee; hence the belief that they are
merely using the correspondents in
making a play for time, instead Of
asking the me whose names have
been directly connected with the scan
dial for the information that will es-
tablish the truth or falsity Of the
charge that the sugar trust dictated
the sugar schedule of the tariff bill.
The present. actions of the committee
confirm the impression of those who
predicted from the first that the whole
investigation would be as great a
fizzle as that part of it which dealt
with the alleged attempt to bride
Senators.
Several votes in the Senate having
demonstrated that the last bargain
took in all of the Democrats, 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 al
though not yet certain, that the Re-
publicans will in a 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
reason set forth above it will hardly
succeed.
Civil Service Commissioner Roose-
welt has got his fighting blood up.
During the debate which preceded
the Democratic attempt to drop the
appropriation for the Civil Service
Commission, Representatives, Pendle-
ton, Of West Va; Enloe, of Tennessee
and Stockdale and Williams, of Mis-
sissippi, made statements rejecting
upon the integrity Of the commission,
and accusing it of always favoring Re-
publicans. Mr.. Roosevelt sent a com
munication to Representative De-
Forest, chairman of the House COM
mittee on Reform in the Civil Service,
branding each and every statement
made by the four Representatives as
unqualifedly false. and daring them
to attempt to prove them in an inves-
tigation, which he suggests be made.
There is no likelihood of an investi-
cation, as it is well 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
nominating conventions.
Gold, like everything else, is afraid
of this administration. At least, it
gets away from it quite fast. Not
withstanding the $50, 900, 900, in gold
received from the late bond issue
the gold in the Treasury is today be
low $50, 900, 900, and according to the
opinion Of many of the shrewdest OBJ
servers in Congress, including friends
a we'll as enemies of the administra-
ton another bond issue is only a ques-
ton of time, and if there is not a de-
cided '.let up" in the drain on the
Treasury it will be a very short time.
All of the prophecies of Mr.. Cleveland
and Secretary Carlisle concerning the
return of gold from Europe have
proven false. Should the tariff bill
become a law BY the first of uly;which
the Democrats claim, but the Repub-
licans do not concede, there will be an
immediate and immense drain on the
remaining gold in the T~reasury,a as the
importers will want it to send to Eu-
rope to pay for the goods which Euro
PSdu hidhuidStuiSo nave pSCH PiilHS
up to flood the American market with
as soon as the Democratic tariff goes
into effect. Secretary Carlisle is do
ing absolutely nothing to protect the
gold in the Treasury, although his
experience in placing the last bonds
ought to have warned him of the diff.
Guilty he may have in floating another
issue of bonds at the same rate. A
Democratic Senator was heard to ex-
press the opinion that the administfa-
ton could not place another issue of
bonds for less than four per cent. 1t
was never more apparent than now
that Secretary Carlisle is not a fnan-
cier.
If there were no such thing as treaty
obligations the bill fathered by Repre-
sentative Bryan, ofNebraska. provid ng
for the issuing of $40, 900, 900 of
greenbacks, to be used by the govern
ment in purchasing a controlling in
terest in the Nicaragua Canal and in
building the same, now before the
House Commerce committee, might
be more seriouly considered than it is.
The long deferred fight over the re-
peal of the State-bank currency tax