Connecticut western news., 1894-06-07
PROBING A TRUST.
THE sENATE's SUGAR INVESTIGATING
 COMMITTEE REPORTS.

Secretary Carlisle and the Senators of the
 Finance Committee Tell About the Fram-
 Saw Some or Them.
 WASHINGTON, June 5.-The testimony of Secretary Carlisle and that of the sen. ntors which was given bCforc the Sugar trust investigation committee was pre- sentcd to the senate.
 Secretary Carlisle In hls testimony does not aRr,c with Senator Jones as Co the t.mo and place that he (Carllslcl was asked to put the sugar s edule Into shape Mir Carlisle stated VI Mir Jones had re- quested him to have tho sugar schedule prpnrcd the morning of May : and had come to his house for that purpose and had handed him n memorandum stating what he wanted done. llo had agreed to do this, as the service was one that the treaSItfy department was i'm the habit of renderihg tho members of the finance committee After he went to his offioo he dictated the schedule providing for tho al yalorem duty of 70 per cont and the additional one-eighth of a cont on sugars above No. 10 Dutch standard.
 Senator Jones of Arkansas was especial ly questioned about Secretary Carlisle's agency In tho preparation of the sugar schedule. He said that he and Senator Vest met Mir. Carlisle incidentally at tho room of the senate committee on appropri- ations the day before the last amended tariff bill was introduced, and he asked Mir. Ca N le to prepare the schedule, just as he would have asked the clerk of the committee to do It. because ho had tho facts at his command. We had made up our minds, said MT. Jones, that we were going to prepare a 70 per cent sched. ule, and when this proposition was made proposed to MT. Carlisle to draw up the amendment. My reoolleotion is that first asked Mir. Carlisle to write that schcd- ple one way, either for 70 or 4b or 70 Is. aftcrward asked him Co write it tho oth- CT way. do not remember exactly when asked him, but my recollection is that he made that change from one to the oth. CT. That is the schedule talked about here. think that was dono. The change was made at my request If there was one made l think there was n change made at my request.
 Senator Vests Testimony.
 Senator Vest said that Mir. Carlisle was in the committee room from timo to time and consulted with tho members of the
 
 he expressed great am nxicty that the com mitteo should agrce upon somo measure and that 1t should become n law, but he made no statement about party obligations to the Sugar trust Mir. Vest said he had an indistinct recollection of Mir. Carlisle drawing up n provision In regard to sugar, but he did not know who received it, nor did ho know that he had ever soen it. At any ratc 1t was not tho schedule that was adopted, and If he did prepare a schedule his preparation of it had no connection with the reported scene In the committee room, which never occurred
 Hc pronounced as "a lie mado out of whole cloth" the story that he had chang ed front on sugar and hnd said that ho would be compelled to cease aasociating with Joe Hickey because of the suspicion which might be aroused by tho fact that Hickey was a spcoulator II was for free sugar he said, but was finally com pellcd to favor 1 cent apound on raw sug ar and no duty on refined sugar and no ad valorem -
 MT. Vest said that while tho bin was in committee Mir. Hayemeyer had come to his house, and had brought him sample& and had spread tholn out, and had ex- pIained tho difference between tho nd va lorem and specific systems, but thcre was no scorocy or conccalment about his visit.
 He had come as any other manufao- turer would and had made an argument for what he wanted. Delegations ropro- sonting the Louisiana interest had also called on him.
 Closing his testiomny, Mir. Vest said; "I have never used my official position for private purposes Any statement that l have Is absolutely false, as Is also any statement that ever gave any inforlnn- tion or had any connection with the SnR- ar trust-that is also absolutely false. If anybody can make the denial broader I wish he would do 90.
 Senator Harris testimony consisted af a general and specific denial of all tho allegations upon which the investigation is based. He had never, he said, heard of the reported secret visit of SecrctAry Car. lisle to the finance oommittee or of any suggestions he had made with regard to n sugar bounty. He also stated that he had never invested in stocks of any kind. and if other senators had bought sugar stocks he was unaware of the fact.