The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-03-20
CAPITALOF THE NATION
SENATOR PEPPER WANTS TO JNVES-
TIGATE THE SENATOR'S.
The Republicans EDdeavoring to Get the
Democrats to Make Changes In the
Tariff, But Have Failed.

Washington March 12-(Special )-Sena-
ter PETERS resolution to investigate the
charge that senators speculated on sugar
was buried today. The senate tabled it by
q vote of SO to y. Thus there Will De no
Investigation, and why should there De
one? 1t would develop nothing; not that
many senators have not been SAFEGUARDING
~ sugar and other things, but senators
don't speculate in their own names. lhey
have brokers and friends to do that, ana
neither their brokers nor their frlenus Wouiu
tell anything.
Mr. PETER was very anxious to get up
this investigation and this resolution "ouiu
probably have been adopted but 1or
speech by Senator German against H. MI.
German Indignantly repealed the chai sco
that have been made against the senate
and characterized the effort to bring apout
an investigation an effort to uelay diu
embarrass tariff legislation. Senator ror-
mans speech defeated the resolution II
will be noticed from the vote that AL the
senators whose names have peei coiiec'e"
with speculation voted for the lnVeStlsa-
tion while others voted against II. All
the members of the finance committee Voteo
for the resolution but it was de1edttu, 50
The matter ends unless the mousse shoulu
take it up. There are some lneilipe f VIZ
want 10 DO it. but the great mass OF mousse
members hold that the house mas iiothuS
whatever to do with it, and even IL IL dlo
and had the investigation, 1t would ohly pe
another farce. Neither of the Georgia SeHa-
tors voted today.
Atlanta Has Been Recommended.
General Schofield was seen today in re-
gard 10 the report that he intended recon-
Iuending consolidating the army department
in Texas with the proposed department in
Atlanta, to be 6oWn as the military depart
ment of the south The combined heau-
quarters to DE located somewhere pc
tween Texas and Georgia; He denied the
rtmor and said that he had even heard that
some officers credited it. The area is too
great for it to be considered for moment.
The department will be kept in Texas I'M
der anv circumstances and what ever hap
pens. but it is of equal Importance almost
that another department be established
farther east and Georgia is the place for
IL and Atlanta has been recommended.
rhe Tariff lii Not Reported.
Washington, March 13.-(Speclal)-Ihe
tariff bill has not yet been reported to the
senate by the finance committee.
1t is being considered by the full COM
r1ittee and the republicans are endeaVorinS
to persuade the democrats to make changes
Up to date none have been made, but the
republicans are managing TO delay thlnSa.
Just when the bill will be reported no
one knows, but perhaps not later than next
week.
ii has been discovered since the senate
committee put a duty on sugar that l., an m,
this effective. Under the reciprocity clause
of the Mckinley bill. President Harrison
anu several South American countries by
which their productions of sugar should be
admitted free.
These treaties will have to be abrogated
OF else the sugar duties in the new bill
will amount to nothing.
Nobody seems to have thought OF thls
until today. If the bill should finally be
come d law with Il duty on sugar, IL VIII
be necessary for the president to be given
authority fv congress to abrogate these
treaties else the duty on sugar viii
amount to nothing.
Interest There in Georgia Politics.
There is all sorts of gossip in Washing
HOxp Smiths return
about the political situation i'll Georgia.
OF course everybody knows, the able
and powerful secretary of the interior, who
has been irreVerently termed the "enfant
terrible" of the cabinet, has great ambi-
ton TO control the political affairs of his
state. And naturally, too. \ cabinet officer
IS always considered man powerful
enough at home to have his home folks
adopt ali his suggestions. The interior de
Dartment has no offices III Georgia, and it
cant have the pull there it has in western
Bu, nevertheless, Colonel Hoke wants
administration men to fill all the
offices to which men must be elected this
fall. Particularly he wants Georgia to have
two administration senator's. 1t has but
one now. If an administration man-an an
u-SilVer mans elected 10 succeed senator
Colquitt. then Secretary Smith will have
done his work we'll.
RumOr among CieOrgianS here says that
Secretary HOke has been nursing the Henry
q. Turner boom and wants him to run as
the adminiStrat ton candidate But Mr..
Turner knows too much to run that
platform. 1t is true he partially aided the
administration in ITS fight to repeal the
Sherman law but Mr.. Turner says he is a
silver man and it it not probable that he
will weight himself down with the admin
istratiOn collar in his contest for the SEN
ate.
The Senators DO Not Agree.
Washington, March 15.-The executive
seseiOn of the senate today developed n diff
5erence of opinion between Senators Cali
and Pasco of Florida to the propriety
Of confirming the appointment of H. w.
Long to be registrar of the land office at
Gainesville. in that state. Long was APP
pointed at the instance of Mr.. PaSco and
Mr. call objects to his confirmation on the
ground that he is a personal enemy Of his
and raises the point Of the propriety of the
apnointment of a man to office who is per-
eonaIIv obnoxious to one of the sena tors
from the state from which the appointment
IS made The appointment was reached to-
dav. but went over by mutual consent until
Monday.
Crying the Senators.
Washington. ID. c.. March IL Especial. i
The fact that The English house of COM
mons by two majority voted to abolish the
house of lords has caused the senate to be
made much sport of by the average repre-
sentative here. There is talk of abolish