The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1894-08-11
CHARGES ARE FALSE

CHARGES ARE FALSE
MAJORITY REPORT OF THE SUGAR
INVESTIGATORS.
of Bribery and Secretary Carlisle
IL ExOnerated-NO Attempt to Re-
, ward the Trust-Minority report.
Washington, Aug. 3.-SeDator Gray,
chairman of the sugar investigation con,-
nlittee, presented the report of the COM
mittee to the senate to-day and asked
that the committee he discharged. The
main report is signed by all the SEN
ators Of the committee, but Senators
Lodge and Davis present a supplemental
report and Senator Alien also presents
his own views on some features of the
case. The report, which has the ap-
proval of the full committee, recites the
causes which led up to the investiga-
ton, and quotes the article from the
L AlIduclpuld L TESS, Oil WulCA luc CudlS cS
against senators were based. 1t also
recites the facts which have been pub
lished already as to the refusal of the cor
respondent Edwards to answer questions
put by the committee.
Secretary Carlisle is exoneratcd and
the parts Of the article rejecting Oh
him are declared to be without founda-
ton except that it is a fact, according
to Secretary Carlisle testimony, that
lie did, ut the request Of Senator jones,
of the finance committee, draft an
amendment to the sugar schedule, a copy
Of which, as described by Mr.. Carlisle.
is attached as an exhibit to the les-
timOny.'
The conduct If Mr.. Edwards, says
the report, in publishing specific charges
against pubic men without having PR
stnal knowledge of the facts, calls for
the ST ricus ~rcprobation of the sen,te.
The committee also says:
There has been no testimony presented
tefOre yOnr committee, and Your commit
tee has been unable to di cover any tend
ing to show that the sugar schedule was
made up, as it then stood in the pro-
posed amendment to the tariff bill, in
consideration of any SUM of money paid
for c:,mI.aign purposes of the Democratic
party"
The committee also reports the subject
Of the campaign cor tributions We're
made only to the local committees and
not for the purpose of infuencir G na-
,;onal campaigns or for the purpose IF
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 statement of Edwards in this regard.
Nor is there. they say, my evidence in
support of the statement that either of
the Messrs. Havemeyer had an interview
with President Cleveland on a yacht in
the summer of 1892, in regard to the
sugar interests of the Hawaiian islands
or any other sugar interests or the policy
of the administration in regard to them.
On the contrary, it has been affirm
atively shown, they say, that the state
ment is untrue as to my such interview
having occurred.
1t is, they say, in evidence that one or
more officers of the sugar trust were i'll
Washington, and that they saw several
senator's generally those representing
states in which sugar refneries were
located, with the view of influencing
legislation, but these gentlemen deny the
use of any improper means to that end.
Both the members of the trust and the
finance comsSittee deny that any meet
ing took place in the capitol, or anywhere
else.
The report concludes by saying that no
evidence has been adduced tending to
show improper conduct on the part of
these engaged in the framing of the sugar
schedule of the tariff bill.
Though, perhaps, outside the scope of
the duty imposed upon your committee"
they say, they take occasion to strongly
deprecate the importantly and pressure to
which congress and it's members are sub
jected by the representatives OF great
industrial combinations, whose enormous
wealth tempts to undue influence and to
create in the public mind a demoralizing
belief in the existence of corrupt politics."
The committee reports in the negative
upon the question: whether any SEN
| mtor has been specializing in sugar stocks
Turing the consideration Of the tariff
BILL
As to tile latter part of the inquiry
which brought out a photographic copy to
buy sugar stocks, dated March 2, and
supporting to be signed by Senator Cam
den, the committee gives credence to the
| denial Of Senator Camden and says that
Battcrshall, whose testimony was ex-
pected to bear up the inference from the
| photograph copy is a man Of doubtful
character. Senator Smith was also x
onerated from blame. Summing up. the
committee says: mo charge or charges
have been flel before them alleging that
tie action of any senator has been cor
ruptE or Improperly influenced in the
consideration of the tariff bill, and no
attempt has been made to so influenza
legislation"
All the testimony taken by the COM
mittee is submitted as part of the report.
Messrs. Davis and Lodge, Republicans,
submitted Il supplemental report devoted
entirely 70 the subject of the influence of
of lie sugar trust so-aallsl on the making
of the sugar schedule as it now stands in
the tariff hill They say that mo evil
!eace has been submitted to the commit
tee which proves that The Sugar schedule
was mn lie up in order to fulfill oblig,-
| tons to the sugar trust for campaign
contributions hut they consider it their
duty to go into some detail as to the
method employed in making up the sugar
schedule.
1T is admitted" says to support, 'and
it is proved by the sworn testimony of
every witness called, that the present
form of the schedule was that desired by
the representatives, Of the refineries or
the sugar trust"
The three interests concerned in the
sugar schedule are stated to be those
with no local or pecnniary interest who
believed in free sugar, the producers of
raw sugar and the reiners. 1t soon be-