Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-06-09
AND STILL THEY TALK.
Henderson Reproves BIanchard-Ex.
Speaker Reed on Silver.
IRON our reguIar Correspondents

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Speaker Reed on Silver.
from our regniar correspondent
WASHINGTON. June 4. ISo4.-The
Democratic Senators already deeply
regret having allowed the two news
paper correspondents who declined to
tell the sources Of the information they
published in connection with the su-
gar-trust scandal. to even stand a
chance of being indicted by the grand
ury. The correspondents would like
nothing better than a trial in court,
which must follow iftfiey are indicted
as it would enable them to have wit
nesses called and made to talk who
would make it plain that charges re-
presented only a small part of the
~crooledness which has been going on
among Democrats, and who will new
er be called by the investigating COM
mittee and some of whom would re-
fuse to answer questions for the COM
mittee if they were called.
Even with the easy methods of the
the investigating committee, which
seems to be largely dependent upon
volunteer testimony, the substantial
facts in the charges made blythe news
paper men have been shown to be
true. Notwithstanding the copious
explanations with which the admis-
sions were accompanied, there is no
getting around the fact that Senator
Mcpherson. of New Jersey, speculated
in sugar stock and made money out
of it; o that the sugar schedule in
the present tariff bill was mostly
written by Secretary Carlisle. These
facts as we'll as that heavy Democrat
ic influence was brought by agents Of
the Sugar Trust 10 bear on Represent
alive Warner, of New York, to make
him stop working to have sugar
put on the free list have been testified
to by the men named. This week
some sensational testimony is expect
ed from the widely advertised wire
manufacturer. Senator Hills reso-
luton for open sessions of the COM
mittee has stirred up the Senators.
1t is not probable that it will be pass
ed. When the Credit Mobilier scan
dial was being investigated, more
than twenty years ago, the Senate
adopted a resolution instructing the
committee. which had been working
behind closed doors. to conduct the
investigation openly, but that is the
only similar case known.
Senator Henderson, of Nebraska,
while making an earnest speech in
favor of the continuation of the sugar
bounty of the Mckinley law, used
language that should be committed
to memory by every member of Con-
gress, and which was all the more
striking because it followed the cring-
ing apology OF Senator Blanchard, of
Louisiana, for supporting the Wilson
bill in the House with its free-sugar
clause, and then after getting in the
Senate demanding protection for SUI
gar as the price of his vote. Senator
Henderson, after expressing the hope
that the selfish protection sentiment
of the Louisiana Senator, which pre-
poses merely to benefit a locality,
would one day grow into a sentiment
broad enough to favor protection tor
industries, said:''I vote here. represent
ing a prairie State, not only for pre-
lection on beet sugar and on the prod
uct5 of the farm, but l vote for pro-
lection to the loom, to the factory, to
the foundry, to the lumberman, and
to the miner. do not represent on
this floor simply a part or the whole
of the State of Nebraska; / I'm a
Senator Of the Uniied States, and
whether l am in the other House as a
Representative, or here as a Senator,
no pent-ur Utica, like District or like
State, can contract my legislative
powers"
Democrats are pretending to be
very much surprised because of X
Speaker Reeds assertion that silver
and the tariff are questions which
ought to be settled together, but there
is no occasion for surprise, as the sarne
idea has been advanced by prominent
Republicans before now. 1t is we'll
known that it was entertained by the
late James 6. Blaine, and that
it was included in the results he
expected from his reciprocity policy.
Senator Lodge i'll a strong speech
against the tariff bill took the ground
that the two questions were closely
allied, and Senators Cameron and Pet
tigrew have also referred to the mat
ter in their tariff speeches. So it is
nonsense to pretend that Mr.. Reed
has made a new departure to please
anybody. He is travelling in good
Republican footprints, as he usually
does.
The Democratic Senators will be on
pins and needles until they see the
sugar schedule of the tariff bill form
ally adopted, and in order to hurry up
the vote Senator Harris has ordered
that the daily sessions be continued
into the night. 1t is probable that a
vote will be reached by the middle
of the week;also, that the schedule
will he adopted, all attempts to
make any serious breaks in the Demo-
cratic line having failed, although
more than half of the Democratic SEN
ators will vote directly against their
persona. opinions when they support
the sugar schedule, but the bargain
has been made and the dose will he