Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-08-24
N INVESTIGATION
...res That Senator's Were Not
financially Influenced.
wards STATED UNTRUTHs

,,s Resolution for an Investiga-
Of the Dominion Coal Company
.he senate-No Testimony to
support Edwards Statements
v,sHNerox, August 4.-Senator
chairman of the Sugar lnvestiga-
committee, presented a report to
senate to-day, and asked that the
smittee be discharged. The main re-
~ signed by all the members of the
.nmittee. Lodge and Davis present a
elementary report, and Allen pre-
h;s own views on some features OF
sn The report recites the facts
y VA have been published as to the re-
snlI" nf Correspondent Edwards to
l'M al onestions. Secretary Carlisle is
liberated. and parts OF the article IN
Is Philadelphia Press rejecting on nm
declared without foundation, except
m s.titi Is fact according to Secretary
1.,EsIe,s testimony he did at the re-
Sas, of Senator Jones draft an amend
to tine sugar schedule. The con
~. of Edwards, says the report, in
luublishing specific charges against pub
fE,men without having personal knowl-
.i,a of facts calls for the serious repro
son of the Senate. The committee
lilo says; .... ..
sued before your committee, ana your
ommittee has been unable to discover
any, tending to show that the sugar
-iednle was made up as it then stood,
he proposed amendment to the tariff
N in consideration OF large or any
ms Of money paid for the campaign
m,noses of the Democratic party. No
illness has testified before your COM
rttpe that such was the fact, and all
4 6p Democratic members Of the Finance
rommittee and all Senators whose
,,mps have been mentioned in the pub
B,fg nress as especially interested in pro-
.dnq the sugar refining industries,
in whose States sugar rehneries
visited have under oath denied that
hey had any knowledge or information
Eptoany sums of money, large or other
Ti@ having been paid for the campaign
purposes of the Democratic party by the
ygsr trust, by those connected with 1t
Nv ANYBODY as a consideration for
hToisble treatment of its interests by
aidprty."
Tbecommittee also reports the sub
stance Of the testimony OF the sugar re-
6Der asserting that the campaign con-
uholnps were made only to the local
Committees and not for the purpose OF
81 hfHHdng national campaigns or for
III Aemrpose of securing or defeating ma
tnN legislation. The report then
mis:
'No other testimony has been offered,
4Egested or discovered which would
End to support the statements OF Ed
& nrds in this regard. Nor is there any
Edence in support OF the statement
that either OF the Messrs. Havemeyel
had any interview with President CleVe'
and on the yacht in the summer OF 1897
q 1898 in regard to sugar, the Hawaiian
Stands or any other sugar interests OF
the policy of the administration in re,
gard to them. On the contrary, it has
been attirmatively shown that the state
Fment is untrue as to any such interview
having occurred. 1t is shown by the
n N'iuNliNO lildb OIC vi ll1OlC OlhbtiC VI YIN
sugar trust were in Washington, and
that they saw several Senators, generally
N9ose representing States in which sugar
were located, with the view Of
X&urlng legislation, but these gentlemen
sly the use of any improper motives
that end. Both the members of the
mst and the Finance Committee denied
Gst any meeting took place between
VEN at the capitol or elsewhere, as was
&ted in the Holland letter to have
aken place, and there is no evidence in
appoft of the statements in this re-
gard"
The committee also unites in saying
la no evidence has been adduced tend,
Eag to show improper conduct on the
Hl OF those engaged in the framing OF
We sugar schedule in the tariff bill, and
wOngly deprecates the pressure to which
congress and its members are subjected
ihe representatives of great indus
as combinations, "whose enormous
Ealh tends to suggest undue influence
'ud to create in the public mind a de-
loIallzing belief in the existence of cor
Rpt politics."
X HaWatfan.