Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-07-27
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WAsHISGToN, July 26.-While the
Senate sugar investigation committee
has not completed its work nor made
any report, it can be stated with posi-
tiveness that the members have learned
enough TO convince them that the news
paper stories charging Senator Camden
with having specuated in Sugar Trust
stock were made up Of the vaguest hear
say that was ever used as basis for an
attack on the character of a public man.
The slight Importance which the In
vestigating committee attached 10 the
stories is shown by the fact that 1t
never thought 1t worth while TO recall
Senator Camden as witness in the mat
ter, although he was anxious to appear
aud meet the charges, II they were ever
put in sufficiently tangible shape to be
met and refuted In detail.
1t appears that the man who origi-
nally made the charges and claimed to
have had in his possession an order
from the Senator TO buy sugar stock,
was formerly employed as sort Of
"tout" in brokers' Office here.
The man bore anything but savory
reputation and it is said before hedts-
appeared from Washington, he issued a
number OF checks on which the holders
have not been able TO collect the money
because there was no money In the
banks on which they were drawn, 10
meet them.
THE MEN WHO HOLD THESE CHECKS
are very anxious to have the missing
man return 20 Washington. II he does,
they promise 20 see that he is provided
with an extra new suit OF striped cloth
ing.
The investigating committee have un-
earthed very interesting story of the
manner in which this bucket shop tool
worked up susinesS fOf his seinpioeers.
II appears he was given commission
on all the orders to buy or sell stock
which he brought it.
During the excitement about the
sugar tariff, when there was rage for
tips" from the Senate for use in Wall
street speculation, this man would ap.
proach spectators and tell them that
Senator So-andSo bad just given an or
der to buy or sell 500 or !, 200 shares Of
sugar stock. He would then point out
to his intended victim that Senator So
and-So ought TO know what he was do
ing and big money was to be made by
following the Senator's example.
In this way the tout" would get an
order on which the brokers who en-
ployed him paid him a commission.
Sometimes when dealing with wary
Spectators, the "tout" would, it is said,
go further and write out bogus order
TO buy or sell stock, signing to it the
NAME OF SOME PUBLIC MAN,
preferably the name of a Senator re-
puted TO be wealthy. These false orders
he would show 10 hisvictims 10 convince
them that what be said was true and 10
induce them 10 give him orders to buy
or sell stock. There is little doubt that
the alleged order by Senator Camden
was gotten up in this way, aud
was Intended 10 be used only as
a decoy to get business for the
"tout." The latter probably never
dreamed that this sort of game he was
playing was a species OF forgery which
might send him to the peuitentiary,
When the sugar investigation came
on and he discovered where the posses.
sion OF these fake orders might land
him, he disappeared, and the men into
whose possession some OF the orders fell,
suspecting their real nature, destroyed
them. These are the inside facts, ii
appears, as far as the investigators have
han hla IN oct an them.