The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-03-12
Senator's Table Senator Pefer's S
Resolution 33 to p.
Nobody Would Go in the Cage
With the Animal.
ARE SOME GUILTY 2
Else Why Isn't the Sugar Story
Investigated? ?
ar Trust Paying for Cham
payne for Senators.

wAsHrseroN. March 12-The senate
by a vote of BIS go ", today laid upon the
table Senator PETERS resolution calling
for an Investigation of the statement that
senators had been interested pecuniarily
10 sugar speculation pending action on
the tariff bih
Duigant inquiry fails to discover any
senator who 1Eas prepared TO oppose the
PETER resolution in speech. Nobody
wants to talk against it, In the language
Of Z prominent western senator, who ap-
proves Ar PETERS action, IN obody
wants to 70 into the cage with that ami
mall At is the unanimous opinion in
the senate that The PETER resolution is
loaded
The stories that senators have specu-
lated in sugar have stimulated gossip
here until many sensational rumors are
ahoat to the effect that the trust has not
limited its agents here to giving friendly
senators lips az to which way the market
would 60 on given report from the
finance committee but has actually dis
hursed large sums ia "greasing the
wheels of legislation.
These reports probably lack even the
himsiest foundation and rest merely On
the well known fact that the trust has
been under an enormous expense in
maintaining its agents here. Every
body about the capitol knows that
senate the profits of the house and senate
restaurants have been nearly doubled.
The lobby lis renowned as a great wine
opener and the popping of champagne
corks has lent AN accustomed but pleas
ing staccat0 to the hum Of conversation
in the cafes al lunch hour Usually sem
ators and represe entatives buy very little
wine. The congressional s'cold tea' am
swerlng au practical purposes, besides
being cheaper
Some IF Senator Brices friends here
are indusriously circulating report TO
the effect that he was badly squeezed"
in the sugar market instead of having
made the large profits which il is com
monty believed lie rakel in on the big
rise in sugar. The idea of the friends Of
tha senator's appears % be that It is no
sin to speculate on inside official knoWl-
edge Of legislation, provided you lose lit
IS only wrong to win. Senator McPher-
sons apol0gIsts lave all pointed to the
fact that de sold his sugar stock at loss.
fact which ought. II IS claimed to take
out All the sting But how Senator Brice
managed to get squeezed on rising
market when, as everybody here be-
lieves. he was buying steadily, is a mys-
terry nobody here attempts to solve.
The Capital, the local society paper
which week ago published some gos-
ators- has some further reference to the
reports in todays issue. lit says. sit
has been continual triumph of sugar
in thc senate fnance committee and
the other DemOcratic councils ia Wall
street and ia the stock jcbbing opera
tions of prominent persons here in w ash
ington. The sugar trust people have
proceeded on the supp0sition that
they had sure thing. Whether
their friends in the senate fought
Htra agiy enough to keep the
duty on OF whether they hoped to defeat
the tariff bill entirely, (Which would con-
nnue the Mckinley state of affairs Of
course.l. they knew that they would be
protected. and If this protection Is worth
@l5.uQ0.Ouo year, they could well afford
3 spend some money perpetuating the
duty. have heard II said by gentle
IMAM familiar with such affairs that a
good pugnacious senator has easily been
worth S25o000 to the trust and that the
sugar people might Well afford to
spend million and half for a
good serviceable job lot Of six. AS
limited last week slIgar began moving in
M All street Immediately after Senator
Brice visit to the metropolis, which visit.
however, might not have been the cause
cf the movement It has kept going up
and the insiders have kept holding and
now, as the senate finance committee
report comes cut. the duty looms up all
right One senator is said to have adj
mitted that he made $6S, 100 la Sugar ia
two hours. Two hours IS often long
enough. Il this sort of thing goes on
much longer the Wall street brokers must
rna e special wire into the Senate caucus.