The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-05-30
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senator Gray had a consultation with the
! Vlce-president, when the written docu-
ment was first presented to him and eX-
plained that it was to be issued when
: the Senate authorized it.
! AT the conclusion OF the reading OF the
report OF investigation committee discus
/ sion was renewed as to whether or not
II was a privileged one. Mr.. Hill said
the matter of speculation in sugar stock
would not involve any enhancement OF
Senator Lodge said this was a question
OF general parliamentary law. The re-
port OF contumacy of a witness was
thing before the Senate was for the chair
to decide whether the matter was pri-
vate. Vice-president Stevenson ruled that
/ 1t was a privileged report. The effect OF
the decision would be to shut off debate
on the report.
Mr.. Hill appealed from the decision of
the chair, and asked to be heard. He
made vigorous speech against the de-
| cision.
The "COnfdentiaT' Fake.
In the report of Mr. Edwards testi-
mony, which is not quoted specifically 70
the committee, but has been printed by
the committee, the part of his letter re-
ferring to the presidents alleged inter
est in the Hawaiian question, sugar IN
terest is given. Referring to this matter,
Mr.. Edwards said in September of last
year, he met a gentleman who spoke
i to me about an article / had written con-
corning an operation on Mr.. Cleveland,
which operation had taken place some
where on Benedict's yacht. This gentle
man said to me- AS important as the
news is, there is something much more
important to this country than the fatal
disease is now becoming l asked him
if it was something that he could give
me. He said not then, as he was under
confidence. Later, when he had the IN
formation that an attempt had ,been
made to restore the queen of Hawai- ana
it failed, the gentleman stated tnat was
h ah Ia had
recollection is that he either told me II
was on Mr.. Benedicts yacht, at some re
sort, or pleasure excursion OF some klno-
Mr.. Havemeyer, NJ. Benedict Mr.. GIeve-
land and some others were present. There
had been a general conversation aoouI
Hawaiian island sugar interests, ana l
think Mr.. Havemeyer, at all j, events lI3,,I ~
be a sensation in the country before Con
greSS met"
The Chairman-Who said it?
Mr.. EdwardS-Either Havemeyer, MT.
Benedict or some one in the party sald II
would be found there was peace in Ha-
wall and the queen would be restored.
This gentleman was Colonel w. II.
Hoyt of Greenwich. He had been
speaker at the Connecticut Legislature.
Mr.. Edwards said he had not talked
with Colonel Hoyt since, but had Wrltt o.Il
dead. Mr.. Edwards said Col Royt dld
not tell him where he got information,
but his impression was that he mad got
Mr. Edwards admitted that some OF
the conclusions were his own and mere
conjectural.
1T Was Somebody.
Mr.. Edwards stated that it was a mat
ter of common report that stephen 3.
Elkins was interested in the sugar trust,
and that he and Senator German, pelnS
related by marriage, had very great Dusi-
ness interests in common. Also, tnal II
was common report that Senator Brice
was closely related to II. l.. Terrell, OF
the sugar trust. Mr.. Edwards couId no. 10
recollect from whom he had received Ine
information that S0OO,OOO had peen . COL
tributed to the campaign fund by persons
connected with the trust. He had h 37a
that Cord Meyer, jr.. said at the Man an
haitian club that the trust owned f tne
{ Senate, and that Mr.. Meyer was a ire
ouent visitor of Secretary Lamont IL
was common report Edwards sald, tnat
Senator Mcpherson had declared, IN the
! presence of the finance committee, ina
the Democratic party was preparlnSl 10
stab the men who had saved II.
Lies Nailed Down.
Other testimony presented with the
report. besides that of the newspaper
correspondents, was that OF K A car
lferv. Bourke Cochran, and ex-Repre-
Esenta tive Benjamin Lefevre- senator
Gallery denied that he had any confer.
Lence with Havemeyer or with any Oh
the trust, and that when he wrote the
over his shoulder
Mr.. Caffery said he had met Have
meyer one day going out OF the Capltol,
and was introduced to him, and had
had one conference with him, winch
was held two or three weeks before the
finance committee reported the sugar
schedule That conference was held at
Senator Brice's house.
81 was asked" he said, Ito see Mr..
IHavemeyer. He commenced an arSu-
Iment in FAVOR of the ad valorem rate
on sugar in preference to the specific
rate, and a number Of hgures were
presented to show or attempt to snow,
the correctness of his argument"
In reply to a question as to whether
there had been other senators present
at Senator Brice's house when he met
Mr.. Havemeyer, he said there were
several present, among them Senator
White, of Louisiana, and Senator Hill,
and his recollection was that Senator
German had also been present, but Mr.
lHavemeyer did not meet any Of the
gentlemen but himself.
Ex-Representative Leftover denied the
statement in Mr.. Edwards letter con-
corning the Sunday meeting in the cap
litol He said he had not been in the
employ of the sugar trust and had not
been at the capitol with any of its
members.
During the course of his testimony
Mr.. Walker stated he had mentioned
Joe Kicker as a go-between Senator
Vest and the sugar trust.
Il have SEEM he said, Joe Hickey
with Mr.. Vest and in a little while go
with Mr.. Reed or Mr.. Terrell and get
in a quiet spot and talk
He had, however, only once seen
Hickey with Mr.. Vest, and on that &C.
casion he had seen him within an hour
in converse ton with Mr.. Terrell. He
had also seen hickey around the finance
committee members.
Bourke Cochran said Walker had
asked him, upon one occasion, whether
The was the attorney for the sugar
trust, and he told him that he had new
Ter been the attorney for that organi-
Ezation, that he had declined to repre-
sent the trust In the courts in New
York in 1886 or 1887. He also denied
having told Walker that he favored a