The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-05-31
FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
HAWAIIAN INTERFERENCE ONCE
MORE BEFORE THE SENATE.
Sugar Trust Investigating Committee
Report That the Newspaper Cores
pondents Will Not Testify,
and Suggest Imprisonment.
THE SENATE.

THE SENATE.
WASHINGTON, May 29.-The right
\ of newspaper correspondents to refuse
! to give Senator Gray's bribery and
sugar investigating committee the
sources of their information was
brought before the senate in the shape
of a report from that committee.
In the morning hour Senator Kyle,
Populist, of South Dakota, in order to
avoid further conflict over the passage
of a resolution declaring the sense of
the senate against non.interference
with the affairs of the Hawaiian
islands, agreed to waive a vote on his
resolution if q vote could be secured
on the Turpie resolution reported
from the committee on foreign rela-
tious.
Senator Vest, Democrat, of Mis-
souri,, offered as substitute for the
Turpie resolution one declaring that
from the facts and papers before the
senate it would be unwise and mex
pedient to consider more of annexa-
ton: that the highest international
interests require that the people OF the
Sandwich islands should choose their
own form of government and line Of
policy and that foreign interference
with the affairs of these Islands would
be regarded as an act unfriendly TO
the United States.
A motion by Senator HOar to lay
the Vest amendment upon the table
was defeated, Is yeas to % noes.
The tariff bill was taken up and
Senator Proctor of Vermont addressed
the senate in opposition. Senator
Pettigrew of South Dakota followed,
speaking at considerable length, also
in opposition to the bill.
Senator Gray, at the close of a
speech on the tariff by Senator Petit
grew today, presented to the senate
the report of the committee delegated
to investigate the charges of impro-
priety in the framing of the sugar
( schedule. The report, after reciting
v the resolution by which the commit
tee was authorized to sit, states that
E j. Edwards, whose Holland letter
was one of the causes of this investi-
cation. had refused to reply to ques-
tiOns by the committee.
The chairman read to him that por.
ton of his letter in which he stated
that Secretary Carlisle had told the
Democratic members of the finance
committee and had demanded that
the sugar trust be taken care of be-
cause the Democratic party was
under obligations to that trust.
When the part of this paragraph
was reached in which Mr.. Edwards
had said that what Mr., Carlisle had
said was quoted from remembrance"
Senator Gray, chairman Of the COM
mit:ee. said: "You say from remem
brance, is it yours ?" To which Mr.
Edwards replied: partly mine and
partly my informants."
The chairman said: "You mean to
say that you heard Mr.. Carlisle?
Mr.. Edwards mo"
The chairman-"You say what he
said is quoted from remembrance"
"a Mr.. Edwards-"My rembrance of
r what my informant said"
The chairman-"Who was your in
formant?"
Mr.. Edwards-"ThaG 1 shall decline
to answer. do it with the utmost re-
spect to the committee and senate
The information was given to me IN
highest confidence by the one who en-.
tailed that obligation, so do not feel
at liberty to reveal his name"
After the above detailed pro-
ceeding were had the witness
requested time in which to consult
counsel, which request was granted
The following day, the 25th OF May,
Mr.. Edwards reported before the sem
ate committee, accompanied by his
counsel, when the committee, through
their chairman. propounded to the
witness the question: "NoW, Mr.
Edwards, when you left the room on
yesterday it was for the purpose OF
consulting your counsel and making
up your mind, as having consulted
!, him whether you would answer the
I question that was propounded by the
/, committee, which question was yours:
f~sWho gave you the information upon
which you made the statement that
the secretary Of the treasury, Mr.,
Carlisle, made q secret visit to the
Democratic members of the finance
committee some time in Febru-
ary, and while there made
certain appeal to them" The
question is now repeated"