The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-05-30

WASHINGTON, D. G., May Ex-senator
gray, chairman Of tho soloct committee
10 Investigate the alleged operations Of
the sugar trust in connection with the
tafil legislation, to-day submitted O
partial report Of tho proceedings Of tina,
committee, bearing upon tho refusal OIL
'honowspapcrcor correspondents Edwards,
shriver and Walker; to answer quos.
lions propouudcd by members OF the
committee. Tho report, altor r%Uciting
tho resolution by which tho committee
was authorized to sit. states that Z. J.
Edwards, whose remarkable Holland
letter was II OF the melting causes Of
this Investigation, had refused to reply
TO questions by tho committee.
Tho chairman read toiiim the portion
oil his letter In which he stated that
Secretary Cnrlielc hRd secretly visited
the Democratic members OF the finance
committee. and had demanded that the
sugar interest be taken care oil, because
tho Democratic party was under obliga.
tions 10 that interest.
Whom this part Of tho paragraph was
reached In which Mr.. Edwards had said
that what Mr.. Carlisle had said was
quoted from remembrance" Senator
Gray, chairman OF the committee, said
You say from remembrance. Is it
yours ?" to which MIR. Edwards replied
Partly mine, aud partly my inform.
ants"
Tho Chalrman-You mean 10 say that
you heard Mr.. Carlisle?
Mr.. Edwards-No.
Tho Chairluan-You gay what he said
is quoted from remembrance?
MIR. Edwards-My remembrance Of
what my informant said.
The Chairman-Who was your in.
formant?
Mr.. Edwards-That, I suppose, I shall
have to decline to answer. / do it with
the utmost respect to tho committee
and the senate. Tho information was
given to me under obligations OF the
highest confidence by the ono who en-
tailed that obligation, 30 that I do not
!eel at liberty to reveal his name.
Aftor tho above detailed proceedings
were had the witness requested tune in
which to consult counsel. which re-
quest was granted. The following day,
on the 25th OF May. Edwards reappoar-
cd before tho committee accompanied
by his counsel, when the committee
through their chairman ~propoundod to
tho 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 after having con-
eulting him whether you would answer
the question that was propounded TO
you by tho committee, which question
was who gave you the information
upon which you made the statement
that the secretary OF the treasury, Mr..
Carlisle, made n secret visit to Demo-
cratic members OF tho finance commit
tee some time in February, and while
there made q certain appeal TO them
The question is now repeated"
Whorcupon tho witness by his coun-
sci filed his objections to answering the
questions which have heretofore been
given to the public. The several OBJ
jections wore overruled. Tho report
then gives in detail tho various quos-
tions asked OF Mr.. Edwards and which
he declined to answer They included
the question about Mr.. Carlisle; also re-
gnrding the informant MS to tho meet
ing OF senators in a Washington hotel
with representatives, OF tho sugar trust;
ulso tho statement that tho sugar
schedules were in tho hands OF Moore
& Schley, brokers, before being reported
TO the senate, and also as to the state
ment that the Sunday before tho tariff
bill was reported there had boen n del
cgation OF sugar trust representatives At
the capitol who dictated tho sugar
schedule. TO each OF these questions
Edwards said tho Same person gavo him
the information and declined TO give
his name.
The report next citea tho examinn-
ton OF John S. Shriver, another Wash
ington correspondent, who. or being
shown a copy Of the dispatch to his
paper on the 10Th instant, rotating to
the particulars Of an alleged conference
ono night while the tariff bill was in
committee at the Arlington liotcl, be.
tween certain senators and mombors OF
tho sugar trust, which had been over.
heard by w!ro manufacturer occupy
ing an adjoining room, admitted having
sent tho dispatch to the paper. but re.
fused to give. tho naine OF his informant
or tho manufacturer. The committee
dwelt upon one paragraph from NJ.
Shriyor's article rcadinc as follows:
"1ncrc aro q number OF senators who
will be glad il this Investigation should
fail, simply because thon they could
charge the correspondents with circu'
latine %scandalous reports and have an'
other chance to denouaco tho press
upon tho floor OF. the senate. But II
tho newspaper men arc given Il chance
to tell all they know somo interesting
developments will DO made"
Mr.. Shrivor would not say moro. how
over. in response to the committees
urrinr than that no Ind received HIS
information in confidence.
Alter these proceedings Mr.. Shriver
reuuestcd timo in which to consult
counsel. The next day he r%eappearcd
Detorc inc Coul'htNtSc NHu
TINT he had consulted Il lawyer and adj
bered to his decision not to reveal tho
name OF liia informant. The recon'
m~endation OF tho committee lie as fol.
lows: an tho opinion OF tho committee
each Of the questions put to eac! OF said
witnesses was n proper question anu
pertinent to tho question under in'
Guiry before tho committee and was
NECESSARY 70 the examination ordered
by said resolution OF the senate, and
lint each OF said witnesses is in con
tom D, OF tho senate and ought to. Dc
deal, with Tor his misconduct, and that