Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-06-21
THE SUGAR INQUEST.
The Examination of Senators in
Alphabetical Order.
winch 1t Is Believed Will Bring Out the
Whole Truth in All Cause.-The Ex-
animation of Senator Brice-
Emphatic Denials.

most direct and, therefore, the most
important branch of the inquiry 1t is
the branch that consists in the exami-
nation of the individual members of
the senatc in alphabetical order as to
their knowledge of or connection with
dealings in sugar stock or the sugar
legislation of the tariff bill The COM
mittee has made excellent progress, ex-
amining each of its five members and
all the senators, with few exceptions,
from A to III inclusive.
Prior to beginning the examination
of their colleagues the members of the
committee heard the testimony of The
odore A Havemeyer, of the American
sugar Refining Co.. but nothing new
was developed from his answers
The examination of senators was
based on number of carefully-pre-
pared questions, so framed that the
committee to a man believe that no
senator who has ever touched sugar
stock or had anything to do with the
members of the trust in connection
with legislation to make even a tech
meal denial or evasive answer of any
sort without putting himself in a
questionable position. These ques-
tions are as follows:
1. Have you been in attendance at
the present session of congress during
the tendency of the tariff bill in the
senate?
q Have you given any information,
directly or indirectly, to anyone inter-
ested in sugar stocks, socalled, or in
the stock of the American Sugar Re-
timing Co., that was intended or calcu-
lated to affect it's value?
3. Have you bought or sold, directly
Or indirectly, since the beginning of
this session of congress, any socalled
sugar stock or stocks, or stock or GER
tifcaIes of the American Sugar Rein
ing Co.?
4. Have you been concerned with
any one interest. direct or indirect,
contingent or otherwise, in any opera
ton, whether by purchase or sale of
said stocks or certificates?
5. Has anyone bought or sold for
your account, or in your interest, any
of such stocks, or specialized in any
such stocks on your account, or given
you to understand that you would
share in the profits of any operation in
such stocks, or placed any money to
your credit as the proceeds of the pur-
-.
ised or agreed to place such money to
your credit?
6. Has any member of your family,
or any person in your employ, or any
clerk employed under the laws of the
United States in your service. been, to
your knowledge, interested, in any of
the ways indicated in any of the pre-
ceding questions, in any transaction
of sugar stocks or certificates during
the period mentioned?
2. Have you, or has any member of
your family, or any such clerk, owned
or held certificates of the American
Sugar Refining Co. during the period
heretofore mentioned?
8. Have you. at any time. been con-
nected with the American Sugar Re-
filming Co., or have you, at any time,
been in its employ as attorney, agent
or otherwise?
The members of the committee
namely, Senators Gray (chairman)
Lindsay, Davis, Lodge and Allen
were examined before the alphabetical
list was begun, and each answered
each question in the negative with the |
exception of the first which from its |
nature required some explanation.
The most interesting if not the most |
important testimony of the day was |
that of Senator Calvin S. Brice. The |
examination of Senator Brice was not |
made on the questions given, because |
other witnesses had brought in his |
name in giving their testimony. Sem
ator Gray read to Mr.. Brice the state
ment of Correspondent Edwards in the |
Philadelphia Press, alleging that SEN
ator Brice was a Spectator in sugar
stocks, and then put this question:
Il ask you, senator, whether this
statement, which means to impute that |
You and others have been enabled to |
accumulate wealth upon the proba BILE
course of legislation, is true, and to |
state what you have to say in regard to |
it?''
Before or since entering the SEN |
ate?" asked Mr.. Brice.
''Since entering the senate?"
s'But l may as wei answer as to the |
whole time, both before or since, ''said |
the Ohio senator, that 1 have never
been concerned in any speculations or
investments or interested in them, the
result of which depended upon legisla-
ton in congress or elsewhere. Since
entering the senate l have not been
concerned in any way, directly or indi-
rectly, in any property, securities,
stocks, investments or speculations in
anything that is mentioned in the
tariff bill, from the first line to
the end of the free list, with
the exception of some local manufac-
turing establishments in Lima and ad-
joining towns in Ohio Nor have
sought to accumulate wealth in any
way by investment or speculation since
I entered the senate, in any of the
things which 1 have mentioned. In
other words my investments and the
things with which am concerned are
not connected with or affected by the
tariff act. except as the general prop
erty of the country is. There is no
truth whatever in it so far as l am con-
cerned.
The Chairman-It is stated in the ar
ticle to which 1 have referred. and it
has been in testimony before the CON-
-mittee. that you were present In the
Arlington hotel in the room of a Mr..
Terrell, with Mr.. Hay emeyer, president
of the American Sugar Refining Co.,
and some other person or persons, at
which time the matter of value of
sugar stock was disc used, and the eff
feet of the tariff legislation upon the
same. and in which the particular
schedule desired by the Sugar trust,
SO called, was considered.
Senator Brice-I was never present