Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-05-18
LOOK DEEPER,
Says Mr.. Hale About the Sugar
Trust Bribery Cases.
People Alarmed and DistrustfuI of
the Senate Tariff Bill.
The Bribery Charges May Be Nothing But a
DeepIaid Democratic Plot.

WASHINGTON, May lin the Senate,
the resolution was sgreed to requesting the
President to enter into negotiations with
European powers with view of establish
ing joint treaty regulations for the prohibi-
tion of the sale of firearms and intoxicants
to natives of the New Hebrides islands.
The Lodge resolution offered yesterday,
for the investigation of the attempted brib-
cry of two senators to vote against the tar
if bill. and of the alleged contribution of
$500 900 to the Democratic national cam
paign fund by the sugar trust, was laid be-
fore the Senate. Several notifications of
the resolutions were suggested and adopted,
until the resolution was read:
Resolved that committee of five sena-
tors be appointed to investigate these
charges and inquire further whether any
| contributions were made by the sugar trust
to any political party for campaign or elect
ion purposes, or to secure or defeat legsla-
tion, and whether has been or is speculatipg
in what are known as sugar stocks during
the consideration of the tariff bill.
Ri ssolved, further, that said committee
be authorized to investigate and report
upon any charges that may be filed before
it, alleging that the action of any senator
was coIruptly or improperly influenced in
the consideration of said bill, or if any at,
tempt was made so to influence legisla-
ton.
Hale said he did not suppose any senator
believed that either the senator from Vir-
ginia or the senator from South Dakota
were improperly approached or Influenced.
He supposed it would be found on investi-
CATION that these reports, these suspicious,
sought to be set afloat, were something in
the nature of blackmail, and they came
from other matters than those which the
committee were to investigate and were
only stirred up for the purpose of calling
away attention. He thought the committee
ought to consider all these other subject
matters most thoroughly, and he hoped Mr.
Lodge would accept any amendments tina,
would enable the committee to go to the
prOfoundest depths. so the country might
have light on what were really the
suspicious and beliefs of the American
people that certain proportions of the tariff
bill were surrounded by and subject to in
huences which alarmed the people and
ould disgrace the Senate if the beliefs
were true.
After discussion of the resolution, as
modified, it was adopted. The tariff bill
was taken up at noon, and Gallinger de-
livered the second part of bis speech 81 ainst
it. When Gallinger concluded the Senate
took up and tnished the chemical schedule
This brought the bill down to the medicinal
preparations Gtem So at which point the
bill ent over until tomorrow.
The naval appropriation bill was pre-
sented and referred to the committee Oh
appropriations.
The Vice-President announced the ap-
pointment of the following select committee
provided for in the Lodge resolution Of
inquiry: Senators Gray, Dem. of Dele
ware; Lindsay, Dem, of Kentut ky
Lodge Rep, of, Massachusetts Davis
Rep, of Minnesota; Allen, Pop
At the usual hour for adjournment, 6 p
NJ, the Republican side of the Senate was
startled by motion made ty Harris that
instead of adjourning till II A. M. tomor-
row, the Senate take a recess un.
til that hour, the object being
to keep the tariff - bill perpe tuall,
before the Senate, to exclusion of morning
business and all other business. Th,
motion was resisted on the Republican side
and met with resort to tilibusteIing. Ii
lasted until 1890. when truce was agreed
upon and the motion for arecess was with
drawn. Senate adjourned.