The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-05-30
HILL WAS THEIR CHAMPION.
He Supports the Cause of the
Newspaper Correspondents.
His Arguments Upon the Report of tn @
Investigating Committee on the Sugar
Bribery-A Resolution Demanding
That the Newspaper Men be Brought
Before the seHate-Ths Lumber sohed.
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WASHINGTON, May 29.-In the morn
Ing half hour in the Senate Mr.. Kyle
succeeded in having his Hawaiian reso-
tuition taken up, and accepted, az a sub
stitute for it, the Turpie resolution, as
reported from the committee on foreign
relations.
PETER offered an amendment to the
resolution, simply declaring that the
provisional government, having been
duly recognized, the highest INFER.
national interests require that 1t should
pursue its own line Of policy, without
interference on the Fart of the United
States, and that interference by other
Cover nments will be regarded as an act
unfriendly to the Government OF the
United States.
Vest offered an amendment by wav O Z
modifying, declaring it unwise and in
expedlent to consider any project of
annexation Of the Hawaiian territory
to the United States, and that the
highest international interests require
that the people Of the Sandwich Islands
chose their own form Of government
and line of poliay. This amendment
was laid on the table-36 to IS.
The resolution was then displaced by
the tariff bill, and Proctor (Rep., VIZ
took the floor to speak upon 1t, but q
motion to lay the tariff bill aside tenn
porarily and to take up again and dis
pose OF the Hawaiian resolution was
made by PETER. 1t was defeated-yeas,
20; nays, 81.
The consideration of the tariff bill
od ~ nd
addressed the Senate in opposition to
the bill. particularly as to it's effect on
the trade and relations with the rest of
the American hemisphere and it's bear
ing upon the Canadian question.
Mr.. Proctor finished his speech at
11:45 a. m. and then Mr.. Pettigrew ad-
dressed the Senate in opposition to the
bill. At the close of Pe5tigrs WIS speech,
at 1:15 P. M, Gray rose and said that he
had been directed by the select COM
mittee 2ppointed on the 18th of May to
make partial report aud he asked that
1t be read.
Hill said that before making any OBJ.
lection he would like to know from the
Senator from Delaware what the pro.
gramme was Gray replied that he
had no programme other than in the re-
port. The committee had submitted a
report which it considered as one OF the
highest privileges and he supposed
there was no question that che report
was in order at any time.
The report WAS then read. It consists
of five printed pages, some of 1t being
quotations from that part of the testi
mony where. answers were refused. A
portion OF the testimony Is also submit
ted to the Senate 1t relates that Elisha
j. Edwards appeared before the com
mittee May "a, and stated that he was a
correspondent Of the Philadelphia Press
and wrote the letter signed Holland"
relative to the doings of the sugar trust
and certain Senators.
1t appears from this report that the
specific questions Mr.. Ed wards declined
to answer were those asking him who
informed him of Mr. Carlisle's recent
visit TO the committee on finance, when
he, as Mr.. Edwards alleged, made an
appeal to the Democratic members in
February, that appeal being supposed
to have reference to tho duty on sugar.
The committee states that it overruled
the objections Of Judge Dittenhoefer,
Edwards counsel, and insisted upon an
answer to the questions.
Referring to the testimony of John
Shriver, correspondent of the New York
Mail and Express, the committee quote
from Shriver's letter. detailing what
prominent wire manufacturer was al
legged to have overheard at the Airing.
ton Hotel in q talk between certain
Senators and representatives of the
pugar trust. Shrive: said member of
Congress gave him the information and
the com mittee say that, in response to
the question, he declined to give the
name OF either the Congressman or the
wire manufacturer to whom he referred
in his news dispatches.
In conclusion the conn ittee say: "In
the opinion OF the com mittee each of
the questions put TO each OF said wit
nesses was proper question and per-
tanning to the question under inquiry
before the committee, and was neces-
sary to make the examination ordered
by said resolution of the Senate, and
that each of the said witnesses is in
contempt Of the Senate, and merits to
be dealt with for his misconduct; and
that each Of said witnesses, by his
various r0fusals to answer the questions
as herein set forth, has violated the
provisions OF that certain act OF Con
gress.
Wherefore the com ittee's report re-
quest that the president of the Senate
certify as to each witness his aforesaid
failure TO testify and his aforesaid re-
fusals to answer and all the facts herein
under the seal OF the Senate to the
United States district attorney for the
District Of Columbia to the end that
each Of said witnesses may BIO pro-
ceeded against In manner and form pro.
vided by law"
When the reading OF the report was
concluded Hill took the floor and argued
that the report did not preseo. such
question OF privilege as should displace
the pending bill.