The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-03


Washington, Aug. 2.-Senator GRAY,
chairman of the sugar investigating COM
mlttee, presented the report to the Sen
ate today and asked that the committee
be discharged.
The main report is signed by all the
members of the committee Lodge and
Davis present a supplemental report and
Allen presents his own views on some of
the features of the case
The report recites the facts which have
been published as to the refusal of Cor
respondent Edwards to answer questions
Secretary Carlisle is exonerated and the
parts OF the article in the Philadelphia
Press rejecting on him are declared
without foundation, except this fact that
according to Secretary CarIisle's testi-
mony, he did at the request of Senator
Jones draft an amendment to the sugar
schedule.
The conduct of Edwards, says the re-
port in publishing specific charges
against public men without having a per
sonal knowledge of the facts calls for
the serious reprobation of the Senate
No Money Consideration.
The committee also says:
mere has been no testimony present
ed before your committee, and your com
mlttee has been unable to discover any,
tendlng to show that the sugar schedule
was made up as it then stood in the
proposed amendment to the tariff bill
In consideration of large or any sums of
money paid for campaign purposes of the
Democratic party. No witness has testi-
Ied before your committee that such was
the tact, and all Democratic members
OF the finance committee and all the
senators whose names have been mem
toned in the public press as especially
interested in protecting the sugar REIN
ing industries, or in whose states sugar
rehneries existed, have, under oath, de-
MED that they had any knowledge or in
formation as to any sums of money
| large or otherwise, having been paid for
campaign purposes of the Democratic
party by the sugar trust by those con-
nected with it, or by anybody as a con-
sideration for favorable treatment of its
interests by said party
The committee also reports the sub
stance OF the testimony of the sugar re-
liners, as saying that the campaign con-
committee, and not for the purpose of
| influencing national campaigns or for
/ the purpose of securing or defea ting ma
| tional legislation.
No Improper Conduct.
| mo other testimony has" the commit
tee says, been offered, suggested or dis
covered which would tend to support the
| statements of Edwards in this regard.
| Nor is there any evidence in support of
| the statement that either of the Messrs
HaVermeyer had any interview with Presi-
! dent Cleveland on a yacht in the summer
| of 1892 or 1893 in regard to sugar, Hawaiian
islands or any other sugar interests or
| the policy of the administration in re-
| gard to them. On the contrary, 1t has
been affirmatively shown that the state
ment is untrue as to any such interview
having occurred.
ut is shown by the evidence that one
or more officers of the sugar trust were
| in Washington, and that they. saw several
senators, generally those representing
Gated, with the view of influencing leg
| islation, but these gentlemen deny the use
OF any improper motives to that end.
| france committee denied that any meet
| ing took place between them at the cap
! ital or elsewhere, as it was stated in
| the Holland letter to have taken place
and there is no evidence in support OF
the statement in this regard"
| The committee also unite in saying that
no evidence has been adduced tending to
show improper conduct on the part OF
those engaged in the framing of the sugar
schedule in the tariff bill
No Senator Specialized.
| The committee strongly deprecate the
| Importantly and pressure to which Con-
gress and it's members are subjected by
&C mbinations, whose enormous wealth
| tends to suggest undue Influence and tc
create in the public mind denoralizine,
belief in the existence of corrupt politics.
| The committee reports in the negative
upon the question: "Whather any senator
has been Specializing in sugar stocks dur,
| ing the consideration of the tariff bill?
| As to the latter branch OF inquiry, which
brought out a Photographic copy OF an
order to buy sugar stocks. dated March
| q and purporting to be signed by Senate
Camden, the committee gives credence to
| the denial of Senator Camden and says that
the Battershail, whose testimony was eX-
Ipected to bear up the influence rom the
| Photographic copy, is a a man OF doubt
| full character
Senator Smith is also exonerated from
blame. 49,,
no charge or charges have been lied be
! fore them alleging that The action OF sen
ators has heen corruptly or Improperly ~ 3
| f1uenced in the consideration OF the tarlil
| hill and no attempt has been made to
influence legislation. :.
Ali the testimony taken by the commit
| tee is submitted as part Oh the report
| From n Partisan View.
| Messrs. Davis and Lodge (Repub-
Iicans) submitted supplemented re-
port. devoted entirely to the subject OF
1.-The influence of the Sugar trust, so
tcalled, on the making of the sugar
lsohedule as it now stands in the tariff
bill.
| They say that mo evidence has been
Submitted to the committee which
lnroves The sugar schedule was made
lup in order to fulfill obligations to the
lSugar trust for campaign contrlbu-
Itions.'' but they consider it their duty
Ito 60 into some detail as to the method
lempIoyed in making up the sugar
IscheduIe. for which the Democratic
members of the finance committee, it
lis pointed out, are publicly responsible.
1T is also admitted" says the report
..and it is proven by the sworn testi-
monv of every witness called, that the
InJatform of the schedule was that de-
sired by the representatives of the re-
timers. or the Sugar trust.
! The three interests concerned in the
sugar schedule are stated to be those
with no local or pecuniary interest
| who believed in free sugar,the producer
| of raw sugar and the refiners.
i II soon became evident after the
House bill came to the Senate, says the
Irenort. that no bill could pass that body
which did not regard both the latter's
Interests. The interests of the pro-
ducers and refiners then, it is said
Icame into conflict, the refiners favorine
Ian ad valorem duty on raw sugar now
embodied in the bill. The report says:
ut appears by the testimony of Sen
Iator Vest that Senators Brice, German
iSnith. White and Caffery, after sale
conference of Democratic senator's
leanle to the rooms of the finance com.
lmittee i'm regard to the sugar schedule
lSenator Vest testified that Mr.. Gormar