Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-06-21

WASHINGTON, ID. C.. June 10, 1894.
matters little what the verdict Of
the Senate investigating committee mry
be. AS the testiu Guy of MIR. Hsvemey er,
president of the sugar trust, has made
It certain that guilty as indicted" will
be the verdict of the honest people OF
the country regardless OF political
lines. MIR. Havemeyer clearly estab-
lished the ruth of the charge that the
sugar trust had been libtrtl contTib-
ut0r 10 the democratic party. and he
actually had tie audscily 10 complain
of Senator Hill because be refused TO
Join Secrtttry Carlisle and ) ;nators
Brice. Smith and German in getting
the sugar trust what it wanted from the
Senate. About the only change con-
nected WITH the scandal tbtt Mr.. Have
MEYER thi ew no night upon was that
concerning the speculation IN sugar
stock by Senators. He said be knew
nothing aoout that, but that had been
previously proven in other directions
He told the committee that the trust
had made about $50, 900. 900 during the
last three years and that the present
sugar schedule Of the tariff bill would
add at least one cent pound, perhaps
more, to the price of sugar. His state
ment that he came to Washington last
winter for the purpose OF controlling
the sugar schedule of the tariff bill was
as glaring an example OF unblushlng
effrontery as wss ever seen in the Cap
itol building. He spoke as though the
controlling of Congress and state legis-
a
sugar trust.
The sugar trust people are very much
alarmed lest their bargain with the adj
ministration and the democratic Sena-
tors be repudiated by the House, and
unless something can be done 10 quiet
the democratic opposition to the
schedule, in the House. there may
prove to be ample foundation for their
alarm. Leading democrats in the
House are now openly announcing their
intention to try to beat the sugar
schedu e, and the solid republican vote
will 90 against it,
Such New York democrats as Cord
Meyer, who was on the democratic
safe ticket last year and who was in
Washington this week to testify in Il Q
.ugar trust schedule investigation, and
Representative Covert, of the first dis
trict, haye said publicly this week that
they considered republican victory in
New York a certainty this year
The decision of the state republican
committee of Virginia. which met in
Washington this week, not TO put up
any Congressional tickets this year was
the natural sequence of the repeal OF
the Federal election laws by the pres
ent democratic Congress. The Vir-
ginia election law, under which the
Congressional elections will have tc be
Ii ED. is so botoriouslY unfair that it
has been denounced by some of the
most prominent democratic newspapers
in that state. and it is not surprising
that the republican committee should
have concluded il to be waste of time
to put up candidates who would be de-
clared defeated regardless of the mum.
Der Of votes that might tie cast for
them.
This is the date that was announced
weeks ago by the democratic managers
of the tariff bill for the passage of that
measure by the Senate They now see
that the announcement was premature,
and SO anxious have they become to
get the bill passed that they have pro
posed 20 the republicans TO abandon
ftriy mine pages OF the hi containing
the administrative features ia order
to save The week discussion that
would certainly be required to dispose
OF it, if the republicans would agree 10
aid them in hurrying the bill to voc
The propos ton has not b. eu accepted,
because there are reasons for believing
that the democrats will abandon thst
portion OF the bill anyway, TO save
time
The greater portion of this week has
oeen devoted To y discus sion of the wool
schedule, and the republican Senators
mercilesslY poured argument after ar
gument into the democrat zed demc-
cratic ranks showing tie injustice. even
from u free trade po M of view, of put
ting wool on the free list. while articles
which the sheep Users of the country
are compelled to boy. have at the dicta-
ton OF trusts and half dozen demo-
cratic 5 majors been given protection
1t is not surprising that no democrat
attempted TO defend the wool schedule
Ii is indefensible. 1t will DESTROY an
American industry in which, as Sena-
tor Sherman truly said, one million
American farmers are interested. and
no benefit win be derived By anybody
except the sheep-raisers of Austrselia
aud South America Il is doubtful
whether a vote will be reached on the
tariff hill before the last ot the month,
as the fight on the income tax, which
promises TO be bitter. has Yet to be
fought,
WARNER MILLS, we'll known in this
county, but now citizen of Denver, IS
strongly talked Of by the populsts for .
pos ton ON the supreme bench ct the
state and also for attorney. general.
He is one OF the leading popnlists o. the
state and his ability ms public speaker
mas made him one Of the best known
men u the state, The nomination on
the populiSt ticket in Colorado is not an
empty honor by any means. for if any