The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-08-03

WAslrScroN, D. G., August 9,-sena.
TOR Gray. chairman Of tho sugar inves-
tiyating committee, presented the re-
port Of the committee TO tho senate to.
day, and asked that the committee be
discharged. Tho main roportis signed
BY all the senators, but Senators Lodge
and Davis present supplemental re.
port, and Senator Allen also presents
bis own views on come features Of tho
case. Tho report. which has the ap'
proval otthe full committee, roctes tho
causes which led up to tho lnVestiga.
ton, and quotes tho article from tho
Philadelphia Press on which the
charges against senators were based.
It also recitos tho facts which have
been published already as to tho refusal
Of tho correspondent, Edwards, to am
ewer queries put by tho committee.
Secretary Carlisle is exonerated, and
tho parts OF tho article rejecting on him
are declared to be- without foundation,
"cxCept that 1t 10 fact, according to
Secretary Carliale's" Testimony, that he
did, at the request OF Senator Jones, Of
tho finance committee, draft Qn amend.
nent 10 the sugar schedule, copy OF
which, as described by Mr.. Carlisle, is
attached Us IN exhibit to tho testimony"
The conduct OF Mr.. Edwards, says tho
report, in publishing specific charges
against public mon without having per.
sonal knowledge OF the facts calls for
tho serious reprobation Of tho senate.
The committee also says: "Thcro has
beon no testimony presented before
your committee, and your committee
has boon unable TO discover any, tend.
ing 10 show that tho sugar schedule
was madc up as It then stood In tho pro-
posed amendment to tho tarit bill, IN
consideration Of any sums Of money
paid for campaign purposes OF the Dom
ocratic party. No witnesses havo tostl-
Aod before your committee TINT such
was tho fact, aud all tho Democratic
members OF tho finance committee, and
nil tho senators whose names have been
mentioned in tho public prcss as cspec'
iallv interested In protecting the sugar
refining industries, or In states whore
surar relueries exist, have under oath
denied that such was tho truth, or that
they had any knowledge or Informs
ton as To any sums Of money, largo or
otherwise, having been paid for cam.
paicn purposes OF the Democratic party
BY tho sugar trust, by those connected
with It, or by anybody as considor'
alton for favorable treatment OF tts In
terests by said party"
ri - AZ ~, IN i}tna afa1 Fan0Fta khh al b.
stance Of the testimony Of the sugar ro'
finors, asserting that tho campaign con:
tributions wero made only to the loca!
committees and not for tho purpose OF
influencing national campaigns, or Tor
tho purpose OF securing, or getting M.
tIonal legislation. No other testimony
has, tho committee says, been oHored,
suggested or discovered, which wonld
tend to support tho statements OF Ed
wards in this regard. Nor Is there, thoy
unto in saying, any evidence in sup
mort oiB,he statement that either OF the
Mossrs. Iiavcmoyor hold IN interview
with President Cleveland on yacht In
tho summer OF 1892, or OF 1893. in regard
to tho sugar interests OF tho Hawaiian
islands, or any other sugar interests or
the policy OF tho administration In ro-
gard to them.
ION tho contrary, it has boon atIirma-
lively shown" they say, "that tho state
ment ia untrue as to any such Inter
view having occurred"
Il is, tho committee Gays, shown by
tho evidence TINT one or more officers
OF tho sugar trust were in Washington
aud that they saw several senator's
gonorally those representing states In
which sugar re1ncrics woro located
with tho Wow ofintluencing legislation,
but these gentlemen deny tho uso OF
any improper means to that end.
Tho committee also unite in saving
that no evidence hos boon adduced tend
ing to show improper conduct on the
part Of those engaged in tho framing Of
she sugar schedule in the tariff bill:
"Though perhaps outside tho scope OF
tho duty imposed upon your commit
too" they say, "they take occasion to
strongly deprccate the importantly and
pressure to which Congress and its
members arc subjected by the rcpre-
sentativos Of great industrial comhina-
tions, whose enormous wealth tends TO
suggest undue influence, and 10 create
in tho public mind domoralizing be-
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