The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-08-02

WHITEWASH.
Committee Finds Only News
paper Men Reprehensible.
Everybody Else Completely Covered
With a Thick White Coat.

WASHINUION, huks SN-J'
chairman of the Sugar Trust lnvestigat-
ing Committee, presented the report oil
the committee to the Senate
today and asked that the com
mittee be discharged. The main
report is signed by all the Senators OF the
committee, but Senators Lodge and Davis
present a supplemental reporN
and Senator Allen also presents
his own views on some features oil
the case. The report which has the APP
prova, OF the full committee recites the
causes which led up TO the Investigation
and quotes the articles from the Phiia-
delphia Press on which the charges
against the Senators were bas cd. Ii
also recites the facts which have been
published already as to the refusal OF the
CORES pondent, Edwards, to answer
queries put by the committee. Secretary
Carlisle is exonerated and the part
of the article rejecting on him Is
declared to be without foundation,
except that it is a fact, according to
Secretary Carlisle's testimony, that be
did at the request of Senator Jones. oil
the finance committee, draft an
amendment to the sugar schedule a
COPY of which described by Mr.. Car
Isle il attached as an exhibit to the tes-
timony.
The conduct OF Mr.. Edwards, says the
report, in publishing specific charges
against public men without his personal
knowledge calls for the serious reproDa-
tion of the Senate.
The committee also reports that "There
has been no testimony presented and the
committee has been unable TO discover
any tending TO show that the
sugar schedule was made up,
ms it then stood in the proposed amend
ment to the tariff bill, in consideration
of any sums OF money paid for campaign
purposes to the Democratic party. All
Democratic members of tho finance
committee and the Senators whose names
have been mentioned i'm the public press
as especially interested in protecting the
sugar refining industries, or in
whose states sugar refineries exist,
have under oath denied that such was the
truth, or that they had any knowledge or
information as to any such money having
been paid for campaign purposes
of the Democratic party by the Sugar
Trust, by those connected with it, or by
anybody, as a consideration for favorable
treatment of its interests by said party"
The committee also reports the sub
stance of the testimony OF the sugar re-
finers, asserting that its campaign contri-
buttons were made only to the local COM
mittees and not for the purpose
of influencing national campaigns, or for
the purpose OF securing or defeating M
tional legislation.
No other testimony has, the committee
says, been offered, suggested or discov-
cred which would tend to support the
statements of Edwards in this regard.
Nor is there, they unite in saying,
any evidence to support the state
ment that either OF the Messrs.
Havemeyer had en- interview with Presi-
dent Cleveland on a yacht in the summer
OF 1892 or 1893 in regard to the sugar
Intentions of the administration in regard
to them.
From the evidence OF one witness and
the circumstances disclosed by the testi-
mopy, Battershall appears to be a man
OF QOuOtlul CudThCitF NnlCu WIFI
the fact Of the destruction OF
The original, tends to discredit that paper
and there is testimony tending to show
that 1.-THE person who had the pho
Iogrsph taken contemplated using il
for improper purposes. Upon an
examination OF the Photographic copy
Senator Camden said that the ~purported
signature resembled in, some respects his
genuine signature and the body of the
paper has some resemblance to his
own hand writing. He stated 1t as his
belief and best judgment That the paper
Is a forgery, but he does not in express
terms declare IL to be SO, and declines
TO swear positively that it II
not in his handwriting. He denies how
ever substantially that any such order was
ever executed or that any sugar stock hat
been bought or sold for him since tn,
.ariff bill has been under consideration ano
there is no testimony tending to prove thai
The supposed order was ever executed by
any firm, or that any sugar stock has beer
bought or sold by, or for Senator Camder
ut any time during the present session o
Congress.
q the contrary, IL has been afiirma
lively shown" they say, "that the state
ment is untrue as to any such interview
having occurred"
1t is, the committee says, shown b,
the evidence that one or more officers o
the Sugar Trust were in Washington
and they met sevsrsl Senators, general,
those representing in which suga
refineries were located with the view o
influencing legislation, but these gentle
men deny the use Of any improper mean
20 that end There Is no evidence in sup
port OF the statements contained in tn
"Holland" letter.
The committee also unite in saying tina
no evidence has been adduced tending l.
show improper conduct on the part o
those engaged in the framing Of the suga
schedule in the tariff bin.