Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-06-05
SUGAR TRUST HEARING.
Secretary Carllslss Connection With
tho Schedule.
Iiis Letter Introducing Mr.. Have
meyer 10 senator uiiis-Turther
Testimony Taken.

AtsIthnhN Anheus
WAsIuH0ToN, June 4. - Carlisle
stated that Jones had requested him
10 have the sugar schedule prepared
on this morning Of Saturday, the 9th Of
May, and had come 10 bis house for
the purpose and had handed him
memorandum, stating what he wanted
done. He had agreed 10 do this, ~
the service was one the treasury de.
partnent was In the haDlt Of render
ing the members OF the finance com.
mittee. After he went 10 his Office no
dictated the schedule providing for the
nd valOrem duty Of 80 per cent aud tile
additional Of a cent on sugars above
No. 10 Du,Uh standard. At2 o'clock
that day no went TO the Capitol In
response to n telephone message re-
questlng his presence, taking the sugar
schedule which ho had put into shape
with him. He found Senators Jones,
Vest anu MoPbeuou and Represents.
tive Breckenridge la the room Of the
Senate committee on appropriations,
anu Senator German came Ia after
wRTds.
"After talking some time" said Mr..
Carlisle, at was suggested by some
one that Instead Of having 40 per cent
nd vAlOrem upon all sugars aud Of
cent additional on euger teating above
10 Dutch standard ia color, there
should bo duty Of 80 per cent upon all
sugars below No. 10 Dutch standard
In color, the additional per cent be.
ing, you Will observe, equal 10 4 " the
~ per cent on the other grades.
"rhereupon someone asked mo " |
would not write It. 1 sail; Il will
lust take this amendment, which I
have In my hand, and interllne IT, In
addition 70 that they said they wanted
10 Put into the amendment n clause
relating 10 the Hawaiian treaty. They
wanted 20 insert n clause that this
schedule should not abtogAte or In any
manner impnrs the provisions OF tho
Hawaiian treaty, and asked me " |
could not write that also. | said, II
will Just take this paper anu lnterllne
it.D
Mr.. Carlisle thon told OF his visit to
the Capitol Sunday, explaining how
the visit came TO DO made, 10 correct
the Discrepancy Ia the schedule, which,
had II Lot been corrected, would have
left sugar without either a duty Or
bounty, from July /, 1894, 10 January
], 1906. This occurred 10 HIM, anu
not finding Senator Jones in his home,
he hRl driven TO the Capitol 10 make
the suggestion that the blll should be
provided for, when, to his surprise, he |
had found Senators Jones, Vest aud |
Mcpherson aud Representative BrecE.
inridge NJ work on the tariff amend. |
monts which were TO be introduced tho |
q 4
the amendment which no had inter |
lined, changing the duty on refined |
sugar from the compound duty OF ~ |
per cent had been ABANDONED, anu he |
mad simply said; "All right" aud |
came away.
Mr.. Carlisle said that he knew that |
Ad valOTom duties were advocated by |
the sugar refining interest, for both the |
re1neTs and the planteTs, M well Va
others Interested In the tariff l6g.sla- |
ton, had talked with him about their
business.
With reference TO the note OF intro
duciiou which ho gave Mr.. Have
meyer TO Senator Mills, Ito said that he |
wrote the note Tor him ~ he wrote |
letterA Tor others interested In tariff |
legislation 10 other members Of the |
committee, aud no hoped n the note |
was still Ia existence II would be made
public. lie said he had known MT. |
HAVemeyer Tor a number oil years, and |
Mf. Havemeyer had stated that hu also
knew Senator Mills, but feared the |
latter would not SEQ him Mess he had
note. He had never refused 10 write
such n letter n he thought tbs man
who requested Il was worthy.
BenaIOT MoPherson's testimony "a
devoted largely to an explanation O.
stock purchases and the method o.
conducting them. He said that lie
had agreeI with the finance commit.
teo as to tns sugar schedule.
Sit. MCPHERSON stated that, while
hs kept an office on Wall street and
no had been In the habit for the past
seven or eight years OF buying stocks
as an Investment aud selling |
them, no had not considered him.
selt an operator Ia the usual
acceptance Of tho term. Ho said
that In addition 10 the purchases oil
sugar stock made by his son In FeOru.
AIRY, he hal purchased tOnB sugar
stock In October anu November anu
mad sold It In December, when Con.
press convened. Questions put by
Senators Allvn aud Davis developed
the fact that Senator MoPheisouT son
had made protit OF about 81 900 on the
s,uek bought on tho 22nd aud sold on
tho 26th Of February.
Representative JOhn Dewitt Warner
was examined AS 10 the basis i,r u
newspaper statement that an effort had
been made to cause Nit. Warner g.
cease his fight for Tree sugar while tbs
taufi bill was pending IA tho Houae.
Mr.. Warner sald thai tue suggestion
had been made to him that u more
was not outy ON sugar, tho sugar
truat would defeat the bili but he dt-