The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-05-31

counsel fled his objections to answer
ing the question, which have bereto-
fore been given to the public. The
| several objections were overruled.
The report then gives in detail the
various questions asked of Mr., Ed
wards and which he declined to an
| swer. They included the question
about MIR. Carlisle regarding the i'll
formant as to the meeting OF the seua-
tors in Washington hotel with rep
resentatives of the sugar trust; also
! the statement that the sugar schedule
was in the hands of Moore & Schley,
brokers, before being reported to the
senate. To each OF these questions
| Edwards said the same person gave
him the information aud declined to
give his name.
Mr.. Edwards stated that it was a
matter of common report that Stephen
B. Elkins was interested in the sugar
trust and that he and Senator Gorman
being related by marriage had very
great business interests in common,
also that it was common report that
Senator Brice was closely related to
H l. Terrell of the sugar trust. Mr..
Edwards could not recollect from
whom he had received the information
that $500 900 had been contributed TO
the campaign fund by persons
connected with the trust. He had
heard that Ccrd Meyer, Jr,, said
at the Manhattan club, that the trust
owned the senate and that Meyer was
frequent visitor of Secretary La
mont's. 1t was common report, Eds
wards said, that Senator Mcpherson
had declared in the presence of the
finance committee that the Democratic
party was preparing to stab the men
who had saved il.
Other testimony presented with the
report besides that of the newspaper
correspondents was that of Senator
Caffery and ex- x-Representative Ben Le
fevre, Senator Caffery denied that he
had had any conference with Have
meyer, Terrell and Meyer or any one
of the sugar trust, and that when he
wrote the sugar schedule Havemeyer
was looking over his shoulder. Mr..
Caffery said he had met Mr.. Havemeyer
one day going out of the capital
and was introduced to him and had a
conference with him which was held
two or three weeks before the finance
committee reported the sugar schedule.
That no conference was held at Sena
tor Brice's house: 81 was asked to see
Mr.. Havemeyer. He commenced an
argument in favor of the ad valorem
rate on sugar in preference to the spe'
cific rate and number of figures were
presented to show the correctness of
his argument"
In reply to a question as to whether
there had been other senators present
at Senator Brice's house when he met
Mr.. Havemeyer there, he said there
were several other senators present
Among them were Senator White of
Louisiana and Senator Hill, and his
recollection was that Senator German
had also been present, but Mr.. Have
meyer did not meet any of the gentle
men but himself,
EX Congressman Lafevre denied the
statement in Mr.. Edwards letter
about the Sunday meeting at the cap
itOl. He said he had not been in the
employ of the sugar trust and had not
been at the capitol at any of its meet
ings.
During the course of his testimony
Mr.. Walker stated that he had men
toned Joe Ricky as go-bejwean, be-
tween Senator Vest and the sugar
trust. II have seen" he said, Joe
Hickey with Mr.. Vest and in a little
while go with Mr.. Reed or Mr..
Terrell and get in a quiet
spot and talk, He had, how
ever, only once seen Hickey
with Mr.. Vest, and on that occasion he
had seen him within an hour in con
versation with Mr. Terrell He had
also seen Hickey around the fiuauce
committee room doors.
Hon Bourke Cochran said Walker
had asked him upon one Ocsasion
whether he was the attorney for the
American sugar trust and he told him
that ne bad never been attorney for
that organization, but that he declined
to represent the trust in the courts OF
New y ork in 1856 or 1887 He also de
favored duty on sugar.
The report next cites the examina-
tion of John 5. Shriver, another Wash
ingtOn correspondent, who on being
shown a copy of a dispatch to his pa.
per on the 10Th inst, relating to the
particulars of an alleged confer
ence one night while the tariff bill
was in committee at this Arlington
hotel between certain senators and
members of the sugar trust, which
had been overheard by wire manu-
facturer occupying an adjoining room,
admitted having sent the dispatch
to the paper, but refused to give the
name OF his informant or the manufac.
turer.
The committee dwelt upon one par
agraph from Mr.. Schriver's article,
reading as follows:
"There are a number of senators
who will be glad if this Investigation
should fail simply because then they
could charge the correspondents with
circulating scandalous reports and
have another chance to denounce
the press upon the floor of the senate.
But if the newspaper men are given a
chance to tell all they know some in
teresting developments will be made
Mr.. Shriver would not say, however,
in response to the committees urging,
that he had received his information
in confidence. After these proceed
iugs Mr. Shriver requested time in
which to consult counsel The next
day be reappeared before the commit
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