The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-06-14
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Correspondence Of TEE RECORD.

WASHINGTON, June =, 1894.
The Democratic Senators already deeply
regret having allowed the two newspaper
correspondents who declined to tell the
sources of the information they published in
connection with the sugar trust scandal, to
even stand a chance of being indicted by the
grand jury The correspondents would like
nothing better than trial in court, which
must follow il they are indicted, as it would
enable them to have witnesses called and
made to talk who would make it plain that
their charges represented only small part
Of the crookedness which has been going on
among Democrats, and who will never be
called by the investigating committee and
some of whom would refuse to answer ques-
tons for the committee if they were called.
Even with the easy methods of the in
vestigating committee, which seems to be
largely dependent upon voluteer testimony,
the substantial facts in the charges made by |
the newspaper men have been shown to be
true. notwithstanding the copious expla.
nations with which the admissions were &C
companied, there is no getting around the
fact that Senator Mcpherson, of New Jersey
specialized in sugar stock and made money
out of it; nor that the sugar schedule in ths
present tariff bill was mostly written by
Secretary Carlisle These facts as we'll as
that heavy Democratic influence was brought
by agents of the sugar trust to bear on
Representative Warner, of New York, to
make him stop working to have sugar put
on the free list have been testified to by the
men named. This week some sensational
testimony is expected from the widely ad.
vertised wire manufacturer. Senator Hills
resolution for open sessions of the committee
has stirred up the Senators, but it is not
probable that it will be passed When the
Credit Mobilier scandal was being investi.
gated, more than twenty years ago, the Sen.
ate adopted resolution instructing the
committee, which had been working behind
closed doors, to conduct the investigation
openly, but that is the only similar case
| known.
Senator Henderson OF Nebraska, while
making An earnest speech in favor of the
continuation OF the sugar bounty of the Nc.
Kinley law, used language that should be
committed to memory by every member of
Congress- and which was all the more strik.
ing because it followed the cringing apology
of Senator Blanchard, of Louisiana, for sup.
porting the Wilson bill in the House with
it's free sugar clause, aud then after getting
in the Senate demanding protection for
sugar as the price of his vote. Senator
Henderson, after expressing the hope that
the selfish protection sentiment of the
Louisiana Senator, which proposes merely
to benefit locality, would one day grow
into sentiment broad enough to favor pro.
lection for all industries, said: 81 vote
here, representing prairie state, not only
for protection on beet sugar and on the pro.
ducts of the farm, but vote for protection
to the loom, to the factory, to the foundry,
to the lumberman and to the miner. | do
not represent on this floor simply part or
the whole of the state Of Nebraska. am a
Senator of the United States. And whether
l am in the other House as Representative
or here as Senator, no pent up Utica like
district or like state can contract my legis.
lative powers"
Democrats are pretending to be very
much surprised because of exSpeaker Reeds
assertion that silver and the tariff are ques.
tions which ought to be settled together
but there is no occasion for surprise, as the
same idea has been advanced by prominent
Republicans before now. 1t is well known
G. Blaine, and that it was included in the
results he expected from his reciprocity
policy. Senator Lodge in strong speech
against the tariff bill took the ground that
the two questions were closely allied. and
Senators Cameron and Pettigrew have also
referred to the matter in their tariff
speeches. So it is nonsense to pretend that
Mr.. Reed has made new departure to
please anybody. He is travelling in good
Republican footprints, as he usually does.
The Democratic Senators will be on pins
and needles until they see the sugar
schedule Of the tariff bill formally adopted,
and in order to hurry up the vote Senator
Harris has ordered that the daily sessions
be continued into the night. 1t is probable
that a vote will be reached by the middle Of
the week; also, that the schedule will be
adopted, all attempts to make any serious
, breaks in the Democratic line having failed
, although more than half OF the Democratic
Senators will vote directly against their per
sonal opinions when they support the sugar
schedule, but the bargain has been made
and the dose will be swallowed. A report
obtained currency day or two ago thai
Mr.. Cleveland was about to publicly repu
diate the tariff bargain engineered by Cor
man and Brice, but there was no truth in it
a. Mr.. Cleveland has been about as deeI
into the bargaining as either OF the sena
tors