Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-05-28
d.I.SHINGTON LETTER.
WGstin gton, Mag 2I. 1924
41l.L c.,rarrrOr encE OF TnF en"fTos

Perhaps it may be true, as has been
constantly reiterated, that Mr.. Stew
enson is not particularly friendly to-
wards Mr.. Cleveland and his admin
istration, but his selection Of the dem
ocratic members of the Senate com
mittee that day began star cham :
Der investigation, of numerous charg
es of crookedness against Senators
and outsiders, beginning with the
cock and bull story concerning an at
tempt having been made to bride
Senators Huntoon of Va, and Kyle of
S. Oak, to vote against the tariff bill,
and including the charges against
democratic Senators of having spec
ulated in sugar trust stock and of
having given the sugar trust protec-
ton in exchange for its big contribu-
ton to the Cleveland campaign fund,
makes him appear very friendly in
deed towards the administration.
For instance, Senator Gray, chair
man of the committee, is known as
chief of the Senate ''cuckoos", and
man who would do more for the ad-
ministration than any other Senator,
while Senator Lindsay, the other
democratic member of the committee,
is, in addition to being a cuckoo,
known as Carlisle's man. The sig
nificance of these selections will not
that Secretary Carlisle, representing
Mr.. Cleveland, has been from the
first to the last mixed up in all the
dealings between the democratic
Senators and the sugar trust. Sena-
tor Mills, of Texas, Eas publicly stat
ed that Secretary Carlisle gave the
President of the sugar trust a letter
of introduction to him and that he re-
fused to see him when he called to
present it. The democrats ask cred
it for being fair because Senator AL
len of Neb. was put upon the COM
mittee, but they do not deserve it as
Allen has voted with the democrats
on ali political questions and is re-
garded as a democrat, although he
calls himself populist. It is clear
that if anything is shown up by this
committee it will be through the en-
ergy of it's two republican members,
Lodge of Mass, and Davis of MINI.
But nothing can be shown up, unless
witnesses choose to tell what they
know, the supreme court having some
years ago decided that a Congress
ional committee could not compel
them either to testify or to produce
books dealing with citizens private
affairs. That decision is great con
ISOLATION to more than one democratic
Senator just now. Another consoling
thing to certain democratic Senators
was the decision by the committee to
make the investigation secret, giving
out from day to day only such
information as Senator Gray may see
fit. That means that the newspaper
men will have to hustle to find out
what is going on in that committee
room, as Mr.. Gray is one of those
non communicative Senators who re-
gard newspapers as a kind of nuisance.
An amusing It'd bit is going the
rounds, recalling the old couplet:
"a little nonsense now and then
Is relished by the wisest men,"
During an executive session the
ing on over the confirmation Of some
nominations in which the republicans
had no interest a number of them
whiled away the time writing verses
on the exhibition Senator Turpie of
Ind, made of himself recently by his
uncalled for personal attack on Sena
tor Aldrich. The venerable Senator
Morrill,, affectionately called the ia
ther of the Senate, started the amuse-
ment and soon half dozen Senators
were cudgeling their brains for rhymes.
Senator Manderson's verse was unan-
imously voted the best. He wrote:
''Aldrich is triple LIAR
Said Turpie in a roge,
But Aldrich, without show of fire,
Said ''Turpie is no sage,''
And into no abuse he sunk
In stating Turpie sure drunk.
The republican Senators having
concluded to hold their ammunition
for big game, considerable progress
has been made and will continue to
be made in disposing of the unimpor-
tant items of the tariff bill, but the
sugar schedule is regarded as the
biggest of big game and when that is
reached there is going to be fighting
all along the line, and it will not be
surprising if some democrats join
with the republicans in trying to
strike out the 5O,oOO.OOO which the