Morning journal and courier., 1894-06-16
[AEHs BY TELEGRAPH. From All Quarters. SENATORS ON THE RACK Questions of a Leading Ma ture Put to Them
 NOW CONSCIOUS AFTER MANY DAYS William Walter Phelps Rec
 ognized His Daughter ERASTUs VIVIAN IS FOUND GUILTY The Foreman Wept When
 He Gave the Verdict
.ERAsTUs VIVIAN IS FOUND GUILTY
SENATORS TAKE THEIR TURN

| SENATORS TAKE THEIR TURN | A Series of Leading Questions Hav Been Put to Them by the Investi gatiDg Committee. WASHINGTON, June 15.-The senatoria | sugar trust investigation started in to-da on the examination of the individua members of the senate in alphabetical order. The examination was baeed on tn following carefully -prepated questions:
 1. Have you been in attendance at th present session of congress during thu penoency of the tariff bill in the senate 9. Have you given any information, al rectly or indirectly, to any one interested in eugar stocks, so-called, or in the stool of the American Sugar Refining company that was intended or calculated to affect its valuea
 8. Have you bought or sold, directly o, indirectly, since the beginning of this ses sion of congress, any so-called sugar stock or stocks certificates of the American Sugar Refining companya
 4. Have you been concerned with any one in interest, directly or indirectly, con tingent@or otherwise, in any operation whether by purchase or sale of said stocks or certi6catesa
 5. Has any one bought or sold for your account or in your interest any of such stocks or specnlated in any such stocks on your account or given you to understand that you would share in the profits of any operation in such stocks or placed any money to your credit as the proceeds of the purchase or sale of such stocks or promised or agreed to place such money to your credit?
 6. Has any member of your family or any person in your employ or any clerk employed under the lava of the United States in your service been to your knowledge, interested, in any of the ways indicated in any of the preceding questions, in any transaction in sugar stocks or certificates during the pe- riod mentioned?
 2. Have you, or has any member of your family, or any such clerk, owned or held certificates of the American Sugar Rsfn- ing company during the period heretofore mentioneds
 8. Have you, at any tirue, been connect ed with the American Sugar Refining con- pany, or have you at any time been in its employ as attorney, agent or otherwise.
 The members of the committee-Gray, Lindsay. Davis, Lodge and Allen-were examine before the alphabetical list was begun, and each answered such question in the negative except the first, which, from It's nature, required some explana- ton.
 Senator Brice answered as follows: 1. I have. 9, 3 and A. have not. 5. I answer "no" ss to all of the question. 6. No. 7. No. 8. I have not.
 Senator Gray also questioned Mir. BIice regarding the statement of Correspondent Edwards in the Philadelphia Press, slleg- ing that Senator BIice was speculator in sugar stocks. MT. Brice said:
 s'Sincs entering the senate have not been concerned in any way, directly or in- directly, in any properity, securities, ,stocke, investments or speeulations in anything that is mentioned in the tariff from the first line to the end of the free list, with the ex- ception of some local manufacturing estab. lishments in Ohio.
 MT. Brice said he was never present at any conference or meeting where the mat ter of sugar stocks was discussed, and the effect of the tariff legislation upon the came and in which the particular schedule desired by the sugar trust was considered.
 On March 7 he had called on his old friend H. L. Terrill at the Arlington hotel for the purpose of meeting common friend interested in railway matters. Af ter they had been together an hour MT Terrill said he was interested in sugar and discussed the effect of an ad valorem al compared with specific tax. MT. Terril sent for MT. Henry Havemeyer. who wal in the hotel. MT. Havemeyer talked fol nearly an hour on the subject of sugar du ties, etc., and he and Mir. Brice got into { controversy about the matter of duty. MT. Bfice finally said he wanted to dt what was right. Senator Smith and MT Reed were in the room during the evening but remained for only few moments MT. Havemeyer said nothing about th obligations of the democratic party for gift of money. Nothing was said at th meeting about tho effect of the schedule ol | the price of sugar. MT. Brice denied hay | ing obtained for his brokers copy of th, | 400 amendments to the tariff bill befor they were reported to the senate. MT. Brice told how at & later date he an ! several senators were discussing the suga duty and when he sent for MT. Havemeye
 who explained his views to MT. Caffrey MT. Brics said he knew of no political GOT
 tributions made or solicited from the sugs
 trust or the people connected with 1t. Mi
 Brice said that any pecuniary interest |
 might have had during the pendency (
 the bill would not be affected whether tf
 schedule was adopted upon sugar or not.
 Senators Chandler. Call, Carey, Cullo Coke, Hill and Hunton all testified to tt
 with the sugar trust, directly or indirectl