The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-06-15
NO. e.
Washington Letter.
From our, regular Cono>ftrCtrtj
WASVNGTCN, June Sti, 1884

| NASHlNGJoN, June clii, lc33.
The dem ocratic Senators deeply re-
yret having allowed the two newspaper
correspondents who declined TO tell
the success Of the information they
published in connection with the
sugar trust scandal, to even stand IL
scheme of being indicted by the grand
Iiury. The correspondents would like
nothing better than trial in court,
which must follow if they are indicted
las it would enable them to haze wit
nesses called and made to talk who
would make it plain that their charge
represented only a small part OF the
crookedness which has been going on
among the democrats, and WHO viii
never be called by the investigating
committee and some Of whom would
refuse to answer questions !or tive com
mittee if they were called
| Even with the easy methods OF the
investigation committee, which seems
to be largely dependent upon volunteer
Testimony, the substantial facts in the
charges made by the newspaper men
have been shown to be true Notwith-
standing the copious explanation with
| which the admissions were accomp-
anied, there is no getting around the
fact that Senator Mcpherson, OF N. s.,
speculated in sugar stock and made
money out of it nor that the sugar
sugar schedule in the present tariff bill
was mostly written by Sec. Carlisle,
| These facts as well as that heavy dem
| moe rattle influence was brought bY
agents Of the sugar trust to bear on
Representative Warner, o. Il. Y, 20
m axe him stop working tr have sugar
put on the free list have jcon testified
to by tie men named. Tl.is week
some sensational! testimony is expected
from the widely advertised wirt man
ufa"turer Senator Kills resolution
for open sessions oi the committee has
stirred up the Senators, but il is not
probable that it VIII he passed. When
the Credit MobiIier scandal was being
investigated, more than twenty years
ago, the Senate adopted u 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 Manderson, OF Nehr., while
making an earnest speech in favor of
the continuation of the sugar bounty
of the Mckinley law, used language
| that should be committed to memory
by every member OF Congress, and
which WAS ali the more striking
because it followed the cringiug apollo
gy of Sen atUr Blanchard, 0f La, for
supporting the Wilson Iill in the
House with its free sugar ciause, and
then after getting in the Senate de-
m anding protection for Sngar as the
price OF his vote Senator MandeI-
SOB, after expressing t!e hope that the
selfish protection sentiment O ;he
Louisiana Senator. which proposes
merely to benefit locality, you'd one
day grow into sentiment broad
enough to favor protection i0Y all i'll
| ing Il prairie state, not only tur pro-
lection on beet sugar and Oh the pro
ducts of the farm, but vote Tor pro-
lection to the loom, to the factory, to
the foundry, to the lumberman and to
the miner DO not represent on this
floor simply par; or the whole OF the
state of Nebraska, I am Il Senator OF
the United States. And whether am
in the other House as u Representa-
tive, or here as q Senator, no pent up
Utica like district or like state can
contract my legislative powers"
Democrats are pretending to be very
much surprised because OF ex-Speaker
Reeds assertion that silver and the
tariff are questions which ought to be
settled together, but there is no occa-
sion for surprise, as the some idea has
been advanced by prominent republic
cans before now. 1t is we'll known
that it was entertained by the late
James G. Blaine, and that it was in
cluded III the results he expected from
his reciprocity policy. Senator Lodge
in a 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 a
new departure to please anybody. He
lis travelling in good republican foot