The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-06-23
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent.


WASHINGTON, June I5, '94.
It matters little what the verdict of
the senate investigating committee may
be, as the testimony of Mr.. Havemeyer,
president of the sugar trust, has made it
certain that "guilty as indicted will be
the verdict of the honest people of the
country regardless of political lines
Mr.. Havemeyer clearly established the
truth of the charge that the sugar trust
had been liberal contributor to the
democratic party and he actually had
the audacity to complain of Senator Hill
because he refused to join Secretary
Carlisle and Senators Brice, Smith and
German in getting the sugar trust what
it wanted from the senate. About the
only charge connected with the scandal
that Mr.. Havemeyer threw no light
upon was that concerning the specula-
ton in sugar stock by senators. He
said he knew nothing about that, but
that had been previously proven in
other directions. He told the committee
that the trust had made about $35, ,OOO,-
OOO during the last three years and that
the present sugar schedule of the tariff
bill would add at least one cent pound.
perhaps more, to the price of sugar.
His statement that he came to Washing
ton last winter for the purpose of con-
trolling the sugar schedule of the tariff
Dill was as glaring an example of un-
olushIng effrontery as was ever seen in
the capitol building. Hespoke as though
the controlling of congress and state
legislatures were common affairs with
the sugar trust.
The sugar trust people are very much
alarmed lest their bargain with the
administration and the democratic sem
ators be repudiated by the house, and,
unless something can be done to quiet
the democratic opposition to the sched-
ule, in the house, there may prove to be
ample foundation for their alarm.
Leading democrats in the house are now
openly announcing their intention to
try to beat the sugar schedule, and the
solid republican vote will go against it.
Such New York democrats as Cord
Meyer, who was on the democratic state
ticket last year and who was in Wash
ington this week to testify in the sugar
trust schedule Investigation, and Repre-
sentative Covert, of the first district,
have said publicly this week that they
considered republican victory in New
York certainty this year.
The decision of the state republican
committee of Virginia, which met in
Washington this week, not to put up
any congressional tickets this year, was
the natural sequence of the repeal of
the federal election laws by the present
democratic congress. The Virginia
election law, under which the congress
sional elections will have to be held, is
so notoriously unfair that it has been
denounced by some of the most promi-
nent democratic newspapers in that
state, and it is not surprising that the
republican committee should have con-
cluded it to be waste of time to put mn
candidates who would be declared de-
feated regardless of the number of votes
that might be cast for them.
This is the date that was announced |
weeks ago by the democratic managers
of the tariff bill for the passage of that
measure by the senate. They now see
that the announcement was premature,
and SO anxious have they become to get