Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-06-11
WASHINGTON LETTER.
IspEorAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE MoNfTos
WdshinqtOn, June 4, 1894.


The democratic Senators alread.
deeply regret having allowed the TIVE
newspaper correspondents who de
cIined to tell the sources of the infor
nation they published in connection
with the sugar trust scandal, to ever
stand chance of being indicted by
the grand Jury The correspondents
would like nothing better than tria
in court, which must follow if 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 a small
part of the crookedness which has
been going on among democrats, and
who will never be called by the in
vestigating committee and some OF
whom would refuse to answer ques
lions for the committee if they were
called.
Even with the easy methods OF the
investigation committee, which seems
to be largely dependent upon volun-
teer testimony, the substantial facts
in the charges made by the newspa-
per men have been shown to be true.
Notwithstanding the copious explain
ations with which the admissions were
accompanied, there is no getting
around the fact that Senator McPher-
son Of n. Y. speculated in sugar STOCK
and made money out Of it; nor that
the sugar schedule in the present tar
iff bill was mostly written by Sec.
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
N. Y, 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 advertIs-
ed wire manufacturer. Senator HIPS
resolution for open sessions OF the
committee has stirred up the Sena-
tors, but it is not probable that 1t Will
be passed. When the Credit Mobilier
scan DIAL was being investigated, more
than twenty years Eago, the Senate
adopted resolution instructing the
CON mittee, 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 Mckinley law, used
language that should be committed to
memory by every member OF CON
gress, and which was all the more
striking because it followed the crlng-
ing apology Of Senator Blanchard OF
La. for supporting the Wilson bill in
the House with it's free sugar clause,
and then after getting in the Senate
demanding protection for sugar as
the price Of his vote. Senator Man
derson, after expressing the hope
that the selfish protection sentiment
of the Louisiana Senator, which pro-
poses merely to benefit q locality,
would one day grow into sentiment
broad enough to favor protection Tor
all industries, said: ''I vote here rep
resentating a prairie state, not only
for protection on beet sugar and on
the products of the farm, but L vote
for protection to the loom, to the fac
tory, to the boundary, to the lurnoe
man and to the miner. l do not rep
resent on this floor simply part or
the whole of the state of Nebraska.
lam A SENATOR OF THE UNITED
STATES. And whether l am in the
other House as a representative, or
here as a Senator, mo pent up Utica, ,
like district or like district or like
state can contract my legislative
powers"
Democrats are pretending to be very
much surprised because of ex-Speak-
err Reeds assertion that silver and the
tariff are questions which ought to be
settled together, but there is no oc-
casion for surprise, as the same idea
has been advanced by prominent re-
publicans before now. 1t is we'll
known that was entertained by the
late James G.. Blaine, and that it was
included in the results he expected
from his recipro city policy. Senator
Lodge in a strong speech against the
tariff bill took the ground that the
two questions were closely allied, and
Senator 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
is travelling in good republican foot
prints, as he usually does.