Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-05-18
HAS A SUMMER JOB.
An investigating Committee
Created by the Senate.
IT COVERS THE WHOLE SUBJECT

OF Senatorial Legislative Morals and Takes
PLEASANT Lodge Shuts Out No Amend.
ment aud the Action Of the Upper House
Embraces Evcrything-Text OF the Reso-
luton and Makeup OF tho Committee.
WASHINGTON. May lS-The senate has
gone into investigation with a rush, and
adopted q resolution that il carried out in
its full scope will investigate the earth, as
it were. Everything goes" seemed to
hive been the order of the day. Only one
proposition was rejected. Morgan opened
the ball with resolution for an investiga-
ton of the sugar trust and to find out
whether there was any defect in the anti
tru law. Then the Lodge resolution to
inquire into the alleged attempt to bride
senators on the tariff bill and whether the
agar trust had influenced the sugar
schedule in its own favor came up. Lodge
took the floor and proceeded to state the
charges that had appeared in the newspa-
pers regarding that particular matter.
Details Oh the Sugar Accusation.
On Monday. he said. ar article had ap-
peared in the Philadelphia Press charg-
ing that an enormous profit would accrue
to the sugar trust by the fixing of the
date when the sugar schedule would go
into effect at Jan. !, which profit was es-
timated at $50 000, 600 1t charged that
this schedule was exacted by the trust in
fulfillment of pledges made to it during
the campaign of .S92. 1t also charged
that the Jones amendments were in the
hands of a firm of New York brokers'
whose names We're given-at the very time
when their existence was denied by the
chairman of the finance committee and
Others. These charges were made by f.
j. Edwards, well-knOwn newspaper man,
who wrote over the nom de plume of Hol-
land.
Either . Great Scandal or Great Libel.
II there was any truth in these charges,
he said, the public ought to know it; if
false, they constituted a libel of the
grossest kind. On Wednesday a New
York paper from its correspondent here
had printed story of an alleged attempt
to bride United States senators that
since had been confirmed by an interview
with one of the senators.
Hunton spoke briefly saying that he felt
annoyed that any one should suppose that
he could be bribed. As matter of fact
he had never been personally approached,
rs the proposition had been made to his
son, who was rs far above anything of the
sort as he himself was.
All Amendments Accepted.
Then began the amendment Cockrell
wanted to amend SO rs to extend the sugar
trust inquiry to contributions to any po-
litical party for campaign purposes or to
secure legislation and Lodge was agree
able. Hansbrough read a letter from c.
w. Buttz asking a speedy investigation of
the alleged tariff bribery and denying the
story rs a Islander without foundation.
Allen wanted the resolution broadened
some more, so as to take in the alleged
speculations by senators in sugar stocks.
and there being no response later put it in
forma! shape and Lodge was again agree
able. Chandler proposed more compre-
hension SO as to inclnde in the sugar trust
part contributions for ''other election pur-
poses"
Made 1t Wide as Space.
That went in all right, and Faulkner fol.
lowed with some more. He proposed that
the investigation take in not only what is
now charged relating to corrupting in
fluences ON the tariff bill, but any charges
that might be hereafter made to the inves-
tigating committee appointed under the
resolution. He got place, and Quay then
proposed that the resolution take in
charges in connection with all legislation
This the senate seemed to think was too
big a contract. and it failed to get in. The
resolution was then adopted without di-
vision