The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-08-02
WHITEWASH.
A Big Smooth Coat Of It
Applied
By the SugarScandal In'ye~tiga-
ting Committee.
REPORT SUBMITTED.
Says Lobbyists Did Visit Mem
bers of the Senate,
But Senator's tSay"They Didn't
Take Any Doodle.
TAKE THEIR WORD.
Investigators Think the Sena-
tors Say So Sufficient.
The Report Makes the Scandal
Worse Than Ever.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.-senator Gray.
chairman of the sugar investigating
committee. presented the report of tha
committee to the senate today, and asked
that the committee be discharged.
Secretary Carlisle is exonerated s'es-
cept that it is a fact according TO 6ecre-
tary Carlisle's testimony that he did at
the request of Senator Jones, of the
finance committee, draft an amendment
to the sugar schedule, a copy Of which.
as described by Mr.. Carlisle, is attached
as an exhibit TO the testimony"
The conduct of Mr.. Edwards (cgrres-
pondent of the Philadelphia Press. says
the report, in publishing specific charges
against public men without having per-
sOnal knowledge of the facts calls for
serious reprobAtion of the senate.
The committee also says. "Ihere has
been no testimony presented before your
committee, and your committee has been
unable to discover any, tending go show
that the sugar schedule was made up. as
it then stood in the proposed amendment
to the tariff bill, in consideration ct
large or any sums Of money paid iof
campaign purposes Of the Democratic
party"
Nor is there, they unite in saying. amy
evidence in support Of the statement
that either Of the Messra. Havemeyer had
lnIGENleW
on yacht in the summer of 1892 on lta5
in regard to the sugar Interests of the
Hawaiian islands or any other sugar iu-
terests, or the policy of the admiuistra-
ton in regard TO them.
@On the contrary it has been aiirma-
lively shown" they say, "that the state-
ment is untrue 10 any such interview
having occurred"
It is, the committee says, shown by the
evidence, that cne or more officers Of iAe
sugar trust we're IN w ashingtons ana thHl
thev saw senators, generally those repre-
senting states in which sugar rehueriea
were located, with the view Of ainhueu, S
legislation, but these gentlemen deny The
use Of any improper motives to thar end
Both members Of the trust and finance
committee deny that any meeting took
place between them at the capitol of
elsewhere, as was stated i'm the "Holland'
letter to have taken place, and there is
no evidence in support Of the statements
in this regard
"Though perhaps outside the scope of
the duty imposed upon your committee
they sav. ssthey take occasion TO strongly
deprecate the importantly and pressure
to which congress and its members are
subjected by the representative or great
industrial combinations, whose enormous
wealth tends to suggest undue influence
and to create in the public mind de-
moralizing belief in the existence Of corr
The committee reports ia the negative
upon the question whether any senator
has been Specializing in sugar stocks dur-
ing the consideration of the tariff 1ill-
As to the latter branch of the inquiry,
which brought out a Photographic COPY
of an order to buy sugar stocks, dated
March I'd, and purpurhng 20 ba
signed by Senator Camden, the committee
gives credence to the denial Of Senator
Camden, and =says that BauershaA,
whose testimony was expected TO bear
up the inference from the Photographic
copy, Is man of doubtful character.
Senator Smith is also exonerated from
blame.
All the testimony taken by the com-
mittee is submitted "a part OF the ra-
port.
CONFERREEs REPORT PROGREss-
IL VIII be Several Days Before nu AWraa-
lnent As Reached
WAsHINGroN, Aug. 2.-The Demo-
cratic tariff conference held an unusually