The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-06-18

ments throughout. Mr.. Searles said ms
sole business in Washington last winter
was for the purpose of influencing congress
sional legislation on the sugar scheoule.
Then Mr.. Allen proceeded to question
Mr.. Searles about the contributions OF the
trust to campaign funds. Mr.. Searles SAID
that contributions had been made i'll lS32.
but he did not care to teStlly OH mat
point unless the resolution, under "hlch
the committee was acting, embraced that
INQUIRY He was told that the resolution
did embrace that point. and answered:
I'm answer to that question with refer
ence to any contributions to secure or de-
feat legislation. answer emphatlcahy no.
How the Sugar Sharks Rob.
Washington, d. c.. June 10 Especial. l.
The cases Of Correspondents Edwards
and Shriver for refusing to tell everything
they know to the senate investigating com
mittee are pending before the district
courts. 1t is not improbable that these
correspondents will be punished by fine and
Imprisonment.
Among their charges were that the sugar
trust owned some senators.
Whether that be true or untrue the adj
missions of President Havemeyer, Of the
sugar trust, in his testimony before the in
vestigatng committee are sufficient to
arouse every honest American citizen
against the sugar schedule in the tariff
bill now pending before the senate.
1t is nothing more nor less than a sche-
dule which will rob every American citizen
for the benefit of the sugar trust.
Mr. Havemeyer in his testimony says
the sugar trust has only the politics Of
business; that it has contributed to various
campaign funds of both parties. He re-
fused, however, to give amounts.
Taxing the Public.
The most significant admission of Have
ic q n IF
the sugar trust, by virtue Of the protection
accorded it, it has made a profit of % of
cent pound on it's sugar. He added:
Under the pending tariff bill the in
creased price of sugar to the consumer,
from the present price, would be one cent
Il pound.
Being able to fix the price in America,
has it not been the policy of the trust to
fix it just low enough to keep out refined
sugar made in foreign countries;' asked
Senator Lindsay
THAT is the business, practically, of the
American Sugar Refining Company" said
Mr.. Havemeyer
and you have so fixed it as to practically
exclude all foreign competitions
Eyes, sir; protection to own bust
ness"
an fact" said Senator Allen, "the very
purpose Of the formation Of the trust,
understand you, was to advance the price
of sugar to the American consumer?'
Yes, SIR" the frank response.
And the American consumer is today
paying Is of a cent a pound on refined
sugars more than he would be compelled to
pay under system Of free Cor separately
refineries?"
Yes, sir
other People Think SO, Too.
In all his testimony, in this extract,
Mr.. Havemeyer is frank. From reading
1t 4 hn
feels he has congress under his thumb and
is confident of getting all the protection
he wants.
The senate committee has given in to
the trust in the pending tariff bill. By
some unknown means the entire senate has
been forced to stand and deliver to the
trust at the expense Of the American pe0-
pie. The senate proposes to tax the people
for the benefit of the sugar trust. The
people must pay toll of Is of cent
pound to the sugar trust on every pound of
sugar they consume. They must pay it to
protect this great American industry. In
Guiding officers, clerks and laborers the
various factories of the trust support $4,000
people. Every man, woman and child of
the 650O0,O0o American people must be
49, e e. y afl etery pound of sugar
I'll -: >4jl.oStf>.S 10 furnish this $4,000 peoDt
with employment and make the stock
holders in the concern rich.
The senate has already voted on this
schedule of protection to the trust and
adopted it, but fortunately for the Ameri
can people the house has not. The house
is against it. Once it had, by a large ma
jority, voted to put all sugars the free
list. 1t may do so again. Certainly it Will
never agree to the enormous protection
to the sugar trust the senate has granted
it. The house may put a small duty on
sugar for revenue purposes, for it is a
revenue producing article, but unless senti-
ment is to be changed in a night by undue
methods it Will never agree to a schedule
that fosters q trust by taxing the people
for it's benefit E. W. b.
Ransom Son Played Little.
Washington, June 16-Many senators were
examined to day by the senatorial commit
tee engaged in investigating the relations
between the sugar trust and senators. When
the committee adjourned it had heard the
testimony of seVenty-four Of the eightytVe
members of the senate The eleven who are
yet to be examined are Messrs. Butler,
Cameron. Dixon German, Irby, Mitchell of
Oregon, PittigreW, Walsh, Washburn, Will
son and Wolcott Most of these are out Of
town and Senator Wolcott is i'll in Paris
The committee developed no sensations
today, but it managed to explode one. For
some time past there have been runlors
that Senator Ransom, of North Carolina,
had been specializing in sugar stock but
the reputation for integrity held by him has
effectually prevented their publication. To-
day the basis for these rumors was shown
by the statement of the senator to the COM
mittee that his son, George, who is his
clerk. and Captain Barnes, his messenger,
had invested small sums III the bucket shops.
The explanation of General Ransome was
complete Yindication for him from the
accusations contained in the rumOrS.
Nearly all the senators who testified to-
do TO ha
tons prepared by the committee and were
allowed to go without further examination.
All those, however, whose names had been
mentioned by witnesses in connection with
the sugar legislation questioned at
length. They the members of the
finance committee and Senators Smith, of
New Jersey; Murphy, of New York and a
few Others The categorical questions ask
ed by the committee of every senator who
appeared before it, were follows:
Have you given any information, direct
~ or indirectly, to any interested in
sugar Stocks called in the stock of
the American Sugar Refining Company, that
was intended calculated to affect it's
value?
Have you bought or sold, directly or in
directly, since the beginning of this session
of congress, any sO-Called sugar stock or
stocks, or stock certificates of the Ameri-
can Sugar Refining Company?
Have you been concerned with any one
in interest, direct indirect, contingent