The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1894-05-25
mot IMPOTENT THERE
Says Havemeyer of the Sugar
Trust in the Senate.
FRIENDS IN THE SENATE, TOO
Newspaper Men Give Damaging Tes-
timony Before the Bribery
Committee.
FRIENDS IN THE SENATE, TOO
Associated Press.

Associated Press.
washington, May 24.-The senate
bribery investigation committee today
began a. secret inquiry into the connec-
| ton of the sugar trust with tariff legis-
lation. L. ]. Edwards, the author of
the Holland" letter in the Philadelphia
Press, was before the committee several
hours. He declined to state his authori-
ty for the information that Secretary
| Carlisle appeared before the tariff sub
committee before the original senate bill
was reported and insisted that sugar be
given protection because of party
pledges made before the election, or for
the statement that Carlisle himself had
revised and written the sugar schedule.
The other statements, the authority for
which Edwards declined to give, were
| that 100000 was contributed by the
| sugar trust to the Democratic campaign
fund.
Edwards said his first information as
to the interest of the sugar trust in
politics had come in the spring of 1892.
when it had contributed $4,000 to the
cause of the 'anti-snappers" in New
York, but he had thought comparative
ly little of this when he had heard Of
it's further large donations in the fall
of that year. His first intimation of
Mr.. Havemeyer's interest in tariff legis-
lation had been received from an in
terview with him published in the
Brooklyn Eagle as early as the 25th of
last january, in which he said the tariff
would be looked after when it should
reach the senate.
1--WE are not without influence in the
senate" Mr.. Havemeyer was reported
to have said. I'VE are not impotent
there"
Weekly, of which ex-Secretary Schurz
is editor, had asserted the trust was not
without friends in the cabinet and in
congress, and said he obtained his in
formation about the reported meeting
of Havemeyer and Senators Brice and
Smith at the Arlington hotel, in this
city, from newspaper publications. With
reference to the speculation of senators
in sugar trust stock, he said it was a
matter of common report in New York
that four or five senators had engaged
in speculation, but he said that owing
to the fact that their dealings came
under the class known as privileges,
puts and calls, there was no record kept
of them, and the fact of. this trading
would be difficult of proof.
The afternoon session was brought to
sudden halt by the committee de-
manding that Edwards give his authori- |
ty for statements made in his testimony |
concerning Secretary Carlisle's inter-
view with the subcommittee of the
finance committee and the committee |
drafting the sugar schedule. This Ed
wards declined to do. The committee
insisting, he asked to be allowed to |
consult with his attorney Judge Dit
tenhoefer. The request was granted.
John Schriver the Washington corre-
spondent of the New York Mail and |
Express. was examined in regard to a |
dispatch which appeared in his paper
May 10, stating that an interview be-
tween United States senator and |
members of the sugar trust, in par
lor Of the Arlington hotel, had been
overheard by wire manufacturer, who
occupied the adjoining room. Schriver
was asked the name of his authority. |
and also the name OF the wire manu-
facturer mentioned. Schriver said the
story had been given him by a con-
gressman, but he declined to give his
name, or name the wire manufacturer.
Harry w. Walker. Washington cor
respondent OF the st. Louis Post Dis
patch, was called. and asked to state
where he had obtained the information
published by him in dispatch, in which
he stated that a prominent member of
the cabinet had intimated that the
president himself had confessed the
Democratic party was under obligations
to the sugar trust. Walker also con-
firmed Mr.. Schriver's story. He re-
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