The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1897-06-08
"SECURLY
Locked up Is The Business
OfCOngress and One Man
Carries the Key"
SO Says DIR. sunderland, One Of The
Greatest Republicans In America.
From our Regular Correspondent,

WASHINGTON, June 4th, 1897:--
Republicans pretend to pooh-pooh
Senator Morgan's deliberately
made charge that the action of the
House Is unconstitutional and thai
Congress is not legally in session
but in reality it is worrying them
no little. The matter has been dis
cussed at cabinet meeting and
the Attorney General is preparing
an opinion on the subject to be sub
mitted to the Cabinet.
The Senate has adopted resolu.
tion offered by Senator Tillman, re-
questing the Judiciary Committee
to report what legislation is necess'
airy to enable the State of South
Carolina to control the liquor
traffic within its territory. The
resolution is intended 10 meet the
decision of the Federal Court that
the present dispensary law of s. @
is in conflict with the interstate
commerce law.
1t looks now as though there
would be no sugar investigation
Had vote been taken on Senator
Tillman's resolution when it was
6rst offered it would have been
adopted, but having conferred to.
gether the republican Senators
have recovered their nerve and II
is now announced that they will
vote against the resolution.
The following language wasn't
uttered by n democratic member
of the House, but by one of Wash
ington's oldest ministers of the
gospel, DIR. Byron Sunderland, at
mass meeting held under the
auspices OF the Woman's National
Cuban League, to express the grief
and indign alton of the American
public at the atrocious murder of
an American nurse by the Span
iards, DIR. Sunderland said: "The
government of the U. S. seems to
be recreant to its duty in this en-
ergency. Look at the conduct of
this Congress of ours. The House
of Representatives, called together
to take action on questions of vital
moment to the welfare of our peo-
pie, as well as of our suffering fell
low-citizens in Cuba, adjourning
from day to day. All business
locked up securely and the key
carried in one mans pocket. Mean
while, members of this body, in
cahoots with half a dozen members
of the British Parliament, with the
Ministers of both powers acting as
regaling themselves at a
game of chess! The com mittee
rooms of the House given over to
carry on the sport"
Senator Jones of Arkansas,
doesn't believe in straddling any
question. Two democratic Sena-
tors voted with the republicans for
a duty on onyx because of the ex-
istence of onyx quarries in their
States, and Senator Perkins said he
was surprised that Senator Jones
did not do so in order to help de-
velop the large onyx deposits
known to exist in Arkansas. Mr..
Jones said in reply: "There is no
justification for tariff taxation, ex-
cept for the purposes Of revenue,
and will not support an excessive
tax, even for the benefit of my
people. Taxation for private pene-
ft is robbery, pure and simple"
Jerry Simpson may not be able
to cope with Speaker Reed, but he
made Representative Stone sorry
he interrupted him to ask If there
was any greater demand for the
passage of bankruptcy bill now
than there was during the last Con-
gress, by replying: "Why certainly
there is; your promised prosperity
has not materialized and the people
now seek relief in bankruptcy
courts"
If the works of the Washington
Judge who preceded over the court
that tried and acquitted Have
meyer and Searles, the president
and secretary of the sugar trust,
mean anything they mean that the
Senate committee had no legal
to ask questions relating
TO the business Of the sugar trust.
II this is good law, the laws of the
country cannot be too soon so
as to give Congress the
right to investigate the business of
The sugar trust, and of all other
trusts, whenever there is occasion
10 do so In the interest OF the public.
1t is guilty conscieuces which
have caused Speaker Reed to be
guarded by detectives, for fear that