The herald., 1897-05-29
,ufrer while the milrionaires are turned

xUUSS.7
After protests from Pettus. that Till
man should name at least one senator
accused, Ellman went on to state thai
when the former tariff bill was framed
s the finance committee had left theii
committee room and had taken quarters
1t the Arlington hotel.
The senator is grossly mistaken" in
kerrupted Vest 1.-The Democratic mem
bers of the finance committee did not &c
( to the Arlington hotel or anywhere
alse outside of their committee room al
The capitol"
Tillman said he was glad the DEM
Dcratic party was relieved to this extent
but he added: Now, no one denies that
for the last two months rooms at the
Arlington have been occupied by the
finance committee in easy touch with
the telephone to New York and easy
reach of the agents Of the sugar trust"
"Why is it," he asked, that the sugar
trust can always command a specific
instead Of an ad valorem duty? Why
was it that they cleared $25.000,000 in
three years? 1t was the Democratic
party who made it possible in 1894.
"And now" he proceeded with a
disgraced and demoralized Democratic
party out of power and the Republicans
In charge of affairs, we have another
damning evidence of the sugar trusts
power"
Tillman said he would now present
specifications and he had read a number
of signed articles in the newspapers OF
New York, Chicago and elsewhere, maxi
ing various charges against senator's,
some by name.
The first article began: "Smith aheaS
On sugar" and spoke Of the New Jersey
senator's selling 5000 shares of sugar
stock short at profit of $4,000.
Smith was not in the chamber at the
time.
Another article spoke of the large
profits to senators and stated that 5000
shares of sugar stock had been handled
the day before for three senators.
Tillman said it was about time these
specific charges, most of them signed
with the names of their authors, should
be probed. There should be no mix
ture of the old INVESTIGATION and the new
one.
LET us not mix up the Democratic
sheep with the Republican goats" he
said, "but let us have a fumigation."
1t was not time WIN senators should
sit here. apparently silenced by coward
ice or corruption. The Republicans had
received the recent campaign contribu-
tions from the octopus" he said, and
1t should be brought to the light before
the American people. If this gang of
thieves and robbers" were to have AL
they wanted then let the American la
boring man realize what a glorious sem
ate represented him at Washington.
In conclusion, Mr.. Tillman reiterated
that if the senate is "rotten to the bot
TOM it should be proved. If these
charges were false then the lies should
be laid bare. If the charges were true,
then, he said, the guilty senators should
be turned out and the senate purged.
Mr.. Aldrich of Rhode Island, Repub-
lican. member of the finance committee
and in charge of the tariff bill, then took
the floor as Mr.. Tillman closed.
1t had been charged, or inferred, he
said, that the sugar trust dictated the
sugar schedule.
'But I desire to say to the senate, to
the senator (Tillman) and to every
man in the United States, that no person
connected with the sugar trust at any
time or at any place, influenced the
framing of the sugar schedule, or re-
ceived information as to its character.
/ desire to make the statement as broad
as the English language can make it."
Mr.. Aldricfl said that no living per-
son outside of the members of the COM
mittee had any information as to the
subject until thirty-six hours before it
was reported. Then the senator from
bod hann chnvvn the
schedule No human being beyond this
had received the slightest information.
"And any man who says so, or inti-
mates so,' added Mr. Aldrich, deserves
to be denounced in way which would
not be parliamentary here"
Mr.. Tillman interrupted to say tina.
he had not made the charges; he had
merely submitted public statements
with the authors name signed.
Mr.. Aldrich, proceeding, said the full
est investigation was courted; tina.
there was nothing to conceal. No in
formation ever went from that COM
mite room to any telephone to any one.
He (Aldrich) had never bought or sold
a share of sugar stock. 1t was easy for
correspondents to make such charges.
but they were absolutely false. With
out further debate the resolution was
referred to the committee on contingent
expenses, and on motion of Mr.. Aldrich
the senate took up the tariff bill.
Mr.. Vest opposed the proposed in
crease on soda ash from a to $40 of a
cent per pound as unfair to soap max
ers. The amendment was agreed to
without division, but was reconsidered
and allowed to go over TO permit Mr.
Gray to be heard on it.
There was only brief discussion of
the remaining paragraphs in the chem
ical schedules, Mr.. Jones stating that
while they were not accepted without
protest by the Democrats, those in
charge of the Democratic interests con-
sidered it unnecessary to consume time
to no avail with the majority 90 evident
ly against them.
The next schedule, relating to earths,
earthenware and glassware, was en-
tered upon.
An amendment limiting the fire brick
to be imported at $12O per ton to those
weighing less than ten pounds each was
accepted.
The duty on Portland and other hy
draulic cements in barrels and sacks
was increased from 8 to II cents per
hundred weight. After Mr.. White had
criticized the increase as opposed to the
interests of the builders and Mr.. Petit
grew had defended it, saying it should
be greater in the interest of American