The St. Johns herald., 1897-07-03
WASHINGTON LETTER.
The Sugar Trust Playing a Fine
 Game-Other Notes.
From Our Regular Correspondent

} From Our Regular Correspondent
 , WASHINGTON, June 26, 1897.
 The sugar trust is playing a shrewd , tariff game to get what it wants while pretending to the contrary, and it is bound to win. Tie original Dingley su- gar schedule, which gives the trust an
 increase of four cents on each hundred
 pounds over what it now receives on
 ninety-six degree sugar, is ali the trust
 expected to get from Che beginning. Tn
 the first senate schedule, the increase
 was made nine cents. and in the sched,
 ule which was last week adopted by the senate the increase was put at ten cents
 hundred pounds When the bill goes
 to conference, the house will insist on
 it's sugar schedule being adopted, with
 the chances in favor of succeeding.
 Then it will be announced with great
 flourish of trumpets by republicans that
 the sugar trust has been knocked out;
 while the members of he trust will chuckle over having got as much as they expected to get. besides having made a lot of money by specu' ating in sugar stock while the several schedules were pending. That's the game Of course the trust would gladly take the ten cents a hundred increase given in the senate schedule, or anything between that and the four cents of the house schedule that the house ccnferees can he per suaded to give, but it doesn't really ex- pect to get more than four cents. which added 10 the thirty-seven cents it now gets, will give it forty-one cents hun ! dred As its profits have been $25 ,00O, ,- 1 coo with thirty-seyen cents, it will be seen that it is not playing tor small stake even to get the increase of four cents a hundred.
 Ii will probably be the middle of July or later, before the country is allowed to learn officially what the Mckinley Cuh&H policy is tO be, as 1t is now stated Hat tho new policy IS 10 he inaugurated by negotiations 10 be opened by General stewart L. Woodiord, the new minister 10 Spain, as soon as he arrives at Madrid, and he does not expect to start until af- ter the f;st of July Befo'e he gets 10 Madrid, ex-Congressman Aldrich, of Illinois, tbe gentleman who, notwith- standing the hacking of Czar Reed, las been turned down by Mir. Mckinley m folr or five instances, will he nominated to succeed General Fitzhugh Lee as consul general to Cuba. Ii there be any truth in cnrrent talk, Mr McKin- ley's policy will be more popular in Spain than in Cuba.
 There was some talk of a caucus of democratic senators to adopt a resolu- ton to oppose the ratification of the treaty for the annexation of Hawaii, but so many democratic senators have said that they would not he bound by eau GUS, because they intend voting for the treaty, that the idea has been aban- doned There will be less democratic opposition to the treaty when the sena- tors have had an opportunity to learn the sentiment of their constituents.
 The democrats won a tariff victory, l although It will probably only be tenn porary, when Senator Vests amend ment putting straw mating, plain jute fabrics, burIaps and cotton bagging on the free list, was adopted.
 Senator Morgan continues to take an occasional shot at Czar Reeds idlers | Ills latest was pointed reference to a | Legislative body that used to sit at the national capitol, about two hundred feet from us :" He added that the members of this body were now men of leisure, meeting only twice q week, in accord ance with rule of their own adoption and in defiance of the constitution.
 Mir. F Wolff, president of an iron shiphuildng company, at Portland, Ore gon, who is now in Washington, says Of the political situation in his section: ''Il an election were held now for president the whole Pacific slope would vote for Bryan over any man the republi, ans could name It was hard struggle to hold Oregon in line last year, but to-day it would be impossible"
 The Civil Service commission is inves- tgating charges preferred against Pub lie Printer Palmer, who has been mak- ing removals of democrats and in every case giving their places to republicans Inasmuch as Palmer would not have ( dared to act without the consent Of MT. at whose pleasure the Civil Service commissioners hold their places their is little probability that the Inves- ligation will amount to anything prac- teal.
 After the acquittal of the sugar trust kings by Washington courts, nobody was surprised that the two newspaper { who were under indict- ment for contempt, were also acquitted. In fact, the only surprising thlng about the whole business was that Broker Chapman was convicted and compelled to serve even his easy sentence in jail It is difficult for the lay mind to compre
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