The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1897-05-14
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER..
WASHINGTON. d. c., MAY 10th.

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WAsHINGToN, D. c., May 10th.
MR.. EDIToR:-Is there to be another
sugar scandal? That is the question that
is being asked oftener and oftener as the
sugar schedule in the amended tariff Dill
is becoming understood. Washington Is
full of ugly rumors concerning that sugar
schedule and the manner in which it was
adopted, one being that copy OF the
schedule..was in the hands of broker sew
eral days before the bill was reported to
the Senate, and was used for specu-
latve purposes Senator Jones, of Ne
vada., is reported to have stated that at
the last meeting of the republican men,
bers of the Senate Finance committee,
which he was invited to attend it was
definitely understood that the provision
rocty treaty should remain in the
bill yet when the bill was report
ed to the Senate the next day that
clause was left out. 1t is notorious that
the treaty with Hawaii abrogated 1t is
also known that a majority of Congress is
opposed to the aggregation of this treaty.
Can it be wondered at then, that it should
be charged that the treaty provision was
left out of the bill so that money might
be made specializing in the stock of tho
sugar trust? Prominent republicans have
openly denounced this sugar schedule as
muddled and mixed SO as to confuse the
public as to the benefit the sugar trust
would derive from it. The Dingley bill
as passed by the House gave the sugar
quarter of cent a pound on sugar
but Representative Swanson, of Va,
demoo ratio member of the House Ways
and Means committee, who has carefully
analysed the present schedule positively
asserts that, 1.-The least possible protection
to the sugar trust in the sche llle adopt, d
bv the Senate Finance O nmittee IS e ly
half cent pound" Whether the pres
ent schedule be allowed to stand or not;
the sugar trust people and those who
stand in with them have probably already
utilized it to make a big pile of money by
specuiating.
Mr. Claude NJ Johnson, the gold demo-
crat who, as IA personally requested favor
of eX-Secretary Carlisle, is being allowed
to remain at the heal of the Bureau of
Engraving and Printing, is getting some
rongh raking over from democrats. Ee
is accused of recommending the reinstat,
ment of republicans whose dismissal h
had recommends to the Secretary of the
Treasury for specific cause, under the late
administration, and is said to take espe-
cial lcasure in "a republican reinstatement
that pushes regular democrat out.
The country is likely to get an idea very
soon of why Mr.. Theodore Roosevelt,
some time referred to as ':Scrapping Ted
dy," was made Assistant Sec. of the Ma
w, as Mr.. Roosevelt will this week begin
yard, with special reference to its employ
ment of labor 1t has been limited that
boss Plat has an understanding with Mr.
Roosevelt and that the New York navy
yard in to be utilized in behalf of the re
publican machine in greater New York
but it will not be believed by those who
have faith in Mr.. Rooseve't's rrofessio
of reform, until there is proof in sight.
Now that the arbitration treaty has been
rejected, largely by the efforts and votes
| of democratic senators, lots of those who
| were at one time advocating the ratifica
| ton of the treaty are talking about what
| lucky escape the United States had.
Recent news from Ohio has not been at
all satisfactory to Boss Hanna and his
hopes of retaining the Seat in the Senate
John Sherman was compelled to give him
and he has gone to Ohio to study the sit
uatioE at close range, and figure up how
much cash he shall put into the campaign
His republican colleagues in the Senate
showed how transient they regarded him
by failing to make him chairman of any
committee assignments. They could not
very we'll have made palmer their belief
that the next Ohio legislature would b.
democratic and Mr.. Hanna's successor a
democrat. 1t was given out by Mr.. Hanna
that he was going home for a rest, by or
der of his physician.
If indications are not very deceptive
the influence of the sugar trust is quite as
potent in the White House as in the Sen
ate. Mr.. Mckinley has been unable to
stand the pressure, and will, there are
reasons to believe, save the New York
broker Chapman who refused to divulge
the names of Senators who specialized in
Sugar through his firm from the ignominy
of serving the term in Jail to which he
was sentenced by pardoning him. If he
does, the pardon will indirectly re-
suit in saving the members of the sugar
trust who are under indictment for con-
tempt in the same case, as the indictments
will probably be mol pressed if Chapman
is pardoned.
Chairman Hattersley w. Talbot, of the
democratic State central committee, has
called meeting of that committee at the
Carrollton Hotel on Wednesday, June end.
The situation in the party will be discuss
ed, plans for the coming campaign dis.
cussed and the dates of the primaries and
of the State convention fixed. Prior to
the meeting Mr.. Talbot will confer with
the committeeman from the counties in
reference to affairs in their counties and
steps to he taken to put them in good con
1itiOn for the elections this fall
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