The St. Johns herald., 1897-05-22
WASHINGTON LETTER.
The Sugar Schedule of the New
 Tariff BilI-NOtes.
From Our Regular Correspondent

Tariff BiII-NOtes.
 From Our Regular Correspondent
 WASHINGTON, D. C., May F.
 Is there to be another sugar scandal That is the question that is being asked oftener and Oftener as the sugar sched- ule in the amended tariff bill is becom- ing better understood Washington is full of ugly rumors concerning that su- gar schedule and the manner in which it was adopted, one being that a copy oi l the schedule was in the hands of a bro- ker several days before the bill was re- ported to the senate, and was used for speculative purposes. Senator Jones, ! of Nevada, is reported to have stated that at the last meeting of the republi- can members of the Senate Finance committee, which he was invited to at- tend, it was definitely understood that the provision expressly continuing the ] Hawaiian reciprocity treaty should re- mann in the bill. yet when the bill was ! reported to the senate next day that 1 clause was left out. It IS notorious hat l the sugar trust has been working to get ! the treaty with Hawaii abrogated. 1t also known that majority of congress is opposed to the abrogation of this treaty. Can it be wondered at, then, that il should be charged that tle treaty provision was left out of the bill so that money might be made speculating in the stock of the sugar trust? PrOmi- nent republicans have openly denC unced this sugar schedule as indefensible and as being Intentionally mnddled 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 trust protection to the extent of one quarter of cent pound on sugar, but Representative Swanson, of Virginia, democratic member of the House Ways and Means committee, who has carefully analysed the present schedule, positively asserts that ''the least possible protection to the sugar trust in the schedule adopted by the Senate Finance committee is nearly half cent a pound" Whether the present 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 big pile of money by speculating.
 Mir Claude NJ. Johnson, the gold democrat, who, as d personally re- quested favor of exSecretary Carlisle, is being allowed to remain at the head of the Bureau of Engraving and Print ing, is getting some rough raking over from democrats. He is accused of rec ommending the reinstatement of repub- licans whose dismissal he had recon mended to the Secretary of the Treas ury for specific cause, under the late ad- ministration, and is said to take especial pleasure in republican reinstatement that pushes a regular democrat out.
 The country is likely to get an idea very soon of why Mr. Theodore ROose welt, sometimes referred to as "Scrap- ping Teddy" was made assistant SC, re- tary of the navy, as MT. Roosevelt will this week begin an investigation of the New York navy yard, with special refer ence to it's employment of labor. It has been hinted that Boss Platt has had an understanding with MT. Roosevelt, and that the New York navy yard is to be utilized in behalf of the republican ma chine in greater New York, but it will not be believed by those who have faith in Mir. RooseveIt's professions 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 ore time advocating the ratification ef 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 | that John Sherman was compelled to give him, and he has gone to Ohio to study the situation at close range, and figure up how much cash he shall put into the campaign. His republican col leagues in the senate showed how tran