The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-05-29
T|LLMAN On TRUSTS
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| gambler. who had cards up his sleeve"
| Such a man should be made to hang his
| head in shame if his colleagues allowed
! him to remain in the Senate.
| Another article read from the desk
/ spoke of the large profits to Senator's
| and stated that 5000 shares of Sugar
! stock had been handled the day before
| for three Senators. Another article stat
| ed that Mr.. White, New York broker,
| had maintained sumptuous Offices whHe
| the sugar schedule was in committee
! and had then gone out OF business mere
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+ ho. said. "au4 Fl slnuld bee BROUGHT 40 the
/ feat before tie American ueaple. If
this "uau@ Of thieves and robbers" were
! 10 have all they NuuNd, then iet thc
I American lah0riu@ maa realize what Il
glorious Senate represents him at Wash
ington.
In conclusion, Mir. Illlman reiterated
that if the Senate is rotten to the bot
! tom" 1t 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, Republican member of the
Finance committee, and in charge of the
tariff bill, took the floor as Mr.. Tillman
closed. lie stepped forward from his
rear seat and spoke calmly, deliberately,
but with intense earnestness. He spoke
of the task of any man seeking to frame
a tariff bill, and the purpose to question
his motives. In view of the statements
of the South Carolina Senator, Mr.. AL
drich said he. felt it was incumbent on him
to make a statement as TO the circum-
stances surrounding the framing of the
sugar schedule. 1t had been charged, or
inferred, he said, that the Sugar Trust
dictated the sugar schedule.
But | desire to say to the Senator
CTillman) 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 received information as to f.,
its character L desire to make the
statement as broad as the English lam
guage can make 1t, MIR. Aldrich said, !
that no person, outside OF the committee ,
had any information as to the subject
until two days before it was reported.
Then the Senator from Nevada, Mr.. /;
Jones, had been shown the schedule. I
This was only thirty six hours before the !
report of the bill. No human being be-
yond this had received the slightest in
formation.
And any man who says so, or intimates !
so,' added Mr.. Aldrich, deserves to be /
denounced in a way which would not be
parliamentary here"
Mr. Tillman interrupted to say that he
had not made the charges he had merely I
submitted the statements now circulated !
before the public, with the authors name !
signed. The writers had the right to ac- |
cuse the Finance committee if they could !
prove their statements; land will you |
submit to investigation" he said address
ing Mr.. Aldrich.
The latter, proceeding, said the fullest |
investigation was courted; there was |
nothing to conceal. In answer to ques- !