The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-05-29

Senator Tillman Wants Another In
vestigating Committee
TO PROBE NEWSPAPER CHARGES.

TO PROBH NEWSPAPER UHARGbS,
The south Carolina senator startIes
the Dignined Senators with a Piain-
ness OF speech seldom Heard About
the Halls of Congress.
washington, May 29.-After O. long
period of silence, Senator Tillman, Of
South Carolina, startled the senate yes
terday by a speech no less dramatic i'm
its delivery than sensational in it's al
legations, He preceded it by present
ing a resolution for the appointment Of
a special committee Of five senators to
investigate charges of speculation by
senators while the tariff bill was be-
fore the finance committee. In advo-
eating the resolution Mr.. Tillman
threw aside the usual conventional
/ tiles of the senate and with a plainness
/ of speech seldom heard about the halls
/ Of congress called on his associates to
! investigate the published charges of
! senatorial speculation, and If found
/ true to purge the senate of those who
| debauched it. The senator had pub
/ lished articles read from the desk
/ stating that senators had recently
| made large sums of money in speculat-
! ing in sugar stock, and in one instance
/ the name of the senator (Mr. Smith of
| New Jersey was mentioned Mr.. Till
man spoke for nearly an hour, every
line of his speech being punctuated
with intense invective.
Mr. TiUman'e resolution quotes the
senate resolution Of May II, 1894 au-
thorizlng the original inquiry, and then
proceeds as follows:
Whereas, the committee therein des-
tgnated in the pursuance OF its duues
examined several witnesses; and,
Whereas several of these Witnesses
refused point blank to answer the ques-
tions put TO them; and,
Whereas, one of these witnesses, ar
ter three years of legal contest, is now
in prison under sentence of the court
for contempt said court having declar-
ed the questions put to him pertinent
and
Whereas, another Of these witnesses
was yesterday acquitted on techni-
cality which cannot shield him from
the consequences of refusing to an
swer the questions put to him, If the
senate will renew the inquiry; and
whereas, within the last 30 days sun
dry newspaper correspondents have
openly charged senators with specuiat-
ing in sugar stocks while the sugar
schedule is under discussion, and also
charged that brokers in New York
knew in advance as to what the SEN
ate finance committee would report as
} to the sugar schedule, all of which in
5 wolves q question Of the highest priv
ilege, the right of the senate to protect
3 It's members from slander and to pro-
tect the body as a whole from these
10 CHARGES of pDTrllntiBn therefore
: be it
Resolved, that a committee of five be
appointed, with powers to send for per-
sons and papers, to employ a stenog-
rapher and to administer oaths, to in
quire into the truth or falsehood of
the charges made in May, 1894, and into
the charges recently made, and the
scope of the investigation shall cover
everything embraced in the resolution
of May II, 1884, as well as the methods
pursued by the American Sugar Rein
ing company better known as the
sugar trust, in controlling legislation
$ in its favor at the present time, and
, especially whether it has in any wise
contributed to or controlled the cleo
ton OF senator IN this body at any
e time.
, MI Aldrich, in charge of the tariff
D DILL answered Mr.. tllIman IN a sweep
ing uehlal OF all lrregularlty on the
A part OF the hnahce committee and a
X speclhc denial OF charges that the
. sugar trust had dlctated the sugar
b scheuule OF the tarlft Dill.
Inc IllIlnan resolution was referred
e TO the committee on contingent eX-
f penses Of the senate.
the tariff bill, IS pages being covered