The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-05-27
WASHINGTON.
From our Regular Correspondent.

ment by, OF, and tor the sugar trust,
is a question that will soon be deter
mined. Not satisfied with holding
the people of this country up to the
extent of eight or ten million dollars
a year through the sugar schedule of
the tariff bill, the trust is seeking to
prevent either the administration or
Congress doing anything that will help
Cuba. Although Mr.. Mckinley has
been reported to be opposed to the
sugar schedule of the tariff bill, he is
acting with the trust to throttle an
expression Of the almost universal
sentiment of the country in behalf of
Cuba through Congress, and by the
aid of Gar Reed he has SO far sue.
ceeded. Representative Bailey and
the other democrats and populists in
the House made a stout fight to pass
resolution declaring in favor of the
recognition of the bellgerency of the
Cubans at the same time the appro-
priation of $4,000 to feed starving
American citizens in Cuba was made,
but the most they could do was to
frighten the republicans into recalling
all their absent members and to com.
pei many republicans to vote against
their honest convictions inVorder to
please Mr.. Mckinley and the sugar
trust. Republicans talk mysteriously
about Mr.. Mckinley having a robust
Cuban policy, but when pressed they
acknowledge that they don't know
what it is. In fact, there is consider
able grumbling among the prominent
republicans because Mr.. Mckinley
has not taken them into his confidence
as to his intention towards Cuba.
The Senate will probably act, anyway,
but the House can do nothing as long
as it wears the Reed muzzle.
Mr.. T. f. Wardner, the we'll known
Boston editor and publisher was in
Washington this week comforting with
prominent silver men in Congress. He
reported the silver sentiment in New
England to be greatly on the increase,
owing to the eyes of merchants and
manufacturers having been opened by
the continued fall in prices, and said !:
"The silver feeling in the large towns,
always strong, is increasing rapidly
and will make itself felt in the next
Congressional campaign. Skilled labor
is more than ever in favor of silver.
The shoemakers of Lynn, Haverhill
and other places are almost to man
bimetallists. The Typographical
Union is nine -tenths for silver. There
will be at least six silver Congressman
in the next Massachusetts, delegation,
and the chances are pretty good that
the next Legislature will contain a
silver majority. l sincerely ndhonest-
ly believe that if Massachusetts were
to vote tomorrow she would cast her
lot on the side of bimetallism as against
the gold standard" Many business
men, Mr.. Wardner said, had given ur
hope of any relief through the tariff
bill.
The presence of Ex-senator ingalls,
and Bob Fitzsimmons in Washington
at the same time caused some wag tc
start a story that ingalls, had taker
the job of press agent for the prize
fighter. Although he denies it, there
are reasons for believing that ingalls,
is after Mckinley pie.
Senator Tillman says he intends tc
see that there is an investigation o
the new sugar trust scandal. He give:
his reasons in the following language
"The Senate cannot afford to let thi
matter rest where it is. We canno
ignore the charges that have beer
made. The principal thing for us t.
find out is what influences were bacl
of the adoption of that schedule b.
the Finance committee. AS far a:
speculation in sugar stock by 1Sena
tors is concerned, | know Of no reason
why Senator has not the same righ
to risk his money and gamble II
stocks as other men, provided he doe
not do it on secret and advance in
formation which is not accessible t(
the public, and provided 1t is not at
time when his vote in the Senat
would influence the course of tn
market" Mr.. Tillman says he wi
wait reasonable time to allow som
older Senator to offer a resolutio
providing for an investigation befor
doing so himself, but that the inves
tigation will certainly be made, if pei
sistency on his part will get resolr
ton ordering it adopted.
No greater farce was ever enacte
in Washington than the imprisonmer
of Chapman, the sugar broker, whlc
was begun this week. He is suppose
to be in prison as punishment, bl
there is mighty little punishment abor
it. He has costly fitted up bee
room and an Office adjoining; h
meals are prepared at swell hote