The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-05-14
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WASHINGTON, May 10, 1897.
Is there to be another sugar scandal?
That is the question that is being ask
ed oftener and oftener as the sugar
schedule in the amended tariff bill is
becoming better understood. Wash
ington is full of ugly rumors concern
ing that sugar schedule and the man.
ner in which it was adopted, one be-
ing that copy of the schedule was in
the hands of broker several days be-
fore the bill was reported 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 Republican members of the
Senate Finance Committee, which he
was invited to attend it was definitely
Understood that the provision expressly
continuing the Hawaiian reciprocity
treaty should remain in the bill, yet
when the bill was reported to the Sen
ate the next day that clause was left
out. 1t is notorious that the sugar
trust has been working to get the treaty
with Hawaii abrogated. 1t is also
known that the majority of Congress
is opposed to the abrogation 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 the sugar
trust? Prominent Republicans have
openly denounced this sugar schedule
as indefensible and as being Intention
ally muddled and mixed so as to con-
fuse the public as to the benefit the su-
gar trust would derive from it. The
Dingley bill as passed 10y the House
gave the sugar trust protection to the
extent of one-quarter of a cent a
pound on sugar, but Representative
Swanson, of Va, a Democrotic MEM
Der of the Ways and Means Commit
tee, who has carefully analysed the
present schedule, positively asserts
that, 1.-THE least possible protection to
the sugar trust in the schedule adopted
by the Senate Finance Committee is
nearly half "a cent pound" Whether
the present schedule be allowed to
| stand or not, the sugar trust people
and those who stand by them have
probably already utilized it to make a
big pile of money specializing.
Mr.. Claude NJ. johnson, the gold
Democrat, who as personally request
ed favor of EX-Secretary Carlisle, Is be-
ing 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 Re-
! publicans whose dismissal he had rec
commended to the Secretary of the
Treasury for specific cause, under the
late administration, and is said to take
especial pleasure in Republican rein
statement that pushes regular Demo-
crat 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
Secretary of the Navy, as Mr.. Roose-
welt will this week begin an investiga-
ton of the New York navy yard, with
speciatreference TO its employment of
labor. 1t has been limited that boss
Platt has had an understanding with
Mr.. Roosevelt, and that the New York
navy yard is to be utilized in behalf of
the Republican machine in greater
New York.. but it will not he believed
by those who have faith in Mr.. Roose-
velt'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 one time advocating
the ratification of the treaty are talk
ing about what lucky escape the Uni
ted 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 COM
PEELED 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 in the campaign. His Re-
publican colleagues In the Senate
showed how transient they regarded
him by failing to make him chairman
of any committee and by giving him
unimportant committee assignments
They could not very we'll have made
palmer their belief that the next Ohio
legislature would be Democratic and
Mr.. Hanna's successor a Democrat. 1t
was given out by Mr.. Hanna that he
was going home for rest, by order of
his physician.
= IT indi cations are not very deceptive,
the influence of the sugar trust is quite
as potent in the White House as in the
Senate. Mr.. Mckinley has been I'M
able to stand the pressure, and will,
there are reasons to believe, save the
New York broker Chapman who re-
fused to divulge the names of Senators
who specialized in sugar through his
firm from the jgnominy of serving the
term in Jail to which he was sentenced
by pardoning him. If he does, the
pardon will Indirectly result in saving
the two members of the sugar trust
who are under indictment in the same
case, as the indictments will probably
be mol pressed if Chap Ian is pardoned.