The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1897-06-10


called, he said, that it was charged tba
}. President Cleveland mot the suga
magnates and discussed the details O
tne schedule of the now pending tarit
y otil. !here was nothing to fasten tha
1 aamnlng accusation on the President,
Mr. GliIman said, but Senator Jones, O
Arkansas, had recently furnished oyi
: dence to the effect that the Presiden,
told'hlm the trust should have q QUAR-
ter ofsa cent per pound.
Mr. Jones quickly arose at this ref
erence TO him. Ga one or two occa
slons, ne explained, Mr.. Cleveland had
SAID TO him that he thought the / cont
on raw sugar was necessary for the
rate would drive the refners out OF
business.
Proceeding, Mr.. Tillman said 1t
might be Mr.. Cleveland desired to car.
ry outa bargain. He (Tillman) did not
say This was the case. But was it the
case? If he (the President) did this
the Senate ought to find it out.
MIR. Gray, of Delaware, chairman OF
tho former sugar Investigating cou.-
mittee, interrupted. The statement, he
SAID, that sugar schedule had been
made upon Mr.. Benedict yacht, when
the President was on board with re-
liners OF the sugar trust, was not true
and its falsity had been established
after the com mittee had probed the
statement to the bottom. Both MIR.
Havemeyer and Mr.. Searles had testi
| lied that no such meeting ever occurred
and that they mover met Mr.. Cleve-
land.
Mr.. T1llman began to speak Of Mr..
Chapman 'who was now living like a
| little king In the district jail"
Mr.. Pettus, Of Alabama interrupted
at this stage. 81 will ask the Senator, ,"
said MIR. Pettus, mot to deal in gener-
alltles. If he desires to put a mark on
a Senator or this floor, then l demand
that he do it and not indulge in gener-
al!ttes against all the members Of the
Senate"
THAT is what want an inquiry for
to mark these menf" responded Mr..
Illlman. 81 want them marked and |
40 not want the poor man to suffer
whlle the mlllionaires are turned loose.
| know there are charges that men have
bought and sold, and are we to sit q uuiet-
~? The Senator (P6ttus) is a new
conner here, and he, Of course, is not d
partlceps criminis."
1t was for that reason, Mr.. Puttus de-
clared, that he made his demand. True
and honorable mon should not have to
Il
| by generalized statements.
why don't you wait for the rest of
| my speech ?" asked MIR. Tillman of Mr..
| Pettus.
| "Now no one denies," Mr.. Tillman
went on, that for the last two months
rooms at the Arlington have been oc,
cupied by the finance committee in
easy touch with the telephone to New
4ork and In easy reach Of agents of the
sugar trnst.'
Why was it the sugar trust cleared
| $25. 900, 600 in three years? ? They had
| cleared 1t, he added, at the expense Of
ovory cup Uf toa and cotfoc drunk
throughout the country. 1t was the
Republican party who did it first 1t
was the Democratic party who did it
in 1894
And now," ne proceeded, twith a
disgraced and demorali%ed Democratic
party out OF power and the Republicans
in charge we have another evidence of
the sugar trusts power"
Mr.. Tillman said he would now pre-
sent specifications. He sent to the desk
and had read number of signed arti-
cles in the newspapers Of Now York,
Chicago and elsewhere, making serious
charges against Senators. The names
of individual Senators were mentioned
lOF inc ufSG LlmC.
The first article read from the desk
| began with Smith ahead on sugar"
and spoke of the New Jersey Senator's
selling 5000 shares of sugar stock,
short, at d profit of So, 900.
MIR. Smith was not in the chamber at
the time. Then followed the reading
OF many other articles making intima-
tions and charges Of speculation and
irregularity.
Mr.. Tillman carried on @ running
comment as the reading proceeded
speaking briefly after each article.
| "If any man had been Influenced in
the manner charged" the Senator as
serted, "he was no better than the black
log gambler who had cards up his
sleeve. Sdch O man should be made tC
hang his head in shame il his col
leagues allowed him to remain in the
Senate"
Another article read from the desk
spoke OF the Large profits to Sena
tors" and estimated that 600 shares
OF sugar stock had been handled the
day before for three Senators.
| Ho said 1T was about the time these
specific charges. most Of them signed
with the names of the authors, should
be probed. There should be no mixture
OF the old Investigation with the new
one. Let them stand apart, he said
Let us not mix the Democratic ;shceE
with the Republican goats, but let's
have fumigatiOn."
1t was not time when Senators
should sit here apparently silenced by
cowardice or corruption. The LSepub.
licans had receivedithe recent campaign
contributions from "the octopus" he
said, and it should be brought to the
light before the American people. II
this gang Of thieves and robbers" were
TO have all they wanted, then let the
American laboring men realize what &
glorious Senate represented thcm a
Washington.
In conclusion, Mr.. Tillman reiterated
that II the Senate is rotten to the bot
tom, 1T should be proved. If these
charges were false, then tho lie shoult
be laid bare. If the charges were true
then, he said, the guilty Senator
should be turned out and the Senat
purged.
Mr.. Aldrich, Republican member O