Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-07-03
SECOND DECLARATION
OF INDEPENDENCE.
How the Sugar Trust Hopes to Defeat
the Hawaiian Annexation Policy.

How tue Sugar Trust Hopes to Defeat
the Hawaiian Annexation Policy.
From our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, June 2S. 1897. That
this will be the last week of the tariff
debate in the Senate is the general
opinion Of Senators. Some think that
the bill will be passed as early as
Wednesday and some that the final
vote will be taken Saturday At any
rate, unless there is unexpected de
lay, the bill will be passed in time TO
add to the iollification of the Fourth
of July celebration all over the coun-
try. This early disposal of the bill
will be far from satisfactory to some
Of the Democratic Senators, but fear
of the wrath Of their constituents has
prevented them from resorting to any
thing like filibustering tactics to de-
lay it further.
1t is impossible, at any time, to say
how long the tariff bill will remain in
conference, but Chairman Dingley,
who is thoroughly posted on the sem
timent of both Senators and Repre-
sentatives, and who will be at the
head of the House conferees, express
es the opinion that an agreement will
be speedily reached on the bill.
Ex-senator Corbetts claim to the
vacant Oregon seat in the Senate will
not be acted upon until the regular
session, but the Committee on Privi-
leges and Elections has had printed
for the convenience of Senators, the
elaborate report prepared by Senator
Hoar in favor of seating Mr.. Corbett
on the certificate of the Governor OF
Oregon. Mr.. Corbett is much disap-
pointed, as he expected the case to be
settled at the present session, and
hoped to get the seat.
Mr.. l. F. Mack, the well-known
Ohio editor, who is now visiting
Washington, has been talking inter
estingly of subject on which he is
thoroughly posted--Ohio politics.
He said: 1.-The talk about the Re-
publican party being torn with in
| ternecine strife is arrdnt nonsense.
We are thoroughly united and har-
monious and will win in Ohio this
year by heavy majority. There is
no sort Of doubt about it, and away
down in their hearts / do not believe
the Democrats think they have any
show of success. There is no Demo.
cratic party in our State, anyway, fol
those who used to be Democrats have
gone over to the Populists. -
Certain gentlemen, notably Mr..
Claus Spreckels, the California sugar
king, have been expressing more con.
fidence in the rejection OF the treaty
for the annexating of Hawaii, tc
which they are violently opposed
than there is anything in sight to jus
fy But there is a reason for their
confidence, as will be fully apparent
before Congress meets next winter.
1t lies in the manipulation of big
corruption fund to create a public
sentiment against the treaty with the
hope that enough Senators can be in
fluenced to prevent the necessary
two-thirds vote being obtained for
ratification of the treaty. And all of
this corruption fund will not come
from American sugar men. A con-
siderable portion of it will come from
the secret fund of European govern
ments. There are at least two Euro
pean nations which are more inter
ested in the failure of the treaty than
Japan is. But being smarter than
the Japs, they have not protested and
will not protest against the treaty,
but will try to accomplish its defeat
by the use Of money, just as they have
before tried, and sometimes succeeded
in influencing the course of the United
States, 1t is really great pity that
this scheme could not be headed off
by the ratification OF the treaty by the
Senate at this session, but it is known
that the opponents of the treaty would
not allow vote 10 be taken on the
treaty at this session, even if it were
possible to keep quorum of the Sen
ate 10 Washington for any consider
able time after the tariff bill has been
passed
The difference between being a tar
iff expert and posing as one was made
painfully apparent when Senator
Jones, of Arkansas, tied himself all
nm in n i1uo1e of fioureS cuDnI;ad to