Birmingham state herald., 1897-05-29

 now we have more damning aecusa tions ] against the present committee. MT. Till1nan gan to speak of MT.
 Chapman "who was living like a little | king in the district jail" MT Petus interrupted at this stage.
 '.I will ask the senator said MT Pet
 tus, with much deliberal ion. not to deal l in generalities. If he desires to put q i mark clA any senator on this floor then | demand thar he do it, and not dead in l gereTalities against all members of the senate''
 There was an "ah, hushr throughout the chamber and momentary expecta- | ton that names might be given. That is what I wan an blqury for, l to mark these men," responded MT Tili- l man II do not want '.he poor man to | suffer while th= millionaires are turned | loose. I know there are charges that
 men have bought and sold. and are we ] to si: quietly? The senator (Mr. Pettus) [ Is a new conner here, and h., of course, | is not a paIliceps erimin.s.' 1 It was for that reason, MT. Pettus de- ! clared, that he made his demand. True and honorable men should niot have to i sit here and have a sfur cast upon them i by generahzed S atemerts.
 Why don't you wait for the rest of
 my speech?" asked MT TiEman of MT. | Pettus.
 i of the senator will mention just one l name I will bs satisfied" said MT Pet
 tus. ''He has given nelJhing but general ! 1Zal ions thus far.
 E tWell, have specificaticrs to present, l if you will just posses: yourself in pa ! tience," answered the South Carolina sen- 1 ator.
 MT Tillrnan went on to state that when
 the former cariff bill was framed the 1 fnance committee had left their commit i tee room and had taken quarters a. the 1 Arlington hortsl.
 "Thie senator is grossly mistaken in- 1 terruptsd Mr. Vest, of the finance commit | te.. fThe democratic members of the i finance commit zee did not go to the Ar 1 Hngton hdel or anywhere else outside l their committee room or the capitol"
 MT. Tillman said he was glad the dem l ocrtic party was relieved to this etxent. i He was not dealing with the subject as 1 party man, but as free man. Parties | could afford to be rid of men responsi- 1 ble for the occurrence of 1894 or similar
 occasions.
 Now, no one doubts,' said MT. Till man, that rooms at dhe Arlington hotel | have been occupied by the finance com
 mlttee within easy touch of the telephone
 to the sugar officials al: New York. Why was it, h. asked, that a specific
 was imposed instead of an ad valorem l duty? Why was 1t they cleared $25, ,0O0,-
 900 in three years? They had cleared it.
 he added at the expense of every cup 1 of tea or coffee drank throughou1 the
 country. The democratic party went at ! it first if 1t was the democratic party that l uIu IL III 1oJ4.
 And now" he continued, with a dis l graced democratic power out of power
 ard l.he republicans in charge we have
 damning evidence of the sugar trusts | power
 MT. Tlllman said he would now present
 specifications. He sent to the desk and l had read a number of signed articles in
 the newspapers of New York, CIhfoa go l and elsewhere making serious charges against senators. The names of individ- ltfNt-c tfo,, 1 time The firsi. antfJle read from the l desk began with Smith Ahead on Su- l gar" and spoke of the Nsw Jersey sen2- 1 tors selirty 5000 shares of sugar stock 1 short at profit of $3,000.
 MT. Smith was not in the chamber at | the time.
 l Then followed the reading of many l other articles making intimations ard | charges of specula ton and ir'regularity. l MT. Tillman carried on a running com | ment as the reading preceded, speaking l briefly alfter each article. l If any man had been influenced in the 1 manner charged. he, the senator assert
 ed, was no better than the "b,acl<leg gam | bier who had cards up his sieeve." Such | a man should be ma1e to hang his head 1 in shame if his colleagues allowed him to l rema In in the senate. l Another article read from the desk :. spoke of the large profits to senators" |" ] estimated that 5000 shares of sugar stock | Idu hStIl liuuiGI lIIudy pSlOre uIlNt 6 | senators.
 1 Another article stated that MT White I a New York broker, had maintained d 1 sumptuous offices while the sugar sched- 1 ule was in committee, and then had gone l out of business here l finger in the pie and there are some pret- l ty big fish in the pool"' commented Mr. l TiNman with mock humor, Tae founda- l tion of the printed charges, most of them l signed with the names of their authors 1 should be probed. There had been no | mixture
 l Let them stand apart" he said 'let | us not rdlx up the democratic sheep with
 the. republican goats, but lst Us have a 1 funhigation.
 1 It was rot time when sena tors should ] sit here apparently silenced by coward. .ca 1 or corruption. The republicans had le- 1 ceived in the recent campaign contribu- 1 tfons from the 'toctupus," he said and it i should be brought to the light of the :! American people.
 1 If this gang Of thieves and robbers are l to control legislation then let the Amer 1 ican workingmen realize what glorious l senate represented them at Washing i ton.
 l In conclusion MT. Tillman said that if 1 the senate was rotten to the core it l should be proved. If these charges were 1 false then the lie should be laid bare. If 1 the charges were true, then, he said, the
 
 l the senate purged.
 ] Mir. Aldrich, republican member Of the ! finance committee, and in charge of the l tariff bill took the floor as MT. Tillman i closed. He stepped forward from his rear seat and spoke calmly, deliberat tely i but with intense earnestness. He spoke 1 of the task of any man seeking to frame a tariff bill and the proneness to ques- ! ton his motives. In view of the state ments of the South Carolina senator, MT. l Aldrich said he thought 1t incumbent , upon him to make a statement as to the 1 circumstances surrounding the framing ] of the tariff bill. It had been charged or
 inferred that the sugar trust had dictated
 the. sugar schedule.
 . i'But desire to say to the senate, to 1 the senator CTillman) and to every man
 in ths United States that no person con i nected with the sugar trust a any time l or place influenced the framing of the ! sugar schedule or received information as to itsu character, 1 desire to make
 the statement as broad as the English i language can make it." 1 Mr. Aldrich said that no living person