The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1897-05-13
wAsnrsaroN LErrEs.
wAsHi NsToN, May 10.

is the question that is being asked
ofteney ami oftener as the sugar sched- |
ule in the amended tariff bill is being
better understood Washington is full
OF ugly rumors concerning that sugar
schedule and the manner in which 1t
was adopted, one being that copy Of
the schedule was in the hands Of a
broker several days before 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 in
yited to attend it WAS definitely under
stood that the provision expressly con-
tinuing the Hawaiian reciprocity treaty
should remain IN the bill yet when the
bill was reported te the senate 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 q 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 sIeculaling In the |
stock of the sugar trust? Prominent |
republicans have openly denounced
this sugar schedule as indefensible and
as being Intentionally muddled and
mixed so as 70 confuse the public as to
the benefit the sugar trust would de-
rive from it. The Dlngley bill as
passed by the house gave the sugar
trust protection .r the extent of one
quarter of cent pound on sugar,
but Representative Swanson of Vir-
house ways and means committee,
who has carefully analysed the pres,
ent sche6ufe, positively asserts that
~"the least possible protection to the
sugar trust in the schedule adopted by
the senate finance committee is nearly
half cent a pound" Whether the
present schedule is allowed to stand or
not, the sugar trust people aud those
who stand in with them have probably
already utilized it to make big pile
of money by specializing.
Mr.. Claude NJ Johnson, the gold
democrat who. as 4 personally-re-
quested favor Of ex.Secretary Carlisle
10 being 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
recommending the reinstatement OF
republicans whose dismissal be had
recommended TO the secretary OF the
treasury for specific cAEse, under the
late adm nistratiou. and is said to take
Useecial pleasure in republican rein
instatement that pushes regular
democrat out
The country is likely to get an idea
very soon of why Mr. Theodore Roose-
welt, sometime referred 70 as Scrap
ping Teddy" was made assistant sec
retary OF the navy, as Mr.. Roosevelt
will this week begin an investigation
OF the New York navy yard, With
special reference TO its employment Of
labor II has been limited that Boss
Platt has had an understanding With
Mr. Roosevelt, and that the New York
navy yard 10 to be utilized in behalf Of
the republican machine IN greater New
York, but il will not be believed by
those who have faith in Mr.. Roosevelt 6
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. lois
Of those who were at one time Advo-
eating the ratification OF the treaty
are talking about what lucky escape
the United States had.
Recent news from Ohio has not been
at all satisfactory 70 Boss Hanna and
his hopes Of retaining the seat in the
senate that John Sherman was com-
PEELED 10 give him, and he has gone 10
Ohio TO study the situation at close
range, and figure up how much oash
ne shall put into the campaign. Hi'
republican colleagues In the senate
showed how transient they regarded
him by failing to make hiIn chairman
Of any committee and by giving hin
unimportRnt committee assignments
They could not very we'll have made
palmer their belief that the next Ohls
legislature would be democratic ant
Mr. HAnna's successor democrat L
WAS given out by Mr.. Hanna that h'
was going home for rest, by order 0
his physician.
IL indications Rrs not very deceptiv,
the influence Of the sugar trrst I
quite as potent in the White House al
in the senate. Mr. Mckinley has beer
unable TO stand the pressure, and will
there are reasons 10 believe, save IN,
New York broker (Chnpmanl. who re
fused 70 divulge the names Of senator
who speculatcd in sugar through hii
firm, from the ignomy Of serving th,
term in jail 10 which he VIA scntsnces