The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-29
TO SOME EXTENT.

not go to the Arlington MOTEL or any
where else outside their COMMITTEES
room at the caritol."
TO SOME EXTENT.
Mr. Tilman said ne was glad the
/ Democratic party was relieved 70 this
/ extent, but added:
Now, no one denies that for the last
two months rooms at the Arlington
have been occupied by the finance
committee in easy touch with the tele-
! phone to New York, and easy reach OF
! agents Of the sugar trust"
Why is it, he asked, that the sugar
/ trust can always command specific
/ instead Of an advalorem duty; whv
/ was it that they cleared SIS eco. coo in
/ three years? IL was the Democratic
/ party who made il possible in 1894.
And now" he proceeded, with the
! disgraced and demoralized Democratic
] party out Of power and the Republic
ans II charge Of affairs, we have an
other damning evidence of the sugar
trusts paw
I Mr.. 1illman said ne would not pre-
sent specifications, and he had read a
number OF signed articles in the news
papers of New York, Chicago and else
where. making various charges against
| senators, some by name.
The nrSJ article began: Smith
Ahead on Sugar and spoke of the New
Jersey senator seiiing 600 shares of
sugar stock, snort, at a profit of IS, GOO.
Mr.. Smith was no. in the chamber
at the time
Another article spoke CT the large
! profits to senators, and stated that 9 100
shares of sugar stock mad been handled
the day before by three senators.
IS NEARLY TIME.
Mr. Tiliman said ii was about time
these specific charges, most of them
signed With the names of their authors,
should be probed. There should be no
mixture OF the old investigation and
the new one.
Let US not mix I'D the Democratic
sheep with the Republican goats he
said, but let US have a fumIgation.''
It was not time when senator's
should sit here, apparently silenced by
cowaTdice or corruption. The Repub-
licans had received the recent cam
paign contributions from 1.-THE octopus"
ne said and it should be brought to
the light before the American people
If this gang of thieves and robbers
were to have all they wanted, then let
the American iaboring men realize
what a glorious senate represented
them at Washington.
In conclusion. Mr. Tillman reiterated
that il the senate is rotten 10 the bot
tom" it should be proved. II these
charges were false, then the lies should
be laid bare. If the charges were true,
then, he said, the guilty senators should
be turned out and the senate purged.
Mr.. Aldrich Republican, immedi-
ately took the floor as Mr.. Tillman
closed. 1t had been charged or in
ferred, he said. that the sugar trust
dictated the sugar schedule.
But 1 desire TO say to the senate.
to the senator (Tinman) and TO every
man in the United States, that no per-
sol connected with the sugar trust at
any time or at any place, influenced
the framing of the sugar schedule, or
received information as to its charac-
ter. l desire to make the statement as
broad as the English language can
make it,
Mr. Aldrich said that no living per-
son outside OF the members of tine COM
mittee had any information on the SUBJ
jet Sc hours before it was reported.
The senator from Nevada had been
shown the schedule. No human being
beyond this had received the slightest
information. And any man who says
So or intimates So added Mr.. Aldrich,
deserves to be denounced in way
which would not be parliamentary
here.
Mr. Tillman interrupted to say that
he had not made the charges-he had
merely submitted public statements
with the authors names signed.
COURTS INVESTIGATION.
Mr. Aldrich. proceeding. said the full
est investigation was courted; that
there was not hing to conceal. No in
formation ever went from that commit
tee room to any telephone or to anyone.
He (Aldrich) had never bought or sold
t. <<.,-
correspondents to make such charges,
but they were absolutely false.
Without further debate the resolution
was referred to tine committee on con-
tdngent expenses, and on motion of
Mr.. Aldrich the senate took UP the tar
if bill.
Mr.. Vest opposed the proposed in
crease on soda ash from Il to $40 of
cent per pound as unfair to soap max
ers, and said il would not have been
made but for the fact that Mr.. Jones
of Nevada, where the principal deDos-
its of soda ASH in the country are
found. is a member of the finance COM
mit-se.
Mr. Stewart. of Nevada. favored the
amendment and Messrs. Caffery, Walt
hall. Bacon. Chiffon protested against 1t.
The amendment was agreed to without
division. but was reconsidered and al
lowed to go over to permit Mr.. Gray to be
heard on II.
There was only brief discussion of the
remaining paragraphs in the chemical
schedules. Mr.. Jones stating that while
they were not accepted without protest
by the Democrats, those in charge of
the Democratic interests considered it
to consume time to no avail,
with the majority so evidently against
them.
TIE next schedule, relating to earths.
earthenware and glassware. was entered
upon.
An amendment limiting the fire brick
to be imported at $40 per ton to those
weighing less than ten pounds each was
DUTY ON DEMENT'S.
The duty on Portland and other n.y.
draulic cements in barrels and sacks was
increased from s to II cents per 100
pounds. and in bulk from to 10 cents per
100 pounds
After Mr.. White had criticised the in |
crease as opposed to the interests of the /
and Mr.. Pettigrew had defended |
it. saying it should be greater in the |
interest of American manufacturers, Mr. |
Vest criticised. but 10 no avail. the rate |
proposed on glass bottles. decanters. etc, |
as equal TO the Mckinley rate, the high |
est. he said. in the country's history.
Mr. Jones. of Arkansas. objected in a |
vigorous speech to the rate fixed on win |
dow glass. II was of universal consump- /
ton and was in the hands of trusts aid /
association controlling practically the |
business in this country. and dividing the |
territory and fixing rates.
Among all the iniquities of the bill |
said he, and their name is legion. the |
glass schedule is the most monsIrous.' |
Mr.. Sewall (Rep. n. j.. challenged Mr..