The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1897-05-14

From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, May lois there to be anoth-
er sugar scandal? That is the question
t nat is being asked oftcner and oftenGr
rs the sugar schedule in the amended
tariff bill is becoming better understood
Washington is full OF ugly rumors concerning
that sugar schedule and the manner in which
it 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 spec uIative purposes. Sena-
tor Jones' of Nevada, is reported to have stat
ed that at the last meeting of the Republican
members of the Senate Finance Committee,
which he was invited to attend it was definitely
understood that the provision expressly con-
tnuing the Hawaiian reciprocity treaty should
remain i'll the BILL yet when the bill was report
ed TO 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 the ma jority
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 specializing in the stock of the sugar
trust? Prominent Republicans have openly
denounced this sugar schedule as indefensibe
and as being Intentionally muddled and mixed
50 as o confuse the public as to the benefit the
sugar trust would derive from it. The Dingley
bill as passed by the House gave the sugar
trust protection to the extent of one-quartor OF
a cent pound on sugar, but Representative
Swanson, of Virginia. Il Democratic member
of the House Ways and Means Committee, who
has carefully analysed the present schedule
positively asserts that the least possible pre-
lection to the sugar trust in the schedule adopt
ed by the Senate Finance Committee is nearly
half cent pound" Whether the present
schedule be allowed to stand or not, the sugar
trust people and 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, rs IL personally requested favor OF eN-
Secretary Carlisle, is being allowed to remain
at the head of the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing, is getting some rough raking over
from Democrats. He is accused of recon-
meuding the reinstatement of Republicans
whose dismissal he h: recommended to the
Secretary of the Treasury for specific cause,
under the late administration, and is said to
take especial pleasure in Republican rein
stat ement That pushes regular Democrat out
The country is likely to get an idea v>ry
soon of why Mr.. Theodore Roosevelt, some
time referred to as "Scrapping Teddy" was
made Assistant Secretary of the Navy, as Mr..
Roosevelt will this week begin an invcstiga alton
of the New York Navy Yard, with special
reference to its employment of labor. 1t has
been limited that boss Plat has had an under
standing with Mr.. Roosevelt, and that the New
York Navy sYard,is 10 be utilized in behalf of
the Republican machine in reatcr New York,
h,.fb u hn
Efsfsiii In M Roosevelt's professions OF reform,
suufil there is proof III sight.
Now that the arbitration treaty has been re-
jected, largely by the eifCrts and votes of De-
mocratic Senators, lots of those who were ut
one time advocating the ratification of the
treaty, are talking about what n lucky escape
the United States had.
Recent news from Ohio has not been at all salts
factory to Boss Hanna, and his hopes of retain
ing the seat in the Senate that John Sherman
was compelled to give him, and he has gone to
Ohio to study the situation at close range, and
figure up how much cash lie shall put into the
campaign. His Republican colleagues in the
Senate showed how transient they regarded
him by failing to make him chairman of any
committee and by giving him unimportant
committee assignments. They could not very
well have made palmer their belief that the
next Ohio Legislature would be Democratic,
and Mr.. Hanna's successor Il Democrat. 1t
was given out by Mr.. Hanna that he was going
home for a rest, by order of his physician.
If indications are not very deceptive the n-
fluence of the sugar trust is quite as potent in
the White House as i'll the Senate. Mr.. Mckin-
ley has been unable to stand the pl essure, and
will, there are reasons to believe. save the New
York broker Chapman who refused to divulge
the names of Senators who speculated in sugar
through his firm from the ignomy of serving
the term in Jail to which he was sentenced
by pardoning him. If he does, the pardon will
indirectly result in saving the two members of
the sugar trust who are under Indictment for
contempt in the same case, as the indictments
will probably be not pressed if Chapman is PAR
doned.