Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-06-24
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondence
WASHINGTON, June 81, 1897.

The sugar trust is playing shrewd tariff
game to get what it wants while pretending
to the country, and it is bound to win.
The original Dingley sugar schedule, which
gives the trust an increase of four cents on
each hundred pounds over what it now re-
ceiYes on ninety-six degree sugar, is all the
trust expected to get from the beginning.
In the first Senate schedule, the increase
was made nine cents and the schedule
" hich was last week adopted by the Sem
ate, the increase was put at ten cents a
hundred pounds When the bill goes to
conference, the House will insist upon its
sugar schedule being adopted, with the
chances in favor of succeeding Then it
will be announced with great flourish of
trumpets by Republicans that the sugar
trust has been knocked out, while the
members of the trust will chuckle over
having got as much as they expected to get,
besides having made a lot of money by
specializing in sugar stock while the several
schedules were pending. That's the game
OF course the trust would gladly take the
ten cents hundred increase given in the
Senate schedule, or anything between that
and the four cents of the House schedule
that the House confeIees can be persuaded
to give, but it doesn't really expect to get
more than four cents, which added to the
thirty cents it now gets, will give it
forty-one cents hundred. As its profits
have been $25,000,000 with thirty seven
cents, it will be seen that it is not playing
for a small stake even to get the increase of
four cents hundred
1t will probably be the middle of July or
later, before the country is allowed to learn
officially what the Mckinley Cuban policy
is to be, as it is now stated that the new
policy is to be inaugurated by negotiations
TO be opened by general Stewart L. Wood
ford, the new Minister to Spain, as soon as
he arrives at Madrid, and he does not ex-
pect to start until after the first of July
Before he gets to Madrid, ex-Congressman
Aldrich, of Illinois. the gentleman who,
Notwithstanding the backing of Gear Reed
has been turned down by Mr.. Mckinley in
four or five instances, will be nominated to
succeed General Fitz Lee as Consul General
to Cuba. If there be any truth in current
talk, Mr.. McKinleys policy will be more
popular in Spain than in Cuba.
The Democrats won a traiff victory,
although it will probably only be temper
airy, when Senator Vests amendment put
ting straw mating, plain jute fabrics, bur-
laps, and cotton bagging on the free list,
was adopted.
Senator Morgan continuessto take an oc-
casion shot at Gear Reeds idlers. His latest
was a pointed reference to " legislative
body that used to sit at the National Capt.
toll, about two hundred feet from u.s." He
added that the members of this body were
now men of leisure, meeting only twice a
week, in accordance with rule of their
own adoption and in defiance of the Con-
stitution.
Mr.. F. Wolf, President of an Iron Ship
building Company, at Portland, Oregon,
who is now in Washington, says of the
political situation in his section: I" If an
election were held now for President, the
whole Pacific slope would vote for Bryan
over any man the Republicans could name.
1t was a hard struggle to hold Oregon in
line last year, but to-day it would be i'm
possible"
The CIVIL Service Commission is investi-
eating charges preferred against Public
Printer Palmer, who has been making re-
movals OF Democrats and in every case
giving their places to Republicans. Inas-
much as Palmer would not have dared to
act without the consent of Mr.. Mckinley,
at whose pleasure the Civil Service Com
missioners hold their places, there is little
probability that the investigation will
amount to anything practical.
After the acquittal of the sugar trust
kings by Washington Courts. nobody was
surprised that the two newspaper CORES.
pondents who were under Indictment for
contempt, were also acquitted. In fact, the
only surprising thing about the whole bust
ness was that Broker Chapman was con-
victed and compelled to serve even his easy
sentence in jail 1t is difficult for the lay
mind to comprehend how he could be guilty
and all the others innocent.