Show I INFAMY AT WASHINGTON Republican Majoritys Shameless Subserviency to the Trust New York Journal The house has outdone even the senate in its shameless I shame-less subserviency to the Sugar trust In cynical silence unable to defend I their own work the majority jammed through the trusts tariff bill on the very day on which < the conference report re-port was presented with the howls of Rockefellers triumphant brokers still echoing in their ears The wild of the stock scramble to secure some of the corporation into whose swollen treasury they were voting millions did not daunt them The certainty of vengeance ven-geance when the American people should have a chance to pass judgment upon their work had no restraining effect ef-fect The Infamous bargain to which their votes were pledged had to be carried out and they executed it without with-out a murmur If not without a blush On Saturday the story was given out that each house had consented to moat the desires of the other by giving up its own pet jobs to the double advantage of the people The senate was to recede re-cede from the sur ar steal and the house was to let burlaps cotton ties and cotton bagging go on the free list and consent to a reduction in the duties on white pine As it turns out the compromise has been based on precisely pre-cisely the opposite nnciple Each house saves its own jobs by agreeing to those of the other The senate pre 5 S SLve L trust the house retains the taxes on burlaps cotton ties cotton bagging and white pine and the people foot the bills A few feeble attempts have been made to deny the surrender to the Suear trust In the face of the overwhelming over-whelming verdict of Wall street a comparative com-parative statement has emanated from the treasury department purporting to show on the basis of the riddled old Carlisle tables that the conference schedule gives much less protection than that contained In the senate bill It ought not to be necessary to say at this date that the Carlisle tables or rather the Havemeyer tables as they should properly be called are utterly vortihless and that any estimate based on them is not only untrustworthy but false on its face There is no denying the fact that the conference schedule increases the differential dif-ferential allowed to the trust by the excessive rapidity of its decrease in the duty on raw sugars as they decrease in saccharine strength This was not a compromise between the house and senate rates but a new gratuity In excess of either Both the house and the senate had fixed this rate of decrease de-crease at 3100 of ai cent per pound per degree As there was no difference here there was nothing to compromise bait the committee increased the rate thus agreed upon by both houses which already al-ready concealed an enormous advantage advan-tage to the trust from 3100 to 351000 I of a cent It also retained the highest rate of duty on washed sugars above No 16 DuicCi standard it kept the discriminating tax on bountyaired imports im-ports and above all 1C confirmed to the trust the colossal gift of 12400000 in a lump on the 700000 tons of raw sugar already imported single Item equivalent equiv-alent to a dividend of 3C per cent on the trusts common stock Wall street mode no mistake In its estimate of the meaning of this gigantic gigan-tic deal The Republican party as represented at Washington had been sold body and soul to the trusts But the Republicans have no safe majority ot their own lathe senate Isjt possible possi-ble that they can secure Democratic and PopuMst aid in fastening this atrocity upon the country a |