Show OUR washington TAMING Eel Ze atlon lation to the sugar asar dal and ana other at atter terz Is there to be another sugar fe Ec candal andal that is the 1 I fuestion ju estion that is bein being 0 asked oftener and oftener as the sugar schedule in the amended bill is becoming letter bedier understood washington is full of ugly rumors concerning conce that sugar schedule and the manner in ly which it was adopted one being hat a copy of the schedule eche dule was in the th hands of a broker several lays days before the bill was reported to the senate and was used fur for specula tive purposes senator jones of nevada is reported tu to have stated slated that at tile the last meeting of if the republican pub licati members of tile the senate finance committee which he was invited to attend it was definitely that the provision ex presly pre pro sly continuing the hawaiian reciprocity treaty should remain in the bill yet when the bill was re port d to the senate the next day that clause was left out it is notorious that the ugar auar i trust has been worked working to get gel the treaty with hawaii abrogated it is also known that a majority of congress is opposed to the tha abrogation of this treaty can call it be wondered at then th enthat that it should bo be charged that the treaty pio provision vision was left out cut of the bill so io that money might be made to speculating peculating r in the stock block of the sugar prominent republicans public ans have openly denounced thi thit t augar schedule as indefensible aud and as being intentionally muddled and mixed so as to confuse tile the public as to the benefit the sugar trust would derive from it the dinley din ley bill as by bv the hoube gave gaie the sugar trust protection to the efteni extent cofone quarter of a cent a pound on augir but representative swanson of va a member of the house ways waye and means committee who hits has carefully analyzed tile the present schedule positively asserts that the least possible protection to the sugar trust in the schedule adopted by the senate finance committee is nearly half a cent a 2 pound found whether the present schedule eche dule be allowed to stand or not the suar sugar trust people and those who stand in with them have probably already utilized it to make a big pile of money by speculating mr ar claude M johnson Joh ngon the g gold old democrat nho as a p personally ereo nally requested favor of ex secretary carlisle is being allowed to remain at the head bead ot of the bureau of engraving and printing is getting some rough raking over from democrats he is accused of recommending the reinstatement of republicans ng whose dismissal he had bad recommended to the secretary of the treasury for specific cause under the administration ration and is said to take especial plea pleasure Fure in a republican i cin statement that pushes a re regular e ular democrat out the country is likely to get an idea hea very soon of why mr theodore loosevelt Hoo sevelt some time referred to as scrapping teddy was made assistant see sec 0 of the navy as ur mr roosevelt will this week begin an investigation of the new york navy yard with special ip ecial reference to its employment of labor it has been hinted that boss platt has had an understanding with mr nir Ruo roosevelt sevelt and that the new york davv yar yard d is to be utilized in behalf of the republican ma ina chille in greater new york but it will not be believed by those who have faith in air Roosevel ts professions fes of reform until there is proof in sight 0 now that the arbitration treaty has hab hewn ben re rejected J acted largely by the efforts and votes of democratic senators lot of those who were at one time advocating the ratification of the treaty are talking about what a lucky et escape cape the state statch nail had recent I 1 news from ohio has not been at all satisfactory to boss boba hanna and his hopes os of retaining the seat in the senate that john john chetman was compelled to give him and lie has baa gone to ohio to study the situation at close range and figure up how much cash lie he ahall put into tile the caul his his republican colleagues in the senate showed how bow transient they regarded him by failing faili rg ato to make him chairman of any C committee oina littee and b by giving him unimportant committee assignments they could not very well ell have anade plainer their belief that the next ohio legislature would be democratic and mr I 1 bannas successor a democrat it was given iven out by sir mr hanna that he was going home for a ren real by order of his physician if indications are not very deceptive the influence of the sugar trust is quito quite as potent in the white house a in it the senate M V las been unable to stand the pres ure bure and will there are rea reasons ons to believe save tho the new yolk aik oik broker Chap chapman nian who refused to lo divulge the names of senators who speculated in ia sugar augar through h his film from the of serving the term in jail to which he was waa sentenced d by pardoning him if lie he does the pardon will indirectly result in ill contempt in saying saving the two mem members bersi or of the sugar trust who are under indictment for contempt in the same case cae as the indictments will probably be not if Chan chapman nian is pardoned from rom our regular correspondent Washing tin may 13 3 1897 |