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Show "" ,, Washington Letter. (from our ICrtilar Cutrcsioti(lf n(J t Senator Allen, of Nclirimkn, does no' differ from oilier lioneat people In think - ,r , lug Itml no law ought to ho needed tn " prevent Scnitora Hjiccnirttins In Mocks nn'd other thlngo Hint may ho ndected , by OoiiKicasloiinl lci;llntlan, but the knonledgo lio tins gaino I an a member ot llio commlttoo Hint Is liuctdigallng atannnll'g pace tl o suj.ir trust scandal scan-dal has com inced him tluit sucli a law Is needed, it having liecn shown Unit Jhcro nro Senators whoso moral probity lia not been (strong cnoiuh to keep them from iudulln In B'icli speculation. speculat-ion. Thercforo ho lins introduced a -' bill bearing Hit auggcatUo title: "A bill to preserve tho purity ot National legislation", and providing that it shall bo unlawful for nuy Senator of Hcprc-BcntntKo Hcprc-BcntntKo to own or bo concerned directly or Indirectly In ownlm:, liujliig or I Belling or In nny innnuitr dealing in I spcculallvo stock, tho uiltio of which may in any manner depend upon nolo of Congress; also, to bo a member or Interested pecuniarily in nny board of triulo, stock exchange, national hank, or oilier orginlzatlon in which enrli stocks nre bought and sold. Tim penalty penal-ty for violation of this net to bo expulsion expuls-ion from Congress, In udditilou to being subject to criminal indictments and conviction. Tho bill alio provides Hint tho oath ofiulco taken by Senators and Representatives shall bo mado to cover tho tlilngi prohibited by the hill. It Is not flattering to our national prldo that such n bill should be Introduced, nor In tho testimony so far taken In tho sugar scandal Tho Sonalo investigating committee has been rather sharply criticized for having iic'.jotirned over two days this uccktn itnaittho nrrival of out of town ultiKssiH when thcro aro a score of men In tho Capitol building who might hmo been called on to testify. Tho only two members of tho House Warner, of N Y., and Cadams, of N. J. who liavo been uitneests tool; advantage ot their olllclnl positions mid n fused to mention nnnica. Representative McKeighen, of Neb-' Neb-' taskn, convulsed tho Ilouso with laugh ter and gave tho country a now uuli)il history ot evolutionary politics when ho fV 'tjJ0'1!1 "A mugwump is merely n republi' LJSroU-.TSaJii.V'l lUTiJi rwic!onco-n .republican y!'i"i with coinage to do right a republican 'A with brnlu to think and who InsietH on thinking, and thinks himself out of tho republican party nnd becomes n full Hedged mugwump. Then ho Is taken into tho democratic fold on probation. If ho ceases to think ho Is allowed to to remain, hut if ho stilt insists on his light to think ho ii drhcu into the .third party, and that makes a populist Ucproaoutatlvo Conn, of tho I'.lkhart, '.Indiana district has bought tho Washington Wash-ington Times, tho pennj (Lilly Hint win Marled n few weeks ago ns tho organ .)! tho wage-workers of tho National Capitol, and will (unlluuo tho publication, publicat-ion, Altliou 'h Mr. Conn is a demount " liasjys that polities shall not enter into tho jiolicy of ihu paper, whhh will not bo changed. Tho paper linn a good circulation cir-culation for n now one, but up to tlih timo its advertising patronage has Ih-i ii ,. cryioor. Many Senators who nro loud In their nbusoof tho Hiij-ar truct havo no real desire In Injure that (onccru. It docs not seem prubahlo that among the nuinerons amendments offered to the ' sugar schedulo and voted dow u one that Mould have dono the business for the e trust, simply proving that lellucd it Hiignr bo ndiullted free,' should havo K been unintentionally omitted, r.verv fc' body knows Unit tho turlll" on rellued I1 nugar is w liolly nnd solely fort tho bene fit of tho sugar trust Yet no Senator ljpV jiroposo that it l,o elruck out Tho f nearest approach to that proposition i. being tho nmendment oirered by Senator W l'oirci to admit nil Bt.gar free, which was dchalid by a votoot37 to2. This " It eiuincclcd with tho testimony taken j by thoinvcetigitiugcoinmiltcohas eon- 'IKP vinced nio.t unprcjuccd pcoplo that tho IF elinrgu of tho sugar ti net having nnd El' exercleing it "pull" on tho Senato was iJU- fuiliitmitliiily true, ns well ns other fL cliargo that Individual Senators havo M mudo money by speculating in llio slock t)R of tho sugar trust sinco tho taiill' bill iftt1 vwis pnsed by tlio House. Ono of thn tt icinniknblo thlngn iilwut tho dehntn EBi ' wlilili preceded tho voto on llio sugar ill', sehcdual vmis Senator Vest's charge im that the Senato had also surreiuleied IB to the siif-ar tiust when tho McKiuhy Hm bill was pnwail, Just ns though Unit Ht were a jiwtillnblo excuse for the piesent JH. sin lender two vviougs never jet mado IJSST' . ono right Uf Keprcsentntlvo Meircr, of Nebraska, I uns marl led here Wednesday itftci noon jwJi, to Mlts Hlrdlo Ahlxilt, a slaler-in-htw of ByarV Judgo Lochrnn, Commissioner of l'eus- ySJF Inns Sir. Mercer Is a republican, but fernM; lilsi innrrhigo isllkelv to incriuso bis In- P llucuco at Ihu I'enslou ufllro. HI. Tliu friumls of llio repeal, of tho texou S Btato linnk currency wero luiigou couii- jHL denco duiiiig tho debate, but thoy weru MK ..abort on votes and the bill wns defeated -n tho JIoubo by a voto of 170 to 102. |