The New Sugar Scandal

Ts the country to be afflicted with a secoikl stigar scandal? Are the "senators from Havemeyer" ex-officio menibers cf the finance committee, and are they to be perniitted to díctate the important sugar schednle? - Chicago Evening Post (Ind. Rep.). The senate committee's bill, whethrr designed to do so or not, will give the trust a great advantage should it bccome law. For that reason the country is bitterly opposed to the senate sugar schedule, and if the senate will beed the voice of the people that schedule will not be embraced in the new tariff. - Indianapolis Journal (Rep.). The storm over the sugar schedule is steadily increasing. All the exaruinations which have been made since its report, instead of clearing it up, only inake it look the blacker. It has apparently been made of a very complicated character to baffle analysis and to disguise a job, but, intricate as it is, it does not conceal the f act that it embraces a very large differential for the benefit of the trust. This conviction is universal, and it is aggravated by the (tories of personal profit in connectiou with it. - Philadelphia Press (Rep.). The specific charge by a responsiblo newspaper in Chicago that three members of the senate speculated in the secrets of the committee room after the sugar schedule on the senate tariff bill had been framed, and profited $30,000 by the transaction, is altogether too serioua to be treated by the senate with contempt or indift'erence. The peculiar influence which the magnates of the Sugar trust have exerted in the framing of the new sugar schedule has already created suspicions as to the integrity of the framers of the bill. If the charge against the alleged speculators shall not be investigated, it will serve to strenethen, if not confirm,