Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1894 — SENATORS IN DANGER. [ARTICLE]

SENATORS IN DANGER.

SU ,4AR scandal may possibly LEAD TO ARRESTS. ftuM Prominent Statesmen Said to Have Perjured Themselves In the Recent InYeatlcation—Talk of Criminal Proaeca* tlon and Exposure. Sagar Bomb May Bnrut. It is reported here, on what is said to be good authority, says a Washington correspondent, that, despite the doniais of speculation and the sworn statements of Senators who had been called before the investigating committee, it would be proven that in three instances at least speculation had been engaged in, and that the three Senators re erred to had been guilty of perjury. An interesting story is going the rounds— a story so startling in its details that it is almost past belief. It is said there is a man in Washington who has in his possession the original broker's contract whereupon one of the Senators —a prominent one at that —contra 'ted to buy sugar when it was down to just before its phenomenal rise. It is said that interested persons “short” on sugar, and who had bien “squeezed” in the process of manipulating the market, or because they did not have the “inside tip,” had lost an immense amount of money, and had determined so break the sugar schedule at all hazards. The most interesting part of the story is the way in which they intend to set this schedule aside. It is by no other pro< ess than bv the arrest of a certain Senator on a charge of perjury. In a criminal < ase of "this kind, it is said, stock b okers would be compelled to show their books in court and the persons back of this scheme say they can prove, not only by the evidence they now claim to have, but by what they could 1 trios lay bare, that somebody has been doing some tall lying before the investigating committee. It'is thought this particular’ Senator, rather than submit to such proceedings, would'Undo the"wo:-k it is said he has as9is:ed in doing, and through the influence he is said toyield, sugar would •be placed on the free 1 st. and the men -v short” of the stock would recoup their capital dropped while they the •rong side of the mal’ket.