Sunday morning globe., 1901-12-15

MANILA afH. |.. .. ..'.'
. AGWAR. Washington
Number available sites between Baeoor
and Cavite well protected. permitting 'ullu.
ing ofwharves 20 deep WATERFRONT % teei.
Price depends upon vicinity TO villages ana
now auctuatiug. OTIS.
That was an official reply 90 thc War De-
plrtment was IL nop
Colonel Hcisiand don't know whether
. it was or not. As 1 want to tell you--
Senator Cockrell Wait just moment
. L. not this the way official c3blcgam are re-
ceived indicating itl2
Colonel Heistand Yes sir.
'Agwar' Is Adiutant General Corbius
official cable designation. Both cab.egrams
were thus paid for by the government and
Congress viii notice that the said cable
grams passed between the military gov
ernor Of the island and the adjutant general
and his assistant adiutanf general here in
Washington, both the personal friends of
the President of the United States, and that
the island was under the government Of
these military satraps.
Here is another tribute to this combine.
Senator Burrows Who knew Of your
sending that cablegram to Otis2
Colonel Heistand Mr. Meiklejohn.
And hereis how the dear public or sub
scrihers to this hot monopoly were to be
done up.
Senator Burrows. IL is In evidence here
that this stock was to be divided in some
way. Major Hawks was to have go shares
and you were to- have 10
Mr. Hawks. No, that is not correct
Senator Burrows. Well. doyou know how
many, Major Hawks
MI Hawks In the prospectus 1t read
D. 500 shares 90 be divided up.
Senator Burrows Very we'll Hawks
was 90 have some and you were 10 have
some.
Colonel Heistaud Yes sir, was the
originator of the company and reserved
some TO myself.
Senator Burrows. How much stock did
you reserve 90 YOURSELF
Colonel Heis,and. My recollection is
s7So00 Mr. Hawks was to have s25.ooo
Dudley and Michener were To- have S53,070,
and the rest was 90 be used TO employ other
men that Hawks might find necessary to
assist him. and ii there was any left over
that ne had not used iu that way, we were
TO divide 10 between us
In this extract 1t will be seen he coufesses
boldly that he originated The whole scheme.
Ina closing the case for Major Hawkes.,
Judge T. j. Mackey among other things said.
'I pass to another point If General
Corbin, Mr. Meikleiohn MI Boyd and
others were to purchase stock, why did
Major Heistand place them on a list, in his
own handwriting, and hand that TO Major
Hawkes. Why For, whether they would
purchase stock Or not would be shown after
the event after the stock was issued. That
act on the part of Major Heistand could
only be understood as meaning that they
would be benehciaries when the stock was
issued As to their acting in their official
capacities, General Corbin testies that he
had no money. Meiklejohn and Boyd tes.
tify to the same purpor,; they were not
capitalists What was the value Of their
commentator to the mercantile commuu.
ity if the value did not spring from their
official places2 None; no value whatever
But at the seat Of power, as friends at court
their favor was Of great value.
As TO Major Hawks testimony, l. submit
to this committee that all the circumstances
support him and contradict General Corbin
and Colonel Heistaud and Nj Boyd.
May it please the committee, grave ques-
tions presented in courts of justice are to
be determined by the law and the evidence,
not the law and the testimony. The
evidence is more than the testimony The
testimony is what falls from the lips of the
sworn witness, the evidence includes the
witness himself-every circumstance that
may prompt him to false swearing Now,
] have stated that General Corbin was the
power behind the throne. How do 1 sup
port ip First. he the chief of staff of the
Army the head of the staff department,
admits that when questioned by Major
Heistand as TO the legality and propriety
Of his engaging in business enterprise in
the Philippine Islands under military con-
troll, he answered him, You have a perfect
right TO engage in that enterprise, % and he
answered II IN face of the seventy-fourth
section of the Regulations for the Army of
the United States, which is law, and he Is
affected with knowledge Of that regulation
by his official position as Adiutant.Geuera
Of the Army. He testified subsequently.
when iuteuogated by a member of tine COM
mittee, that am officer of the army was free
TO engage iu any business enterprise in the
Philippine Islands, the enemy's country,
or anywhere else, unless he became inter
ested with parties having a contract with
the government That was the only limita-
ton
Now, how Is General Corbin touched?
First, he appeared as advising the enter
prise as legal, legitimate, and proper, and
when in pursuance Of the enterprise Major
Heistaud sends illegally private telegram
and has 1t charged to the government, Gene
raj Corbin approves the telegram for pay.
ment by the government He states that
on receiving the telegram from General Otis
he inquired all through the War Depart
ment TO learn 10 what telegram 1t was am
answer, and as his own private secretary
testides that he delivered the answer of
General Otis directed to General Corbin to
Colonel Heistand. as the sender of the tele-
gram, and General Corbn testifes in con-
tradiction of his former statement that his
private secretary had informed him that
Major Hcistand had acknowledged that the
Otis telegram was In reply to his own and
yet General Corbin testifes that subsequent
TO this information when Major Heistand
was in Paris, hesought TO trace the telegram
which General Otis answered.
But gentlemen, the natural source TO
which to direct his inquiry was under the
same roof of The War Department that
covered General Corbiu. it was the tele-
graph office and he never went there Il
was within bowshot Of his own Office and
he never sought the information where
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