Evening star., 1901-10-01
THE HEMP INQUIRY
Continued from First Page,

employment. Mr.. Watson having put up
the hemp factory IN Yucatan, Mexico.
Senator Burrows asked:
Were any subscriptions obtained to this
stock?.'
'None were ever actually obtained" was
the reply.
WAS the company ever Incorporated"
1T never was"
Then no officers were ever elected?'
mo. and none were ever talked OF. L
want to say further that the stock sub
scription list was never submitted to sim
gle person for subscription. whether prom
iSed not"
Regarding the letters to Messrs. Watson
and Hydrick. witness said he could not
recollect having shown them to Col. Hell
stand. but that the latter was conversant
with everything witness did, as they had
almost daily conferences on the subject OF
the proposed company.
Continuing, witness was asked whether
he had ever had any conversations with
Col Heistand on the subject Of duties on
hemp. and said he had, but could not recol-
lect their time tenor.
Senator Hawley interrupted the proceed
ings to read a letter from the War Depart
ment stating that a cablegram had been
found in the files there from Gen. Otis ad-
dressed to the adjutant generals office CIV
ing the information about available sites
for hemp factory between Bacoor and
Cavite. The message to which this was
answer, the letter stated. was not found.
but was being looked for.
ask why an official reply should be sent to
private telegram, such as Col. Heistand
said yesterday had been the nature of his
inquiry to Gen. Otis He was informed that
this would be ascertained. Col. Heistand,
| however, said "Agwar," the cipher address
OF Gen. Otis telegram, meant "Adjutant
General, War Department"
Letters of Hemp Experts.
Returning to the letters of the hemp ex-
perts. the one written by Mr.. Hydrick was
read in which he dealt upon the profits
to be assured the company If the duty on
| hemp was raised, and said he had written
| Col. Heistand regarding the subject. A few
| days after the latter's visit to him at the
| Y. L. Hotel witness said he went to Col.
| Hefstand's office at the War Department
and talked over the matter. Col. Hell
stand was anxious that the project
| for the company should be pushed 1t was
understood that Col. Heistand would go to
| New York and with witness would meet
| at Flint, Eddy & Co.'S in that city, and also
meet the capitalists who would finance the
| company, and witness wired his represent
| ative in New York to arrange such a
| meeting, who did so. Witness notified Col.
| Heistand of this. The latter was on his
| way to Paris Witness said all the persons
| were present at the meeting except Col.
| Heistand, and that he went to the latter's
| hotel to ascertain the reason for his alb
sence. and he said he hadn't found time.
| He promised to attend meeting at the
| same place next day, but again failed to
| appear. Witness said his representative,
| Frank Adderholt Of Akron Ohio, was
present when the promise was made.
The day before Col. Heistand sailed for
| Europe witness him again, and he
again said he had not found time to at
| tend the second meeting, but promised to
Secretary Meiklejohn and Assistant At
| torney General Boyd in relation to the
| company affairs, and would write witness
letter also to the effect that he had writ
ten such letters.
| Witness received no such letter and was
told by Messrs. Meiklejohn and Boyd that
| they had not received such letters. He
| then, he said, wrote to Col Heistand at
Paris. A copy Of this letter, he said, was
in the pages of his letter book turned over
| to Col. Heistand. Immediately the latter
| and his counsel, Mr.. Needham, produced
these pages and handed them over to Mr..
| Mackey, for perusal Scrutiny of the pages
| failed to find the letter alleged to have
been written to Col Hestand at Paris
witness said he found a copy of a letter
written to the adjutant general which had
bearing on the subject. Senator Cockrell
| read 1t privately and said that while it
| was hardly pertinent to the inquiry. he
| wanted to know If Gen Corbin had renlied
| to 1t. Witness replied no.
He said he would soon come to the point
| where the letter came in.
Broken PrOmises.
Proceeding, he said that after writing a
| letter to Colonel Heistand "calIing atten-
| tion to his shortcomings and broken prom
| ises,' he got reply from him. 1t was in
the papers handed over to Colonel Hell
| stand. Have you those letters? Colonel
Heistand was asked by Senator Cockrell.
Il have not" responded the officer
promptly.
What did you do with the letter wit
ness wrote your
Il tore 1t up" was the sharn rorl,,
Several letters written from Paris by Col
onel He1stand TO witness were examined by
the latter, but he said they were not the
| ones he had alluded to.
At this point Senator Hawley, who had
been plainly chaflng under the slow man
ner In which Mr.. Hawks read and gave his
| testimony, said:
| II wish to ask that persons reading let
| ters and talking would do SO faster or let
| some one near them do the reading and
endeavor to speak more rapidly them
| Selves
| 81 hope the senator Is not alIuding to
me-" remarked Mr.. Hawks.
| II am sure you talked faster about hemp"
| said Senator Hawey.
| There was more money In sight" was
| the response.
Mr.. Hawks evidently tried to put better
pace on his voca1tSm, but his periods were
| longer stops than the language contem-
| plates.
In December, -1s99 or January, 19OO wit
ness said he called on Gen. Corbin at his
! OiiiCe anu went over WIN MIN the time he
had expended. money spent, his treat
ment by Col. Heistand, and that Gen. Cor
bin told him his claim was just, and IL he
would make 1t out he (Corbin) would have 1t
forwarded through military Channels. Cen
Corbin denied having any connection with
the anair when witness told him Col.
Helstand had represented him as being in
sympathy with the project. Witness told
Corbin his claim was for 81, 1856, and Corbin
said 1t was just and said If witness would
make out his bill 1t would be forwarded To
| Col. Heistand. ~
II made out bill to H. O. a He;st.ra
| and associates and sent It, with a state
ment, to Gen Corbin. I never received anv
notice OF its receipt, heard nothing from
| Gen. Corbin and it was not forwarSad
through military channels"
| REPORTS MADE.
| VfNyvR nf ntafrfOf nM~9~v.