The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-12


 when Senator Teller forced F. K. Thur ber who has been lobbying for the Cuban reciprocity bill. to admit that ne hau been paid thousands of dollars by Generai Leonard Wood, who drew 1t from the Cuban revenues while Military Governor to boost along reciprocity legislation. To make the affair more unfavorable for Wood ,Thurber also admitted he had been paid other thousands by Havemeyer, nresident of the sugar trust. for the same nurpose. though Havemeyer said In ms testimony before the committee he had not paid a cent.
 Those in Congress opposed to Cuoah reciprocity declare the episode in the Senate committee kills all chances for the bill to pass, even though 1t is the Presi- dents pet measure. They say, too, It nuts the administration in a bad light, and knocks out General Woods chances for promotion to major generalship' as proposed by Roosevelt.
 The part Wood plays in the sensation IS emphasized in the resolution of Senator Culberson introduced in the Senate lm- mediately after the committee ao1ourheo It calls for complete statement or eN- penditures of sll money by Governor Gen eraI Wood from the date he took charge in Cuba until May 2oth.
 Senator Teller forced the admission from Thurber by producing documentary evidence from the War Department archives. The President and the Secretary or War are highly exasperated at the new evidence of d leak in the department anu there will be another searching lnVesu- gation to find, if possible. how Teller got the document
 Cause of Thurber's Activity. In response to questions by Senator Teller, Mir Thurber said he had been ac- tive in the effort to secure a re:iproca advancement with Cuba. He had come to Washington originally at the instance of the export association and also Of thF Cubans who were favoring reciprocity, He was not he said, under salary iron the export association, but he admitted that he received a percentage on the lee' for membership in the association inbu enced by himself.
 The witness said he had issued larg' number of circulars in the interest or reduction of the duty on Cuban sugar and he submitted specimens of some o them. 
 this literature the witness replied tha the Cuban committee had paid the larger part of it, and that members or the as sociatlon had paid part of it. He saio h' had been in the employ Of the Cupai Gov ernment for a time in the summer and fall of 1901 in connection with tn' preparation of the Cuban tariff, his em nIoyment being at the instance of Secre tary Root.
 Tn reply to questions, Mr. Thurber sait that the money referred to above had al come through the Cuban committee, bu Senator Teller insisted that the voucher which he had produced could not hav' enanated from the Cuban committee.
 Paid by Woods Order.
 Mir Tburber then said that all was don' through an understanding that the expor association should do all possible to ge the industries on g proper basis Il denied. however. that the money wal paid on verbal order from Genera Wood, given while the latter was in thu United States.
 Asked what was meant by the phrase Headers of thought" in his bill to tn Cuban Government. Mir. Thurber said h. h9d list of 5000 people in the United States who represent something, t' whom this literature was sent.
 In reply to question by Mir Teller al to whether he had consulted MT. Have
  tion of the literature MT. Thurber said: After making my argument before th' Ways and Means Committee. l told MT Havemeyer that I had been asked 1T was representing him, and asked hin for subscription. He gave me checl toward meeting our expenses.
 The following is a copy of the receipts which Mr. Teller submitted as having been given by MT Thurber to the Cubai government and which the witness ad mitted to be genuine;
 Form 8. Voucher No. 31, Abstract "B' account month of April: lso2 ,ooo
 New York, April ?, 1902 The r S Military Government of tn Island of Cuba, to the |. s. Export Assn. Dr. ao aoo For sending third edition of 5000 cir cular letters and accompanying publica tions to leaders of thought in the Unite' States advocating q reduction in the du ties on Cuban products with reciproca reduction in the duties on American pro ducts imported into Cuba-SZ'Seo.
 Received payment. -. .,
 E. P. Thurber. President. The service as per bill attached (se abovel in support of the applications 2 the inhabitants of the Island of Cub for reciprocal tariff relations with tn United States-s2SS0.
 Under authority of General Woo' March 26, 1902.
 Ine uOcuHleAl pore lne iollOWlHb VI dorsement:
 Headquarters Department of Cuba, Hs vana. April 10, 1902 The services herei charged for having been performed undt the verbal directions and authority of tt Military Governor this voucher. as sul mitted is approved and the auditor is al thorized to pay the same. By drectio of the Military Governor.
 Frank Mccoy, Aide-de- Camp. Paid by check No 403, l5S. April Il. 190 for g., ,SS0, on BaEco Nacional de Cuba.
 Did Not Try to Dodge
 In reply to other questions. MT Thu her said that three bills similar to tn had been rendered by him, and that a had been paid Mir Thurbcr said he Ina not tried to avoid appearing before q Committee. stating that he had been al sent from his home most Of the time sin, Inc receipt of his first summons to a near. which he had not received uni May 2S notwithstanding it was sent ( the 26th.
 prof H w Wiley. chief of the cher ;strv division of the Agricultural Depar ment followed Mir Thurber
 He conteuded the European kartel hon tv had been the cause of the entire r duction in the price ol sugar which h!