The Washington times., 1902-03-28

| Brun, who, Christmas says, was his worst
enemy.
| At this point the agents dealings with
! Congress appear in the report.
| He met, he says, Senators Depew, Lodge,
| Clark of Montana. and Bacon; Repre-
| scntatives Alexander, Gardner, and others.
/ They fixed the sum to be paid for the
| islands at $40 900, as the Prime Min
| lister had desired. On January 80 he tele-
| graphed:
| Tomorrow the House will vote $1,000
600 for buying the islands, and Mr.
| Gardner was to make big speech.
But this programme was abandoned.
| There were now in Congress las Mr..
Lodge expressed it, evil spirits at
work. namely, Rogers and his friends
Senator Lodge, who is the most respect
ed member of the Senate and who, of all
the political persons l have met in Ameri-
ca is the only one that cannot be brib-
ed, was my best assistant. 1t was he
who discovered that Rogers was at work
agitating among his twenty-six Senators,
whose votes he thought to be able to con-
troll"
Advised to See Hay.
The report goes on:
mn Lodge advised me to see Mr.. Hay
and to inform him of all regarding my
antagonistic position to Rogers and
Gron. l decided to follow the advice OF
Mr.. Lodge. l worked out a statement
took all my papers, letters, and tele-
grams, and announced myself to Mr. Hay.
ITO me he said Well it may be that
these trust people" are very powerful,
but will show them that they do not rule
the Administration of the country OF its
Congress-
In his Congressional labors Christmas
says he had as special assistants two
men-"C. W. Knox who was an intimate
friend of Mark Hanna, and Richard p.
Evans, lawyer in Washington, who rep
resented Mr.. Gardner and his friends in
the House"
Captain Christmas in the meantime, &C
cording to the report, had been practi
cally abandoned by the Danish Prime
Minister, and on March 10 he wrote bit
terly complaining of the treatment II
had received. 1t became apparent, he
says. that nothing could be accomplished
at that session Of Congress, and he de-
termined to return to Denmark. Before
leaving he tried to effect a compromise
with Gron and Rogers. He feared that
they intended to manage him out" and
make the sale without him.
He secured money to pay his expenses
to Europe of himself and wife. by giving
a newspaper man an account of his deal |
lHgS WIN the Two Inc presentation Oh
this article to Rogers and Gron, he says.
secured their agreement to take half the
commission If the islands were sold a
that session of Congress, and two-thirds
If the sale took place at the session Of |
10000. The article was not made public. !
Before leaving the United States Christ |
mas relieved Fischer Hanses of some of |
his obligations. Concluding, he says
After his return to Denmark Christmas |
had a stormy interview with the Prime |
Minister, which terminated, he says, in |
an unpleasant manner for both parties, |
the Prime Minister saying that it was not |
in his power to secure satisfaction TO |
Christmas for his betrayal of him, he |
had but two days longer TO serve.
Gron has furnished Representative
Richardson with an affidavit that he had |
made the translation into English of the
so-called report. and that 1t was a true
one: that Christmas had admitted over
signature that the copy published in the
Danish papers was correct, and that he |
(Ciron) was in Copenhagen from Decem-
Der I, 1901, to February Is, 1902.