The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-16
J. Pierpont Morgan's Lieutenant
Says His Chief Is Not Antag-
onistic to Roosevelt.
He Himself Is Credited by Observers
With Having Patched Up
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Story Of Jim Hills Enmity Toward
the President Who Had
Praised Him.
New York Sun Special Service.

Chicago, June 16.-Walter Wellman, in
a New York special to the Record-Herald,
says:
President Roosevelt and J. Pierpont
Morgan have been reconciled. Mr. Nor
gan is not one of those Wall street fnan-
ciers who are trying to defeat Mr.. Roose-
velts reelection to the presidency For
this statement have the highest authori
ty. / am furthermore informed that the
reconciliation between the president and
Mr.. Morgan was brought about by George
w. Perkins, who is at the head Of the
Mr.. Morgan.
Mr.. Perkins said to a friend that the
statement attributed to President Mel
len Of the Northern Pacific, to the effect
that $4,000 could not be raised in all
Wall street for the Roosevelt compaign
fund, must be mistake in so far as Mr..
Mellen's reported quotation Of what Mr..
Morgan had said in that connection. Mr..
Perkins was very sure that Mr.. Morgan
had never said anything Of the sort and
he did not believe that Mr.. Mellen had
ACTUALLY uttered the words attributed to
him in the recent reported interview. At
any rate, Mr.. Morgan was not to be
classed among the New York financiers
who were trying to defeat,the president.
Perkins RooseveIt's Friend.
Mr.. Perkins is, and long has been, one
Of President Roosevelt's posonal friends.
| It was Mr.. Perkins who arranged the final
deal for settling the coal strike, and it
was also Mr.. Perkins who fixed up the
understanding as to the anti-trus. legis-
lation. Mr.. Morgan's young and able lieu
tenant has now won another MEDAL as a
diplomatist by patching up peace be-
tween his powerful chief and the man in
the White House.
While Mr.. Morgan and the president
have been reconciled, the president and
Jim Hill are still at loggerheads. The
treaty Of peace does not include Mr.. Hill.
He is on the war path against Mr.. Roose-
velt and there are no signs that he will
come in and stay upon the reservation.
| The story of Mr.. Hill s grievance against
| the president as I get it upon high au-
i thority, Is most interesting.
J. j. HIlI's Grievance.
When he sat down to write his first
message to congress in the late autumn
| of 1901, Mr.. Roosevelt was filled with
thoughts concerning the upbuilding of the
west. AS a dweller in the west and a
writer upon the west, he was earnest and
Isincere In Discrimination for the men who
had played@a part In the development OF
that region. Among these men Mr.. Hill
stood forth conspicuously in the presi-
dents mind. So in writing his first mes
sage to congress, naturally he wished to
pay high compliment to Mr.. Hill. AS he
wrote the paragraph concerning the de-
velopnent Of the west, 1t was extremely
Mandatory of the man who had thrown
a new line Of rails across the continent
so laudatory that level-headed New
York friend to whom he read his words,
suggested that perhaps he had stopped
over a trif1e, and that a little pruning
would be advisable. rr...'gs (.
President Roosevelt saw the wisdom OF
this suggestion and cut out some Of the
warmest sentences. Nevertheless the
words which remained were so comment
datory of Mr.. Hill that that gentleman
was very much pleased. In fact, he was
never in his life more pleased After the
message had been sent to congress AND
published In all the newspapers, Mr.. Hill
expressed his qualification to some of his
New York friends. He said it was the
finest tribute ever paid him.
Il shall have the presidents words
framed and leave theru as a heritage fol
my children and gra..dchildren,' he ex.
! claimed
! Lunched with the President.
He was 80 much pleased that he tool
a trip over to Washington for the expires!
purpose Of telling President Roosevelt
how delighted he was, and at the White
House luncheon compliments were ex
changed in the most friendly fashion.
! Mr.. Hill had some business which KEEP
MN III view 1oiA SOME l!me' OUT Hnail!
he started for his home irJ St. Paul. Be
fore reaching his destination he learned
that, by the presidents order, a. suit wa
to be instituted by the government, which
If carried to its logical conclusion, woult
involve the indictment and incarceration
in Jail Of the aforesaid James J. Hill
Under which circumstances it Is not a
all surprising that Mr.. Hill has ceased t
be one Of Mr.. Roosevelts ardent admirer
and is, to the contrary, on the warpatl
. for scalps.