The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-13
A NEW PHASE.
r,..,deut of New York Cotton Exchange
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President of New York Cotton E1c"""So
 to Roosevelt.
 Washington, July 12.-A new and in- teresting phase of the cotton leak m vesti4ation was developed today through the publication of the letter of Walter c. Hubbard, President or the New York Cotton Exchange, ad- dressed to President Roosevelt. Tn which the writer declared that ths members of the exchange had been greatly shocked by the recent us closures of venality in the Department of Asriculturc," and requesting a full investigation of the methods which lea to the corruption. with view or pre- venting the possibility of recurrence
 The letter, 1t is believed here. Is the outcome of recent correspondence pc tween Secretary Wilson and MT. Hup- bard. in which the latter called upon the Secretary to make him a puplic apoIcgy because he had some years ago called the Secretary's attention to ali legged leaks and that no notice had been given the suggestion. The Secretary wrote a tart reply, in which he lnfcrm- ed MT. Hubbard that he owed no one an apology in the light of having done hls dutv 10 the best of his ability, and that when he got anything that looked like facts he promptly sent 1t to the secret service officers to hunt down.
 The case to which MT. Hubbard re- ferred in his recent letter to the Sec retary occurred in 1900. On December 20 of that year Mir. Hubbard sent the Secretary certain papers showing that a MT. Steinberger wanted to sell in formation to a New York cotton orok- craze firm, claiming that he could get if in advance of the Department Sec retary Wilson immediately turned the matter over to the secret service om- cer, but in about week Chief Wllkle reported that Tit looks like an attempt of Steinberger to bunco the New fork firm" .:
 After allowing two months to elapse and not hearing further. the Secretary on March 26, 19Ji, called upon the se- cret service for information as to whether they had made any discoveries On the following day Assistant Secre- tary Gage replied: The action of this man who wanted to sell information was done iwth the hope of being able to sell information, but as a matter of fact his efforts to obtain the advance informs tion failed, as he received no assist ance from the person in Washington upon whom he depended for informa- tion."
 This report of MT. Gage was trans ,nitted to MT. Hubbard by Secretary Wilson the next day and the matter was allowed to drop. But in January. 1909 MT. Hubbard complained of hay ing he en advised that Southern ginners were sending to tie Department re- turns of their ginning operations bear ing date of December 22 or 23, and" saId MT Hubbard, 'I am unable to ur- derstand why additional returns from einncrs should be obtained since the result is to be published. It seems. however, that the Department of Agrl culture had not called for any gtnnsrs statistics at that time, but that the circulars had becn issued from the Cen sus Bureau.
 In the same month MT. Hubbard wrote the Department of Agriculture nskins for certain informaticn on cot ton. but the Secretary in the course of a sharp letter denying the request writt sn under date Of January II. l9o@,
 we take the ground here that noth-