Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-05-18
CASTRO in
MERRY W AR
VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT COMES
INTO LooMis-BoWEN
DISCUSSION. LII.
PAUL SEES ROOSEVELT
Minister Answers Charges and Denies
That He Ever Circulated False Re-
ports and Says Messages Were Based
on Those Of Foreign Diplomats.

Washington, D. c., May II. - A stir
ring up of all the phases of the yene-
zuelan matter is taking place here, and
the ventilation of the Loomis-Bowen
scandal will be but one feature Presi.
dent Roosevelt yesterday saw DR.. Jose
de Jesus Paul, the personal repre-
Senor Pastor y Mora, at one time con-
nected with the New York & Bermu-
dez company, a friend Of Minister
Bowen, who Is supposed to have told
him about the $4,000 check transac-
tion which Assistant Secretary Loomis
explains by saying that he gave his
own checks in exchange for 1t, SO as to
accomplish the conversion Of the Ven
ezuelan money he had on hand into
American currency.
DR.. Paul came here early in the win
ter for the purpose of convincing the
President that Minister Bowen had
not conducted the business of this
government at Caracas in such man
ner as to preserve the good relations
existing between the United States
and Venezuela.
Fails to Sec President.
Minister Bowen accompanied Mr..
Pastor to the White House offices, but
he did not get to see the President.
The visit of Mr.. Paul was treated at
the White House as a secret, and no
one connected with the executive Of
| fees would even admit that he had
called on the President.
The minister also filed his answer
| to the Presidents query as to why he
had made the charges against Loomis
The Bowen answer is that he made
no charges, and that it Is not even in.
cumbent upon him to even try to prove
the truth Of the charges. He holds
that 1t was his duty to send the
charges TO Washington for the infor
nation of Mr.. Loomis, If for no other
officer, because reports on them had
been sent to European chancelleries
Says Charges Are Not New.
But the minister is not content with
that. He cited the fact that the charges
were not new when he transmitted
them, and for the purpose of proving
that assertion he cited papers which
he had sent to the state department
because be had found them in the lega
tion at Caracas. He referred to other
documents on file there, all apparently
for the purpose Of showing that 1t was
a continued story to which he was re
ferring when he reported the. fact tina,
European diplomats had sent the
charges to their own governments.
Denies He Slandered Loonis.
In answer to Loomis' counter charge
that he had procured the publication
of the charges. Minister Bowen says
that Charles Saloman and DR.. Paul
recognized as friends, if not agents
of President Castro, have been IL
Washington for months, and that the
latter has sought the publication Of the
charges, but he was unsuccessful be
cause the Venezuelan government
would not assume responsibility TO
their truth. He contends that tn,
; stories told by them while in Wash
ington were sent to Caracas for verifi
cation, and that the information as tt
the stories to the discredit of MI
Loomis were as complete as were re
lated to him and submitted to th
. state department for its information
. He denies that he procured or sug
: gested the publication of the matter
which, from it's nature, was confiden
tial report to the state department