The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-05-24
WALLACE GETS AFTER
SECRETARY TAFT AGAIN

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the public press, and again referred to
in my testimony before your committee,
that at no other time during the year
would the work on the isthmus be In
better condition to permit of any alb
sence. That was my judgment on each
and every occasion specified, and is still
my firm conviction. This is true also
of the statement made by me that the
only work which could be performed
until after congress at it's next session
shall take some decided action is the
gradual increase in the organization
and the addition of units of machinery
along a well-de1ned plan"
Mr.. Wallace calls attention to the Of
fetal report of Governor Magoon, now
first presented by Secretary Taft on
conditions existing on the isthmus dur
ing the months of May, June and July,
1905, which he says was not asked for
or written until his (Wallace's) testi-
mony before the committed had been
printed, (which indicates that 1t was
prepared to offset my testimony" He
therefore asks the committee to put in
the record all kilograms and reports,
since Secretary Taft has gone so far
as to make public personal and conf
Dental correspondence on this subject"
The letter denies the accuracy of the
statement, dictated by Secretary Taft
and Mr.. Cromwell, of the conversation
between the three at the Manhattan
hotel
Continuing the letter says:
secretary Tart, While publishing in
his appendix my letter OF March IL,
19U5, IN tull, III his statement proper
says: In the letter OF Marcn 10, winch
Mr., Wallace wrote, anu wnlch nave
already introduced, he uses the expires
sion, / prefer to remain on The Arlng
line, Indicating at that time, wnen
he had not thought OF leaving, Wnele
the post Of Importance was for the
chief engineer. secretary Taft does
me a gross injustice in extracting mis-
phrase from sentence vita vltal n4oA-
4ylng clauses ana omlttlngstne context.
I desire to cali the arteAuon Oh the
committee to the important Woras ne
omits:
Il prefer to be on the firing line,
provided receive proper support, ana
an Impossible situation is no. created
in Washington.
After relterating his former state-
ments that tinanclal reasons Were not
the cause OF mis- request to be lelley-
ed, ana that his aeslre for proper au
thority and non-lnter1erence w4tn the
conduct of the WORK was not uue "
personal amDluon, MI. W allace makes
the statement that at no Time dla Inc
thought ever occur to me to nolu up
secretary Taft or any one lor aualuon-
al authority or compensation
MIR. Wallace continues: secretary
Taft's unWarranted assaults upon me
are, however, less astonishing, IL pos
sible than his eulogies of MI. Cromwell.
In his testimony on April -, 1896, ne
says
The impression sought to be given
that Mr.. Cromwell mas attempted TO
interfere in canal matters, or 10 exer-
else great influence in controlling the
policies to be pursued is wholly I'M
founded, And yet on June 20, 1906
Secretary Taft said on the same sub
ject: Mr.. Cromwell has for some time
been charged by the president and my
self with general advisory duties In all
canal affairs.
Mr.. Wallace concludes with quota
ton from President Roosevelts Muck
Rake" speech, in which he spoke of
gross and wreckless assaults on char
acter and adds.
Despite the labored and sustained
effort on the part of Secretary Taft to
impugn my motives, simply because he
felt it necessary to sustain and sup
port his ill-advised outburst Of temper
and abusive treatment of nae at the
time I had hoped for calm and dis
passionate consideration of the ques-
lions involved. and which should have
been amicably settled and adjusted,
without irritation and without embar-
rassment to the administration or in
Jury to the work, he has been unable
to refute any statement of fact made
bv me before your committee; on the
contrary, his attempt to discredit my
veracity has been confined to calling
untrue certain statements that were
merely questions of personal opinion