The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-13
GARRETT IS
 DISCHARGED Senator Morgan Takes
 Action. THE SECRETARY EXPLAINS Says He Was Merely Interested in
 Immigration.
THE SECRETARY EXPLAINS
Declares That The New York Ameri- can PurpOseIx Printed sec4i0as of Correspondence to Give PeO-
 pie the Wrong Impression.

 Senator Morgan today took action, amounting to dismissal of Thomas O.. Garrett, Secretary to the Committee on Public Health and National Quarall- tine. of which the Senator ia Chair man. The dismissal ia the result of q charge that Mir. Garrett had engaged in the promotion of the interests of Belgium in the administration of affairs in the Congo Free State
 The New York American, which has been publishing columns regarding au alleged lobby maintained here ip the interest of Belgium and the Congo country, and in which it was asserted that Major Thomas G. Garrett. Clerk to Senator Morgan's Committee was in- terested, today printed several letters written by him to Colonel kOwalsky.
 Tonight Major Garrett made the fol- lowing statement;
 '"The letters from me w.-ich appeared In The New York American relate en- tirely to another matter. They have absolutely no connection with the so- called Belgium lobby with which nev- CT had any connection Tho letters have been used to answer the purposes of a base and wilful misconstruction.
 They relate entirely to my efforts to turn towards the South the tide of foreign immigration and cannot hon- estly be construed as involving me t0 any extent in the charges alleged. The letter which is published today in The American as a fac simile had no ref erence even in the remotest to thsk Congo Free State or to any other pubs lie matter
 In July of 1905. q Mir. Danziger came to me with the suggestion that the tlde of foreign immigration, which waH pouring Into, the United States from European countries, could be turned southward; that there was an increas- ing demand there for labor in the fields. shops and factories, and that conditions were more inviting there by reason ok climate and other reasons than pre- vailed In other portions of the United States.
 Entered late Ienferprise. l. being an AtahAmian aud lnterestet above all things In the upbuiiding 1i my native State and the south gener. ally. entered eagerly into the enter. prise. We finally agreed that an st. fee should be opened up on the East Side in New York as headquarters. was identified with this immigration movement from it's origin.
 "The letter which is displayed SO conspicuously in The New York Amer ican of this day had reference solely entirely and exclusively 10 this imnli- grafton scheme and had not the remot-  with anything pertaining to the King of Belgium or to the Congo Free state. The letter speaks for itself.
 It says my new venture" which was this immigration scheme 1 was in- formed that Colonel Kowalsky was perfectly willing to finance the scheme. It was estimated that to property ini- tiate the movement would require capital of S1,000. This Is the expen- allure referred to in the letter.
 The date is August [, 1905, And the American draws an entirely unwar- ranted inference from It's contents when it assumes to refer to my sup posed connection with the King or Belgium and the Congo Free state lobby. That such is the plain purport of this letter. and its unmistakabie meaning, I make public the letters from Kowalsky to which mine or Au- gust :, is a reply.
 "In response to q request from MT. Kowalsky, I went to New York, and it was there agreed to that should re- ceive $1OO in order that I might be paid for the letters l had written m aid of the movement. that l mieht bo reimbursed for the expense I had in cured, and also to enable me to at-f tend the Immigration Congress to ba held at Chattanooga thereafter
 kOwalaky's Check
 MT. Kowalsky gave me a check foP SIOO. It was made payable to himselfs ana he neglected to endorse 1t, When I attempted to collect 1t first dis- covered the mistake that had been made, and re-encIosed it to him.
 Tn the correspondence reference la made to the stationary and printed matter which was to be used in pro-i noting the immigration project Refer ring again to the circumstance oE the check being returned to Kowalsky for the endorsement 1t lacked, sent Kow- alsky a letter of transmittal. which is doubtless in possession of the Ameris can and which, If published, would show concfusively what was the suh- ject matter of the letter, tO-wit.--'fhe immigration project.
 That this is the case c0nclustveiy appears from the letter printed in toe days American under date of August l5, 1905 Never at any time did I re- Ceive directly or indirectly, from any living human being. any money or thing of value in aid of the propaganda on behalf of the policy of the King of Belgium or Congo Free state or on any other matter.
 Tn two of my letters. incidentally there are used certain indiscreet ex- prcssions of mine in regard to the 6.,n- go Free State imbroglio, which vera merely thrown out without rehettion and with no vie~ whatever Of either melting or securing any action or ccm- pensation therefor on my account"
 Major, Garrett also made public to- night. copies of the letters from Kow- glyIy referred to in the above state- iueut. and which have no references, whatever, to the Congo question, but relate entirely to the immigration pro- ject in the United States.
 Alfred J. Stofer.