The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-01-30
Correspondence Made Public of
Beef Packers Methods.
PRESENTS TO TWO REPcfgTERS
District Attorney Morrison T9fd of Al
legged Facts Regarding TIE Use Of
Money for the Dissemination of Mis-
leading Statemems-5u Nhe Corra-
spOndence Regarding sthe Matter
Published by Authority or the Presi-
Gent.

washington, Jdnu r. 26.-By AL
thority of President. Roosevelt. CORE
~spondence was ma 4 pubHc AT the
White House this evening relating
methods alleged to. have been emDlov-
ed by attorneys for the beef mack
ers, who are und,e err Indictment at Chi
cago, to influences public "pinion in be-
half of the packers.
The documents consist of a commu-
cation made to Attorney General
Moody By United States District At
torney Morrison. tof Chicago. setting
out certain alleged facts regarding the
payment of a sum Of money to a Chi
caEo newspaper reporter by one OF the
attorneys for the beef packers; a let
ter of the attorney general to the Pres
ident. transmitting Mr.. Morrison's re.
port, expressing the opinion that no
way existed under h law. why the al
legged offence could be punished: and
a letter from the President to the at
torneY general directing the publica-
ton of the correspondence.
Mr.. MOrison'S letter. which contains
the allegations regarding the payment
of money. says:
That on the twenty seventh day of
December 1905. Judge George w.
bIO"LI, WIZ Is OIlo OIL the attorneys Tor
the packers in the beef trust case,
gave TO a Mr.. Hasler. VINO is a reporter
for the Inter-Ocean. and who reports
the proceedings of the Beef Trust
case, a certain mOun of money, os-
tensiblY as a Christmas present. the
exact amount I do not know. and di-
rected him to give one hundred dollars
of it to a Mr.. Edwell. who is a reporter
for the City Press of Chicago. and who
is also detailed to report the court pro-
ceedings in this case, and whose re-
ports are used by all Of the neWspa-
pers of Chicago, and largely 10y the
Associated Press. Mr.. Hasler had in
timated to Mr.. Elwell, before that day.
that he was going to receive a pres
ent and or that day met him in the
corridor of the federal building. n
handed him one hundr dollars. Mr..
Elwell declined to take it and he
pushed it into his pocket with Judge
Browns card, and told Mr.. Eiwen tna
Judge Brown had sent it to him. Ell
well went to his employer and told
him about it. and his employer told
him to take the money and give it to
Judge Brown which he did. and Judge
Brown told him that he die noI mean
anything by it. that he just wanted to
make him a Christmas present"
Mr.. Morrison in his letter says that
Judge Brown called on him and .ex-
Alained hat he had given money to
ElWell, out of gratitude for cOmpl1-
mentary articles concerning himself.
Judge Brown also admitted giving
Hasler money. He said the honey
he gave was his own, and his clients
knew nothing about it.
Attorney General Moody. in ,rans-
hitting Mr.. MorrisOn's letter. says the
articles of the Inter-Ocean reporter
We're '~'misleading'' and contain many
false statements of facts" In his let
ter authorizing the publication Of the
letter President Roosevelt ays
extraordinary efforts have been
made in this case, as in one or two
similar cases. to poison the public
mind by the dissemination or false and
misleading statements, n it is right
that the public hould know why and
how their circulation is secured"
Chicago, January 26.-George Wheel
ser Human, editor in chief Of The In
ter-Ocean, issued the following state
ment tonight in regard to the CORE
~spondence made public by order of the
President:
Mr.. Hasler, the accused reporter,
ceased tonight to have any connection
with this newspaper. He undertook
to report the trial of the packers I'M
der these instructions and no other:
Tell the truth and treat the packers
fairly A reporter who takes money
wen though he does so innOcently, as
Mr.. Hasler appears to have done n
this case, has lost his usefulness to
The Inter-Oeean."