The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-03-30
PUT PRESIDENT
IN STORM. | / | CENTRE. | ] |. ! II.
Represented As on Both Sides in
Fight Overt Use Of Automatic
Guns in Territories. 4
DID NOT Giv We INTERVIEW i !.| |:'
Language Attributed tostEe 1El Pres Pres
idcnt BY Mr.. Shields is
Flatly Rcpudiatcd.
Associated Press

(I3y tSsN7'Is
WAsHINciTON,s d. q, N arch co.;
President Rooseyeltsf cured d q, \, the Storm
center iii He III o1,sc Commit Ter
ritorics tod a durlhg ur r.hea ring 1.-THE tn
Lacey Dtll, ~ prohib bitIng lie use Of All
kinds Of automatic shotguns In the ter t' s
ritorcs or tho United States In the In IN
&tercst OF the protection of game. Both
sides OF the controversy who were heard,
5endeavored TO put the President OH their
side. The result was finally an effort
Ito oxpunge the whole reference to the
President, from tho hearings, but THIS
the committee refused .s7Is5i III 1!3i55 q
This record will therefore, contain first
a. prepared article y BY; President G,y @.
Shields, Of the Lea que OF American sports ''.
men. which puts tho President squarely
on .&,cord in favor Of the campaign
aganat repeating guns. Then, when tho
#opposi,!on, representing the manufac-
@turers Of small arms, 3intlmated that the
President NNad repudlated this statement
Mr.. Shields omitted the President had
refused to be ,slaccd In quotation marks,
but admitted holding the Views attributed
to him, In connection with the con-
5troversy, the <attorney representing the
manufacturers of the guns In question.
read a letter dated February 10TH adj
dressed to Mr. Shields by President
E Roosevelt, as follows:
"Sir,-It appears that you have pnr-
ported to give an extended interview with
mo In quotation marks, putting my cN-
pressions In the first person. SO as to-
make mo responsible for both thought
and language. This $is ineXcusable on
your part. At the time you called llnon
me and talked over informally with
you the question Of the preservation Of
game and OF wild life generally In Its
various aspects. I told you explicitly
that wllllo you could state that was
in hearty general accord with your Of
forts, you were not to try to quote my
and subsequently wrote to
you repeating this. AS a matter Of fact,
in what appears to be these quotations,
you in no case gave the exact language
that ! used. But pretending thus to give
1t. and by what you omit as we'll as
what yol, insert which I had not said,
you convey on certain points an entirely
false Impression, and you leave mo no
alternative but to explicitly rcpudlato
your Statements which | hereby do. ltnd
you been content to say that you gave
the general sense or what L said you
would have done what you were all-
tllDrized to do. but when yon attempt
to give my exact words, you do what |
explicitly told yon you should not do,
but YOU used Language which I explicitly
told you was In no case accurate. Not
one single sentence You quote is as
said 1t, Some OF the sentences are sheer
lnventions; othors are inventions part,
and soma Of the things ! said aro omitted.
1T Is unnecessary to characterize such
conduct on your part
l "Yours, etc.
"THEODORE ROOSEYEI.T."
Representatives Cole, Of Ohio u member
OF tile committee, remarked to Mr.,
Shields: "Do you think tho President
would trust himself In the woods without
a repeating rihe?n
Mr. Shields answered that he thought
he would.