The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-03

penalty not to disclose a word of it be- fore the appointed time.
 :" Sincerely yours"
 'On December 2d he wrote me the following letter on the same subject: December ?, 1908.
 Dear MT President: Thank you for your favor of the 3Oth
 "rIt was natural for me to suppose that railroad matters would be includ- | ed in any discussion you and I might have before writing your message I am of the opinion that an effective in- terstate commerce commission could regulate the matter of rebates and ab- solutely prevent the same, without any additional power of any kind, and, as you say, Paul Morton is more familiar with such matters than any one else in your cabinet, and I believe he will agree with me in this. I fear there has been lack of cooperation.
 During the enormous development of the last four years the railroads have found it very hard to keep pace with the requirements imposed upon them, and the so-called surplus earn ings, as well as additional capital, have ] been devoted to providing additional facilities and the bettering and enlarg- ing of their properties, so as to give the increased and better service requir- ed of them This work of betterment and enlargement must go on and is all | important for the proper developments of all sections of the country. There Is little doubt that during the next de- cade every single track railroad in the country will have to be double tracked and provide enlarged terminal and oth- CT facilities, and any move tha will tend to cripple them financially would be detrimental to all interests over the whole country
 /" I beg that you will pardon my not signing this personally, as I have to lleave to catch my train for Arden, and have asked my secretary to sign it for me.
 Yours sincerely
 T was unable to agree with MT. Har- riman's views on the matter and left my message unchanged as regards the interstate commerce law (The rough draft of this portion of the message was completed in October, before the election) had always discussed with absolute freedom all my proposed moves in the trust and labor matters with the representatives of the big combinations or big railroads as well as with the leaders of the labor men. of the farmers organizations, the ship pers organization and the like-that is, I had as freely seen and eommunlcat- ed with MT. Hartman, MT. Morgan, MT. Hill and other railroad men as I had seen and communicated with Mir. Gompers, Mir Keefe, MT. Morrssey, MT. Morrison and other labor leaders Mir. I Hartman had, like most of the big rail- road men, always written me very strongly protesting against my propos- ed course as regards the supervision and control over big combinations and especially over the big railroads-in a letter of his of August l9, 1902, for in- stance, he expressed the fear that a panic would follow my proposed action.
 Tt will be seen that the above cor respondence is entirely incompatible with what Mir. Hartman now, as you inform me, alleges as to my having ask ed him to secure money or to subscribe money for the presidential campaign. As for the Depew matter he professed throughout to be acting in the interest of Governor Odell, and though Cover nor Odell had been anxious that MT. Depew should be nominated as ambas- sador to France at time when he was supporting Governor Black for senator. he had changed his mind shortly after the last letter to me-. above quoted, from MT Hartman, anh on December 10 wrote me the letter I enclose which reads in part as follows:
 My dear Mir. President: A great many of your friends here in New York would be very much delighted and pleased if you could find 1t possl-