The Washington herald., 1907-04-04
HARTMAN IS SILENT.
Secretary Says Magnate Has Nothing
90 Add TO Statements.

/ Secretary says MaEnate has AoAhAhb
90 Add TO Statements.
/ New York April 3.-A1r. Hartman an
/ lnounced to-day through his secretary,
/ Alexander Millar. Of the Southern Pacific
! Company. that he had nothing more To
( say or write concerning his difference
lwith Mr. Roosevelt Mr. Cornelius Bliss
said he had nothing 20 say. Mr.
Chauncey Depew said that he. TOO, had
nothing to add TO his statement Of yes
terday Pending further word from
Washington. the disposition at this end OF
/ the line seemed 10 be 10 sit tight and keep
mum.
! HAS Mr. Hartman any supplementary
word 10 add TO that OF yesterday Mr..
Miuar was asked.
None whatever"
/ 'Mr Hartman has had called TO his
lattention the report said to have
emanated from high source at Wash
/ ington TO the effect that his real object
IN having Mr. Depew removed from the
/ Senatorial field was to gain Mr.. Depew's
seat FOR himself2'
/ Yes" said Mr.. AIillaI. Mr. Hartman
/ has seen that statement, and he has moth
( ing TO say"
( II was said at the offices Of the Union
+ Pacific Company to-day THAI Mr. r. S.
/ Lovett. counsel Cor the Hartman lines.
+ had left this city for Washington on
Tuesday evening, He goes to be present
/ at the session of the Interstate Commerce
/ Commission. which is 10 be resumed IN
/ Washington tomorrow morning The
/ presumption is that Mr.. Loyett took late
| that Mr. Hartman prepared for publica-
! tion yesterday was not put into the hands
of Mr. Millar for distribution until almost
midnight.
! Speculation over the possible reflex that
may arise out Of the tilt between Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Mr.. Hartman in the
/ doings of the Interstate Commerce Com
/ mission engaged the attention of men in
| the financial district to-day. II was the
belief Of some that instead of listening 20
4 the closing arguments of counsel to-mOr-
row. which had been the scheduled pro-
/ gramme of the commission. the inquiry
may be reopened with an attempt TO
I force Afr. Hartman 10 answer some Of the
leading questions he lodged during the
examination in New York,
When the commission adjourned here.
/ Il was recalled that that body was unde-
! termined whether or not an appeal should
/ be made to the Circuit Court on a certi-
/ fed transcript of the record TO force a
/ reply from MF, Hartman on some of
J the questions put to him. To do so a the
present time IL was urged by some in
/ Wall street, would be 10 lay the commits
/ sion open to the charge OF harboring
special animus. and the effort of such
action would react to the detriment OF the
| commission.
10 l,F T.
Hartman had good reason for strenuously
abjecting 70 the publication OF his letter
( 10 MIR Sidney Webster and that as he
said in answer TO the Presidents state
ment OF Tuesday he made every effort
to prevent the publication OF that letter.
/ Mr.. Harriman's position, already a deli
cate one. has not been strengthened by
/ the passage at arms with the President.
/ according TO the opinion of some Wall
street men.
/ There seemed 10 be a general expecta-
tion that Judge Alton B, Parker would
Embrace opportunity to come out with a
/ statement vindicating the charge he made
! in the last week of the campaign of 1901.
/ that Sl50.0O0 was turned over by the in
! surance companies to Mr.. Cortelyou for
campaign purposes.
Mr. Harrimans explanation in his pub
lished statement of how it came about
that he wrote of his political affairs to
Mr.. Sidney Webster is supplemented by
those who remember that in the late 90 s.
when Mr.. Webster was at the head OF
/ the Illinois Central Railroad both Mr.
Hartman and Mr.. Stuyvesant Fish were
/ then proteges of Mr.. Webster in that
| company. and that Mr.. Webster became
la sort, of member and business director
! for both young men. a relation which he
! has not severed since.
/ Hence the letter from Mr.. Webster ask
! Ing about what his pupil was doing in
/ politics