The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-30
SENATE GETS
CORTELYOU'S
BOND REPORT
Printed Argument of Secretary
on Each Members Desk, but
Document Was Not Read.
FACTS AND FIGURES 3
IN HANDS OF PRINTE
HEAD OF TREASURY ACCUSED
OF PUTTING ON AIRS OF A
PRESIDENT BY TlLLMAN.

Washington. Jan. 29.-The reply of
Secretary Cortelyou to the senate re-
solution calling for information con-
corning the operations of the treasury
department in connection with the re-
cent financial crisis was laid before
the senate today by the vice president.
The document was not read, but a
printed copy of Il was on the desk Of
each senator.
4 Mr.. Culberson inquired of the vice
president whether the pamphlet con-
tained all of the seeretary's communi-
cations. The vice president said he had
not examined the report and did not
know whether the pamphlet contained
all OF the message.
Il don't recall an instance" said
Mr.. Culberson. lin which a head Of a
department Of the government had an
swered a senate resolution in printed
form"
Lodge Didn't Know.
81 ask the senator from Massachu-
sets" broke in Senator Tiliman, turn
ing TO Senator Lodge. who is such a
stickler for senatorial dignity and sem
atorial rights. to reply to this in
quiry.''
Il don't know" responded Mr.
Lodge, whether a cabinet officer ever
sent in a printed report of this kind
as a convenience, and I don't think it
is a matter of Importance. The entire
reply viii be printed tomorrow
us II legal?' asked Mr.. Tillman.
1T is certainly legal. because the
secretary can communicate to con-
gress either in typewrtting or in
print"
Mr.. Aldr.ch remarked that all the
reports of the secretary of the treas
ury are made 10 the senate in printed
form.
Putting on Airs.
PAfr. Tillman retorted TO this sugges-
ton by declaring:
The secretary of the treasury is as
Stunning the airs of a president before
he is elected TO that office. The pres
tdent sends his message in this print
ed form. but 1 have never known
cabinet officer to assume to do this be-
fore"
Mr.. Aldrich said that there was
great deal Of statistical matter In the
reply of the secretary. That part was
now being printed while the body of
the report had been laid before the
senate.
Facts Left Out.
which he complained was that the sec
rotary of the treasury had printed his
argument and had ii laid on the desks
of senators and had left the statement
of facts which accompanied it to be
printed afterward
Senator Carter of Montana referred
TO constant importunities" that had
been heard in the senate for an imme-
diate answer TO the senate resolution
hxyf ha Of h f,ro,
Had the secretary of the treasury
delayed in making this reply" he
added, "he would have been criticised.
Now this expeditions method of lay
ing his reply before the senate is made
a subJects for criticism. How in the
world could the secretary of the treas
ury have pleased the senators from
South Carolina and from Texas?"
During Senator Carriers remarks
Senator Beverage interrupted, say
ing
Il wish to call attention to the fact
that the criticism of the senator from
South Carolina was directed to the
airs that the secretary has assumed"
Not the Kind of a Reply Wanted.
I want the secretary to reply in a
Tillman, and in the same manner
that has characterized his predeces-
sors la office. He should send his re-
port here and let US print it if we
think fit. The senator cannot point to
solitary case in which the printing
has been done before
Mr.. Carter said he recalled an in
stance in the senate several years
ago in which a cabinet officer had been
criticised for sending a document to
the senate in typewriter form instead
of having il written with a pen.
Mr. Tillman said there never had been
such unaccountable delay in replying
to a senate resolution.
THE secretary" he said, had been
I'm New York making speeches, and
now he sends this labored report to
us"
How Could TilIman Tell7
Mr.. Carter inquired whether Mr.
Tillman had read the report, and being
told that he had not, declared that the