The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-02
HASKELL VS.. ROOSEVELT.

If the people of the United States
can detect the odor of kerosene in the
vicinity of the White House and tho
department of the interior. President
Roosevelt is primarily responsible for
1t. He forced the issue upon the gov
ernor of oklahoma. and now that the
latter has called for the official rec
Ords Mr. Roosevelt can do no less than
produce them and explain away the
facts as best he can. In this case brag
and buster are not sufficient. The New
York Sun, a somewhat violent support
er of Taft, has investigated the charge
Of Governor Haskell that Ethan Allen
Hitchcock. secretary of the interior.
issued the franchise 10 the Prairie Oil
& Gas company. and finds that the
records sustain the charge The Sun
also discovered that the action was not
voluntary on Secretary Hitchcock :
part. 1t says:
It further appears that Nj Hitchcock
granted the franchise unwilingly. and
only after he had once refused TO do
so. When the secretary did grant il. he
yielded 10 an explicit instruction from
matter OF record, in letter files and else
where in the interior department.
Governor Haskell now charges that
the president acted upon request Of
Senator Depew. The indianapolis News
declares it was after a conference
with certain distinguished men who
were interested in companies that had
sold TO the company under discussion"
However, it matters not at whose in
PLANTATION is due from the White House
as TO why it was done
In a former communication Gov
ernor Haskell replied to the president
concerning his administration as fol-
lows
/ will also remind the president that the
company tried TO enlarge its rights so as
to include gas well an oil privi-
lege. This l defeated, and even last
April. Mr.. President, your secretary of
the interior tried to help the Standard
Oil gas privileges against my protest by
actually granting them franchise to lay
an interstate gas line also ] notified the
secretary that with statehood your days
of giving valuable franchises in our state
had passed. and | would resist laying The
pipe line only after YOU yielded, and
Cancelled your unlawful act
Once more the governor is sustained
by the records. After an examination
the Sun has this to say:
The records show that permits were
granted by Secretary Garfield to the Prai-
RE Oil & Gas company last April. and
that Governor Haskell entered protes.
at that time. He telegraphed to Secrc-
tary Garfield demanding by what right
he assumed to issue a permit to lay pipe
lines within a sovereign state The sec
rotary. according to the records of the
office, replied that he exercised the right
to grant permits across Indian reserva-
tons. which are under his control. and
that he had assumed no greater authority
than that.
Governor Haskell endeavors to con-
meet the presidents action in causing
the secretary of the interior to grant
the Prairie Oil & Gas company fran
chise with the raising of the $3.50 900
campaign fund for Mr.. Roosevelt by
Messrs. Depew and Hartman. This is
a somewhat violent assumption, but
not any more so than many of the
statements made by the president him
self since he began his farewell season
in the role of Bombastes
The president has announced that he