The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-16
THE PRESIDENTS
 DUPLICITY
HE SET ASIDE THE ORDERS OF
 THE INFERIOR DEPARTMENT.
And Played Into the Hands of the Standard OH Company--tiaskell Wiil Be vindieated if Papers
 Are Made Public.
Waahinaton Hernld.

Washington Herald.
 Related intelligence gs to the where aboats of an Important report. writ len by Ethan. Allen Hitchcock while ne was Secretary of the Interior. in President koosevelt's Cabinet came to hand yesterday.
 to the President by Mir. Hitchcock In lSO4, setting forth his reasons for de- nying the application of the Prairie Oil and Gas Company, Standard oil pipe line to the then Territory of Okla homa.
 The pipe line franchise was grant generally known until late in the re- cent political campaign that this course was authorized by President Roosevelt himself. who oyerruled the action of his Secretary of the Interior against Mir Httchcock's uncompromising resis- tance..
 The fact has come to light that the cocks report IS the Department of Justice. The document has been ly- Ing there for several years. and noth- ing but q resolution of Congress will cause 1t to be made public. A man of national reputation and probity said
 Report Is There.
 Yes, the report is there, but Pres tents be known.
 That Mir. Hitchcock's adverse decIs- ion Is in the Department of Justice in stead of in the files of the White House. or the Interior Department, in duces the surmise that, the secretary advised that criminal proceedings be brought against certain men connected with the oil and gas deal in Oklahoma but there is no specific authority for this statement.
 Men Of national political rsnown franchise. and 1t happened that their application for pipe line. which was so stoutly resisted by Secretary Hitch S iVng %as seena s and election to the Presidency.
 Mir Hitchcock had resisted the im- portunities of the Standard. and, final passed by Congress directing him to make regulations for permits for pipe lines. The regulations proposed by too drastic to suit the standa:d ioii people. and finally Governor Frank Higgins. of New York, wrote a letter to the President in the interest of D. the Standard, asking the President to order Secretary Hitchcock to grant the permit.
 Yielded Reluctantly.
 The President did so. but the Sec retary yielded reluctantly. A few months later Mir. Hitchcock printed a volume of the private hearings held before his department on applications for pipe line permits. In the document he gave a copy of Governor Higgins's
 When the volume appeared it created Hughes Hearst H gubernatorial cam: at MT. Hitchcock for giving out the the property of the Executive.
 He ordered the copies of Secretary Hitchcock's printed document to be where MT. Roosevoit te was sV then staying y' There was some excitement over the order, and agents from the Interior De- partment were busy visiting newspaper bureaus and law oilces in Washington in quest of the objectionable docu- ment.
 The regulations made by Secretary Hitchcock in December, 1906, follow ing the favors shown to the Standard oil Company by the President in 1904, were more drastic from the Standard viewpoint than anything that had pre- paign preceding President Roosevelt had promised certain Western Sena- tor, who was, aggrieved at MT. Hitch cock. that he would remove him the day after election. s
 President Issues Bulletin.
 On Wednesday, the day after cleo tion, the President issued bulletin from the White House. in which he virtually fulfilled his promise to the Western Senator by announcing the forthcoming retirement of Mir. Hitch- CoCh, put eApldiniuS lnhI the secretary was going out of his own volition and much against the Presidents wishes.
 The regulations of December. 1906. were promulgated on the event of Secretary Hitchcock's retirement from office. The Standard oil Company de- ned the Interior Department and re- fused to apply for permits under the advice of its general counsel in re- fusing to avow itself common car rier as required by the Hitchcock reg ulations of 1906.
 In April. 1908. Secretary Garfield sent for President o'Neill, of the Prairie oil and Gas Company, the Standard subsidiary, and agreed to waive the common carrier requirement. in the regulations of 1906. to which the Standard oil Company objected.