Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-08
New York World Calls Upon Con-
uress to Make Investigation
OF Alleged Scandal.
/. ATTACKS THE E: PRESIDENT f: SD !,
charges Him With Deliberate
Measurements in His Com
snents on Editor Smith.
Declares Only One Man Knows of Dis
trlbution of the Panama Loot, and
THAT Man is VIM. N. Cromwell.

Declares Only One Man Knows OF i,is-s
trIbution of the Panama Loot, and
THAT Man is Vim. n. Cromwell.
New York, Dec. s.I'he New York
cia, is years old, and francisco Mar
Of the Indianapolis News, referred IN
his reply to President Rooseyelt's at
tack upon him as the authority for the
article on the Panama canal which ap-
reared in his paper and called forth the
presidents letter, says today;
IN view of President Rooseyelts de-
liberate nisstatements of fact in his
scandaIous personal attack upon Mr..
DelaNan Smith, editor Of the Indinnap-
oils News, the World calls upon the
Congress of the United States to make
immediately a full and impartial inves-
tigation Of the entire Panama canal
scandal.
INVESTIGATION OF 1906.
.4rhe Investigation of 1906 by the sen
ate committee Of the 1nter-Oceanlc
canals was blocked by the refusal OIL
William Nelson Cromwell to answer
the most pertinent questions of Senator
Morgan Of Alabama. Since that time.
nothing has been done because after
Senator Morgan's death there was no
successor to carry on his great WORK
of revealing the truth about Panama
corruption.
1ixyN nu
editorial Tor. which Mr.. Roosevelt as
sails Mr. Smith:
ut has been charged that the United
states bought from American ciuzetls
for $40, 100000 property that cost those
citizens only s12,00O,00O, There is no
doubt that the government pald $4o,-
600 900 for the property. But who got
the money!
= president Rooscvelt's reply to this
most proper question Is for the most
par[ a string of abusive and def;tlfla-
tory epithats. But he also makes the
following statcments as truthful lnl NOR
nation to the people,
4 ..nrlle United States did mot pay 81
cent OF the S4O,000.00o oiany American
citizen. The government paid the $4o,-
100000 direct to the French government,
getting the receipt Of the liauidator
appointed by the French government
to receive the same.
1.-The United States government mas
not the slightest knowledge as to the
particular individuals among whom the
French government distributed tile
same.
AS far as I know there was no
syndicate: there certainly was no syn
dictate In the United States that to my
knowledge had any dealings with the
government directly or Indirectly
aTo the best OF the Worlds knowl-l
edge and belief each and all of these
statements made by Mr.. Roosevelt a ana
quoted above are untrue and Mr.
Roosevelt must have known they were
untrue when he made them.
THE MAN WHO KNOWS.
GAS to the detailed distribution Of
the Panama loot only one man knows
it all. And that man is William Mel
son CROMWELL The two men who
We're most in Mr.. Cromwells conf
dent OF the United States, and Elifu
Root, former secretary of war and now
secretary of state. 1t was they who
aided Mr.. Cromwell in concentrating
the Panama revolution, arranged the
terms for the purchase of the Panaml
canal, made the agreement TO pay S4O.-
600, 900 on the canal properties and an
additional Si0,000,000 for a manufac-5
tured Panama republic, every penny OF,
both OF which sums was paid by check
on the United States treasury to j. T.
Morgan & Company-not to the French
governments, as Roosevelt says, but to
j. p. Morgan & Co.
WORLD ACCEPTS 8CHALLENGF,.
THE natural query OF the Indiana
polls News as to who got the money!
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summary of Mr.. CromwelFs connection
with the Panaam canal The inquiry
was originally the Worlds and the
World accepts Nj. Roosevelt's chal-
ienge. II Congress can have all the
documents in the case, as. Mr.. Roose-
Welt says, let Congress make COM
plete investigation of the Panama ca
nal affair. and in particular of William
Nelson CrolnWell's relation with the
with the government of the United
States. Let Congress officially answer
this question: Whot got the money!
The old French company organized
ny Ferdinand De Lesseps in ! $40, fail
ed IN 1859, years before Mr. Cromwell's (:
relations with President Roosevelt be-
gun. AS Mr. Cromwell testified before
he senate committee on Feb. &c, 1906,
we never had any connection with the
so.caled De Lesseps company. Neither
dld the Y. s. Government conduct
negotiations with the old French cam
al company.
What Mr.. Cromwell did represent
was the New Panama Canal company,
the American Panama Canal COM
pany,and the S5,0o0.O00 syndicate which
ne formed to finance the new compan-
les After Mr.. Cromwell had testi-
fled7-I do not recall any contract.
Senator Morgan produced a con-
tract reading panama Canal Hearing,
Vol II, Page 1,146):
Mr. William Nelson Cromwell Is
exclusively empowered under the for
nal agreement with the board of d.
reetors Of the Compagnie Nouvelle Du
Canal De Panama New Panama Can
III Company of France.) TO effect with
an American syndicate the American
1zation of the Panama canal company
on the following basis
The basis ON which Mr.. Cromwell
was exclusively empowered in this
contract was that an American Pan
ANA Canal company with a capitaliza-
ton of s60,000,000. preferred and S45,-
100000 common stock should be order
ed to take over the Panama canal
concessions and all other property be-
longing to The New French Panama
Canal company. which had bought the
same from the old De Lesseps COM
pany. This company was Incorporated