Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-12-08
HITS HIM HARD
President Roosevelt Called a
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TUE CANAL SCANDAL

| ferred in his reply to President I Roosevelt's attack upon him, as the authority for the articles on the Panama canal which appeared in his paper and called for the presidents s letter, says to-day:
 Tn view of President Roosevelt's 8 | deliberate misstatements of fact in l his scandalous personal attack upon | MT Delavan Smith, editor of the ln- | dianapolis News, the World calls up- l on the congress of the United States to make immediately full and im- partial investigation of the entire | Panama canal scandal.
 "The investigation of 1906 by the senate committee of the Inter-ocean canals was blocked by the refusal of 1 William Nelson Cromwell to answer | the most pertinent questions of Sem | ator Morgan of Alabama. Since | that time nothing has been done be- cause after Senator Morgan's death | there was no successor to carry on l his great work of revealing the truth about Panama corruption.
 The Indianapolis News said ir. | the editorial for which Mir Roosevelt assails Mr Smith:
 1t has been charged that the Funited States bought from American citizens for $40,O0O,OO0 property that cost those citizens only s12,- 100000. There is no doubt that the government paid $40,OO0,0OO for the property. But who got the money?.' President Roosevelt's reply to this most proper question is for the most part a string of abusive and defama- tory epithets. But he also makes the following statements as truthful in formation to the American people:
 "'The United States did not pay cent of the s40,00O,0O0 to any American citizen. The government paid this $40,O00,000 direct to the French government, getting the re- ceipt of the liquidator appointed by the French government to receive the same.
 The United States government has not the slightest knowledge as to the particular individuals among whom the French government dis | tributed the same. So far as I know there was no syndicate; there certainly was no | syndicate in the United States that to my knowledge had any dealings with the government directly or in directly
 ''To the best of the Worlds knowl- edge and belief. each and all of these statements made by MT Roosevelt and quoted above are untrue, and MT Roosevelt must have known they were untrue when he made them.
 As to the detailed distribution of ! the Panama loot only one man knows | it all And that man is William Nell son Cromwell The two men who were most in MT Cromwells confi- 1 dence are Theodore Roosevelt, presi- 1 dent of the United States, and Elihu Root, former secretary of war and now secretary of state. It was they who aided MT Cromwell in consumat- ing the Panama revolution, arranged the terms of the purchase of the Pan anna canal, made the agreement to pay $40,000.000 for the canal prop critics and an additional $10, 100000 for a manufactured Panama repub- lie. every penny of both of which sums was paid by check on the Unit ed States treasury to J. P. Morgan & Co-not to the French government, as MT Roosevelt says, but to J. P. Morgan & Co.
 The natural query of the Indian apolis News as 10 who got the moD- ey,' was based on the Worlds his torical summary of MT Cromwell's $ connection with the Panama canal. The inquiry was originally the | Worlds, and the World accepts MT Roosevelt's challenge. If congress can have all the documents in the case, as MT Roosevelt says, let con- gress make a complete investigation of the Panama canal affair, and in particular of William Nelson Crom- wells relation with the French con- pany. with Panama and with the gov ernment of the United States. Let congress officially answer this ques- tion: Who got the money
 "The old French company organ ized by Ferdinand De Lesseps in 1879 failed in 1889, years before Mir Crom- wells relations with President Roose- welt began. As Mir Cromwell testi- fled before the senate committee on February 26, 1906, we never had any connection with the so-called De Lesseps company. Neither did the United States government conduct negotiations with the old French Panama Canal Co.,
 What MT Cromwell did represent was the new Panama canal company, the American Panama Canal com- pany, and the s5,000.0O0 syndicate which he formed to finance the new companies After Mir Cromwell had testified I do not recall any contract Senator Morgan produced contract reading (Panama Canal hearings, Vol II, page 1146.)
 William Nelson Cromwell is ex- clusively empowered under the for nal agreement with the board of d. rectors of the Compagnie Nouvelle ! Du Canal De Panama New Panama Canal Co of France). to effect with an American syndicate the Amrei-