The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-26
OHIO SENATOR PRODUCES
 A MASS OF CORRESPONDENCE
Declares President Showed Bias in
 Accepting Charges.
| MT. Foraker Charges Judge Taft With Consorting With Standard oil Masnates Himself-Roose-
 yeIt,s Actions Denote
 Guilty Conscience.


 United states Senator J. B. Foraker tonight took up recent charges made by William R. Hearst and Presfaehe Roosevelt. explaining his temporary connection with the Standard OH com pany.e and discussing the Brownsville incident and his connection with the rate bill. The statement Is in part as follows:
 'sThe President commences his statement connected with the pnhph, fbitter arraignment, of me because or Mir. Hearst's charges. which he appears to have accepted as aona fniiy yot pr1sfft %sft for proof or explanation. nor accept the same when offered.
 MT. Hearst's charges are not simply that was in the employment or the Standard oil Company and that l was paid for my services but that l was secretly in that employment for ille- f received was paid as compensation for improperly influencing Legislation by Congress in conflict with and in violation of my official duties.
 He read a number of letters and made certain comments calculated. 1T unanswered or unexplained. to create
 "That was employed by the com pany was never concealed or denied. On the contrary such employment was cerned. Only a few days ago. ex-At- torney General Mounett who was prosecuting the proceedings against time. stated in a public interview that . lro1d him at the time that had been retained by the company. If sumably was compensated.
 "In announcing therefore. the mere, fact that was employed by the com Raax ments spa on stS that secouat @ no infornas- ma no offense was sstabiished, for 1t re- msined that such employment and payment might be entirely proper and
 Explanation Required.
 Under all the circumstances an employment was con1ned to the. af- reorganization after the trust was dis and that my, employment had no re- thing thing in in s Which the Fsdsrsi se sorerS sS srs menf was then interested. or with re- spect to which the Congress was then so or and a that ts was made the subject of any special fsn s was attsessd in ths fSngss Federal s Courts or proceeded against In any way by the Federal government: and
 
 to defend the company against charges of violation of the laws of Ohio. or the United States. or the orders of any of ss SSprt but oSy. cny to aiss sSs in So nd s ,sas stsfs ana and to c0%py hsa wth bsen M ts made Sroers or the From the beginning. of our govern ment. Senators and Congressmen who were lawyers .3s,;n have ts. been regarded as their terms of office insofar as they
 might De ,ts sOis tsa to do 6n, sG without inter such practice free to take any kind of employment that was offered which did not In any way conaict with their body has ever before been criticized on such account
 :, whes yy stInssTs sseesDtsq n7 & the smplOy%sns 1t was not foreseen by me and prob ably not by anybody else that 1t would become the object of Federal legjsla- eion of any kind, and that employ Inent ended when the company decided to reorganize under the laws of New J4srsey, Wnich was osnore anything of
 That I was not in the employment of the company after the services I that such employment did not after ward influence me to favor the com pany in Legislation Is shown by the Part I took In the enactment of the Elkins law. approved Feb. 19. 1903. Under this statute the Attorney Gen eral has brought and caused to be the Standard Oil Company of which we have read so much including the ease in which Judge Landis imposed the sub-committee of three-Senators Elkins and CIapp being the other two members--who considered that. bill in Tnf CNnr natt tee of the Senate and after making such amendments as in our judgment made # more effective, reported 1t to the Senate, where 1t was passed. erai character only. to show that this and to enact. aimed directly at the Standard oil Company and the other great corporations is. or ought to be. employed by the company at that time and that I was not influenced in the discharge of my public duties, by ended long before now, but If that fact is not sufficient the following cores pondence, Is not only additional proof. but conclusive in its character to the SA"' The First Lette.
 "2s Broadway. New York. May '. 1906.
 fin the possibility of an action be- ing brought against us in Ohio. are you in position 10 accept a retainer from us in connection with such
 sYour early response will oblige,
 Yours very truly
 "John D. Archbold.
 gro Hon. J. B. Foraker.
 "i500 Sixteenth Street. N. w.. Wash
 ington. D. C."
 ''To which I answered as follows:
 "washlngtoE, ?. C.. May 9. Isos "'John D. Archbold.
 "'No. 26 Broadway
 "New York,
 "'My Dear Sir:
 Ny duties in the Senate have so multiplied that found it necessary to retire from the practice of law. I haven't taken any new employment for more than two years past.
 "On this account. as well as because of my relations to the public service.