The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-01-09
Senate Gives Tillman Papers
to Aid in Making
Reply.
VALUABLE PAPERS
GONE, SAYS SENATOR
Missing From His DeSk-ColS
leagues Chagrined Over Turn
Affairs Have Taken.

Senator TillrIan, whose tranSac-
tiOIS with reference to the acquire
ment of certain lands in Oregon
we're extensively exploited by PreSi-
dent Roosevelt in letter to Sena-
tor Hale, said today that some inn
portant documents bearing on the
matter had disappeared from his
desk.
He does not charge that his desk
was broken into, but merely states
that papers are now missing which
his secretary put in a certain pigeon
holc last spring, before the adjourn
ment Of Congress.
Documents Are Gone.
Certain letters and kilograms" said
de Senator. which would have been
very useful TO me in explaining this
transaction, fud have disappeared
from nv desk in my room at the Capt.
toll They were left there last spring.
and my secretary, who is a very reli-
able man, assures me that he placed
them IN q certain pigeon hole and that
he did not remove them.
II do not charge that anyone broke
into my room OF my desk / simply
state the fact that the papers were
rheTe, and that they are now missing.
Dig at President.
Senator TiIlmau makes no charge@that
his desk was broken upon. He merely
states that the papers in which he IS
interested. and which he claims would
be of value TO him at the present time,
have disappeared.
of course. I know said he, SOME
one who would I've slad to have posses
sion Of those letters and documents, all
OF the which pertain 10 this oregon land
subject"
After this sly dig al President Roose-
veIts Senator TiIiman continued.
4 am not afraid Of the outcome cf
this matter. The President has thrown
his bomb, and 7 am not even jostlcd.
Before this thing comes TO an end. the
isesident viii nn@ himself hoist with
E.- own petard- Meantime, / hope the
public Will suspend judgment"
Typewriter Is Franked.
It developed also today that Senator
Tnlman has lately come into collision
with Postmaster Barnes on account Of
the fact the South Carolina Senator was
seeking TO send a typewriting machine
through the mails on q frank Post
master Barnes discovered that the ma
chine was franked and sent Senator
TiIlman a bin for yl6 for postage, hold
ing NO the typewriter in the meantime.
Senator Tulman refused 10 pay the
bin. saying the typewriter was Gov
en- meut machine and that if Mr.. Barnes
wanted 10 do so he could sell it, SEN
ator Tilmau explained to Mr. Barnes
that ne was doing no more than other
members OF Congress in this regard
aud that he had not knowingly Violated
any law. So far as known. the type
writer is stiU at the postoffce In Wash
iuEtOn-
senator Tlumau said, in regard to the
typewriter incident this afternoon that
he hao been sending a typewriter to his
home I'm South Carolina and back for
fourteen years. He said that machines
that had been so sent on his frank be
louged to the Government and had been
used by him foT official business.
Give Tillndn Papers.
The senate Appropriation Committee
met this morning and turned over 20
Senator TiUman such part OF the pa
pers which the President had sent to
Senator Hale i'm response to the AIdrich
resolution as relate to Senator TiIman-
Senator TfHman viii be allowed TO keep
these until he has made his speech on
the floor Monday.
Senator Tillmau is a member of the
Appropriations Committee and the mem
her~ of that committee feel much SYM
pathy with him. 10 is utimated that
the committee viii be disposed 10 probe
into the use of secret agents an the more
sharply on account OF the Tuman ep-
ISOLDE.
Despite his assumption of confidence
90 is plain that the South CarOHanian
is deeply perturbed. That he realized
the seriousness of the situation is shown
by the fact that he has decided not To
trust himself 10 am ex tempoTe explana-
ton of his side OF the case. Probably
for the first time since he has been "a
member of the Senate, he will write out