The Washington herald., 1909-01-12

tie unlawful use he has made q the Secret Ser
vics He rEutends rha1 his 0Ns6 sEsi1ss me hss
BEEN worked up by accident, oy reason q ne CO
coFeries q tie inspectors !n InFesztiES ne iEa1i1
sleuf trsnss-tious q ore Bran K. DcTT. and nat
the facts -oslght not 70 Be hidden q supETesssd-
The President says;
senator TIIirasn dsuied the statements q tbs
circular ard ezEressed wish FOX an inEesisstiofi
and upon his rcqueSt the Post-o.lcc DsIa-tIsen-
through is fnspecto-s made such al nTestisztioo-
be scztea IN refe-enoe % this circular:
II have not b0zght suy land anywhere n TIE
Wes aar undeEtaksn 10 buy Ely- ] have maze
some inquiries. naturally Wozid. n RAINING
tlrys,eh TIE West I Simply want ths Peofae q
tbs coslutzv % b rIt o. notce that ths sSlrclsT
At Portland has 10 warrant whatsTeT f1- endeaToF-
ing 70 iuvcisle others into his sarna
Gees Into Detail
The President then goes on % state:
This is q c.1adeutial report Il a type usoaly
not furnished. but in this case TIE mater Is -
sa-ioss that fesI I shogd PIT 4 hefoSs yug-
inclose you also as exhibits d, d D2. d. and
D5. Uhosog-aphic facsiusiiies q lestss and e.
reicpes and te,eg-zm frGn Senator Eiiinan ard
hss agent Wilan = Lee
Do nat deny the authenticity q TIE letter o
tie telegram of Uhirh photographs wers Dzde !
rresus the letter fruza William Z Los Is also .
correct cuTy sui ! nOt aware o. is ezistsnce
uztl now ard ! an noc " arys1se resGnnsihls ioT
NJ Lees IDEAS exTressed IN l. he President says;
"On O~oher n IsU, Senator Tllman vTvte a
1 letter Exhibit Ds 70 Messrz Reeisr & Watkins.
Z Of Msrshheld Oreg.. Who we're GttcTneys repse-
! senting people vho Uers applicants foT tie puT-
ebAss of certain Ezgun-rosG and EJznt and; DoTT
was q lard agent uskinE his flinss throaEh Reedss
& watkins. Senator Tillnzn's ies,sr ru1s. II rar-
as follows:
/ e. ! wirsi yos ron WauUu, Via As follows
ara write n conHr7n IL '-Wliiian z Lee. ny
I agent. VIII see you about land. want uine Suar-
fs7r reserved VII forward ssoed appiicatinos and
rlnney at oncs. Meznhsrs q NJ family Are e1ily
/ nen Letter foIlows fsirBed p F. T." I write
nov to say ! wired 8ir. Lee. who resides at Aos
GOV, Idaho. TO 81 a. orscs 20 Asrsaae-d and sse
Tv sAout the an6 % locate quarters FOR he seEs1
rssnbe-s os nv family Eho q sge and che for
my Trirsts secretary. J. B. knight, ThoEs desire
to ist iuto the dszl. and. Of eourse' he warts
quarter for himself
.-77he letter continued. Sating IN detail Ehat vss
20 b done. N ordeE % enable TIE Senator 70 SCI
( the lard"
! Il viii be noted that ac-lsed Don n the senate
/ Of heinz srindle-, and ASKED the Post-o1oe De
partmeut 20 Issue frsud order Rgasrst hin DOT
I declared In his circular:
/ 80 sIre Is Senator TillnaR Of Our S1ccess thst
he has subscribed and Tsj5 the nscessary fees Tor
a quarter section TOR himself ard ten 0sher quar-
ter sections for ten of his Essrest relatives
| II was this bod ard out-zEecis fsisehooo. NAN
-
as vel Ss to declare In ths senate that hs had 10
| warrant for the assertion. The sieuths which the
| President PIT upun ny tTni have MADE tner H
port and a pe-71Ssl o. Il vii show ~ any ieit
mind that - far from endssToring 70 Justify ne
fraud order ssainst Don they were really Tst 70
! ru-k 10 iures.irate ne ard eudeaEoT, poszh.e
70 discover sOrething 20 my ciscrs1it, Wits tns
Il President diresed the investigation. | say ms
beczuse IT Is hardly possibis that Poetoiace N
spector would set shyIt getinS photosraInic eai,e
g-Fafr. c~fn ~
70 convict hin q lying # the orders did nOt come
from high sourcs
Takes Up DOTr.
| Let rs slppose for moment hat ] was guilty
Of falsehood in declaring that had n0t under
taken TO purchase any land WHIST did that have
to do With Doris tunsrsrsut and opon Use Of the
mails 10 induce men to s-ld him uones 70 VT1hsse
lsnd9 DORIS declarzsion that had paid the fess
"a an absolute falsehood, and the pos,-o-aoe IN
specsors. while they sez-cbed the records for e.
tries at Couuins and noted that Rseder ( Watkins
had fled several hundred Applications" nowhere
mentioned that any had been fled IN ny nams
OF far ne Therefore ths fslsshood IS proven o.
Don. and yet TIE President declared;
The assault which Senator T7llmzn made rpo1
Mr.. Don was. according to The report Of the IN
spectoT a EantGn aSsault made to cover Cp Senator
Tllmzns Own transactions.
No such statement vas made by the inspector.
Ia fact - earnestly iutent on convcsins Senatos
TYIraan Is the President he sc1ually coumits him
self 70 ethis proposition. 70 Wit: Timan Tolun
tEry and without any c1EnpGlsion from any so'1rcs
and with nothing 20 conceal brought I'D mattel
in the Senate which he ned not hsve done e
cover 10 Transactions which we-e absolutely IN
known to any one except himself and bis corTe
spon6ents Reeder & Watkins. and were entirely
honorable and clean Ny exposure closed out th'
szindlerS Dor when his nal was Tot delivered
retired from the land besiness ard became fr'Ii
grover. ss reported BY the inspectors
! The suiadlers had secured good many thousand:
a dollars before the e1r0sTe ii The Senate stopped
people from heinz du1Sd. sDd yet Theodore Roese
veit, who poses IS TIE only renaainins honest MAJ
n public life IN the acs Of these facs has fe
czIed upon TO sft2ck the ehaTzcteT ot nan Tnos'
integrity hss never before been queSSooe6, an'
| whose Official pCsition Is second only % his oTn
| In doing this he made false declGrsuoD. 10
inspectors nowhere say any Slch thing as ahov
euotsd which can Be proven oy an e11zl1natlo1 0
thsis report
Nov. shout the hing: Ny letter q February Is
Of which she President secured photnS7zDhl
copy, anseds,es b four days my statement IN n
Senate that I had not bought any land. q uocfI
taken 10 huIy zny. and the President considers IN
! rr<itive Treof Of fsisehood ! did not saT ] hai
| not considered the purchase o. land; l old nc
say had not contemplated the purchase of land
because bad done both. in ny couversaticn Wit
the ATTORNEY General IN regard TO the resolnfio
which I introduced, and which he himself prepare
after ~e had talked over The Whale hnd situation
distinctly rensmhT telling him that nv inteTes
| In the matter had been frs. sr71sed ~ ny eesis
to purchase sone of TIE timber lard. sad that "a
eosoiuz n him vas due 20 the fact that dtsco'
a-~d mon iurrstipatian tizt I could n1t buy
throsSh sry assncy Whatsoever; that c01id nc
lssv il even by a lawsuit beEzuse | was SdTise
bF verv able laEyers IN the West, a1oIs the
the Hon. GeoEs TuTne-. Of Washington. that