Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-01-11
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TODAY MAKES HIS REPLY
Before Large Audience Senator Ans
wers Presidents Charges
Claims He Never Denied He Had Made Attempt to Secure
Land

fraud order against Dorr he did not
say that he had not tried TO purchase
land, but that the statements in the
Dorr circular were false and misldad-
ing. Sleuths whom the president put
upon my trail made their report and IA
perusal Of it will show that instead OF
making an endeavor to Justify a fraud
order against Dorr, they were really
put to work investigating me and to
endeavor, II possible, to discover some
! thing to my discredt, while the presi-
! dent directed the investigation. Even
Iif he CTillman) We're guilty of a false
hood, what did that have to do with
! the misuse Of the mails by Dorr. he
lasked Then he went into details of
1.-THE letters and various transactions
/ explaining the presidents charges
that he CTilman) sought to lie about
the matter Said he
Il had not signed any papers, had
not paid any money, had taken no
body's receipt, as in the usual pro-
cesses used by undertakers to buy
land. Everything hinges on the mean
ling OF the word undertakers and
the misuse of it,"
He said he did not mean to conceal
the fact that he is anxious to secure
the land and that he would not have
attacked Dorr rs a swindler if he him
self were engaged in dishonest trans
action.
The senator then went at length
into the charges that he had used his
official position TO work for his per-
sonal benefit, explaining all his con-
nection with the attempted purchase
Of public lands and the securing of n
fraud order against Dorr. Closing, be-
said "the man who announces to con-
gress that he, Theodore Roosevelt. as
sumed the right to permit the steel
trust to absorb its greatest rival con
trary to law, would doubtless not hesi-
tate TO help his dear friend Hartman
in holding two million acres of public
land because Ben Tillman contem-
plated and wanted to buy 400 acres
He demanded a most searching inves-
tigation of his acts by the senate and
declared emphatcally he had nothing
10 conceal.
Tillman closed his speech at 1853.
AND THEM SOME.
SpOotop Tillp,op =, ,fprdip,. a,
lustration Of the old adase THAT trou-
Die never comes singly.' In addition
to the difficulty about the Oregon
lands, Postmaster Barnes of Washing
ton is trying to collect from him a bill
OF SIG for carrying through the mails
government typewriter which the
senator had 'franked" from his home
in South Carolina to Washington
Mr.. Barnes insists the senator
should pay postage at letter rates.
Tillman is also worrying over the
loss of papers which he says are i'm
portant in making up his reply to the
presidents charges, and which the
senator thinks were stolen from his
desk
/ Postm aster Refuses Frank Machine.
The postmaster's notification to Mr..
I'ilman about the typewriter was con-
/ tanned in letter in which he said:
"lnasmuch as matter of this char
acter is not entitled to transmission
through the mails under the frank pro-
i vision. it is being held for due postage
The box weighs so pounds and as 1t is
sealed, it Is chargeable with postage
al the first class rate. which amounts
to SIG. Kindly remit the amount due
! and have the package removed at your
| earliest convenience"