The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-01-11
T|LLWAN after
The ] PRESIDENT !
"a ~ -
Objects to Being Swallowed
by Secret Service.
I.
INFORMATION LEAKS OUT

Was Sent to Senator Hale In Re-
Spouse to a Resolution Asking for
Reports on the Use Of Uncle Sans
Detective Department - Executive
Said to Have Copies Of Letters Writ.
ten by South caroIinan.
- Washington, Jan. And now it is
Senator Tillman of South Carolina
who Is on the trail of President Roose.
welt. ~-- l-.s
By direction of President Roosevelt
secret service men Swallowed Senator
Tillman of South Carolina on the the
DRY that he possibly was interested in
an Oregon "land grab" and the result
OF that investigation is now before
the senate.
The information was contained in a
communication from President Roose-
welt, sent in response to request
made by Senator Hale to the heads
of the executive departments for a
statement of the activity of secret
service operatives. Exhaustive re-
plies were made by the various de-
partments and all of these were for
warded to Senator Hale by the pres
ident. They have not been made pub
lie and Senator Hale announced that
they would not be given out until
after they had been considered by a
subcommittee of the committee on
appropriations which will be charged
with the duty of acting upon that por-
ton of the presidents annual message
relating to the secret service and
criticising members of congress for
their restriction of it's use. 4.
Soon after President Roosevelt s
communication to Senator Hale was
received at the Capitol it became
noised about that it contained a re-
Election upon senator from South
ern state. The name of the senator
was not ,divulged for time and as a
result the atmosphere of the senate
was surcharged with curiosity and
much speculation. -.s& 60
No Further Information.
When it finally became known that
Senator Tillman was the member
named further efforts to procure in
formation concerning the character of
the charges were made, but without
avail.
Through the fact that several sena.
tors had advance information of the
character of the report which was to
be sent to the senate it was learned
that the Investigation of Senator Till.
man. followed an attack which he
made in the senate nearly year ago
upon an Oregon land company which
had used his name as one ct the per.
sons interested in the concern. Pre-.
v1ous to that attack Senator Tillman
had introduced a resolution directing
the attorney general to prosecute suits
against an Oregon railroad corpora.
ton which had received land grants
In the late sixties for a line from a
California point to Portland, Ore. Mr.
Tillman had said that the use of his
name was without authority and as a
result it is declared that several per.
sons interested in the land grants be-
came angered. .~'.
Some of the interested parties are
reported to have sent to President
Roosevelt copies of letters alleged to
have been written by Senator Tillman,
Indicating that he had an interest in
one of the land companies which
would be benefited through land com.
panies obtaining possession of the
grants in question. After receiving
this information it is said a secret
service operative was directed to in.
vestigate the part Senator Tillman
was alleged to have taken in the land
cases.