The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-01-26

Washington, Jan. 26.-Charging that
, william Nelson Cromwell, Roger l..
Farnham. Charles P. Taft and others
are parties TO the most infamous
railroad proposition ever submitted
to any government and that they
"are being permitted not only TO rob
The Republic oe Panama. but Indirect
Nv the treasury of tho United States,
Representative RaiDey, of Illinois, to-
day directed the searchlight of pub.
licity upon the affairs in the canal
zone In startling speech In support
OF his resolution, providing for an
investigation by congress OF the Pan
ANA canal.
Tn their efforts in this direction, he
continued. they have had, so far. the
complete cooperation and active as
sIstance Of the present administration
and of the next president OF the Unit.
ed States"
Mr. Rainey traced the history OF
the proposed canal four hundred years
back and warned that I'VE have al.
ready started in the direction OF the
rocks upon which the French compan-
les were wrecked"
Referring TO the governments libel
suit against the New York World and
grand jury Investigations now under
way In this city and In New York, Mr..
Rsiney said:
III we are 10 carry this project
through to successful conclusion,
we must avoid graft il ia not the
part Of wise Statesmanship 10 dispose
Of resolutions asking for an investi-
cation OF any phase of the canal oues-
ton with the sweeping and absolutely
unsupported Official declaration that
there is nothing TO investigate It is
not the part of the sound statesman
ship and true patriotism to attempt
10 revive the obsolete common law GUS
toms OF 200 years ago. and to employ
all the tremendous agencies OF the
government al attempting to crush the
newspapers, which have had the cour-
age to call attention to a questionable
transaction In connection with the
canal"
Mr. Rainey vas particularly bitter
In his denuDciation OF Mr.. Cromwell,
general counsel for the New French
Panama Canal company and counsel
and director OF the Panama railroad,
which Is owned by the United States
government He charged that through
the manipulations of Mr.. Cromwell,
the French canal company was per-
mitted to steal from the United States
government three or four million dol
lars, and that after he had become
an officer. In fact of the United
States. he became party to an at
tempt TO collect from the United
States a fraudulent claim on the part
OF the canal company of $4,000, 900
He also was unsparing In his attack
upon Don Jose Domingo de Obaldia,
president OF Panama, who, he said,
represented "ae no other Spanish state
IN his generation, all that is corrupt
In Spanish-American politics"
Without Obaldia," he stated,
'Cromwell's career would have been
Impossible. Without Cromwell, Obal.
Ola would have been impossible"
Against President Elect Taft now
en- route to the canal zone, Mr.. Ralney
directed the accusation that, on the
occasion Of his last trip to Panama
IN May, 'he did nothing on the 18TH
mus except to openly push the can
uidacy OF Obaldia for the presidency,
He asserted tnat very thinIy veil
ed threat 10 seize the republic. II
Obaldia was not elected. was contain.
ed In a letter written by Mr.. Taft
TO the then President Amador. and
that to prevent this, Arias, Obaldia's
opponent Withdrew.
Reference 20 President RooseyeIts 8
attack on Senator Tillman was made
by Mr.. Rainey. by asserting that SEN
ator Lodge Of Massachusetts,. was re-
sponsible for the.expenditure on Jam
uary ], last, OF over $1,000, 900 to pur-
cnase the steamships Shawmut and
fremont for the Panama Railroad
company, which the canal commission
oid not want and did not need, but
which were bought because the con,
sutuents OF the senior senator from
massachusetts wanted TO sell them.
He said that for some weeks the
secret agencies of the government had
oeen at work Investigating the senior
senator from South Carolina They
nave" he said, discovered that he
used his frank Inadvertently In pri-
yate correspondence and so deprived
INC government OF revenue to the
Imount of two cents, and the matter
"ah considered important enough TO
pe embodied in n special message from
,he president 10 congress. The SEN
LOT senator from Massachusetts, | be-
neVe' is still invited to White House
uinners, Is the Presidents friend and
au'iser and the cabinetmaker for the
Incoming president. / have not heard
" any secret service agents disturb
nt the senior senator from Massa-
.nusetts. and yet he IS directly, indi-
'iouaiiy and solely responsible that
mere was taken out OF the treasury
W ,he United States over one million
dollars"
a year or two after the indcpcn.
uehce OF Panama" continued Mr Raj
icy. the officials of the little repub-
~ commenced 10 absorb ideas OF pat
rousm peculiarly distasteful To Mr..
s'on"ell Mr.. Cromwell determined
y" uispiace MIR. Amador and the other