The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-09

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have you understand that nothing I do
here in the senate will be done because
OF any personal purchase or any of the
land II I can succeed in causing the
government TO institute suit for the re
covery Of the land and make it easier
for OTHERS. AS WELL AS MYSELF
tthe italics are mine, ] shall do Il
without regard to the dealings with
your firm. still want &c get some OF
the timber land. II il il possible, and
as it is probably that Mr.. Lee or some
other representative of mine viii be In
your country In the next two months,
we viii leave the matter OF payment
for the initatory steps and subsequent
proceedings in allegiance for the pres
ent. Any contract we might make viii
be entirely apart from and independ-
ent of my work here in the senate.
will be glad for you to hold in reserve
eight of the best quarter sections OF
which you have definite information,
| and ] viii in the meantime press the
investigation and other work here
which viii facilitate the final purchase
and in effect obviate the necessitating
of your making any case in the court
at all
Sent in Franked Envelope.
This letter. in which Senator Till
man requested that eight of the best
quarter sections be beld In reserve for
him, was written Just four days before
he announced to the senate that he had
not undertaken 10 buy any land in the
west. II is unnecessary to comment
upon his proposal, made in this letter
to use his influence as a senator to
force the government 10 institute suit
which would make it easy for him per-
soDaily TO obtain some of the land. This
letter, purely pertaining TO Mr.. Till
mans personal and private business,
was sent in ranked envelope. u
which I attach a photograph copy
| marked exhibit Do.
The assault by Senator Tillman
| upon Mr.. Dorr was. according TO the
report Of the inspectors, wanton as
sault made to cover UP Senator TIL
mans own transactions.
II call your attention to the letter
of Mr.. Dorr to the postmaster general
under date of Nov. "A, 1905, exhibit ID
| in which he asks for relief from the
cases which Senator Tiilman had
| brought against him, saying that he
| had no knowledge that Senator Tillman
| desired his operations to be kept hid
den and secret from the general publtc
knowledge. The report of the inspect
ors seems to indicate that this young
man. Mr.. Dorr. acted i'm good faith, but
I that he used Senator Humans sppb-
cation for land as an advertisement
Yours very truly,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
'To Hon. Eugene Hale. acting chair
man committee on appropriations
| United States senate.
Exhibits in the Case,
the first exhibit contained in the
| communication is Senator Tillman
| personal explanation, made on the moor
Of the senate on Feb. 10, 1905 in which
he complained of an alleged unauthoT-
| ized use of his name in circular IS
sued by Bryan r. Dorr president Of
| the st. Paul < Pacific Timber syhdlcate
of Portland. This circular says that
! Senator TilIman was intere sted in an
action to compel the Southern oregon
company 10 sell the applicants apou'
| loo 400 acres OF timber lands which mao
been granted to the Coos Bay Wagon
Road romDany on condition that l.
should be sold in quarter sections for q
price not exceeding $50 per acre III
/ that statement Senator Tiliman uetlleu
/ that he had bought any land an! t l'el
! an the west, and he declared furthei
tbat no nd not undertaken to buy any
DORIS Mail Held Up.
AT the request of Senator Tiliman
the Dostoff1ce department withheld man
addressed to Bryan r. Dorr and 70 tIle
timber syndicate, pending an mNesu-
| cation of their business by PoStorhce
| Tnspectors O. c. Riches and r. 9. Glenn
ent. The inspectors report 10 - u
Lynn, inspector in charge at SpoAahe'
! is given BY the president. 1t SHOWS that
| a very thorough inquiry was mace OF
I . md n
of other oregon real estate agents Who
were receiving applications for the
lands held by the Coos Bay wagon
| Road company. Among the persons ano
firms mentioned in the report as inter-
ested in the lands were James NJ Conro
of Mansfield and George ]. SchaefeT
~ Portland. and Reedor & Watkins
| Na-shfeld. The Tiliman letters were
| addressed chiefly to Reedor & Watkins
/ ..In their report to the inspector in
| charge at Spokane, Riches and Glen"
/ ent found that there was no evidence
that Reedor 4 Watkins were not acting
! in good faith in receiving applications
| for the land As to the action of Dorr
against whom the case was more spe-
/ ciically directed, IL was found that he
was unwarrantably extravaganza both
| in his statement of the conditions and
/ his terms. This was attributed to his
] incxperience in business. his energy
and enthusiasm and desire to make
good in the west. The inspector. how
ever, was convinced that Dorr had nc
| criminal motive in his actions and sin
| cerely believed he would be able &c
make good his promises. As to the use
of Senator Tillman's name by Dorr, the
/ inspectors found that the facts con-
corning the applications of Senator TIL
man and family to purchase nine quar-
ter sections of the land justified the real
estate agent in using the senator S
name as an advertisement. The action
/ of the pOstoffice department in with
/ holding from delivery mail ADDRESSED to
Dorr was recommended TO be reseind-
! ed
/