Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-12
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blameworthy or innocent None are
free from his attacks. He spares nei-
ther the learned wit, nor the gentle
poet, but rends and tears without re-
gard to person, reason or time
Referring to his effort to purchase
some of the Oregon timber Mr.. Tillman
again departed from his printed speech
by adding:
who would not have wanted to pur-
chase some of that land if he was as
poor as I amp
He went on to describe the timber
lands as containing the finest red cedar
in the world
Laying down his manuscript after
having just consumed fifty-five minutes
in reading it, Mr. Ti1lman was con-
graduated by many of his friends on
the floor while the vice president pro-
ceeded to lay before the senate the
routine business that usually precedes
all other matters that come before the
body.
There was no applause in the gal-
leries, but the buzz of conversation in
the large audience was such as to
drown the voice of the reading clerk.
Incurred Presidents Enmity
In my public work here" said Senator
Tillman, 81 have not hesitated to criticise
and comment on the official actions and ut
terances of President Roosevelt, and 1 have
doubtless given him good cause to seek re-
venge. i have at various times arragned
him in the senate for tyrannical invasion Of
the rights of congress, for usurpation of au-
thority not given him by the constitution
for disobedience OF the law and neglect of
duty and, particularly in the case of Mrs
Norris for brutal and cruel conduct toward
a helpless woman.
'I was not aware that these darts Of mine
had quivered in the executives side and
stung him so. but the eagerness and inten-
1x-4NT gaI,
against me, his making a precedent when
none existed before his taking from the
committee to which he has forwarded them
the papers and giving them to the press
before the committee had considered them
indicates that Theodore Roosevelt enjoys to
the limit the feeling of getting even with
Ben Tillman and lays on the big stick
with the keenest relish, doubtless believing
that the 'pitchfork has gone out of bust
ness"
In addressing the senate Mr.. Tillman
arose to a question of personal privi-
lege, declaring that for the first time
in the history Of this government so
far as he had been able to learn,
member of the senate had been brought
to the bar of public opinion before the
senate itself to be judged under in
dictment by no less a person than the
president of the United States. a.. The
manner Of doing it, he said, and the
animas and zeal displayed by the chief
executive, were worthy of considera-
ton.
Shows Contempt for Senate
Mr.. Tillman called attention to the
publication of these charges by the
president before they had been consid-
cred by the committee Of the senate
to which they were referred and de-
clared that in so doing the president
had treated the senate with that CON
tempt which has been his won't"
He declared the president was an
adept at advertising and had used the
press with more skill than any man in
American politics.
Another probable reason for his great
haste" said the senator, twas that he
sought to distract attention from the action
of the house of representatives on Friday in
laying part Of his message on the table by
the sensational accusation against a man
who has had long service in the senate.
IAN examination of the presidents letter
to Mr.. Hale, which might just as we'll have
been a special message of the type with
which we are familiar, will show that the
presidents charges, boiled down, amount to
two in number.
First he promotes me to membership in
the Ananias club and charges in this that I
have deliberately lied to the senate. Sec
ond, he charges that l have exerted my of
fetal influence and work a senator for
my personal benefit alone to secure the pas
sage of a resolution and to press the de-
the corporation which holds much of the
public domain in the west and will not sell
it to settlers the terms of their grants
from the government.
Consummate Art Revealed
'He has prepared his Indictment with
consummate ability and skill. He is even
cunning in the apparently innocent pre-
tense that in making search through the
secret service for kind of malefactor
he has run down another and the case of
that was of such serious Importance that
his sense of official obligation compelled him
to prompt action.
Mark you, he has been in the possession
of all the facts in this case since July last
and men will be curious to know why if
his zeal were honest. he did not make them
known then"
Quoting the presidents message to
the house on January 4, in which he
said he had no charges of corruption
against congress nor against any mem
Der of the present house, Mr.. Tillman
said:
at follows that he found no grounds for
indicting me in the courts, which no doubt
would have rejoced him overmuch, and all
this fuss, fury and fustian about the seri-
BUSINESS of the case and the gravity of the
offense with which he charges me can be
Referring to the presidents letter to
Senator Hale, Mr.. Tillman declared that
the president recognized the extraor-
binary character or his action, as well
as the unlawful use he has made of the
secret service.
TiIIman Denounced Dorr
Mr.. Tillman said he did not deny the
authenticity of the letter or the tele-
gram of which Photographs were made,
and he presumed the letter from Will
liam e. Lee was also a correct copy,
but he was not aware of its existence
until it was brought to his attention by
the presidents statement, and added
that he was not in any way respop-
sible for Mr.. Lees ideas expressed in it.
Taking up the presidents statement
concerning Dorr, a land agent making
his filings through Reeder & Watkins
of Marshfield, Ore, Mr.. Tillman said:
cit will be noted that I accused Dorr in