Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-21
'SUBPOENAS ISSUED
FOR ROOT AND KNOX
C. W. Russell Also to Testify
in Government Libel Case.
CALLED BY GRAND JURY
Attorney General Defers Canal State
ment Until Next Week.
CROMWELL NOT SENT FOR
Believed That Indictment Will Be
Found-Few Other Witnesses
to Be Heard

Elihu H. Root. Secretary of State Phi
vania. who Attorney General at the
time of the purchase of the Panama Ca
nal and Assistant Attorney General
Charles w. Russell will testify tomorrow
before the District of Columbia grand
jury concerning the governments con-
nection with the purchase of the canal
Subpoenas for all three officials were
issued late this afternoon. 1t is expected
they will be the only witnesses examined
tomorrow.
Mr.. Baker was not at his office this
afternoon. Assistant United States At
torney Mcnamara declined TO say wheth-
er these subpoenas were issued.
1t is learned on good authority that
such orders for appearance were placed
in the hands of the marshal for service
Application for information along these
lines was also met with refusal at the
marshals office.
Attorney General Bonaparte has de-
Panama libel investigation until next
week. He conferred today with the
President on this subject 1t was in
tended to make the statemen; this week.
There appears 80 be hitch somewhere
in the proceedings that makes this posi-
ponement advisable. What this hitch is
Mr.. Bonaparte would not say
News Articles to Be Read.
The full text of the alleged lIbelous
statements which, il is claimed, We're
published in the New York World and
the Indianapolis News concerning the
connection OF Charles Z. TAFT, Douglass
Robinson and William Nelson Cromwell
with the purchase of the Panama canal
will be read to the grand jury tomorrow
by Assistant United States Attorney
Stuart Mcnamara.
AS the articles are said to have APP
peared for several weeks prior to the re-
cent presidential election and afterward
in several issues of the papers named
during the month of December. il is ex-
pccted the greater part o. tomorrow :
session of the grand jury will be taken up
ny tIit itdullS-
There was 20 session of tn" grand jury
today owing to other engagements OF
United States Attorney Baker.
1t is probable that th-re are only a few
mort witnesses to he examined, unless the
grand jurors should express to the United
States attorney wish TO hear from other
persons who Were closely connected with
the purchase of the canal.
Cromwell Not Sent For.
Nothing could be learned today as to the
examination of William Nelson Crom-
well. He has not yet been heard by the
grand jury. 1t is learned that no sub
pcena has been directed to him. 1t is me re
than likely. however. that the grand
jurors may desire TO hear from him and
may request his attendance.
he general impression about the city
hall today is that Mr.. Cromwell will not
be offered as "a witness unless his at
tendance is especially requested by the
grand iury'S foreman.
It is now limited that the discovery yes
terday that the Indianapolis News lS not
corporation, but Il private partnership.
puts different Phase upon the inquiry
ii ffecting that publication. This Is borne
out by The fact that although books and
papers were called for they we've not re
scented to the grand jury.
The impression remains strong that an
Indictment will be returned from this Ju-
risdiction. All efforts to obtain any IN
formation, either from the district attor-
ney's office or the Department of Justice,
were in vain