The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-15
PITCHFoRK IN
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and a discussion back and forth as to the method that should be pursued by the special counsel" he said.
 T pressed him for; an immediate an- sWer, yes or no. He said he would make inquiry of the clerk charged with that business and let me know. X. In the course of few minutes, he returnedt to the telephone and said he would write me a letter."
 After having the letter of the Attor- ney General read, he declared that up to this time, and after nine months, nothing had been done in response to the order of Congress to bring suit.
 Mir. Tillman referred to the motive of the Attorney General.
 we all know how slow the processes of the law are. especially against mil lionaires. We all know the difference being ready to do It and being 'anx- ious to do it."
 The fact was. said the Senator. tnat the Attorney General had gone into print to bolster up the President. and charge Tillman with not having talked to him about this matter. He said he did not like to use the adjective called for, in this case, but would let his hear- CTS nll 1t in for themSelves He had been frank in talking about the Oregon case with the Attorney General and had made full explanation to him.
 He then referred to Postmaster General Meyer and his statement that the President had been in possession of the facts in this case only since December IS, and criticised that as "falsehood No. l." He also insiRted that the Postmaster General had made a mistatement in reference to the time that the fraud order was issued against DcFr.
 He declared that. a constant effort. was being made to shield the Presi- dent from complicity of this investiga-; tion by the Senator until very recently. Mir. Tillman said that last evenink. at his instance. Senator Hale teiegraphed to Reeder and Watkins to know at whose instance and by whom copies, of Mir. TiIlman's letters had &een made. He said he was told today that he would not be able to get an answer to this inquiry except by mail and then he said all interest in 1t would have ceased. MT. TiIlman announced that he had received another circular sent out by Dorr in which the following statement was made: ID
 Some day I shall have justice and reparation and when that day comes, now not far distant. there will be & noise that will be heard around tka. world"
 That statement by Dorr, Mir. Tillman insistedk was conclusive proof that Dorr had received assurance from the President that he would drag TiIi- man down as a liar and scoundrel." They exploded their bomb here last Friday and now two members of the cabinet are andesvoring to make the country believe that Mr. Roosevelt ls the most honest, noble. dislnterested prosecutor of great malefactors that ever existed. Dorr says that he is going to get revenge. Who would promise that to- him two months or six weeks before the explosion of the bomb7"
 Degree of raIseAoOa.
 He wanted to know what degree of. falsehood was to be charged to the two Cabinet officers ''or head clerks" or "bootlicks, or whatever the Presi. dent has around him"
 The Attorney-Genera he said. had a splendid memory for various de- tails in his conversation with him, but he could not recollect whether he had brought suit or not against the South ern Oregon Company and had to ask a subordinate whether he had per- formed this important duty for Con- gress." He suggested that, there should be a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Ananias Club, with William .E. Chandler. or some other member, to determine what degree should be conferred upon Charles ]. Bonaparte and Meyer"
 He had a letter from the General Land Oflce, he said, stating that to one company in the West an excess of $500 acres of land had been granted, and that in 1897 a recommendation was made that suit be brought against them for recovery, but nothing had ever been done Mr. Tillman laid stress upon the fact that he had not endeavored to obtain any Government land, but only to purchase land that had been given corporation with the stipulation that that corporation should sell it to the public at t2.50 per acre. He insisted that he was entitled to a full investigation of these charges and to a report, as he did not wish to rest under the imputations that had been cast upon him. If no report should so made, he said, the impression would so abroad that the Senate had white washed him and that he was guilty of some wrongdoing which he did not wish to rest under. g l I AAAawmav. VA@aAa Slv0wA