The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-04
MRANGLE WITH
ROOSEVELT
Nothing Like 1t Seen Since
Andrew J0hnson's
Time.
By Ernest G.. Walker.
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WASHINGTON, January II DELAYED
in Transmission) Three separate COM
mittees of Congress are feverishly work
ing this week on different lines. They
are seeking to discredit President Roos-
evelt in the merry war of the winter.
Nothing like it has happened since the
days when Andrew johnson was quar-.
relling with the Congress of his own
party that finally sought to impeach
him. 1t is no longer matter of specu-
lation. The fight between Theodore
Roosevelt on the one hand and between
the Senate and the House on the other
is to be pressed to finish.
The winter is to be filed with the
wranglings. examinations and recrimi
nations are to be in order. The Pres
ident is as palestine of temperament as
ever. He has no particular regret over
the situation. He pretends not to mind
even that House of Representatives
comprising big majority of Repub-
lieans, voted by PIP to 80 last Friday
to rebuke him. For the resolution that
the House adopted, laying upon the
table the offensive paragraphs of his
annual message about the Secret Ser.
vice, and also his special message of
reply to the House inquiry, which re-
fected upon several members of the ap-
preparations committee, was in parIia-
mentary terms very severe.
~ I'd thoruh bo Dc
ident would escape bitter quarrel with
the Senate, where he is hated quite
as. cordially as in the House. Senate
leaders tried to avoid an open breach
over the Secret Service paragraphs. The
Aldrich resolution, directing the com.
mittee on appropriations to inquire
about the employment of Secret Service
men and other detective organizations
by the various departments, was franz
ed with special caution to that end.
1t was reasoned by the Senators, who
participated in the preliminary confer
ences over it, that the Presiden, could
not take offense at broad inquiry.
Comedies That Right to Congress.
And in that particular they reasoned
correctly. For the President at once
| conceded the right of Congress or of
| either of its branches to institute such
an inquiry and so stated in his letter to
| Senator Hale, the chairman of the APP
preparations Committee That line Of in
vestlgation has now developed into
/ great activity. A special committee of
| three Senators Ganinger of New
Hampshire, Hemenway of Indiana, and
Clay of Georgia, the latter Democrat
has been designated.
They are proceeding with more eau
| ton and more secrecy than the two
other investigation committees and APP
parently are very determined to dig
out material that will justify the in
curry However, there had been no
signs of intense opposition to the Pres
/ ident because of his Secret Service
paragraphs and the Senate seemed will
| ing to be calm about the matter ill
| there were two special occurrences
One pertained to Senator TilIman.
| The President hates that Senator with
a bitter hatred Mr. Tillman has crit
cized him more openly and virulentB
| than any other Senator, often in such
incorporate language as to disgust more
judicious people. And it has been nc
secret for some time thatif the President
could eyer get even with Senator Till
man, he would avail himself of the OPP
portunity to the utmost. The oppor
tunity came.
| Saw a Chance to Make Money.
| While lecturing in the West about q
year and half ago, the Senator
/ thought he saw chance to purchase
on advantageous terms some timber
land supposed to have reverted to the
public domain. 1t was in the posses
sion at the time of land grant com
pany, whose title was claimed to be
| illegal. There was correspondence and
| Byron Darr, the manager Of company
known as the st. Paul and Pacific Com
| pany, issued a circular, using Senator
| Tillman s name as one of the purchasers
| of ten sections. 1t seems that the Sen
ator had not at that time paid over any
money. Before he got to that point he
convinced himself that the proposition
was not altogether in good hands and
right in the midst of the correspondence
he rose in his Senate seat and denounc
ed the company as swindle. He ever
asked that the Postoffice Department
issue fraud order against the com
pany.
President Roosevelt apparently hat
noted what was going on. Inspector:
were put upon the case. They went tt
great lengths to secure evidence. They
even gained possession of letters tina
Senator Tillman had written, photo
graphed them, including the envelope
which showed that he had been writing
| private letters under his Congressional
| frank. That is contrary to law, al
though the chief offense at the Capito
in that connection is generally regard
ed to be in getting caught.
When the President came to make NJ
a letter of transmittal for the documen
tary evidence of the operations of tn
detective forces in the departments
complying with the Senate s request, h
made the investigation against Tillmal
feature To be sure he craftilv cite,
it as an incident, Instead of sending
typewriter letter, as is usually don
with letters of transmittal, he had i
printed at the Government Printin!
Office and sent out to all the newspaper
under release date. The copies ha,
hardly more than left the White Hous
than intimations began to go forth fror
people, who are not strangers there tina
a Southern Senator had been caught il