The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-15


  grant He did not know, said MT. Till man, there had been some correspondence and q discussion back and forth as to the method that had been pursued by the special counsel, he said. I pressed him for an immediate answer. yes or no. He said he would make inquiry of the clerk ; charged with that business and let me know. In the course of few minutes he returned to the telephone and said that 1 he would write me a letter.
 Nothing Is Done.
 After having the letter of the Attorney General read he declared up to this time and after nine months, nothing had been done in response to the order of Con ! gress to bring suit.
 MT. Tillman referred to the motive of the Attorney General. we all know how slow the processes of the law are, es- pecially against millionaires. We all know the difference between being ready to do it. and being anxious to do it.
 The fact was, said the senator, that the Attorney General had gone into print to bolster up the President, and charge Till man with not having talked to him about ] this matter. He said he did not like to use the adjective called for in this case.  themselves. He had been frank in talk ing about the Oregon case with the At { torney General and had made a full ex- ; planation to him.
 He then referred to Postmaster General Meyer and his statement that the Presi- dent had been in possession of the facts in this case only since December IS. and characterized that as 'falsehood No. l." He also insisted that the Postmaster Gen T f.. .frt ence to the time that the fraud order was issued against Dorr. He declared that a constant effort was being made to shield : the President from complicity in this in- vestigation of a senator until very recent i ly. MT. Tillman said that last evening at his instance Senator Hale telegraphed to Reeder & Watkins to know at whose in- stance and by whom copies of the letter had been made He said he was told to- day that he would not be able to get an answer to this inquiry except by mail. and then, he said, all interest in it would have ceased.
 Another Circular.
 Mir Tillman announced that he had re- ceived another circular sent out by Dorr in which the following statement was made:
 Some day I shall have justice and reparation, and when that day comes now not far distant, there will be a noise that will be heard around the world" That statement by Dorr, MT l Tillman insisted, was conclusive proof that Dorr had received assurance iron the President that he would drag Till. man down as a liar and scoundrel."
 They exploded their bomb here las Friday and now members of the cabi net are endeavoring to make the coun try believe that MT. Roosevelt Is th' most honest, noble and discoverer O great malefactors that ever existed Dorr says that he is going to ge revenge Who could promise that t him two months or six weeks befor' the explosion of the bomb?"
 He wanted to know what degree O falsehood was to be charged to tn two cabinet officers. "or head clerks, or "bootlicks or whatever the Presi dent has around himT'
 Splendid Memory. The Attorney General, he said, had splendid memory for various details i his conversation with him, but h ! could not recollect whether he ha brought suit or not against the South ern Oregon company, and had to as a subordinate whether he had per formed this important duty for Con Eress." He suggested that there sh oul be a meeting of the executive commit tee of the Ananias club, with Williar E. Chandler or some other member t determine what degree should be con ferred upon Charles J. Bonaparte an Meyer"
 He had a letter from the general Ian office, he said, stating that to one com pany In the west an excess of 530 acres of land had been granted an that in 1898 a recommendation wa made that suit be brought against ther for recovery, but nothing had eve been done MT. Tillman laid stress upo the fact that he had not endeavored obtain any government land, but onl to purchase land that had been given corporation with the stipulation tha , that corporation should sell 1t to tn , public at $2.50 per acre. He insiste 2 that he was entitled to a full investi . gation of these charges and to a re l port, as he did not wish to rest unde the imputations that had been cas , upon him. If no report should be mad he said the impression would go abroa that the Senate had whitewashed hii and that he was guilty of some wron , doing which he did not wish to res I l under.