Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-02
AFTS TRIBUTE TO HUGHES
esident Fully Satisfied with New
Workers. Ability,
AXES ADDRESS IN BUFFALO
ecIarss New Member OF Court IL
Man TO Decide Every Ques-
tIon without Fear or
Favor.

1T and Secretary Of State Knox were
tests OF honor tonight at the banquet
cid in ratification of the two leading
commercial organizations OF Buffalo-The
Chamber OF Commerce and the Manufact-
IRIS club. Thomas Penney, former district
attorney OF Erie county. acted as toast
master.
The president in a discussion Of the con-
servation OF natural resources Indirectly
made a reference to Secretary BallenEer
when he SAID: Let me lift my voice in
behSn OF those who are responsible for
carrying Toward this work and plead
J that they shall not be traduced and mis-
!. represented in reaching a solution Of
1problem Snost difficult
The president spoke or the conservstiO
bills in congress and especially the one
confirming the right of the executive to
withdraw lands from public entry
There has been objection to this, he
said, "as a reflection upon those officials,
who already have exercised this power
in suggesting that they us-trped the power
Of congress.
IF thf supreme court should decide that
this poEer does not exist we would have
a perfect mess" said the president There
are people who say the power does not
exist and are trying TO secure title to
81 land on that ground. The fact that they
are willing to face lawsuits, shows they
have long purses and are prepared to
= fight"
Conservation IL Abstruse.
NThe president said the subject Of con-
servation was rather abstruse.
But" he added amid laughter, ''there
are a great many in favor of conservation
no matter what II means.
Mr. Taft paid tribute to Governor
Hughes.
has look on this New York audience"
he said, feel like apologizing on the
one hand and facilitating the country on
the other on taking from you great
governor to make a great justice Of the
supreme court OF the United states. Even
I do not agree with Mr.. Hughes in his
construction of the income tax and hope
that your legislature will adopt that
Amendment / shall still be willing and
glad, If 1t does to submit It's construction
to Mr.. Justice Hughes. without regard to
what view he might have taken before
he will give again his judicial quality to
the solution of that problem.
You know and know that he is that
kind of a man who can, when he takes the
oath of office, decide every question with
out fear or favor as God gives him to see
the right"
After breakfast at the home Of Ansley
Wilcox this morning President Taft spent
two hours in the library of the wilcox
home, where in 1901 Theodore Roosevelt
took the oath of office as president of the
United States. following the death of Pres-
Adent Mckinley a few blocks away. Mr..
TAFT is the first president to visit Buffalo
Stree those fateful days
Mr. Taft broke a presidential precedent
. by allowing himself to be quoted at an
4 Interview with reporters. He asked his
III interviewers to keep away from politics
~, riVl,t into he
L situation and especially the appointment
, of Governor Hughes to the supreme court
:, bench.
a II saw Governor Hughes at Albany, the
< president said, before he was nominated,
and we went over the question OF his run
ming again for governor. ! urged him to
do 70. He gave me many reasons why he
could not
The president left for Pittsburg at Hos.
white BOrFOws Money.
In the course of an interview today Mr.
Browne said: "Since became acquainted
with White at the last session of the legis-
IAture he appealed to me several times Tor
leans. saying he was in debt, hardup, etc.
On three or four occasions l let him have
$50 or so for which hold his notes. Fin
A. ally this borrowing habit of his became
: too common and wrote him letter adj
wishing him to go work and earn Nv
ing like other people, even secured a
position for him, but 1t paid only SIS and
he refused to take It. Then a GOODNESS
sprung up. The next thing TO come from
him was a remarkable letter. 1t ran this
wav:
Il have written a full story of my ex-
periences at Springfield at the Legislature.
; Those who have it declare it is the
best story that the word has seen.
wrote Il for publication. l have used your
name III 1t with deep regret, for l cannot
avoid II and still set forth the facts. l also
have told Senator Lorimer about it."
HE did not ask for money" continued
Mr. Browne but the intlmation was as
plain as II 1t had been in scare-heads, that
unless money paid the story would be
pubAshed 1t was my first intmation that
. ne Esb gone into the thug business.
lonkedNat the situation from every angle
and ut last concluded there was but one
thing to do-to ignore the letter and its
writer"
White was secretly interviewed by States
Attorney wyman soday, but the latter would
not divuge the nature of the talk. White
however is expected to tell his story to thu
special grand jury next week
Other Men Involved.
The Tribune tomorrow will say that il
relating his charge, White gave the names
OF four other democratic members or m
general assembly who met with him anC
d, Representative Robert Wilson Of Chicago
in the Southern hotel at st. Louis, whel
portion of the alleged bride was paid,
The names mentioned by White are 10
seph S Clark of Vandaia H.; Michael
Link OF Mitchell, ILL.,; Henry $, Shepard o
Jerseyvine and Charles s. Luke of Nash
VILE III. Luke is now dead.
The Tribune declares that In order to as
certain what these men knew OF the mat
ter It sent an experienced investigator L
each OF them twice and sent two OF II
staff to each OF them on another occasion
II was first discovered, according to tn
Tribune, that the register of the Southern
hotel showed that Robert f. Wilson wa
there on July 10, 1900, the date on whic
White declared that Wilson paid him so
as a reward for voting for Lorimer. Thi
n money. White said. was paid him by WI
son, while in a bathroom adjoining tn
room occupied by Wilson in the hote
MoISael S. Link, who was a Representative
in the legislature that elected Lorimer ad
mitted at his first interview with tn
Tribune Investigator, according TO tn
Tribune, that he had been at the Souther