The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-01
Tegethoff Handled Cheeks

I | Discussing the $250,000 under examination | by Senator Pomerene, Tegethoff said the | individual constributors sent through | brokerage houses, checks to him. He | later turned them over to Hartman, who | In turn gave them to Judge Lovett now chairman of the board of directors of the | Southern Pacific railroad. Although the witness produced receipt for Harri- mans $50.000 contribution, he said. he knew nothing of any receipts for the re- | mainder of the contribution. This concluded Mir. Tegethoffs S examl- nation and Charles A. Peabody, president of the Mutual Life Insurance company and legal adviser of Mrs Hartman, was sworn.
 | Hartman in November 1904. about the campaign fund.
 One of these letters was lying on his desk when I went into his office" said | the witness. He said he had been to Washington and the President wanted him to raise some money for the campaign. He said | he was giving s50.000 and hoped to get the rest. 1 think he said the whole fund was to be s2i0,0Oo. While was there he talked over the telephone with another man who 1 was to contribute"
 l "Who was that?" asked Senator Clapp. MT. Peabody was reluctant but finally. said Mir Hartman talked with Hamilton McK. Twombly of New York, He added that he knew of no other contributor to | the fund.
 l MT Peabody said he talked again with Mir. Hartman in December, 1904.
 'He said that when he raised the fund in November" added the witness, that ] there was an understanding that Senator Depew was to be taken care of-was to l be given a foreign mission. MT Harri- fI,t.- I..,1 i At the conclusion of Mir Peabody's ex- animation the committee took a recess l until tomorrow.
 i Among the letters given the committee was one from George B. Cortelyou, dated 1 July 20, 1904, and addressed to "E. H. | Hammond, Union Pacific Railway, New
 York" The letter was acknowledged by | MT Harrmans secretary. who said he , supposed there had been a mistake in the address. This letter requested the rail- i road man to serve on the auxiliary com mittee of the republican national commit \ tee.
 Please consider this communication en-
 tirely personal" 1t concluded "as the committee is not to be publicly an- nounced.'
 Letters that passed between the Presi-
 dent and MT. Hartman late in 1904 and early In 1905 referred to the Presidents messages to Congress on railroad matters l and to the appointment of a federal gov
 ernor and chief justice in Arizona, where
 MT. Hartman objected to certain men.
 Referred to Messages l A letter from MT. Hartman, dated No l vember 30 1904, called the Presidents at ] tention to the fact that MT. Roosevelt had written october 14 that he would dis cuss parts of his message with MT. liar riman at a later time. MT. Hartman
 said he had learned that other railroad men knew what the President intended
 to recommend relating to railroads and
 that he was "very apprehensive" about
 the matter.
 q sincerely believe it would be best for all interests that no reference be made Ito the subject" he added. 1 on the same day after MT. Hartman l had talked over the telephone with Secre- | tary Loeb President Roosevelt wrote the railroad man saving his mind was made ,up on the railroad question. He said that when he wrote he had in mind the 1 current question and had no thought of discussing recommendation for railroad 1 legislation.
 However, if it had occurred to me, I ] should have been delighted to do so." he wrote AS regards what I have said 1 in my message about the interstate | commerce commission, while as I say I should have been delighted to go over it i with you, I must also frankly say that my mind was definitely made up." i The President added that he had deter mined upon an anti-rebate proposal be- cause of revelations in the situations of l the beef trust and that he had care Lfully gone over his proposal with Secre- tary Paul Morton and with Root, Knox, Taft and Moody"