Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1912-01-20

Subj Committee Declares
That Charges Of Corrup-
tion and Bribery Have
Not Been Proved.

Washington, D. c., Jan 1s.-The
Hepburn subcommittee which has
been investigating the election of Sen
ator Isaac Stephenson of Wisconsin,
today unanimously agreed on a report
which holds that the charges of cor
ruption and bribery made against Sen
ator Stephenson have not been proved.
The report will be made to the senate
committee on privileges and elections.
The investigation into the election
of Senator Lorimer of Illinois was ad-
journed again today because of the
continued illness of Elbridge Hanecy
of counsel for Mr.. Lorimer.
Questions Morgan and Perkins Fee.
Representative Lobeck of Nebraska
today asked the house rules. commit
tee in conducting an investigation OF
the International Harvester Co., to
recommend that there be ascertained
what consideration was paid to j. P.
Morgan and George w. Perkins for
their part in the formation of the cor
poration in 1902. Mr.. Lobeck declared
that E. H. Gary, directing head of the
u. S. Steel corporation, while not In
the business of manufacturing Of
farm machinery, was identified with
Morgan to form farm implement pool
before the International Harvester Co.
was organized. He also urged an In
quiry into how the steel corporation
acquired $2O,00O,000 Of stock in the
harvester company.a
Hepburn Attacks Gompers.
A sharp attack eon President Com
pers of the American Federation OF
Labor was made in the senate today
by Mr.. Hepburn of Idaho, who pro-
tested that a communication from
Mr.. Gompers should not be received
by the senate. He said that no COM
munication should be accepted from
that source after the revelations
made in the Mcnamara case.
McCumber Pleads for Treaties.
Senator McCumber of North Dakota
appealed to the senate today to ratlty
Immediately President Taft's arbitra-
ton treaties with England and France
without amendment. He argued that
the terms of the treaties in no way
usurped the constitutional rights OF
the senate nor did they compel the
arbitration of any traditional question
of American policy, such as the Mon
roe doctrine or the control of immlgra-
tion. ""
Ratification of the treaties, Senator
declared, would give to
the cause of arbitration such an I'M
petus that like treaties would soon be
made with all civilized nations. "
with a treaty of this kind signed
by all the great nations" said Sen
ator McCumber, "the war with Trlpon
would never have been heard OF and the
cries of Persia for justice and mercy
would not now be ringing throughout
the world. The time is coming when no
great nation will be able to borrow
money from other nations to carry on
an unjust war"
Senator McCumber quoted statistics
to show that the government appro-
priations for the army and navy had
increased 23O per cent in twenty years,
while the increase Of population was
per cent.
England's war appropriation had in
creased 115 per cent in twenty years,
he said, while her population had been
twenty per cent.
Senator McCumber took the position
that no construction of the language
of the treaties could bind the United
States to arbitrate question lnvolv-
ing the Panama canal *
"We must properly say this Is an
American question, not an lnterna-
tional one, and one which could not
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