The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-27
PENROSE PROMISES TO
 MAKE OYSTER BAY RING
 WITH EXPLOSIVE ECHOES
His Spear to Know No Brother Ready to Take on Van Valkenburg, Finn and Roose- welt at Once
Archbold and Penrose Scheduled
 to be Among First Witnesses When Hearings Are Resumed
 by Clapp Committee Sept. 30

when Hearings Are Resumed by Clapp Committee Sept. 30 Washington, Aug. 27-Breathing de- fiance of Colonel Roosevelt, Senator
 Penrose, of Pennsylvania. left here to- day to secure more material for his anti Roosevelt fight. He promised to keep Roosevelt in continual hot wa ter despite the temporary adjourn
 ment of the Senate Investigating cori- mittee.
 Senator Clapp, chairman of the com. mittee Investigating campaign contrz- buttons. also left Washington today after announcing that hearings of the committee will be. resumed here Sep tember 30. He wrote letters to all l members of the committee today, ask l ing them to return at that time Who the first witnesses will be, Clapp could I not say. He will campaign next, week ! in Vermont for the Progressive ticket. 1T am going to Philadelphia to see some people and refresh my memory about certain affairs" said Penrose, l this afternoon.
 He carried a bulky paclxa ge labelled | s"Documents regarding Roosevelt | 'I will be in Atlantic City for the l next three weeks, said Penrose, working out from there to New York and Philadelphia. expect to- have l many things to say, for one thing I will compel the owners of the Phila- 1 delphia North American to disgorge
 MT. Editor Van Valkenberg by dis
 closures I will make"
 What about William Fiinn?' he was asked.
 "Oh. he's easy replied Penrose, with a smile received letter to- | <5o Qvz iA.., the offer Of sLO0U.o0 that Finn made l me for a seat in the Senate. Other
 witnesses will also be produced on that score.''
 Penrose promised to cause "some more explosive utterances and echoes have several sensational disclosures 10 make soon and that they would be fol- lowed indefinitely without depicting his supply of material
 Now we have progressed at least to where 1t is admitted that the Stan ! ltllk situation AcfneWIiatn
 Senator C'lapp saad 1t was definitely kdecided to hold the September hear l ings in Washington because of facili- f ties for printing testimony at the gov
 ernment printing office. He said a plan to examine some witnesses in New York had been abandoned. John D. ArcIbold and Penrose are scheduled to be among the first wit nesses in the fall hearing. ArchboId l is expected to return from Europe be- fore the hearings are resumed and produce papers and receipts from for mer treasurer Bliss of the 1904 Repub- lican campaign committee regarding 1 the alleged contribution of $100,OO0 of l Standard Oil moneysto the Roosevelt
 campaign. Senator Penrose said to- l day he expected to attend all future sessions of the committee
 The committee will have notable l list of witnesses. Colonel Roosevelt, George w. Perkins, George B. Cortel- 1 you, William Loeb, IT,, Secretary of
 State Philander c. Knox, William Finn and a number of Senators and I Representatives will undoubtedly be called.
 Senator C1app. chairman of the com nittee, is an ardent Roosevelt sup porter Senator Jones of Washing l ton, and Oliver of Pennsylvania, are | regular Republicans" Senator Pom creme of Ohio Is progressive Demo
 crat. There is one vacancy on the
 committee.
 Oyster Bay. Aug. 27-After a fruit ! less search through his letter books, Colonel Roosevelt called on William
 R. Hearst, today, for information as D lis said the Colonel wrote letters to Former Congressman Sibley about 1 Standard Oil contributions. I sI can't recall even having written | to Mir Sibley,'' said Roosevelt "1f l MT Hearst will let me know the date on which these letters were written or | even within a year of the date I will be able to produce them. have been Hooking for the letters but it is impos- sible to find them. I have tens of thousands of letters which wrote dur l ing my administration"
 Roosevelt referred again to the charge of Penrose that when Seere- | tary of State Knox had come into the l room while Roosevelt was writing | letter to Cortelyou about the alleged | Standard Oil contributions in 1904 the Colonel had said he wanted the letter | ssto 20 into the record" after being l fold that the contribution had been made. was spent and could not be re- 1 turned.
 scKnox did come into the room where IT was writing the letter, declar ed Roosevelt. "and my recollection is that T fold him I wanted it to go into the record because I wanted the record ' to be kept straight and for no other reaeon.''
 The bull moose candidate will em- l body in his letter to Senator Clapp. his letter to Judge Parker on the Standard Oil contribution sent just before the election of 1904 and a let | ter to Vice-President Sherman in re- gard to the Hartman contribution of
 S2S0,O00.
 This letter to Clapp will be made public before Roosevelt leaves at mid night for his Vermont trip. The Col oneI delayed a horse back ride long enough to say that his conference with Judge Ben Lindsay. of Colorado, Geo. w Perkins and William H. Hotch- kiss, last night, had touched on new blanks to be put into the platform of the New York state convention Judge Lindsay spent the night at
 Sagamore Hill Roosevelt corrected statements in newspaper regarding 1 the Sidney Webster letter and mid night conference with Archbold and Rogers
 .aThe Sidney Webster letter." he said, had nothing to do with the Standard Oil contribution of s100000 but the Hartman contribution of $260,- 1 o00 I had no midnight conference | with Archbold and Rogers immediate | ly after the election. bout a year | Or a year and half later I did have an afternoon conference with these gentlemen in regard to the action If the bureau of corporations against
 he Standard Oil company"