The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-27
CORRESPONDENCE IS OPEN ID COMMITTEE Can Have Any Letter They
 Want, Says Colonel LOEB MAY TESTIFY Could Thank ArchboId and Penrose For Service They Have Done
 Him, He Says-Answers
 Hearst's Request
LOEB MAY TESTIFY

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 oyster Bay. N. F., August 26.-'They can have anything I've got at any time. 1 They are welcome to any letter | have eyer written to any human being on any subject.''
 This was Colonel Roosevelt's only com ment tonight on the Senates adoption of the Penrose resolution directing an in- quiry into the Archbold- -Penrose-R -Roose- welt controversy over campaign contribu- tions. The news reached him as he was playing a losing tennis game with his sons, Archie and Quentin, at Sagamore Hill He halted long enough to glance at the evening papers, commented again on the visit to him yesterday of William
 Loeb. Jr.. had a few words to say con corning William Randolph Hearsts state ment in London, and went back to re- trieye the game with his racquet.
 You know I didn't direct Loeb to go down to Washington he said. when he read his declaration made earlier in the day that his former private secretary was ready to testify as to what he knew
 of the alleged $lo0,900 contribution of John D. Archbold to his campaign in 1904, and of the Hartman contribution of s2eo,oOo
 Loeb Offered to Testify
 MT. Loeb came to me. He told me that he had seen statements in the news papers that he would be called upon to testify before the committee ~Inasmuoh as he had been my private secretary, he thought he had better speak to me before going down to Washington.
 T told him to go ahead and testify to everything he could remember. l told him that if l was absent from Sagamore H.ll he could come up here and get my letter books and take from them any let ters that he wanted to place before the committed"
 Colonel Roosevelt chuckled as he read the newspapers. He stopped abruptly in the reading and looked up at the core spondents. T could thank Archbold and Penrose for what they. have done he said. They have rendered me a real service, There was one thing that Colonel Roosevelt asked the correspondents to make clear each time they visit him. That is that he does not say the Standard Oil did not contribute sl00000 to his cam
 paisn fund in 1904, but he did not know Of any such contribution. and that if it vas given his campa 5i managers re- ceived It in violation of his explicit in- strGctons. f
 The letter which Colonel Roosevelt is NiltuiE lo rfotHdlOi 3idtp+ .tH8ltIldli OI the Senate Investigating committee, was not finished tonight, and he said he did not know when h would be done II will be lengthy. he added. as he is trying to eInbody in t the principal thinss to which he would have testified had he had the opportunity to appear today before the committee
 Instead of making his usual Tuesday visit to New York, Colonel Roosevelt will work tomorrow on the letter. Replies to Hearst Statement
 Concerning tbe statement made by Wll- liam R. Hearst yesterday in London in
 which MT. Heavst urged him and Mr. ArchboId and senator Penrose to tell the full story, Colonel Roosevelt said: 1
 My attitude toward the Standard Oil company was precisely the game before election as .after election as any one car find by turning to the files of the news. i papers at the time of the 'osissass of the l bureau of corporations bill, before l. wes
 nominated or elected when the standard oil company opposed the law. and l got i II through bv making public the tc.e-
 grams of the Standard oil people opposing the law. and showing; their zeal. ..As for any connection of mine with i the Standard oil people before or after election. any human being Is welcome to 1 make anything public about 1t of any sort, 1 kind and description. And if I h7d ap-
 peared before the committee today. I l should have testified to every feature of it of which | had any recollection or Knowledge. and submitted from my letter i flies any letters of mine deIfine :n any
 shape or way with tie matter -apd i, I should have been delighted to hste Mi. Loeb, who has been niy privase secretary, l appear and give every particle of irfotma- l ton that he possesses before night. 1 Colonel Roosevelt said he had received 1 a telegram from Eenator clapp counsel l ling him of the Inability of the committee
 to hear him and to remain quiescen..