Norwich bulletin., 1912-10-11
Letters from the Oil Trust
SENATORS AND CONGRESSMEN
 RECEIVED MANY.
ARCHBOLD SENT THEM
Makes Acknowledgements to Senate Committee-Insists That He Gave s1oo,oo0 to Roosevelt Campaign Fund

Washington, Oct. 1o-TheI authen- ticity of the majority of the letters recently made public by William R. Hearst purporting to have passed be- tween John D. Archbold of the Stand ard Oil company, and members of the house and senate, was admitted by MT. Archbold today before the Senate committed Investigating campaign ac- tivities and expenditures.
 Those letters of which fac smile photographs have been published, were in almost every case identified by MT. Archbold with the statement:
 T undoubtedly wrote that"
 These included letters to and from Senators Hanna, Foraker, Quay and Penrose, and former Representative Sibley of Pennsylvania, and Grosvenor of Ohio. Many letters Mir. Archbold said he did not remember, but he rec ognized handwriting and signatures, and admitted their genufnness.
 Destroyed Receipt For $1o0o0o.
 The president of the Standard Oil company, recalled by the committee after making his charge in August, that he had given s100,000 to the Re- publican campaign fund of 1904, ad- mitted today that the receipt given by Cornelius N. Bliss for the sum had been destroyed by himself and H. H. Rogers, now dead. He said he had not been able to find even a book entry of the amount Jn the books of the Stand ard .Oil Company.
 T repeat that the money was paid, he said, and was not refunded that it was paid by me to MT. Bliss. don't want any man to tell me it was not. , ArehknId TriFta Nn%&Iad On the suggestion of Senator Pom | creme the committee finally asked MT l Arehbold to have expert accountants search the. books of the Standard Oi company of New Jersey and it's form CT associates, to try and find the record of the $10o,000 having been pait out.
 l May l raise the question of how | important it is to find that entry ask ed Mr. Arc hbold. There is no manner 1 of question that the money was given There is some question whether i was paid" returned Senator Pome- rene, "and there is a statement made that it was refunded. We want all tht evidence we can get"
 l Chairman Hiles Questioned
 Charles D. Hilles, chairman of th' l Republican National committee also { l witness today was asked by Chairman Clapp if he gave out statement il l August that the primary fight foi l Ceienel Roosevelt had "cost the liar vester trust millions of dollars"
 q assume the responsibility for it, he answered
 | His explanation was given to tn committee in the form of a letter h, had just written to George W. Perkins Whe with Senator Dixon, demanded that Mir, Hilles be called to accoun fer this statement, The letter ex pressed the opinion that Colone Reeseveit's pre- convention campaign expenses undoubtedly amounted t mot less than $2,000,00o,"
 Based Statement on General Know
 ledge.
 The letter which MT. Hilles read t the committee, asserted that witnesse had already testified to giving $667, ,00 for the Roosevelt campaign; and tha expenses in different states an throughout the country would mak the total he gave Chairman Clap questioned the witness sharply as t his information, and MT Hilles said consisted of his general knowledge c what the Roosevelt workers had bee doing and his specific knowledge c what different kinds of campaignin activity cost.
 Letter From Roosevelt. MT. ArchboId presented four ne7
 letters that he had found as the re suit of a search of his files, the onl
 ones he said that has escaped tn
 thieves" One was from Presiden
 Roosevelt. Tt is of little value. but
 offer 1t as showing the friendly atti
 tude of Mir. Roosevelt in 1904, at
 period when he has indicated he con
 sidered me under the ban,' said M
 Archbold.
 The letter in full was as follows:
 ''The White House, April 26, 1904.
 My Dear MT. Archbold:
 T am in receipt of your letter of tn 18th and shall carefully take up tn name of your brother-in -in-laW with tn hope that can promote him. "Sincerely yours, THEODORE ROOSEVELT" Invited to Lunch With President. The other letters and teiegrams re F | late to one in which Congressma |, Sibley wrote MT. Archbold that Pres dent Roosevelt was anxious to see hil , and advising him to come to Washing . ton and take luncheon with the pres ! dent. The letters addressed to MT. Sit
 ley expressed MT. Archbold's regr' , that he could not come and expresse ' the hope that he might later visit u
 president MT. Archbold told the con :, mittee that he did not go to the Whit House at that time, January, 1904.
 ''Mr. Roosevelt on the stand befol
 this committee put me in the peculis
 attitude of having been brought luncheon with him in 1908 at Oystt ! Bay by Senator Bourne" said M . Archbold He said that on q visit l the White House President Rooseve ;. had spoken of the return of Mir. Arcl z boId's daughter and son. in-laW fro
 Africa.
 F. "1 must have you bring them ove1 the president said, according to M ArchboId, and the latter added tn; Il they went on the day appointed Oyster Bay at the invitation of Colon z Roosevelt.
 | Letters Stolen From His Office. . MT. ArchboId declared the lettel published by MT. Hearst had been sto : en from the files of his office, but e declined to name those whom he SUI l. pected of the theft. He said he bt
 lieved the letters contained 'nothit
 that Is subject to Just criticism" aI that they were such letters as q ms in q position like mine would wrt . te men in representative positions,
 T never made & request df any me
 that meant the infraetien of an existif - law, or the making of any new la - or the giving ef any special privilege 6 he said, "Of course, conditions ha' = ehangedj the campaign publicity laV 7. since made have changed things b ,, the ether matter in the letters q would repeat today, l have Ae apeies : to make"
 ,. He declared it was amazing that x man iH Mr. Raose4 eits position Weu
 ssake the assertion that beeauas ef th