The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-01
The 1901-06 Co.
 Between Harr.
 Roosevelt Intr.
BLISS LETTERS
 ARE MADE PUDnlv
Do Not Bear on Contributions, But One Contains Defense of Bliss. Hartman Mentioned T. R.'s
 Request to Tegethoff

Washington. September so.--All cor respondence between President Roose- welt and the late Edward H. Harrf- man. covering tho period from Mir Rooseyelts succession to the office in 1901 until MT Harrlman's difference with him In 1906 was placed in evt- dence today before the Senate com mittee Investigating campaign expen- dtures.
 Out of the scores of letters cover- ing every subject from exhibits Of Indian pictures to the appointment ot federal judges and territorial gover- nors in Arizona the Senate commits tee was able to get little new light bearing upon the subject of campaign contributions or tho disputed question of whether President Roosevelt spe- officially had asked Mr. Hartman in 1904sto raise fund of s2iO,00o for the aid of his campaign.
 Had Mentioned Request
 c. c. Tegethoff, now agent for tho Hartman estate and former private secretary to Mir. Hartman, and Charles A.. Peabody. president of the Mutual Life Insurance company and personal attorney for Mrs Hartman in the ad- minstration of the estate both testi- fled that MT. Hartman had told them raising the big campaign fund had been undertaken at President Roose- velt's request. statement which Mir. Hartman made before his death, but which was denied by President Roose- welt.
 Aside from the file of letters given the committee no documentary evidence was offered and out of the many let ters none was produced except that written by MT. Hartman to sidney Webster, January 2. 1906. that In any way bore upon the charge that Pres ident Roosevelt had asked the rail- road man to raise funds.
 Hhe Webster letter. made public by Mir. Hartman himself during the con- troversy with President Roosevelt over the fund, intimated MT. Hartman had been asked by the President to raise the fund; and that 1t had been the un- derstanding among financial men to whom he appealed that Senator Depew was to ho given the afinassadorship to France. =.t sl-=
 Earlier in the day when the poas. mittee opened its hearings Cornelius N. Bliss. Jr.. produced three letters which he claimed were tho only ones left by his fa1her, who was treasurer of the republican national committee in 1904. He admitted he had destroyed many of his fathers letters, but said they were not connected with cam paign affairs.
 Letters Not Relevant
 None of the three letters touched upon tho facts alleged by John D. Archbold that MT. Bliss had assured him President Roosevelt would well come a contribution of S100.000 from the Standard Oil company. The one bearing directly on campaign contri- buttons was vigorous defense of Mir. Bliss integrity written by President Roosevelt in 1906, in which the Pres ident asserted no one had asked him for faYors because of contributions to his campaign fund; and no one had been favored or discriminated against because of the contributions or their opposition to him.
 The receipt given MT. Hartman for his personal contribution of $50, ,00O was produced by Mr. Tegethon, but he said he did not know what other men had contributed to tho so-called Hartman fund The checks passed through his hands. he said but he had no way of identifying them.
 The Senate committee had expected to hear Ormsby McHarg, contest man. ager for Colonel Roosevelt last spring, at todays session. Mir. McIIarg arrived from Chicago during the morning and vas st the committee room, but after a short conference of the members he was asked to appear october 5. No explanation of the postponement was given except that the committee mem bers wanted to complete the inves- tigation of certain data" Before lfc- , Harg was questioned concerning his { campaign work in the south.
 William Film of Pittsburg. Roogs- welt leader in Pennsylvania, and E. H Hooker of New York. treasurer of tbf progressive party, will appear beVcr the committee tomorrow. 1
 Bliss First Witness
 Senators oliver, Paynter. Pon.erans and clapp were present when tho cani- . mitteee went into session. Mrl Bis7f was the first witness. He said he wal an executor of his fathers estate and had sole custody of his fathers papers.
 Have you found any papers bearing on the campaign funds handled by your father?' Chairman Clapp asked
 Mir. Bliss placed in evidence a report from the auditor who examined his fathers accounts when he resigned us treasurer of the republican committee.
 Witness said the recoros did nof show any contrib button by John D, Arehbold or the Standard oil company Members of the committee examined the records. No names of contributors 10 the 1904 campaign fund appeared in the records.
 MT. Bliss was asked to read his fath- CTS letter of resignation to Harry $, New. which also had been placed In evidence.
 The letter set forth that the late Mir. Bliss had held IS Confidential tho names of contributors and the amount of their contributions 'in the last four presidential campaigns in which I have acted as trcasurer"
 q have persistently refpssfts,p malxs . these reports public. ,.els lions of read. "because l regard l.s stlso party con cam pau sn conIrlH,2fhtial. believe the th, t,n, zee tee' Iff,lssfto fl, make public these ItrAutions is as sacred as the right~, Ia Vnn to cast Ae |siedtony