The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-08-27
bers Of the Senate of the United

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ont in the final hours OF the session.
When the Senate met at noon. II nau
been mutually agreed that no Oppose
ton would be made to Senator La
Follette's request for action. BASED on
the charges made by Senat Penrose,
that the Standard Oil company had
contributed s1OO, 600 to the Roosevelt
fund in 1904. the resolution had been
amended by Senators Poindexter and
Penrose TO cover, respectively. all the
activities Of Mr.. Archbold and Mr..
Perkins of a political nature.
No Negative Votes
The resolution, once before the
Senate. passed with little discussion
and with no votes in the negative.
One important change made gives wit
nesses the right to have attorneys at
the hearings before the Senate com
rnittee. Senator Clapp. chairman or
the subcommittee which will conduct
the Investigations, said today that ms
committee probably would not recon
Yene before September so.
Senator Claw today asked Chair
ma Dillingham;, Of the committee on
privileges and elections. to appoint an
other Democrat to take the place of
Senator Paynter on the sub-commlt-
mittee. Senator Dillingham; had al
ready designated Senator Po!nerene,
Of Ohio, to take place Of Senator Luxe
Lea, Of Tennessee. who resigned. Sen
ator Paynter has notified Senator
Clapp that he annot serve longer.
Senator La Toilette stated that he
intended to make public a complete
schedule Of his expenses. as a candi-
date for the Republican nomination
for president. This statement, he said,
would embrace practically all in1or-
nation that he could give on the wit
ness stand before the Senate com-
mittee, but the Wisconsin Senator ex-
poets to appear before the committee
at the fall hearings.
Senator Clapp stated hat it had not
been decided at what time Colonel
Roosevelt would appear or wit
nesses would testify.
WELCOME, SAYS T. r.
Oyster Bay, n. Y, Aug. 26:-"They
can v anything I've got at any
time. They are welcome to any let
ter have ever written to any hu-
man being on any subject
ThisWas Colonel Roosevelt's only
comment tonight on the Senate's
adoption Of the Penrose resolution
directing an inquiry into the Arch
bold-Penrose-Roosevelt controversy
over campaign contributions. Col
onel Roosevelt commented on the
visit to him yesterday Of VIM. Loeb,
Jr.
You know I didn't direct Loeb to
go down to Washington he said,
when he read his declaration made
carrier in the day that his former
private secretary was ready to testify
100000 contribution of John d.
Archboid to his campaign in 1904, and
Of the Hartman contribution of
sI6O,0o0. MI. Loeb came to me.
He told me that he had seen state
ments IN the newspapers hat he
UO1Jtd hO- 70 11n1 ,~o~
tore the committee. In as much as
he had been my private secretary
and has a very strong sense Of the
confidential relations Of a private
secretary, he thought he would bet
Ter speak to me before going to
Washington.
Il told him to go ahead and testi-
~ to everything he could remember.
old him hat fl [ was absent from
Sycamore Hill he could come up
ere and get my letter books and
Ike from them any letters that he
''ated TO place before the com
n.ittee."
olonel Roosevelt chuckIed as he
read the afternoon newspap stories
ieSarding the subject of
contributions.
Thanks the Two.
Il could thank Archbold and pen
use for what they have done" he
I'd They have rendered me a
Sittt service
mere is one thing that Colonel
Roosevelt asks the correspondents to
make clear each time they visit him
That IS. that he does not say that
the Standard Oil did not contribute
sloo,09O to his campaign fund in
1904, but that he did not know al
any such contribution, and hat if
it was given his campaign managers
received it in violation of his ex-
plicit Instructions
The letter which Colonel Roosevelt
IS writing TO Senator Clapp, chair
man of the Senate Cmmittce was
not finished tonight and he said he
did not know when ii would be done