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ROOSEVELT IS MADE
OUT PREvAR|CATOR
BY RAILROAD MAN
Hartman Lines Direc-
tor Testifies Against
ASKED FOR MONEY
Asserts Ex-senator Scott of
Virginia About Harri-
man Contribution.
ASKED FOR MONEY

Hartman raised $25o,0o0 in 1904 at
President Rooseevlt's $ special request,
was the emphatic testimony before
the Clapp committee today, directly
contradictine 3oosevelt's recent
sworn statement. Judge Robert s.
Lovett, chairman of the Hartman
lines directorate, stated positively
that Hartman gave him $4,000
cash and the rest in checks and chat
he gave ii personally to Treasurer
Cornelius n. Bliss of the Republican
national committee.
Former Senator Nathan h. Scott,
|of West Virginia, said he talked
with Roosevelt on the telephone and
that Roosevelt said he was going to
send for Hartman and ask Iarri
man to get more money for the New
York state campaign.
Lovett declared Hartman and w.
Is. Vanderbilt each gave 100000 to-
ward the $250,000 fund
Roosevelt recently swore Harri-
man came TO him and asked to have
money given by the national com
mittee to the New York campaign.
Big Sum Spent for Taft.
Washington, d. C.-The sum of
$265, 600 collected and spent in the
campaign for President Taft's renom-
ination through his Washington head
quarters was partially accounted for
yesterday afternoon by Representa-
tive William b. Mckinley of Illinois,
the presidents campaign manager,
in his testimony before the Senate
Investigating committee MIR. Mckin-
ley said the Taft family" compris-
ing Charles p. Taft, Henry w. r ct
and Horace Taft, brothers of the pre-
sident, gave S150,000 The campaign
he declared, had cost five times what
was anticipated
when we started out We expected
to spend about $50, 900" he told the
committee.
The other chief contributors to the
Taft fund with the respective
amounts as given by Mr.. Mckinley
were:
John Hays Hammond, $25,oOo;
Andrew Carnegie, $4,000; e. r.
Stotesbury, Philadelphia, $4,000;
MIR. Kelsey" and 'Mr. Patton" of
New York, described as friends Of
the president" $4,000; Richard
llernes of St Louis, ambassador to
Austria Hungary $1,000; Senator w
Murray Crane, So 900; Secretary
Knox, $1,000 Attorney General
Wickersham. $1,000 former Senat-
or Nathan f. Scott, $1,000; A. c..
James, 81, 900.
Mr.. McKinley's records We're read
| from small penciled memorandums
which he took out of a trousers
pocket He told the committee that
they were all to show for the hand
| ling of the big fund except books
kept in the headquarters that cover
ed $134 900 spent directly for ordi-
nary campaign purposes.
Mr.. Mckinley declared that his
memory was not good enough to re-
call all of the purposes for which
money went out.
Il always thought | had a good
memory until ] got into that mixup,"
he explained, but saw a man
every five minutes in that whirl"
| Mr.. Mckinley said he did not know
| the total amount that had been spent
| for Mr.. Taft in the entire campaign.
| Mr.. Mckinley, though sharply ques
| toned by members of the committee,
| could give no information as to the
Taft fund raised in the different
| states.
That Hartman Fund.
Another chapter was added to the
disputed story of the so-called Harri-
man $240, 900 contribution to the re-
publican campaign of 1904, when
Wayne MacVeagh, of Philadelphia,
former attorney general today told
the committee of telephone conver-
sation II. Nick Twombley had with
the late T. H. Hartman in 1904.
Mr. MacVeagh said that while in
Mr.. Twombley's office in 1904 the lat
ter had telephone talk, and told him
that it was with Mr.. Hartman; that
, Mr. Hartman had said he had been
to the White House; that President
Roosevelt had expressed anxiety that
a $240,000 fund be raised, and that
Mr.. Hartman had agreed to it,
Charles E. Peabody, president OF the
Mutual Life Insurance company, Mr.
. MacVeagh said, was in Mr. Harri-
mans Office when Mr.. Hartman was
, talking with Twombley.
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