Evening star., 1913-01-15
SIMS ANSWERS GLOVER
DURING HOUSE DEBATE
.Fennesseean criticises State
ment OF Bank Official at
Insurance Hearing.

Representative Sims of Tennessee de-
voted nearly one hour this afternoon to a
denunc;ation of the testimony Of Charles
c.. Glover. president of the Riggs Ma
tional Bank who appeared before the
insurance investigating committee and re-
marked that Representative Sims had ut
tered a deliberate falsehood on the night
of March 3, 1909 when Sims had made
some remark about the bill to acquire
some additional land for Rock Greek
Park.
Mr.. Sims said a great many things
about Mr.. Glover, none of which was
very complimentary. He claimed that
Mr. Glover made statements before the
insurance investigating committee which
are not borne out by facts. What Mr..
Glover said before the insurance COM
mittee was in answer to Mr.. Sims old
charge that Mr.. Glover had obtained an
option on some land and was trying to
unload it on the government at a profit.
MIR. Glover said he never read the rec
ord which quotes the debate on the floor
of the House concerning the bill to ac-
uuire the land" said Mr.. Sims. land that
he did not know anything about this
until two days before the hearing. This
debate occurred March 3, 1909. In the
following November 1 was in the city
with friends, showing them the sights,
and l went into the Riggs National Bank
and introduced the:l 20 Mr.. Glover.
THAT was taree years ago, and he said
20 ne then: 'You made a great mistake
In rot accepting the BILL and went on
to quote things that Representative An
derson of New York had said and things
I had said about the bill. He quoted at
length from the record and pointed o,,,
mistakes in figures that Anderson and i
had made in discussing the bill and I
said would be glad to correct anything
wrong.
"At that time Representative Samuel w.
Smith of Michigan. then chairman. of
the House District committee, was with
me and heard every word Mr. Glover
said. Yet in this insurance hearing a
few days ago Mr.. Glover got up and said
under oath he never heard a word about
1t until two days before the hearing. vet
he talked to me and Representative
Smith about it three years ago.
Severe on Mr.. Glover.
Representative Sims turned his back
on the Speaker and the press gallery
and said great many things about as
sessmentS and options which were not
intelligible to reporters at the time,
but when he turned around and talked
about the Rock Creek land he said "he
tried to unload it on the government" :"
Further Mr. Sims said: so l was right
when / said Mr.. Glover was really try
ing to sell the land to the government
and, Of course, Mr.. Glover has a right
to do this. / would not say a word
against him. He is man Of excessive
modesty. taking credit for the estab-
l'lishment Of Rock Creek Park, yet he
admits 1T was unloaded on the govern
ment at eight times it's value. He talks
about helping the government. and he
helps it by trying to get it to buy land
at several times its value. In claiming
To be the father of Rock Creek Park in
his characteristic and modest language
he sayS i caused the bill to be intro
duced.'"
Representative Sims went on to say:
II have q poor opinion Of any man who
gets an option ON land and tries to sell
il 10 the government. The United States
does not need any mans option. The
land can be obtained by condemnation
Furthermore. l do not approve of the Dis
trict government getting options on prop
erty for the House to purchase"
Representative Sims said that in block
ing the bill to make the purchase which
Mr. Glover had been talking about he
Sims had saved the government the price
of seventeen and one-half, acres Of land
at 81 600 an. acre.