Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-25

tions hereinafter stated:
Price Of 81, 900 an Acre.
This agreement witnesseth that the
parties Of the first part, each for himself
or herself, and in respect Of their several
and respective interests. each for himself
and not one for the other, in considera-
ton of the sum of 81 lawful money Of the
United States to each of them in hand
paid by Charles c. Glover before the
signing and sealing of this agreement,
the receipt whereof is hereby acknoWl-
edged, and in consideration of the other
payments and the performance of the
conditions. hereinafter specified, do here
by covenant. promise and agree to and
with the said Charles c. Glover to sell
to the United States or to the District Of
Columbia, for the purposes Of a public
park, for and in consideration and at the
rate of $4,000 per acre and a fraction of
an acre. all those pieces and parcels of
ground in the District of Columbia de-
scribed as follows"
Text Answers Slander.
Then followed description of the
land.
Mr.. Glover's statement continues:
No one could honestly believe that
under these options anything whatever
could be done with this land except
to secure 1t in it's entirety to the gov
eminent as public park The mere
quotation from the text of the contract
which was accessible at all times to
Congress- answers sufficiently the SIAN
der of Mr.; Sims insinuation. The text
OF the bill for the acquisition Of this
park property. as I caused 1t to be in
troduced in 1906 and again in 1908. and
as it was approved in the strongest
way by the Commissioners of the Dis
fvin nf Nn1, hyy f..
tees Of the Senate and the House, is the
answer to all the false statements as to
the amount Of appropriation required.
mo sane man could believe, no hon.
est man would say, that 1 could by any
possibility make one penny Of personal
profit out Of the transaction covered
by these options, or that the United
States was ever asked to pay for the
these options. with the addition of the
$4,000 for the official expenses. or in all
not exceeding $4,000.
Labor Of Love for Glover.
These options were procured by me
only by great and prolonged effort and
through many difficulties. A renewal
of them was secured by me in contracts
made the 18th Of January, 1908, with
the same trustees only because the
panic Of 1907 had prevented the trustees
from marketing the property on more
advantageous terms after they had
told me repeatedly that no extension
could be secured. and had so reported
to the Commissioners and to the COM
mittees of Congress in perfect good
faith. 1t was, of course. throughout
a labor Of love with me. faithfully car
ried on until it was finally defeated by
the misleading remarks of Mr.. Sims and
Mr. Andrus Of New York on the after
noon Of the Sd of March. 1909. I never
read those misleading statements until.
as 1 said in my former statement. just
a short time before I appeared before
the committee in December last.
Sims Extraordinary Speech.
1.-THE latter portion Of Mr.. Sims extra
ordinary speech Of January Is. 1913, on
page 1910 of the Congressional Record
contains some of his most extraordinary
statements. He says that he is. and has
been opposed to taking advantage of OPP
lions on land secured for the benefit OF