Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-28

- 1auEnlln WAS saShSu IN
animation.
81 am not" he answered.
became Assistant state Secretary.
o'Laughlin said Colonel Rooseveit
had appointed him assistant secre-
tarv of state, and he had gone on a
mission to Japan for the Roosevelt
administration. He said he went to
Japan the same year that Colonel
Roosevelt ordered the Atlantic fleet
to the Pacific.
Now, you mention that Colonel
Roosevelt sent the fleet to the Pa
cific. Was that a measure taken be-
cause of the relations between this
country and Japan? Was 1t to pre-
vent WARP"
'Well. yes. it was perfectly evident
that japan would not go to war win
this country if it was apparent thai
this country was more powerful. 1t
was one of the measures taken by
Colonel Roosevelt to prevent war. 1t
was a measure of peace"
one reference was brought out In
-O'Laughlin,s testimony to the incl
dent Of Colonel Roosevelt's visit to
Rome with regard to the pope
O'Laughlin explained he had been
acting as the coloners secretary after
the colonel left Egypt for the tour
of the continental capitals and he
communicated with Ambassador
I,e,shman at Rome to arrange for
the reception of Colonel Roosevelt by
the king of Italy and the pope.
"You wrote to Ambassador Leish-
man to arrange for Mr.. Roosevelt's
reception by the king and the pope,
was that your purpose?'
Eyes. 1t was to arrange those re-
ceptions."
This Line Is Dropped.
Here objection was entered by
|Colonel Roosevelt's attorney on the
ground that this line of questioning
was immaterial.
ct regret that this subject came
up said the court II suggest that
it stop where it is"
The inquiry along this line accord
ingly was dropped.
81 will ask you if in 1912 and for
some time prior If there was not
general report among newspaper men
that Colonel Roosevelt drank to ex-
cess?" asked Attorney Belden
O'Laughlin, shaking his finger at
the lawyer, replied: There was not
a reputable correspondent in Wash
ington but who thought the report
was silly; too absurd to be regarded
or repeated"
Counsel on both sides were on their
feet with regard to this reply. and
the jury was excluded.
Attorney Pound said he found the
answer embarrassing" and Belden
explained that he proposed to show
what other newspapers had to say on
this subject.
The answer was stricken out by
order of the court The lawyers then
suggested, in the absence of the jury,
that the legal question of the admis-
sibility of testimony touching on
general" reports that Colonel Roose-
welt uses liquor to excess be settled.
Attorney Belden stated it was the
intention of the defense to ask future
witnesses in an attempt tosprove the
contention of the defense that there
was in existence a general report
amounting to a general reputation
that Coolnel Roosevelt does use
liquors and sometimes to excess; that
these reports were published in news
papers and that Colonel Roosevelt
read these reports and this charge
had never been contradicted by him;
that the defendant published the re-
port of the former Presidents reputed
excessive use of intoxicants, believ-
ing it to be true and without any
malice"
Mr. Belden maintained that such
testimony was required to show good
faith, and the absence of malice in
the publication of the defendant
I editorial 1t could not be, in the
presence of widespread comment by
the public and in important newspa-
pers, stated the lawyer. that Mr..
Roosevelt had been greatly damaged
by the repetition of charges of in
toxication in remote weekly with
circulation of about 5000 copies.
1--WE propose to show" continued
the lawyer, that such charges as
were made by the Iron Ore were by
no means confined to this region. The
plaintiff during. 1912 was the mosi