The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-06-15
Ietterhesds bearing the engineers re-

letterhesds bearing the engineers re-
port
Other senator's whose names appear
on the official paper Of the census
committee are: Henry A. du Pont. of
Delaware, George p Mclean. Of
Connecticut. Charles +. Townsend. of
, Michigan, Republicans; and Alice
Pomerene. Of Ohio; Morris Sheppard.
of Texas: r. F, Shively, Of Indiana,
J. r. Thornton, OF Alabama, j. e.
Maryine, OF New York. and william
A Thompson, of Kansas. Democrats.
and Henry Fry. clerk OF the commit
tee.
Among Those Present.
The senators whose names appear
on he letter head of the committee
on rates of which Mr.. 0yerman is
chairman are besides Mir 0verman
and Air. Cummins. Francis L. Warren.
Of Wyoming. J. II. Gaiiinger. of New
Hampshire. KnHte Nelson. ef Mime
sofa, Republicans. and J. w. Kern.
cf Indiana; J a O'Gorman. of New
) orkS John Sharp Williams. of Mis-
sssippi. ana Luke Lea. of Tennessee.
clerk.
nf ,hosc senator's besides Mr.. Over
ual and Nil Chiffon, senator Pome-
rene is the only one who Is said to
nave a stock interest IN the mine.
senator Oyernan ACKNOWLEDGED that
DE Is q stcCkholder, and senator Chh-
SON saws that some friends Of his are
very mach Interested n IL,
NJ -'tttatr5f t,tftit5tf'@ office the Fe-
ceipt of the letter frGm Mining En-
F.nerr Williams was explained on The
ground tina, senator Chiffon was
stp~kholder
Senator swanson. Of N.reinia, is
another Democrat who IS said. tn have
acquired an }nurcst and The ramatlca-
t'pus IT stock ownership extended TO
tEc hoIec side ui tine capitol and cat
irr ,he high Ways and u% ways OF
Washington,
Clerk Ack nowiedges Corn
A Senator ChltpHs office enc III
his clerks accepted fUI responsibility
for issuing the mining engineer iet-
ter ou The census committee paper.
fic said Promoter Newman nas
asked to have copies of the mining
engineers letter struck off and that
no other papor being hanav, TIE, the
clerk. had taken the official stationery
If the senate committee. These copies
produced In the census committees
were printed Oh "a mHltigraph rna~
chino The clerk thought he had
strAck off perhaps hundred Hf them
and they had been turned over TO
Newman
Senator 0verman complained that
the very same mistake had been made
ny one Of the employees In his office
and that the mining engineers letter
had been struck off on the official
paper Of the senate committee OH
rules without his knowledge.
Promoter Newman was under the
impression that Senator oVermaui ;
Office sent these letters to his friends.
Newman resented any suggestions
4 that any OF these letters mad been
i used in promoting the sale OF Cold
] Hill stock He declared that he did
( not have a share In sell and that he
was in the market buying the stock
+ MIR Newman has been q familiar
figure al the national capitol for sew
eral months and has been frequently
seen in the corridors Of the national
) legislature
/ .Nssaycd Specimens sent Him,
pr Drewry, of the government as
say office. was the expert who visited
+ the mines ut the suggestion of John
+, shelton Williams, lie reported upon
his return to Washington that he
/ found conditions which. In his opinion
would warrant the expenditure ai
money for the purpose Of developing
the property and asceFta{nins 3us'
what the mine would yield. Dr
Dewey made no ASSAYS on the ground
but acknowledged that specimen salf
10 be from the mine had been sub
mitted to him that his ASSAYS ranged
from $500 ton down practically u
nothing
The Cold Hin mine Ia one with :
loug history Back before the war y
Is said that several milIiona Of dol.
lars we're taken from II, Like mos
North Carolina mining ventures. how
ever. it has had a checkcred career