The Sentinel=record., 1915-04-30
STATEMENT BY JUSTICE AM DREWs IS FAVORABLE TO
 WILLIAM BARNES.
COL. ROOSEVELT IS EXCUSED
'Ex-President Tells of the Action He Took in the Tennessee Coal and Iron Affair With Result That Panic Was Stopped in 1907.

Syracuse, N Y. April 29.-Theo. core Roosevelt was excused from the witness stand today in the S50O00 suit for alleged libel which William Barnes has brought against him, after ne had told his own story of how he ended the fanic in 1907, and had Identified a letter in which Charles s. Whitman, now governor of New York. and then district attorney of New York wrote that he thought tIe time was ripe to rid the state of the kind of party control which was mainly responsible for corrupt coudi tious.
 In the letter the governor declared that the men and policies responsible for such corruption were not con fined to any one party, but the colo mel said he believed MT Barnes was referred 10. William Loeb, Jr., once the colonels private secretary iu the white house and later collector of the port of New York, also was a witness.
 He swore that William Barnes had iOid Him tlata ne had au agreement with Charles F Murphy Of Tammany Hall not 70 interfere ia the selection Of a United States senator That was in 1911, prior to the time James A O'Gorman was chosen. IL was while Mr. Loeb was on the stand that coun- sel for the former president made futile attempt to get before the jury testimony regarding vice and gam. bling in Albany.
 Of the panic of 1907 the colonel told how Henry C. Prick and Judge F.. II Gary representing the United States Steel Corporation. had come 10 him in the white house and told him that if the l. P Morgan interests could take over the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company before the ex- change opening that morning, the stock. much of which was held as col lateral would immediately become enhanced in value and the business of the country, which was 'trembling on hair would not be suspended
 The colonel told aow he took action in the matter and then notified the newspapers of what had been done
 And he said with some display of pride 4hc panic was stopped"
 During the day Colonel Roosevelt swore that he had not heard the names of the many men who were said to have contributed large sums 70 lis campaign fund fin 1904 untI they were read in court during cross examination by William M Twins The colonel also made explanatory statements ahout his appointment of judges and his relations with former United States Senator Thomas c. Platt and about speeches he made in which the name of Mr. Barnes was mentioned Asked whether there was any invisible government" while he was governor or president, the colonel anavered, Not the slightest particle"
 The counsel for the plaintiff and defendant fought over virtually every piece of important evidence present cd today
 Mir Barnes spent the greater part of the day in taking notes on pad of paper After the colonel was ex. cused from the stand he read maga- zine for awhile, but when Mir. Loeb and George E Agnew, former state senator, were on the stand, the de fendant paid close attention to ey- erything they said. MT Agnew gave testimony concerning voting in the senate upon race track legislation and the manner in whica he said Senator Grattan defeated the DlI after he had been advised by MT Barnes how to cast his deciding Vole
 Just Andrews in a statement nao, 10 counsel during arguments auO while the jury was out or the room asserted that no evidence had DeeI produced connecting Mir Barnes Wltl any corrupt connyance' in so Tar a' the municipal government or AiOahl was concerned Then he added;
 Where the label charges mar with being a thief, 1t Is not enough l' gay sim ly that the charge is true brt one must set up in the aha"e the facts from which the inference made
 "Here the charge is that MT