The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-27

government, which has an unblemishAd
 ecord of honest and faithful public Service for more than q hundred years" drawn to the order of Falls ranch foreman. tF~
 | With the permission of the commit tee. Grafton T. Stanford submitted Roosevelt to cross examination. You are quite sure that Wahlberg Ito the foreman of the Tell ranch?"
 "Yes, sir"
 '.He might have said they were pay- able to the foreman of Mir. Sinclair's sanch:"
 Not the way I understood him." i;
 / Roosevelt told the committee in reply to inquiries by members that Mont gemery X Go. of New York were bankers for the Sinclair company and that his brother, Theodore, was at one time connected with the banking firm .'My brother Ted said there is chap know .in New York, and he might gfIe you job" Roosevelt stated, add ing and that is how it came about" Ibid your brother go to Sinclair & Co.?" asked Senator Dill, democrat, Washington. >,.
 l. s"Yes. sir. he helped me get the job" !" |. c. D. Wahlberg, who was until he resigned few days ago, private secre- tary to Sinclair, was closely examined 1 by the committee in effort to remove the conflict in his testimony as to RooseveRs recollection of the reference to sthe cancelled checks.
 He explained that Zevely obtained 1.-two loans of Consolidated stock, the first for 5000 shares and the second for 500. the loans being made few days apart in the fall of 1922. The Liberty bonds were. not placed at zeyely's order, he saia. '. until about the middle of. May, 1923.
 ii Corrects Statement
 t | Senator Walsh read Wahlberg's prior testimony to point out that he had told bheep delivered Aat the same time. Wahl- Eberg, replied that since his previous ap- lf,edfa zee ,tes hnd been able to associate the transactiohss and wanted to correct his former testimony. . .
 He was positive that long period had elapsed between the loans of stock and Liberty bonds, and he insisted that he did not himself direct the shipment of the bonds to an Fl Paso bank to be placed to the credit of Fall, He said anothe rclerk. had made the shipment and that he did not know anything of the aetter. of transmittal which he sup posed Zeyely had written the bank, ex- plaining hte use to be made of the bonds. | Witness told the committee after ex- amining the Zevely checks put in evil i dence today, that they were probably drawn in the Sinclair office because they bore, the safety stamp his office used. Wahlberg admitted this in his talks with Roosevelt about cancelled checks, but insisted the conversation had no reference to checks to Falls foreman. 5s ,t
 Y stanford handed :. WahIberg two checks totalins $6S,244.21, drawn to the order of $. w. Hildreth. Witness explained that in his conversation with Roosevelt he had spoken of checks for \ which may have been misunderstood as Hildreth checks had been mailed on Wednesday, JanuaEy IS, the day Sin clair sailed for Europe. .@
 Dissatisfied With Sinclair
 Wahlberg said wlsen he had related i to Roosevelt his complaints because of his treatment by Sinclair, Roosevelt told him Ito tell him (Sinclair) to go to he'll" Witness said he. could not recall that. and quoted Roosevelt as having declared Sinclair was '.an up start, aiiyway.Y <a.-.
 He admitted that he. had suggested to Roosevelt that Sinclair probably was going to Europe because. of the turn in, the investigation given by the tes- l timony at Palm BenchI, of Edward B. Mclean. Washington newspaper pub fisher. He declared. however, that he knew that Sinclair had business in RAssia.A Among The things which catised- him to tell Roosevelt that he was thinking of, resisning, 5Wahlberg declareG was "the turn" taken in the l investigation. x q thought" he said, "I would be called upon to submit books and checks l did not know about There were checks dfawns to myself could not ex- plain; checks for $5,000 or $10.O0O' could not explain. That was why said I may be expected to lie about some thing" : ,,..1
 Chairman Lenroot and other mem. bers of the committee commented in examining Wnhlberg that at his prior appearance he had said nothing about the IiildFeth checks His only explana- tion was that he was greatly worried abOht other matters and had forgotten about them!
 l Nearest ExplanatiOn
 When you were here before you thought it vas quite likely that it was your talk about six or eight cows that ALr. Rooseyelt had confused with $6S,- OO0" suggested Senator Walsh.
 ',Ghat was the nearest explanation l could Sofferr s
 "Reflecting upon that you came to the conclusion that it was an improb- ability"
 Yes, sir"
 That the story would never wash p
 Nothing was talked about cows"
 Witness told the committee there were no cancelled checks, and could of fer no explanation how Roosevelt could have understood him us talking of can celled checks.
 [ Wahlberg told thN committee that Hildreth got in addition to his salary of 4 $23,0O0 a year, a commission of 10 per ceii& If the winnings Gf the Sinclair stables. The committee called HIldreth and handed him the two checks that had been put in evidence. He said that although transmitted in letter dhted 1 January 1S which he filed with the conl- m.ttee. the checks had not reached him until the 2lst. It usually required day for his mail from the Sinclair of flee to reach him, he said. The cbe"ks