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About The commoner. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-1923 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 23, 1912)
AUGUST 23, 1911 11 The Commoner. WASHINGTON NEWS An Associated Press dispatch says: Former Governor Odell of New York told the senate committee in vestigating the campaign funds a gtory of Edward H. Harriraan's $240,000 contribution in 1904 which was so different from that told by George R. Sheldon as to greatly as tonish the committee and the mem bers asked Odell how he accounted for the variances. Odell replied that Cornelius N. Bliss, treasurer of the republican na tional committee in 1904 might have "told white lies" to Sheldon about the matter. Odell stated further that Presi dent Roosevelt asked Harriman to come to the "White House to talk about campaign funds. Following this conference with Harriman the latter raised and turned over to the national republican committee $240, 000. Harriman told him Roosevelt ag'reed if necessary to appoint Sena tor Depew as ambassador to France to allow the election of Former Gov ernor Black to the senate. Sheldon testified some time ago that Roosevelt knew nothing of the Harriman contribution until after election. A news item in the Washington Post says: The senate, after five hours' work on the postofllce ap propriation bill reached an agree ment to vote on the measure. Discussion of the bill was en livened late in the day when Sena tor La Follette, speaking on a house provision granting to employes of the 'postal' service the right to" 'or ganize, deliberately charged officials of- the postofllce department with rifling his mail in an attempt to delve into an investigation he was making into the postal service. The Wisconsin senator declared that his mail had been "subjected to an espionage almost Russian in character," and he showed to the senators a bundle of letters which he said had been tampered with. "Absurd" and "ridiculous" are ad jectives applied to Senator La Fol lett's charges by officials of the post office department. It is declared posi tively that if the senator's mail has been rifled the crime was committed by somebody not connected with the department. Dr. Charles P. Grandfield, first as sistant, and, in the temporary absence of Mr. Hitchcock, acting postmaster general, said: "We never have heard until now that Senator La Follette's mail has been tempered with. I think the senator is quite mistaken when he charged that officials of the postofllce department rifled his mail in an at tempt to learn the result of an in vestigation he is making, or for any other purpose. As to the senator's statement that his mail was sub jected 'to an espionage almost Rus sian in character,' the charge is ab surd, as no one in the postofllce de partment has the slightest interest in the replies of the clerks to the senator's inquiries. "All mail addressed to members of congress in Washington passes out of the hands of the postofllce de partment when it reaches the senate and house postoffices." Chief Inspector Robert C. Sharp was equally certain that Senator La Follette's charges were unfounded, and was emphatic in his denial of them. "No attem.pt, of course, ever was mndfe-to' watch' Senator La Follette's -mail or .to ascertain.tbe. contents of out by him," said the inspector. "Any inspector caught opening a scaled letter not addressed to him would be subjected to the full penalty of the law. In fact, an inspector, hav ing knowledge of the law on the sub ject, could not, in such circum stances, escape a penitentiary sen tence." Senator La Follette after making his charges said that men were re moved from the railway mall service "for no other reason than that they joined organizations designed to im prove labor conditions in the ser vice." He cited several instances, in cluding the case of George W. Nich ols, who after 22 years of service in the department was suspended short ly after he became a candidate for the office in the Railway Mail Clerks' Protective association. The senator discussed the "gag rulos" promul gated by President Roosevelt and President Taft. He had read into the Record several letters from mall clerks in response to his circular let ters. He asserted that the officials of the department recognized only one organization, the Railway Mail association, which, he said, was dominated by the officials of the de partment. Senator La Follette, in urging the adoption of this section, charged that postal clerks had been denied right of appealing to their congressmen for a redress of grievances. Ho said he had received messages from 12,000 to 15,000 postal employes. Ho thought clerks should have the right to affiliate with the American Federation of Labor. election was txfo anyhow; that it was essential to help Odell carry the state ticket. Let me repeat that every fact was set forth in full and in detail by mo six years ago, vhtle Mr. Harriman was alive. This state ment contained my letter, written at tho time to Mr. Harriman, and neither Mr. Harriman nor Mr. Odell over attempted to answer this com munication of mlno, and no human being can so much as attempt to re fute any statement I therein made without branding himself as dis honest and untruthful. Mr. Shel don's statement which he, of hlo own accord volunteered to make, corro borated everything that I snld. "I was glad to have it published but tho letters I gave needed no corroboration." EASY MONEY "Why don't you marry him, he Is rich and old?" "Old? Ho may live for ten years yotl" "Marry him and do your own cook ing." Houston Post. President Taft vetoed tho steel bill and then the house passed the bill over his veto by a vote of 173 to 83. Tho senate passed the house bill revising tho cotton schedule. William B. McMaster, American vice consul at Cartagena, Columbia, was shot and killed. An investiga tion is being made. Tho house of representatives re fused to override the president's veto of tho executive, legislative and judi cial bill. Tho vote stood 153 yeas to 107 nays, 20 short of the requisite two-thirds. Tho president objected to a seven-year tenure for govern ment employes under the civil ser vice and the abolition of the com merce court. RWSE4RS fv r.Hf r.r.n .... wn v MAILORDER-MAN Aorv: Have you ten dol lar, one hundred dollar, or ono thousand dollar or matm xe xwstw Bnd ,, u fllI,r ,ectire1 and earning for you tho greatest possible rctttraT I hsvn rrci ntly pnrrh'cl lor my own um a variety of wnrkublc securities, any of which I am wlllinif to adl at a malt r'jfH, for eah, or on irtalfmi U. or on my asy-savinsMfdcsoeit plan. 1IOW TO MAICn AWJ SAVE MONEY Interest mott people, ni'd If it Interests you then, on a prytUI can) or In a letter to me, simply say, "Writ Particulars." AdJreM RICHARD W. SEARS 3S G. Dearborn St. Box 39 CMcac &U v- AGENTS Amazing lunation. 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"I am not interested in Mr. Odell's heresay statements," Mr. Rooseveli explained. He declared that any man who attempted to refute the statements which he had made in reply to the allegation that he had requested E. H. Harriman to raise funds for the 1904 campaign, brand ed himself as dishonest and un truthful. Colonel Roosevelt at first said no honest man could question his ac tions at this time after ho had ex plained them fully in the past, and that he would not enter into another discussion of the matter. He recon sidered his decision, however, and dictated this statement: "I have not a thing to add to what was contained in my statement concerning the letters published at that time. These letters speak for themselves. Mr. Sheldon's testi mony absolutely bears them out. I never directly or indirectly asked Mr. Harriman for a dollar, and he never spoke to me about giving a dol lar to the national campaign fund.. 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