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mm HpaK 131 . p |4«« U '“ He ehergei that I here . T _. oHciel Influence end 1 M g Senator lor my personal alone to aecnre the paseace l and to preea the JDe of Juatlce to bring suit corporations which hold of the public domain In th<- and will not sell it to settlers under the terms of their grants from the Government. He haa prepared .. his indictment With-consummate ability and sklC. He la even canning in the apparent- : w*t»ar ly Innocent pretence that In making ji learch through the Secret Serrlce tor one kind of malefactor he had nan down another; and the case of ithat one of such serious Importance _ that, hja tense of official obligation ... compelled him to prompt action. flsnnt,’ William & tm, t do not ^eny the authenticity of the letter p! 1 the telpgram, of which wate v made. I prgsnme the letter from William E. Lee Is also a r correct copy, bnt l wai net aware of ita existence until now, and t am not In jnywise respon sible for Mr, Leo’# ideae expressed In !L The President says: On October fO, 1907, Senator Tillman wrote a loter (Exhibit t>3) to Messrs. Roeder ft Wat kins, of Marshfield, Ore*., who were attorneys representing peo ple who were applicants for the purchase of certain wagon-road sad grant land; Dorr was a land agent making his filings through Reeder ft Wirtkdne. Senator Tlli^ man’s Tetter runs, In part, as fol lows: * , "I wired you from Wausau, WIs., as follows, and write to con firm It; ‘William E. Lee, my flmra tacking th« holders of these lanl grants so ose would have any stand lag hi court except thw gmator, the Government IteeH. See Nichols v. Southern Oregon Oo., Federal Re porter, vol. ItS, p. 234.) I waa perhaps dU ngenuous; hut a moment's thought will convince a»y honest-minded man that—aa I had not signed any papers, had not paid any mosey, had taken nobody s receipt, usual processes by which one" ‘'undertakes" to buy land—1 wad speaking accurately and' not falsely Everything hinges on the meaning of the word "undertaken'' and my nse of It. Did I mean to conceal the fact that I was anxious to buy some of this laad tr .Netrftt: att. 1KI 1 mean to attack Dorr as a swindler when I myself was engaged la a dls honest and dishonorable transact ion?'rThdt Ii’ w’har*the Pretidenl Mark ygu. he has been in the posses-. . agent, will- seeyouatwut land. and tMlThblHtj ^locate quarte,'] sections which were weir timbered,. as they were In the possesion of s cruiser’s map. Dorr, of whom I had new heard before, was evidently pushing, bis scheme of getting suck ers to Invest and using my nsme, a< 1 have Indicated, without authority because I had not paid any fees to him or written to him or filed any applications.- I therefore felt it in cumbent on me to expose the swindle In the Senatg, which I did on the 19th of February, and asked tin postofflee authorities to Issue a fraud order. I pressed the passage of the Joint resolution In the Senate, and on April 30 It became a law. March f waa taken IH, and on May MLwft-er a partial recuperation I sailed for Europe, reUirnlng October 21. . The President’s sleuths, set to d< the dirty work of spring on a Sena tor when that Senatjr had exposed shra of a!V the Tacts In This caw. since duly last, and men will be cu- ‘^Uii tnvknow ^Tir. ITTila teal waa Honest, he did not make thwn known would have the people believe. Can T he Justly charged vrtth .falsehood-}-* fTOUd whlch WlMT>eTtf» periTetrafed -vr 4 -/ teirv. The President announced In his special message to the House on January 4. » I have made *46 charge of cor ruption agalnat Congress nor against any member of the present House. If I had proof of such corruption affecting any member of the House lii any matter as to T which the Federal Government has Jurisdiction, action would at once be brought. •• — • • Tilt# wpuldL simply be doing mf-dnty-lw ttre'elfhcutlon and en- fbrcerEpsnt Of the laws without respect to persons. But I do not regard It as within the province or duties of the President to re- porV to the House "alleged de ll nqufencltis’' of members, or the stoppoaed "eorrupt action" of a member "in his official capacity." It therefore follows that he has found nn grounds for Indicting me In th^-dourts. which, no doubt, would h x this fuss, fury, and fusflan about the seriousness of the case and the gravity of the offense with which he charges me can be attributed to per sonal malice alone. On January 4 the President dc- _ dared what he conceived to be his relationship to the House and that he would not do certain things. On January 5 he wrote a letter to Sena for Hale, doing the very thing In ^regard to a Senator which he had 'pJlned to flo'toward a member of ‘he House. Why this difference' ’ my public work here I have not hesitated to criticise snd comment or official actions and utterances of President Roosevelt, and I have doubtless given him good cause t-) seek revenge. 1 have at varlou: times arraigned him In the Senat- ~ tor tyranlcsl invasion of the right* of Congress, for usurpation of au thortty not given him by the Con stitution, for disobedience of the law and neglect of duty, and particularly In the case of Mrs. Morris, for brutal and cruel conduct toward a helples* woman. I was not aware that thes* “darts ~6T mine had quivered In th* Executive hide and stung him so. but the eagerness and Intensity with which he has presented his cas.' against me, his making a precede**, where none has existed heretofore his taking from the committee t, which he had forwarded them th. papers and giving them to the pres* before that committee had consld ered them. Indicate that Theodor. Ronsevelt enjoys to the limit th. feeling of getting even with Ben I Tillman, and lays on the big stlc’.*' with the keenest relish, doubtlesi believing that the pitchfork has gon out of business. Tn his letter to Senator Hale 1 findton page 3 the following: But a case has Just arisen of a different kind, which it seems to me I should put before you as Il lustrating In striking fashion the way in which Investigations be- ~gun by any of these various agents in the strict line of their duty .may develop facta of high impor tance, which the Investigators would not In the first instance have sought to discover, which, .when discovered, ought not to be hidden or suppressed, but tVe de velopment of which may tend to create an erronecxis impression that the agents In question were beThg used for purposes not within the line of their lawful duty. It is well to note that the Pres! dwnt raoognlzes the extraordinary character of his action as well as th. unlawful use he has made of th. Secret Service. He pretends that hi* . case against me has been worked up by accident. l?y reason of the discov ery of the Insnertors in Investigating the fradulueut transactions of one Bryoti R. Door, and that the facts ■’Ought not to he hidden or suppress ed.” The President says: Senator Tillman denied the statements of this circular, and expressed a wish for an investiga tion; and on his request the Post- office department, through Its in spector; made such an Investiga tion. He tstated in reference to Ifels circular: ^ ,“I hxve not bought any land anywhere In the West nor under- *ny. I have made OS, as one naturally would*, in roaming through the y wnnl the people country to be put on notice Portland has t want nine quarters reserved. Will forward aigned applications end, moneyvoace. Members of my family are entrymen. Letter follows. (Signed) n! R. T. I write now to say 1 wired Mr. Lee, who resides at Moscow, Idaho, to go at once to Marshfield and see you about the land, to locate quarters for the seven members of my family who are of age, and one for my private secretary, J. R Knight, whom I desire to let Into the deal, and, of course, he wants a quarter for himself.” The letter continued, stating in detail what was to be done, In order to enable tiro Senator to get the land. It will be noted thrt I accuse. Dor in the Senate of being a swindle* and asked the Postofflee Departmen to issue a fraud order against him Dorr declared In his circular: So sure Is Senator Tillman oi our success that he has subscribe, and paid the necessary fees for *. quarter section for himself and It other quarter sections for 10 of hi: nearest relatives. It was this bold and outrageom falsehood, mainly, that caused m. to denounce Dorr ns a swindler, a. well as to declare In the Senate tha: he had no warrast for the asser Mop. The sleuths which the Presi lest put upon my traifc have mad* ihelr report, asd a perusal of It wil .how to asy fair mind that so fa' from endeavoring to Justify )fh fraud order against Dorr, they wen really put to work to Investigate me, and endeavor, if possible, tr Hscover something to my discredit while the President directed the In vestlgatlon. I say this becaues i Is hardly possible that a postoffle. inspector would set about gettln, photographic!) copies of the latter ot a United States Senator and tryln? to coavlct him of lying If the order- lid not come from a high source. Let us suppose for a moment the I was guilty of a falsehood in do daring that I had not undertaken t. purchase any land. What did thi have to do with Dorr’s transparen and open use of the mails to In luce men to send him money to pur •base land? Door's declaration tha 1 had paid the fees is an absolu;. falsehood, and “the postoffice inspe tors, while they searched the record' for entries at Coquille and note.’ that Reeder & Watkms had fil- ’’several hundred applications, nowhere mentioned that itr.y .hV >een filed In my name or for me Therefore the false!), o.l Is proven oi Dorr, and yet the Pitsldent declar >d: Tf*e assault which Senator Till man made upon Mr. Dorr was,, according to the inspector, a wan ton assault madeTo cover up Sen ator Tillmans own transactions. No such statement was made !i\ he Inspector. In fact, so earnestl Intent on convicting Senator Tillman Is the President, he actually com mlts himself to this proposition, to wit: Tillman voluntarily and with >ut any compulsion from any sourc* and with nothing to conceal brough ip a matter in the Senate which m abed not have done to cover u; 'ransactlons which were absolute!' immt whatever for endeav- Inveigle olhers 1 nto h Is it then goes on -to Bftflonfldentlal report of a typo usually not furnished, but cajie the matter Is so se- hnt I feel I should put it I enclose you also vW, D2. D4 and D6. fac-stmilles of let- i and telegrams and his ; - ■ ■F - mknown to anyone except himself nd his correspondents, Reeder ft Watkins, and were entirely honor able and clean. My exposure closed out the swindlers. Dorr, when hi: mail was not delivered, retire.’ from the land business and becalm V fruit grower, as reported by the .xspectors. The swindlers had secured a good many thousands of dollars before the exposure in the Senate stoppe, people from being tipped, asd ye' Theodore Roosevelt, who poses a* the oaly remaining honest N man ic public life. In the face of these facts has felt called upon to attack •he character of a man whose integ rity has never before been ques tioned. and whose official position is second paly to his own. Is doing tlris he makes a false leclaration, for the inspectors no where say any such thing as above quoted, which can be proven by an examination of then report. Now, about the lying: My letter of February 15, of which the Presi- deat secured a phoiographlch copy, antedates by four dajs my statement n the Senate that I nad not bough any land, or undertaken to buy any, sad the PresVlemt considers this pos itive proof of falseh- od. I did not say I had not considered the pur chase of land; I did not say I had not contemplated pdrehaso of land, because I had done both. In my conversation with the Attorney-Gen eral la regard to the resolution which‘nntroduced. sad which lie himself prepared after we had talked oror 4h» whole l|ad tliujdlQO, 1 dlt-^ tfnctly remember telling him thar my interest In the matter had betn first aroused by my desire to pur chase some of the Umber laad, and that my coming to him was due to 'he. fact that 1 discovered upon In vestigation that ? could not buy n evea by a lawsuit, because 1 waa ad vised by very shift lawyers la thf Wagt* ambnfl them, the Hob. George when If I had told the Senate of the sntlre transaction it jvould havo wade- no difference whatever, while I would have been charged with In- rudiag my private affairs into a nubile discussion? Just what law ltd I break? What wrong did I 1o or contemplate? According to he report sf the Attorney-Genera., 'n answer ts the resolution which I Introduced and which passed the Senate, Harrimaa, the President's lear friend, still holds in defiance )f law upward of 2,000,000 acres of he best lands of Oregon and Cal) fornla and refuses to sell them at any price. I never expected, and ■ould not under the terms of the 'aw as I construed It. get more than .eves greater secUors for myself ind family, one for my private sec ("tary. and one for Mr. Lee, making tlue is all. This, in the aggregate would mean that I would obtain hrough my activity here, as the President's charge is, nine quarter ectlons, or fourteen hundred and *orty acres, at a cost of $4\500. W II he President undertake to say that I have lost my right to buy land bo '-ause 1 am a Senator? Can th: ’’resldeitt deny that my activity se ured the passage of the resolutloi ‘nstructlng the Attorney-General t' bring suit for the recovery of thi and for the use of actual settlers?, If Harriman and others like him ar* uade to disgorge by reason of these -.uits, shall the s fact that I was en leavorlng to buy a little pittance of he land be used as the basis of a ’barge of being a liar and a corrup; lenator—to be dlgraced? To sum up, this is a brief re .ume of the entirn transaction: While In Spokane, Wash., in Octo ber, 1907, I first heard that there were timber lands in Oregon which were being bought through Reeder & Watkins, of Marshfield. On Oc ober 5 I wrote to Reeder ft Wat tins, asking for Information, teli- ng them of my desire to purchase .ome of the land If possible. De drlng to find out if the conditions if the grant to the State of Oregon made, it possible (or "purchasers’* *nd not “actual settlers” to buy at 12.50 per acre, I wired the librarian of the Senate for a copy of the act. Finding that that part of the state- •nent received from a gentleman in Spokane was correct, I notified Reed j r ft Watkins on October 20 tha* Mr. Lee, whom I had seen at Mos cow, Idaho, in the meantime and alked with on the subject, woulj ;o to Marshfield and Investigate in ,>erson. I authorized Lee to draw >n me if he found that the land vertt what they were represented to be. Lee’s authority as my. agen never went beyond an examination >f the land and, If, the application was filed, to see that I got good 'imbor lands Instead of rocks and marshes. He wired me not to be in a hurry, as there were obstaclr in the way. In the meantime I had 'alked with lawyers who were fa miliar with the military road land grants, and they informed me that -under a decision c-f the circuit com private parties were not permitted ’o sue for these lands. Still doubt ing whether I cduld purchase th. mads with any hope of seccessfu 1 on the public, reported to him oi. July 27. I had nothing whateve* to do with the change lnlh* Taw o: which the President complains ii regard to the Secret Service. <3 So the President’s animus Is no against me on the same ground to' which he has attacked Messrs. Taw ney, Smith and others )n the House but one of personal malice engendei ed by hatred because of my cours< In the Senate during the last sever years. ’ v I have not attfmpted to deKHelV anybody; I have not told,any false hoods; I- have not bioken any law I have sot been gmlty of any im moral conduct. I had the right t. purchase the land if J could, bu my Judgment told me* It was unsafi as an Investment. I would like tc get some of It yet. and If the At tOrney-General and his successors shall not die of old age before an> thing Is done it may be possible tha l will have the opportunity to pur chase some of those Umber lands o? which he made mention in his re port. (S Doc. No. 279, 60th Cong 1st spss.) Through my action at mntlon has been directed in a com selling way to the need of promp ictlon by the Department of Jus Ice. Whether I ever get any of th land or not does noc mater if Har riman and others of that ilk ar< made to disgorge the large holding,- which they have stolen and are at tempting to bold. The President-say' 1 : On October 20, 1907, Senator Tillman wrote a letter to Messrs. Reeder ft Watkins, of Marshfield, Oregon, who were attorneys repre senting people whe were appli cants for the purchase of certain land-grant land. Dorr was a land agent making his filings through Reeder ft Watkins. This statement is misleading an l calculated to deceive. The report o the postofflee inspectors gives tht actual tru*h. It says: Among the most active agents in this matter is the firm of Reeder ft Watkins, of Marshfield, Oreg. Mr Reeder is a real estate agent an 1 Mr. W’atklns an attorney. The) have associated themselves togethe in locating applicants on these lands Further, Reeder & Watkins, by circulating a shrewdly worded cir cular long before Don appeared on the scene, sought to make money by having persons pav them tL’l in cash for filing an application with the clerk of court and tendering t the company $400 per quarter sec tlon, which the law originally con templated as the p’ice of land They were to receive $100 additiona whenever the Southern Orego Company should convey the title,, and they knew that no one coul/ compel this conveyance except th\ United States Government, beca/is 1 a similar case had been decide/! ii the United States couit so declaring (See Nichols v. Southern Oregon Co., Federal Reporter, vol. i 35, p 234.) I commenced to Irn’estiggle on the 5th of October, and I rna application to Reeder & W; itigation, I wrote to Senator George Turner, of Washington, to get hi opinion and incidentally to make inquiry about lands on the Colum bia river, lu that State He gave th same opinion that I had already re ceived from the other lawyer. Realizing after I got to Washing ion, D. C., in December that it was a very doubtful proposition. I let the matter drop until Mr. Lee showed me a letter from Roeder ft Watkins, which has been stolen from my lesk in my committee room along with other papers In this case, prob ably by some of the Secret Service sleuths, and wheq they indicated 'heir desire that 1 should exert m> influence In the Senate, I wrote the letter of February 16, of which the Uresdont obtained a photographic, copy. In the meantime and before that letter waa written, from my investigations and after a confer ence with the .Attorney-General, I ntroduced the two resolution^ of January 31, one calling on the At torney-General for information, and The other (the Joint ^resolution! which became a law, instructing him to Institute suits. My official activity then Is shown to have taken form in the Senate be fore I knew anything about Reeder & Watkins' attitude or expectations and I was in no way influenced by them. *». — •j- I was stUl.anxious to obtain Fomc of the land If It could be done le gally, and wrote Reedsr ft Watkins to that effect, but m/ faith In them and in the whole scheme died when J.jsiceived the cdj culse of Dorr, which came Jo me on February 17 and IS from three different directions, show ling the Widespread distribution made of them. / Also Mr. Lee's re port to me had led me to believe that Reeder & Watkins were not of the caliber and character to be em- ployad ia*a matter of such magni tude, except probably aa to their familiarity with the local ednditioas ade- dlrec atklns, by telegram and by letter,/on • the 20th of October. Dorr oi/d not appear until early in 1908, tf shown by the report of the posti/ffice inspectors and his career as/a swindler was brief, as I exposed 7 the whole thin In the Senate on February 19. Th President had tpe papers and knew all this. Reeder ft Watkin s were re ceiving $21 for the insignificant work of making a tender to the hold ing company/and filing a notice witn the clerk, dt the court. Dorr wa to share it/ this commission, or w hat ever you /term It, fo>- whatever bus iness he brought, and yet the Pros! dent w/mld convey the impression that tj/ese filings were merely such as anti usual in purchasing govern- men/ land; when he knew or could have easily found out from dhe At— toyhey-General, that all such propos purchasers could not thus tiring fttiy suit. In the i’ght of the evi- /ience as presented to the President himself, the scheme was a Swindle to obtain $21 in cast), and must b« apparent to all. But the Presidem acquitted Dorr and convicted me. By this time \I had found out the legal status, and decided I would not sign a contract, file an application, or pay any motley, and my only rea son for writing to Reeder & Watkin? on February 15 was to have then, understand that Lee misconceived my attitude la the Senate, and tha: I was not to be considered as a tool, but acting In the lute est of the pub lic. Remember I knew nothing of Mr. Lee’s letter till sent In by the President. At the same time I was willing to use them In locafTbg de sirable quarter sections. If later on I found that the action of Congress would make It possible to resloreTthe land to the public ./domain by the cancellation of the patents. The President lays great stress on the statement of mine made the 15th of February In a letter to Reeder ft Watkins. He Italicizes the words ‘a# well as myself,” as though It were unlawful. Immoral, or Improper for a Senator to buy any land or to act in this Chamber cn any question :L affecting his personal Interest. I fall to sec any sense or raason in this position, but 1 must submit that iO'4he Judgment of tbe^Sepnte and the country. I had not become a party to any litlgatloi); I was not In terested except as a private Individ ual wanting to purchase, and as a Senator desiring to enable others to have the opportunity to do so. Of course, the President Is sure that I havd done something very discredita ble and outrageous. He hates me and would destroy me if he could. The President gloats over the faci that my letter was written "Just fou* lays before he annpunced In th* Senate that he had not undertaken try buy any land In the West” as clinching his contention that 1 have lied to the Senate. The records show that In the interim ihe Dorr cir cular had been sent to me, for oc February 19, when I made .the ex posure of Parr,. I said In the Senate'. In the last day or two I nave had my attention called to a scheme of s.win&Uiig, etc- . . It Is easy for those who are them selves vulnerable to convict others in the most flimsy evidence, and the President seems to work on thk'C theory. On reading Dorr’s circular ths whole scheme and combination of swindlers—Reeder ft Watkins, In Marchfleld, and Dorr, in Portland; J lid not know anything about Conro ind Schaefer—flashed on my mind; and remembering Lee’s somewhat lubious report as to the character and qualifications of the firm of Reeder ft Watkins, I decided at once to see to It that my name should not he used to inveigle others into their Tame. Hence my action in the Sen ate. The President dismisses with a wave of the hand any possibility ol ny honestly by saying: It is unnecessary to comment ?n his proposal made in this letter to use his Influence as a Senator to force the Government to insti tute a suit which would make it easy for him personally to obtain some of the land. It might Re well to inquire wbeth- r or not the Attorney-General has )eeri ordered not to obey tue law ot Congress passed last April—which 1 all the "Tillman-Bonaparfe” law— irderiug suit to be Instituted for the recovery of these lands. My culpa bility, is of such magnitude in con templating the purchase of 1,440/ acres of land at $2.50 an acre ip ‘he eyes of this stickler for official ’•ectitude In others that it may be 'ound that he Is detcmlned to block my so-called "nefarious • transac tions. The man "who anno/Tnces to Con gress that he, Theqcbre Roosevelt, assumes the right to permit the Stee* trust to absorb its greatest rival con trary to law would doubtless not hesitate to help his dear friend Har riman in holding 2,0,00,000 acres of 'he public domain, because Ben Till man has contemplated and wanted to buy 1,440 acres. The President having eonvicted / Xill man > proceeded to clear Dorr in botf cases contrary to the facts and jn.ilingly retires from the center of the stage, which It is his greatest delight to occupy, and complacently looks to lia\ta .Lhe. \merican/people and the Senate give 'their approval to bis verdict. 1 await the verdict calmly and without fear, and will gladly abide by it. In/conclusion, Mr. President, I con/: the most searching investiga tor Nay, I demand it. 1 declare most emphatically 1 have never /ought to conceal my efforts to buy /land; I spoke 1 to the Attorney-Gener al about it; I explained to the agent to the secret service the whole trans action when I gave him the Dorr cir cular and the letters which had been sent me concernin/j^it. The question of motive will at last control and It cannot be shown that I had any reason to conceal anything. 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