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ANSWERS TEDDY Senator Tillman Refutes Alt Charges Made Against Him BY THE PRESIDENT Shows That There Is Nothing in the Charges Made Against Him in Connection With the Qregon Land Deal-Is Ready to Compare Rec ords With Roosevelt. Washington, Jan. 11.-The fo! lowing the full text of the speech delivered in the United States Sen ate today by Senator Tillman in an swer to President Roosevelt's slan derous charge about the Oregon lan. deal. The speech was delivered t( a crowded Senate. The Senator'. entire speech is printed below: Mr. President, I rise to a question of personal privilege. For the first time in the histor: of this government, as far as I havt been able to learn, a member of thi: body has been brought to the bar o? public opinion, before the Senat' Itself to be judged under indictmen by no less a person than the Presi dent of the United States. Th. manner of the doing of its and th animus and zeal displayed by th, Chief Executive are worthy of con sideration. The papers in the case were seni to Senator Hale as acting chairmar of the Committee on Appropriation, late on Tuesday last. I had no is timation in regard to it until afte. the Senate met on Thursday. B: that time the air was thick witi rumors, evidently coming from th White House, directly or indirectly that a Southern Senator was In th, toils of the Secret Service; and soon it was understood that Senator Till man was the man. Having been informed by Senato Hale of the character of the charge Thursday afternoon, and that h would call a meeting of the Appro priation Committee on Saturday ti consider the papers relating to the Secret Service sent him by the Presi dent, I expected to have opportuni ty to examine fully into the cas and make such defense or expiana tion in the Senate itself as I though proper. I understand the Presiden had notified Senator Hale that ther was no need for hurry, and that h would not give the papers to th press before Monday; but on Frida morn!ng he changed bi mind an notified Senator Hale that he ha determined to give all the facts i. the newspapers that evening, an they appeared Saturday morning. I was well to remember that the uni versal custom heretofore, and th courtesy due by any executive to legislative body demnded that hav ing sent the papers to the most im portant committee of the Senatt they were in the possession of tha body, and it was a gross breach c propriety to make them public.. Th! well illustrates the executive att: tude towards this body. He gay the communication to the press be fore the committee had seen th papers and examined into the ma1 ter. It is well understood 'that th President is an adept at advertisin and that he has used the press wit more skill than any man in Ameri can politics. He realizes the itt portance of "getting in the firs blow," though it was below the bel and might well con'vict him of cow~ ardice. But he cared nothing to either courtesy, custom, or decenc:. thus treat'ng the committee and th Senate with that contempt whic' has been his wont. Another probable reason for hi great haste was that he sought t distract attention frcm the actio1 of the House of Representatives 0: Friday in laying part of his messag< on the table by the sensational ac cusations -against a man who has has long service in the Senate. I coult have made my statement to th Senate and to the country just a' easily on Saturday as I makei now, for I have nothing to concea and there was no greaet need for de lay or prepanration; 'but realizing that the great influence and power o' the Chief Executive was being er erted to the limit of his ability tc blacken my name and destroy my character, and that his words and the exhibits which he sent would be giv en the widest publicity, while ni: own statement would probably be epitomized on account of the pressuri on the wires, I decide d to wait untI today, with the hope that my de fense. '~ithout being unavoidably mutilated, would reach the peoplc in good time. This, the newspaper men tell me, would not have been possible on Saturday. This is suf ficient explanation, I trust, for de lay. An examination of the President's letter to Mr. Hale, which might just as well have been a special message of the type with which we are so f a miliar, will show that the President's charges, boiled down, amount to. two in number. First. He promotes me to mem bership in the "Ananias Club." and! charges, in effect, that I have delib erately lied to the Senate. Second. He charges that ~ have - exerted my official influence and worked as a Senator for my personal benefit alone to secure the passage of a resolution and to press the De partment of Justice to bring suit against the corporations which hoic so much of the public domain in the 'West and will not sell it to settlers under the terms of their grants from the Government. He has prepared his indictment with consummate ability and ski:: .He is even cunning in the apparent ly innocent pretence that in raaking a search through the rvice for one kind ofhi he had run down another We case of that one of such st Wimportan": that his sense of otagial obligation compelled him to prompt action. Mark you, he has been in the posses sion of all the facs in this cas" since July last, and men will be Cu rious to know why, if his zeal was then. The President announced in his special message to the House on January 4. I have made no c.arge of cor ruption against Congress nor against any nembher of the present House. If I had proof of such corruption affecting any member of the House in any matter as to which the Federal Government has jurisdiction, action would at once be brought. * * * * This would simply be doing my duty in the execution and en fbrcemeat of the laws without respect to persons. But I do not regard it as within the province or duties of the President to re port to the House "alleged de linquencies" of members, or the supposed "corrupt action" of a member "in his official capacity." It therefore follows that he has 'ound no grounds for indicting me :n the courts, which, no doubt, would save rejoiced him overmuch, and .11 this fuss, fury, and fustian about he seriousness of the case and the travity of the offense with which he harges me can be attributed to per onal malice alone. On January -4 the President de lared what he conceived to be his elationship to the House and that e would not do certain things. On anuary 5 he wrote a letter to Sena )r Hale, doing the very thing in egard to a Senator which he had eclined to do toward a member of he 'House. Why this difference? a my public work here I have not .esitated to criticise and comment on :e official actions and utterances of 'resident Roosevelt, and I have !oubtless given him good cause to eek revenge. I have at various imes arraigned him in the Senate for tyranical invasion of the rights Congress, for usurpation of an hority not given him by the Con =titution. for disobedience of the law end neglect of duty, and particularly 'n the case of Mrs. Morris, for brutal -nd cruel conduct toward a helpless roman. I was not aware that these 'arts of mine had quivered In the .xecutive hide and stung him so, ut the eagerness and intensity wit: rhich he has presented his cas< against me, his making a precedent vhere none has existed heretofore 'is taking from the committee tc rhich he had forwarded them the apers and giving them to the press efore that committee had consid red them, indicate that Theodore 'oosevelt enjoys to the limit the 'eling of getting even with Ben Tillman, and lays on the big stick r ith the keenest relish, doubtless relieving that the pitchfork has gone ut of business. In his letter to Senator Hale I ind on 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 facts 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 the de velopment of which may tend to create an erroneous impression Sthat the agents in question were being used for purposes not within the line of their lawful duty. It is well to note that the Presi o!ent rooogrrizes the extraderdinar., sharacter of his action as well as t' unlawful use he has made of th1 secret Service. He pretends that him ~ase against me has been worked uj iny accident, by reason of the discov try of the inspectors in investigating he fraduluent transactions of oni Bryon R. Door, and that the fact: 'ought not to be hidden or suppress 'd." 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 spectors. made such an in'vestiga tion. He stated in reference to this circular: "I have not bought any land anywhere In the West nor under taken to buy any. I have made -some inquiries, as one naturally would, in roaming through the West. I simply want the people of the country to be put on notice that this swindler at Portland has no warrant whatever for endeav oring to inveigle others into his game." The President then goes on to state: This is a confidential report of a type usually not furnished, but In this case the matter Is so se rious that I feel I should put It before you. I enclose you also as exhibits D1, D2, D4 and D5. photographic fac-similies of let ters and envelopes and telegrams from Senator Tillman and his agent, William E. Lee. I do not deny the authenticity of the letter or the telegram, of which photographs were made. I presume the letter from William E. Lee is also a correct copy, but I was not aware of Its existance until now,. and I am not in anywise respon sible for Mr. Lee's Ideas expresse.. in it. The President says: On October 20, 1907, Senator Tillman wrote a leter (Exhibit D3) to Messrs. Reeder & Wat kins, of Marshfield, Oreg., who were attorneys representing peo ple who were applicants for the purchase of certain wagon-road and grant land; Doer was a land agent making his filings .through Reeder & Watkins. Senator Till man's letter runs, in part, as fol lows: "I wired you from Wausau, Wis., as follows, and write to con firm it; 'William. E. Lee. my agent, w'm' see you about land. I want nine quarters reserved. Will forware'. signed applications and money at once. Members of my family are entrymen. Letter follows. (Signed) B. R. T. I write now to say I 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 the Senator to get It will be noted that I accused Dor in the Senate of being a swindler and asked the Postoffice Department to issue a fraud order against him Dorr declared in his circular: So sure is Senator Tillman of our success that he has subscribed and paid the necessary fees for a quarter section for himself and 10 other quarter sections for 10 of his nearest relatives. It was this bold and outrageous falsehood, mainly, that caused me to denounce Dorr as a swindler, as well as to declare in the Senate that he had no warrant for the asser tion. The sleuths which the Presi dent put upon my trail have made their report, and a perusal of it will show to any fair mind that so far from endeavoring to justify h. fraud order against Dorr, they were really put to work to investigate me, and endeavor, if possible, tc discover something to my discredit while the President directed the In vestigation. I say this becaues i1 Is hardly possible that a postofficf inspector wouid set about gettin; photographich copies of the latter o a United States Senator and trying to convict him of lying if the orders did not come from a high source. Let us suppose for a moment tha I was guilty of a falsehood in de claring that I had not undertaken t< purchase any land. What did the have to do with Dorr's transparen and open use of the mails to in duce men to send him money to pur chase land? Door's declaration tha I had paid the fees is an absolu: falsehood. and the postoffice inspeL tors, while they searched the record for entries at Coquille and note that Reeder & Watkins had Ata "several hundred applications. nowhere mentioned that any ha been filed in my name or for mi Therefore the falsehc od is proven 0 Dorr, and yet the President decla: The assault which Senator Till man made upon Mr. Dorr was. according to the inspector, a wan ton assault made to cover up Sen ator Tillman's own transactions. No such statement wa! made b the inspector. In fact, so earnestl intent on convicting .senator Tillma is the President, he actually con nits himself to this proposition, t wit: Tillman volurnarily and wit] out any compulsion from any sour< and with nothing to conceal brougi up a matter in the Senate which t need not have done to cover i transactions which were absolute unknown to anyone except himse and his correspondents, Reeder Watkins, and were entirely hono able and clean. My exposure close out the swindlers. Dorr, when h mail was not delivered, retire from the land business and becan a fruit grower, as reported by tI inspectors. The swindlers had secured a goc many thousands of dollars befoi the exposure in the Senate stoppe people from being duped, and y Theodore Roosevelt, who poses the only remaining honest manj public life, -in the trace of the: facts 1:as felt called upon to attaC the character of a man whose inte: rity has never before been que tioned, and whose official posltic is second only to his own. In doing this he makes a fal' declaration, for the inspectors ni where say any such thing as abo' quoted, which can be proven bya examination of their report. Now, about the lying: My lett of February 15, of which the Pres dent secured a photographich cop antedates by four days my stateme) in the Senate that I nad not bougl any land, or undertaken to buy an: and the President considers this 1,o itive proof of falsehood. I did n< say I had not considered the pu chase of land; I did not say I ha not contemplated purchase of lana because I had done both. In ix conversation with the Attorney-Ge: eral In regard to the resolutic which I introduced, and which ~c himself prepared aftex we had talke over the whole land 'situation, I di: tinctly remember telling him th: my interest in the matter had bec first aroused by my desire to pu chase some of the timber land, an that my coming to him was due the fact that I discovered upon ii vestigation that I coold not buy: even by a lawsuit, because I was at vised by very able lawyers in tb West. among them the Hon. Georg Turner, of Washington, that In a1 tacking the holders of those lan, grants no one would have any stand ig in COurt except the grantor, th Government itself. See Nichols1 Southern Oregon Co.. Federal Ri porter, vol. 135, p. 234.) I was perhaps disingenuou1s; bu a moment's thought will convinc any honest-minded man that-as had not signed any papers, had no paid any money, had taken nobody receipt, usual processes. hy which on. "undertakes" to buy land-I wa speaking accurately and not falsel3~ Everything hinges on the meanini of the word "und.ertaken" and n; use of it. Did I mean to conceal th fact that I was anxious to buy :sorn of this land? Not at all. Did mean to attack Dorr as a swindle1 when I myself was engaged in a dis honest and dishonorable transact Ion? That is what the Presiden would have the people believe. Car I be justly charged with falsehooc when if I had told the Senate of th< entire transaction it would havt made no difference whatever, whiP I would have been charged with in truding my private affairs Into public discussion? Just what la-. did I break? What wrong did I do or contemplate? According tc the report of the Attorney-General in answer to the resolution which I introduced and which passed the Senate, Harriman, the President's dear friend, still holds in defiance of law upward of 2.000,000 acres of the best lands of Oregon and Cali fornia and refuses to sell them at any price. I never expected, and could not under the terms of the law as I construed it. get more thani seven greater sectiers for myself and family, one for my private sec retary, and one for Mr. Lee. nr.akin. nine in all. This, in the aggregate, would mean tha1. I would obtain~ through my acti':ity here, as the President's charge is. nine quarter sections. or fourteenr hundred and forty acres, at a cost of $4.500. W 11 the President undertake to say that I have lost my right to buy land be cause i am a Senator? Can the President deny that my activity se cured the passage of the resolution bring suit for the recovery of this land for the use of actual settlers? ca If Harriman and others like him are tI made to disgorge by reason of these at suits, shall the fact that I was en deavoring to buy a little pittance of ti the land be used as the basis of a R charge of being a liar and a corrupt R Senator--to be digraced? M To sum up, this is a brief re- h sume of the entira transaction: t While in Spokane, Wash., in Octo ber, 1907. 1 first heard that there were timber lands in Oregon which c were beizig bought :hrough Reeder t & Watkins, of Marshdeld. On Oc- b tober 5 I wrote to Reeder & Wat s, k, asking for information, tel'- t ing them of- r. . desire to purchase t: some of the land if possible. De- t siring to find out it the conditions t of the grant to the State of Oregba made it possible for "purchasers' and not "actual settlers" to buy at $2.50 per acre, I wired the librarian of the Senate for a copy of the act. Finding that that part of the state ment received from a gentleman in Spokane was correct, I notified Reed er & Watkins on October 20 that Mr. Lee, whom I had seen at Mos cow, Idaho, in the meantime and talked with on the subject. would go to Marshfield and investigate in person. . I authorized Lee to draw j on me if he found that the land, t t were what they were represented to t be. Lee's authority as my agent 1 - never went beyond an examination 1 - of the land and, if the application t was filed, to see that I got good I a timber lands instead of rocks and - marshes. He wired me not to be s in a hurry, as there were obstacles i in the way. In the meantime I had I talked with lawyers who were fa miliar with the military road land 3 grants, and they informed me that under a decision of the circuit couri a private parties were not permitted to sue for these lands. Still doubt ing whether I could purchase the lands with any hope of sueceesfu! litigation, I wrote to Senator George Turner, of Washington, to get his opinion and incidentally to make inquiry about lands en the Colum v bla river, in that State. He gave the same opinion that I had already re n ceived from the other lawyer. Realizing after I got to Washing o ton, D. C., in December that it was a very doubtful proposition, I let the matter drop uptil Mr. Lee showed t me a letter from Reeder & Watkins, ,e which has been stolen from my desk in my committee room along v with other papers in this case, prob ably by some of the Secret Service sleuths, and when they indicated their desire that I should exert my d influente in the Senate, I wrote the i letter of February 15, of which the Presdent obtained a photographic t copy. In the meantime and before that letter was written, from my investigations and after a confer ence with the Attorney-General, I intr-_ - ' the two resolutions of January 11, one calling on the At At torney-Gent :1 for information, and the other (the joint resolution). S which became a law, instructiing him to institute suits. My official activity then is shown to have taken form in the Senate be Sfore I knew anything about Reeder s-& Watkins' attitude or expectatione nand I was in no way influenced by them. eI was still anxious to obtain some of the land if it could be done le egally, and wrote Reeder & Watkin3 to that effect, but my faith in them and in the whole scheme died when I received the circular of Dorr, which came to me on February 17 and 18 ~from three different directions, show inug the widesprerid distribution made of them. Also Mr. Lee's re ~port to me had led me to believe Sthat Reeder & Watkins were not of tthe caliber and character to be em rployed in a matter of such magni tude, except probably as to their familiarity with the local conditions yand their ability to locate quarter sections which were well timbered, as they were in the possesion of a e cruiser's map. Dorr, of whom I had dnever -heard before, was evidently pushing his scheme of getting suck ers to invest and using my name, a.4 I have indicated, without authority because I had not paid any fees to d him or written to him or filed any 0 applications. I therefore felt it in cumbent on me to expose the swindle t in the Senate, which I did on the 19th of February, and asked the postoffice authorities to issue a fraud e.order. S I pressed the passage of the joint resolution In the Senate, and on SApril 30 it became a law. March 13 I was taken ill, and on May 10, after a partial recuperation I sailed for Europe, returning October 21. The President's sleuths, set to du .the dirty wrork of spr-ing on a Sena tor when that Senat.r had exposed a fraud which was being perpetrated on the public, reported to him on SJuly 27. I had nothing whatever to do with the change in the law of which the President complains in regard to the Secret Service. So the President's animus is not Sagainst me on the same ground fo' which he has attacked Messrs. Taw ney, Smith and others in the House but one of personal malice engender ed by hatred because of my course in the Senate during the last seven years. I have not attempted to deceive anybody; I have not told any false hoods; I have not broken any law. I have not been guilty of any im moral conduct. I had the right to purchase the laud if I could, bu'. E my judgment told me it was unsafe b as an investment. I wou'di like to C get some of it yet. anid if the At- C torney-General and his sucoessors o shall not die of old age before any. r thing is done it may be possible that -b I will have the opportunity to plir- t chase some of thdse timber lands of a which he made mertion in his re- t1 port. (S Doc. No. 279, 60th Cong., r 1st sess.) Through my action at- f< tention has been directed in a corn- 11 pelling way to the need of prompt ti action by the Department of Jus tice. Whether I ever get any of the gi land or not does noc mater if Har- at riman and others of that ilk are tr made to disgorge the large holdings tr which they have stolen and are at- h< tempting to 2old- ri The Freuident says: tI On October 20. 1907, Senator ni Tillman wrote a letter to Messrs. to Reeder & Watkins. of Marshfield, he Oregon, who were attorneys repre- to senting people whc were appli- to cants for the purchase of certain fr land-grant land. Dorr was a laud it agent. making his filings through a: This statement is misleading an, l lculated to deceive. The report of Le postoffice inspectors gives the :tual truth. It says: Among the most active agents in is matter is the firm of Reeder & ratkins, of Marshfleld, Oreg. Mr. eeder is a real estate agent an-i :r. Watkins an attorney. They ave associated themselves together locating applicants on these lands. Further, Reeder & Watkins, by rculating a shrewdly worded cir lar long before Dor appeared on se scene, sought to make money by aving persons pay them $21 in ash for filing an application with de clerk of court and tendering t. te company $400 ter quarter sec ion, which the law originally con emplated as the p' ice of land. 'hey were to receive $100 additional henever the Southern Oregon )ompany should convey the title, nd they knew that no one could ompel this conveyance except the inited States Government, because similar case had been decided in he United States court so declaring. See Nichols v. Southern Oregon ., Federal Reporter, vol. 135, p. 34.) I commenced to in'vestigate on the th of October, and I made direct application to Reeder & Watkins, by elegram and by letter, on the 20th >f October. Dorr did not appear intil early in 1908, as shown by the -eport of the postoffice inspectors Ld his career as a swindler was >rief, as I exposed the whole thini n the Senate on February 19. Th? President had the papers and kney ill this. Reeder & Watkins were re ielving $21 for the insignifican work of making a tender to the hold ing company and filng a notice wit the clerk of the coart. Dorr wa to share in this commission, or what ever you term it, for whatever bus iness he brought, and yet the Presi dent would convey the impressio. that these filings were merely sue: as are usual in purchasing govern ment land, when he knew or coul have easily found out from the Al torney-General, that all such propos ed purchasers could not thus brin any suit. In the i'ght of the evi deuce as presented to the Presiden himself, the scheme was a swindl to obtain $21 in cash, and must 1 apparent to all. But the Presider acquitted Dorr and convicted m< By this time I had found out th legal status, and decided I would no sign a contract, file an application or pay any money, and my only re: son for writing to Reeder & Watkir on February 15 was to have then understand that Lee misconceive my attitude in the Senate, and tha I was not to be considered as a too but acting in the interest of the pul ic.- Remember I knew nothing < 'Mr. Lee's letter till sent in by tt President. At the same time I wa willing to use them in locating dE sirable quarter sections, If later o I found that the acticn of Congres would make it possible to restore ti land to the public domain by th cancellation of the patents. The President lays great stress c the statement of mine made the 15t of February in a letter to Reeder Watkins. He Italicizes the worc "as well as myself," as though were unlawful, immoral, or improp* for a Senator to buy any land or I act In this Chamber on any questio affecting his personal interest. fail to see any.- sense or reason I this position, but I must submit the to the judgment of the Senate an the country. I had not become party to any litigation; I was not II terested except as a private indivi< ual wanting to purchase, and as Senator desiring to enable others t have the opportunity to do so. C course, the President is sure that have done something very discredits ble and outrageous. He hates m and would destroy me If he could. The President gloats over the fat that my letter was written "just for days before be announced in th Senate that he had not undertake to buy any land in the West" s clinching his contention that I hav lied to the Senate. The records sho that in the interirr the Dorr cil cular had been sent to me, for o February 19, when I made the es posure of Dorr,, I said In the Senate In the last day or two I nave had my attention called to a .scheme of swindling,'etc. It is easy for those who are them selves vulnerable to convict other on the most flimsy evidence, and th President seems to work on tha iheory. *OR reading Dorr's circular th whole scheme and combination o awindlers-Reeder & Watkins, ia Marchfeld, and Dorr. in Portland; Sid not know anything about Conri and Schaefer-flashedi on my mind and remembering Lee's somewha lubious report as to the characte and qualifications of the firm o Reeder & Watkins, I decided at onc4 :o see to it that my name should no >e used to inveigle others into thei: game. Hence my action In the Sen 'The President dismisses with gave of the hand any possibility o~ ny honestly by saying: It is unnecessary to comment on 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 be well to inquire wheth r or not the Attorney-General has een ordered not to obey tue law o1 'ongress passed last April-which 1 all the "Tillman-Bonaparte" law rdering suit to be instituted for the ecovery of these larnds. My culpa ility is of such magnitude in con emplating the purchase of 1,440 cres of land at $2.50 an acre in ie eyes of this stickler for official ctitude in others that it may be >un'd that he is determined to block iy so-called ."nefarious transac ons. The man who announces to Con ress that he, Theocore.Roosevelt, ;sumes the right to permit the Steel ust to absorb its greatest rival con ary to law would doubtless not sitate to help his dear friend Har man in holding 2.000,000 acres of ,e public domain, because Ben Till an has contemplated and wanted buy 1,440 acres. The President ting convicted Till man, proceeded clear Dorr in bot! cases contrary the facts and miiingly retires om the center of the stage, which is his greatest delight to occupy, d complacently looks to have the 'their approval to his verdict. I await the verdict calmly and without fear, and will gladly abide by It. In conclusion, Mr. President, I court the most searching Investiga ton. Nay, I demand it. I declare most emphatically I have never sought to conceal my efforts to buy land; I spoke 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 concerning it. The question of motive will at last control and it cannot be shown that I had any reason to conceal anything. I in vite comparison of my private life and my public work as a man and a Senator with Theodore Roosevelt or any other man and feel absolutely sure of the ground upon which I stand.' SENATOR TILLMAN'S SPEECH. He Was Applauded as He Entered the Senate. Washington, Jan. 12.-There was such pressure for seats on the part of the senator's families in antici pation of Senator Tillman's speech, that the private senatorial gallery was opened at 10 o'clock and the crowd poured in. The public gal leries were opened an hour earlier. The throng was dense and the rush so strong that women screamed and many of them had their wraps torn. Probably not one-fifth of the crowd in the corridors found seats in the galleries. The appearance of senator Tillman in the Senate chamber a few minu tes before 12 gave the galleries an opportunity for a demonstration of hand-clapping. The reading of the journal . was dispensed with when i Tillman began his speech. The gal leries indulged in no outbreak, al though there were occasional sup pressed laughter, until Tillman de clared that the president had place) him in the Ananias club. Peals of laughter were called forth when Tillman declared he had not e known that the "executives hide" C had been so greatly stung by darts he had sent at him at various times e in the senate. When he suggested t that doubtless the president "Be lieved that the pitchfork had gone out of business," another outburst s of laughter followed from the gal leries. d Tillman kept closely to his manu script as he proceded except when he referred to Harriman as "The president's dear friend" who held 2, f 000,000 acres of land in question, e he looked over his eye glasses and s glancing around the chamber added: "Possibly relations are not so Inti n mate now, but I speak of what rela tion used to be." e FORTY KILLED. n l Divine Service Ended Fatally in Swit. zerland. s Berne, Switzerland, Jan. 10.-Dut t ing divine service tojday, an ancleM rchurch near Sion suddenly collapsed, burying the worshippers In the ruins. SPractically all the members of the congregation were killed or .injured. SA wild panic follewed, those who es tcaped rushing through the fielde a shouting that an earthquake had or ertaken the village. Other villager" Sjoined in the outcry and were with adifficulty calmed. aAfter an hour's exertions the firc company of the place extricated for ty corpses, but it ls believed that there are still a number under th'. timbers. Sixty persons were badlT injured. BODY FOUND IN LOFT. a Mysterious Murder Mystery in The s State of Indiana. vMarion, Ind., Jan. 10--A myster - ous murder was uncovered today when the charred body of Mrs. Rosa Ricks, 25 years old, wife of a timber buyer was discovered in the hayloft of a barn In the rear cf Thomas Wil son's. Indications are that the wo man was killed and the barn fired, The husband of the woman who separated from her a week ago, and and Levi Sutton, who is charged by Ricks with alieniatlng his wife's at fections have been arresited., A cab driver says Le drove Mrs. Ricks and a strange man to th2 barn at 110o' clock Saturday night. WANTED TO HEAR TIL~LMAN -Diplomats of All Countries Ask for Senate Cards. Washington, Jan. 12.-The un written diplomatic rule, whichi pre vented the representatives of foreign powers from attending a congress ional session, when an attack on the president was heralded was shat tered yester day on the occasion of Senator Tiliman's speech. The Statd department has been flooded with requests for cards never before de manded. Interest rin Ethe .present situation is apparently .so 'lntenset in the diplomatic coterIe that no re gard is retained for the old rule. Fought Pistol Duel. Yazoo City, Miss., Jan, 10.-In s istol fight early today at Silver City, near here, D. B. Sproles, a prominent planter, was perhaps fat ally shot and Jess Davils, a negro, was instantly killed. The negro and Sproles had some words regarding the burning of a house. Later Davis opened fire on the white man, four shots taking effect. Sproles, in turr., shot Davis dead. Smith Scores Teddy. Columbia, Jan. 11.--In an ad dress before the Y. M. C. A. yester day afternoon Senator-elect E. D. Smith criticised President Roose velt's actions in the Tillman "land grab" sensation. Mr. Smith referr ed esrpecially to the placing of sleuths upon the track of the South Carolina senator. Three Were Killed. New York. Jan. 11.-Three per- 1 sons lost their lives and five wer'e injured in a fire that swept a five story apartment houise at No. ~666 r Nnth anue, from basement to roof. r WAS COUNTED OUr. I SAYS DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR GOVERNOR OF ILL. He Alleges, in Petition for Recount, That He was Cheated Out of 50, 000 Votes. Springfield, Ill., Jan. 13.-The legislative deadlock was broken to day when the senate concluded to sit with the house for a canvas of election returns. Inaccuracies in all but nine of the 102 counties in Illinois, in counting the vote for governor at the Novem ber election, are charged in the pe tition for a recount made to the general assembly by Adlai E. Steven son, Democratic candidate for gov ernor. . An approximate total of 50,000 votes more than are shown by the election returns is claimed by Mr Stevenson in his petition to the gen eral assembly today. In the 93 counties cited hoy 'the petition as showing irregularities, 65 are al leged to have made wrong returns by the alleged simple means of counting for Deneen votes whimc were cast for Stevenson. . In 28 others, it is charged, in ad dition, either that persons not nat uralized or persons not residents o: the county, or both, voted for Gov ernor Charles S. Deneen, and in each of 28 counties miscounting of votes properly cast also is charged. The county which appears froz the petition to have countenance: the greatest amount of illegality of all sorts is Cook (Chicago), a! though extensive frauds also arc charged in other counties. TILLMAN AFTER ROOSEVELT. Will Show up Sunday Iniquities o1 the Blusterer. Washington, Jan. 12.-Immediate ly following Senator Tillman's vig orous attack upon President Roose velt in the senate yesterday, the senator inaugurated a campaign o, "purification" in regard to the Whits House. Since the. president's attack th. senator has received much corre spondence expressing sympathy and volunteering much information which will serve materially in the foundation which the senator has laid in his campaign, as he announc ed in his speech yesterday, that he was determined to "show up" the president in what he termed was his "two-lights." He has already gathered a sufficiemcy of data, it is understood, to start with, and some interesting developments may be looked for as regards the political relationship of these two/strenuous politicians. It is understood that the postoffice and its methods is ont of the targets at which the senator Is to aim his pitchfork. TRIES TO HELP TEDDY. The Postmaster General Whitewash es His Political Boss. Washington, Jan. 12.--That thr~ Dorr case, In which Senator Tillman was involved was brought to the' president's attention -for the first time on December .18, 1908, was asserted last night by Postmaster General Meyer, In a statement made In response to an Inquiry. Senator Tillman, in the course of his speecn yesterday, said that the president "has been in possesion of all the facts in this case since July last, and men will be curious to know why, if his zeal was hone';t, he did not make them known then." Don't Wart the Japs. Sacramento, Cal., Jan. 13.-Thre2 anti-Japanese bills introduced in th3 state assembly by Grove L. Johnson, of Sacramento, and one introduced by A. M. Drew, of Fresco, prohibit ing aliens from holding land in the state, have attracted wide interest The Japanese already have a lobb~y on the scene and will contribute con siderable money to make a fight. Copper Tank Exploded. Quincy, Mass., Jan. 13.-One man was killed and three injured by the~ explosion of a copper tank, whico was being tested by compressed air at the works of the Electric Boat Company, situated in the yards of the Fore River Ship Building .Com pany, late today. Went Down With Crew. Mexico City, Jan. 13.--News has just been received of a storm which swept the harbor of Tampico yeste: day. The fishing boat Pride, of Andrews, was lost while attempting to reach the harbor, her entire crew of eight being drowned. Fears are being entertained for other fishing crafts. The storm is still raging. True to Bryan. Richmond, Va., Jan. li.-The Vir ginia electoral college met today. east the vote of the Stat? for Bryan -nd Kern and sent the following tele gram to Mr. Bryan: "The Virginia electors in electoral coiege assem bled with undiminished conmfidence i you and in the principles you re present, send their respectful greet ings." Will Be Shot. Messina, Jan. 12.--The ruined city presents the aspect of war. It is completely under military rule and the cordon of troops about the community has bee~n completed. trict orders have been issued that all prowlers shall be ordered fromi he lines and ghouts 'ound looting :he ruins or the b * the dead shall be shot dov. :nout mercy. Kern Faileci to Win. Indianapolis. >c., Jan. 13.-For nr Congressman Benjamin F. Shively, of South Bend. was chose onight by the Democratic members fi >f the Indiana legislature to suc- d eed James A. Hlemenway in the a: Inited States Senate. n n A lucky thing about getting mar- P. ied is that for the one time other di 1URDER CHARGE lade Against the Alleged Slay ers of Arthur Davis. [HEY ARE ARRESTED Ind Are Now in Jail-Three of the Six Prisoners Are White Men. All of the Accused Deny Com plicity in the Outrage, Which Was Most BrntaL Florence, Jan. 14.-As -a result )f the inquest at Hymansville Tuesday to inquire into the killing )f Arthur Davis of last Friday night, ;ix men are now in the county jail, three white men and three negroes. The whites are: L. S. Bigham, A. F. Fuller and Dan Hines, while :he negroes are: Jim Burch, Rob inson Singletary and John White. The authorities are sure that they ,ow have the right men. The men when questioned all de 'ied any knowledge whatever of the iffair. The outrage has been the ,rincipal topic of conversation in the city for days. On Tuesday morning Solicitor Well, accompanied by Sheriff T. S. Burch, Deputy Sheriff E. C. Harrel ind Chief of Police J. J. -Koopman; went down to Hymanville to attend -he inquest. The proceedings took up almost the entire day, and it was ,t a late hour last night that they returned with their prisoners. Pea fect order was preserved by the of-6ui ficers during the inquest, and there _ was no attempt -at any disorder. After the crowd had assembled at the place of inquest orders were is sued that no one be allowed to leave the premises, and this order was ' beyed to the letter. Sheriff Burch forwarded his of ficial report to Governor Ansel. Sheriff Burch and his assistants,- by their prompt action, in all proba bility, nipped in the bud a movement which would have grown to serious proportions. - Night Riders Posted. What caused probably more er eitement in the neighborhood were "night rider" posters tacked up on trees and buildings all' through sthe neighborhood. These posters were' sacked up on Monday Might. One of the members of the coroner's jury found one of them tacked on the front door of his house on Tuesday and another found several stuffed in his mail boa. The 'posters are written on plain note paper, and are decorated at the top with what purports to be a rising sun, with the word "Notice" in' -t'he centre of the sun. While, of course, they were only intended as a bluff, which a thoro'ugh investigation disclosed, they caused 'quite a great deal of alarm in the community. Seveial of them were brought to the city~ -md were shown, on the streets., to- -- 'jay. A copy of one follows: -"Notice.' 'We night ride-s, the one Arthur, Davis, colored, was killed on last Thursday night by a band of 5.2 men, which has sworn to protect their country, and we here further say that if there .Is any white brought up in that thing, we 'will make each and every juror, magis trate and witness suffer the. same as Arthur Davis did, for rope on a white lady." In addition to the officers, your correspondent -today interviewed a gentleman from Hymanville, who is well acquainted with all the facts of the case, and he corroborated in every detail facts as set out above. He further stated that there was ab solutely no ground for the statement that the negro had been lynched for rape. This crime is one of the most bru 'tal in the h-istory of the State. It will be recalled by the readers of .Monday's State that the. negro was taken from his home at night and after being stripped was' severely beaten with buggy whips and' sticks. studded with long sharpe thorns. So far the accused, men have made no move to get counsel, but it is expected that they will employ coun sel in a few days anid make an efiort to regain their liberty. Gets Two Years. Spartanburg, - Jan. 8.--Ursa -AR-* man, a young white man who -several weeks ago shot and killed James Burgiss, near Greer. today pleaded guilty to manslaughter 'ind wats sentenced to serve two years in the nenitentiary. It will be remembered that Allman had been hunting and. returning home, fired at young Bar giss, who was in the .poultry yard, the load from the gnn killing the boy almost instantly.. * Murder a t1 Suicide. Hamilton, Ohio, Jan. 1.2.--Frank Donnelly, 65 years old, after killing his wife with a revolver, shot him self and then slashed his throat-and wrists with a razor and walked from Oxford, his home, to Hamilton, a istance of 15 miles. He Is now lying at Hercy hospital here. A Hideous Fiend. Savannah, Jan. 12.-Andlrew Al ent, a negro employed at the Union tation as a porter is under arrest m a serious charge. It iis alleged e criminally assaulted Essie Wat ;on, a negro girl about ten years old, vho is a deaf mute and very r'mple. 'he negro stoutly denies the charge. Perished in Flames. Columbia, Jan. 11.-.In a fire vhich destroyed the parish home for he poor of Lancaster county last ight, two blind inmates perished in he flames, one an aged :iegress and he other a negro boy. Three houses, >gether with their furriture and pro isions were destroyed. Foolish Woman. Asheville. N. C.. Jan 12.-Morti ed by the non-appearance of her usky swain at the nmarriage alter, ler she had herself secured the Larriage license and invited the inister and guests to the wedding, earl Moore, a colored nurse, to the smay of those assembled, attempt