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DONE FOR SPITE Rooe?velt Links Senator Tillman With Land Grab Deal. BATTLE HAS BEGUN President Ciivcs Out Result of Secret 4 Investigat ion ? Tillman . Admit* Having Tried to Obtain I>aiid in the West.?Wanted Sections for Himself, Futuily and Secretary. Washington, I). C.. .A^n. 8.?President Roosevelt tonight made public the details of an investigation by postofTlcc inspectors and secret service agents of Senator Tillman's connection with an alleged "land grab" in Oregan. As he presents the evidence to Senator llale, in response to the latter's request to the hearts of the various executive departmcnta for a statement of the operations of the secret service, the President undertakes to show: That Mr. Tillman used his influence as a Senator in an effort to force the Government to compel a railroad corporation#! o relinquish its control of land grants from the United States in order that he and ' his-family and his secretary, .1. P.. Knight, might profit through the purchase of some of the land; That the Senator used his Government franking privilege in numerous instances for the conduct of private business. Comparatively few Senators vrer favored with the opportunity of reading the President's report to Siiiiainr llnlo tml thnxe who did read the report look a serious view of it, alt hough most of the Senators refused to believe that Mr. Tillman hud ever done anything in violation of his oath as Senator. Senator Tillman does not permit the fact that the President was giving out the charges against him to alter his determination to make no statement until Monday. He said that he could not make his reply so complete as ho would desire for tomorrow's papers, and that he would therefore withhold whatever remarks he might have to make until Monday, when he would make a statement to the Senate. No effort was made by him to conceal the fact that when he had learned the facts concerning the i 1 .1 iri'Miil lu> li !i fl ni-nlti !? 11 of , fort to obtain portions of tin* land $T ' Iii the names of himsoll and members of bis family, but declared that as. at most, lie could have gotten possession of only a few hundred acres, bis efforts were, after all, in behalf of the public and not especially in his own interest. Will Keply Monday. Immediately after the conclusion of the chaplain's prayer Monday Mr. Tillman will ask tlie recognition of! the Chair on a question of personal privilege. Departing from bis custom of extemporaneous speaking, lie will read bis statement, thus insuring more careful adherence to what be desires to say than be would be able to give in an offhand speech. The communication to Senator Hale is nearly 11,000 words long, and in addition there are appended numerous exhibits including copies of letters written by Senator Tiilnian and bis agent, William 10. Leo, showing that they did make an effort to secure several quarter sections of the Oregan land, and the reports of the postoflico inspectors who investigated the transactions of the land agents. It was through this investigation t^at the allege 1 interest of Sen a to iJt-Tillman was brought to light, Hpid fat.efully, it appears, that it was at bis insti gat ion that the inquiry was negun. Tho President's communication to 1 Senator llule opens with the statement, that he had secured for the Senator information touching th ? employment of specia'l attorneys, 1 special agents, inspectors, etc., and 1 the report conveying this inforina-i 1 tion lie was transmitting. Then he i says that it is "not only the right, hut the duty of Congress to invest;- ' gate the workingsof the secret service or detect ive"* agents by which i alone the (lovcrnment can effectually < safeguard itself against wrong do- I ing, punish crime, and bring to ] tice criminals." i Tlie President continues: ' T would like to state here thai 1 % t very frequently accusations nave > been made to inc privately by members of the two houses to the effect that the secret service has been y, used as a 'police of morals,' or to shadow Senators, Congressmen and other public officials. Hitherto the effort to discover the basis for such allegations has always been fruitless. I should be greatly obliged if any information could be furnished me tending to show any instance j where this has been done in times < SUBS past." The President enters npou a dls- j eussion of operations of the special agents and inspectors, naying that In ?i.e investigation of specific frauds' the operators "some times oomo J acroHH wholly nnexpectod phases of misconduct." Often, says the President, the abuse of the franking privilege is unknown to the Congressmen themselves. The Tillman Matter. Then, leading up to tho Tillma'i matter, he says: "Hut a case has just arisen of a , different kind, which it seems to mo 1 should put before you as Illustrating in strikiug fashion tho way in which investigations begun by any of these various agents in the strict line of their duty may develop facts of high Importance, which tho Investigators would not in the first instance have sought do discover, which, when discovered, ought not to be hidden or suppressed, but the development of which may tend to create an erroneous impression thai the agents in question were lining used for purposes not within the line of their lawful duty." The communication then recites that Senator Tillman on February lb. last, called the attention of the Senate to the circular of the Oregou land syndicate, which alleged tha' Senator Tillman was among those who had spoken for a part of the land to be disposed of and quotes Senator Tillman's deal as follow.-.: "1 have not bought any land anywhere in the West, nor undertaken to buy any. I have made some inquiries as one naturally would, lu roaming through the West. 1 simply want the people of the country to be put on notice that this swindler ? ii i ?? ? .?i i \n udiiu 11.i^ no waiTiiiu wnainvor for endeavoring to inveigle others into his game." lOnelosed, the President says, M?* Halo would lind photographic fao siniilios of lottors and envelopes from Senator Tillman and his agent, Mm. 10. Loo, homing on the matter. A letter of Senator Tillman to Oregon attorneys is quoted as follows: "1 wired from Wausaii, Wis., as follows, and write to confirm it: "William 10. Leo, my agent, will see you about land. I want nine quarters reserved. Will forward signed applications and money at once. Members of my family are cntrymon. Letter follows. ( "Signed ) It. R. T." "1 write now to say that 1 wired Mr. Lee, who resides at Moscow, Idaho, to go at once to Marsh field 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, .1. If Knight, whom I desire to let Int.) the deal, and, of course, he wants a quarter for himself." "A <?ood (iambic." "The letter continued," writes the President, "in stating in detail what was to he done in order to enable the Senator to got the land. The William 10. Lee, to whom Senator Till man thus referred as his agent, wrote to Uecdcr and Watkins. under date of December 7, a letter, photographin copy of which is herewith submitted, marked 'lOxhibit 1) 4.' In this letter Mr. Lee explains that he had written Senator Tillman fully as to the status of the land matter, advising him it was a good gamble, but that the Senator was lecturing, so that he did not get Mr. Lee's letter until a week and a half previously, The letter continues: " 'In case Senator Tillman gets in on this deal with some good land in the eight quarters we want, I am satisfied that lie can hi1 of great help in getting matters started from Washington and cause the Government to get busy and do something along the line you desire, lie will set up such a bowl that it will be impossible to do otherwise. It. will t?.? very important for your wholo scheme to havo a man of his influence here to aid you at this end of 1 i ho line. By all moans save a lot ' of good land for us, as we intend to i bo of more value than any one of ' the others in this matter.'" Then is quoted Senator Tillman'** 1 resolutions providing for the insti- ' tut ion of t lie land suits, after which 1 the President quotes from the Sena- ' tor's letter of February 1 to Messrs ( Render and Walk ins. Says the Pi es- 1 [dent: "He states that what ho has done 1 in stirring up the question of the Oregon land grant to railroads his y Peon done entirely apart from any 1 personal interest he has in the mat- ^ :or, and adds: Although 1 neve* would have had my attention called * o it but for the Investigation as set ( >n foot in connection with the pro- 1 posed purchase by me of some of the ? :imber land in qestion. Of course, ? f I decide to make the tender and 1 jo into the lawsuit, I will bear your c proposition in mind, but I would 1 lave you understand that nothing I ? lo hero in the Senate will be done ( jecause of my personal purchase of s my of the land. r Wanted Might Sections. 1 "If I can succeed in causing the ? Government to institute suit for the i CR1BE N( f ANSWERS TEDDY Senator TUlman Relates All Cbarges Made Against Him BY THE PRESIDENT ? Shows That Then1 Is Nothing iti tlu? <'liargeM >ln<le Against Him in Connection Willi the Qregon I.ami l>?s*l?Is l{cn<ly (o Compare llecoi'iis With Koosevolt. Washington, Jan. 11.?The following the full text of the speech delivered in the United Stales Senate today by Senator Tillman in answer to President Roosevelt's slanderous charge about the Oregon land deal. The speech was delivered to a crowded Senate. The Senator's entire speech is printed below: Mr. President, I rise to a question of personal privilege. For the first time in the history of this government, as far as 1 have been able to learn, a member of this body has been brought to the b*.\r of public opinion, before the Senate itself to be judged under indictment by no less a person than the President of the United States. The manner of the doing of its and the animus and zeal displayed by the Chief Executive are worthy of considerat ion. The papers in the case were sent to Senator Hale as acting chairman of the Committee on Appropriations late on Tuesday last. 1 had no intimation in regard to it until affe: the Senate met on Thursday. Hy that time the air was thick with rumors, evidently coming from the White House, direct iy or indirectly that a Southern Senator was in the toils of the Secret Service; and soon it was understood that Senator Tillman was the man. Having been informed by Senator Hale of the character of the charge Thursday afternoon, and that lie would call a meeting of the Appropriation Committee on Saturday to consider the papers relating to the Secret Service sent him by the President, 1 expected to have opportunity to examine fully into the case and make such defense or explanation in the Senate its* If as I thought proper. 1 understand the President had notified Si-n-.it">- ii?i" 11 . . mill' 111*11 I lll'IC was no nood for hurry, and that ho would not give the papers to the press bofoie Monday; hut on Friday morning lie changed his mind and not Hied Senator Hale that he had determined to give all the facts to the newspapers that evening, and they appeared Saturday morning. I! was well to remember that the universal custom heretofore, and the courtesy due by any executive to a legislative body demanded that having sent the papers to the most important committee of the Senate, they were in the possession of that body, and it was a gross breach of recovery of the hind and make it easier for others as well as myself (the Italics are mine) to obtain some of it, I shall do it without regard to the dealings with your firm. I still want to get some of the timber land if it is possible, and as it is probable that Mr. Lee or some other representative of mine will he In your country In the next two months Wo will leave the matter of payment for the initiatory steps and suts fluent, proceedings in abeyance for the present. Any contract wo might make will be entirely apart from, md independent of, my work here In tho Senate, i would be glad for you to hold in reserve eight of the !>est quarter sections of which you have definite information, and I will in tlie meantime press the investigation and other work here which will facilitate the final pur- 1 ihase, and in effect obviate the ne- i jessity of your taking any case n 1 he courts at all.' i "This letter, purely pertaining m t dr. Tillman's personal and private j. justness, was sent in a franking en- t relope, of which I attach photo- fgraphic copy, marked 'Exhibit 3 5.' ( "I call your attention to the lot*, i er of Mr. Dorr to the Postmaster I Jeneral under date of November 2 2, J 190S, ('Exhibit E.') in which ho t isks for relief from the cases which i Jenator Tillman had brought against r lim, saying that he had no know;- t dge that Senator Tillman desired 1 lis operations to be kept, hidden ami 1 iccret from general public know!- ' dge. The report of the inspectors 1 teems to indicate that this young < nan, Mr. Dorr, acted in good faith, s lilt thnt liunil ynnotoo rrill ..v/ Iiuvu UUIlttlWI J 111111(111 P implication for land aa an advertise- f nent." ' c )W TO propriety to mak^ them public. This i well Illustrates the executive attl- I tude toward# thla body. He save the communication to the prena before the comniitt.?v> had a?vxn the paperH and exauiiued iuto the uiaiter. . It is well understood lhat the President is an adopt at advertising and that ho has used the press with ' more aktll than any man la American politics. lie realizes the importance ot "gettl?g in the first blow," though It was below the bolt aud might well com let him of cowardice. But he cared nothing for either courtesy, custom, or decency, thus treating the committee and the Senate with that contempt which has been his wont. Another probable reason for his groat haste was that he sought to distract attention from the action of the House of Representatives on Friday in laying part of his message on the table by the sensational accusations against a man who has had long service in the Senate. I could have made my statement to the Senate and to the country Just x* easily on Saturday as I make it now, for I have nothing to conceal and there was no great need for delay or preparation; but realizing inai trie great influence and power <>f the Chief lOxecutlve was being exerted to the limit of his ability to blacken my name and destroy my character, and that bis words and the exhibits which he sent would l>* given the widest publicity, while niy own statement would probably bo epitomized on account of the pressure on the wires, 1 decided to wait unti' today, with the hope that my defense, without being unavoidable mutilated, would reach the people in good time. This, the newspaper men tell me, would not have been possible on Saturday. This is sufficient explanation, I trust, for delay. An examination of the President's letter to Mr. little, which might just as well have been a special message of the type with which we are so familiar. will show that the President's changes, boiled down, amount to two in tin 111 iter. First. lie promotes me to membership in the "Ananias Club," and charges, in effect, that 1 have deliberately lied to tho Semite. Second. lie charges that I have exerted my othcial influence and worhed as a Senator lor my personal benefit alone to secure the passage of a resolution and to press the l)e pariinent of Justice to bring suit against the corporations which hob' so much of the public domain in tieWest and will not sell it to settlers under the terms of their grants from the CJovernment. He lias prepared his indictment with consummate ability and skill, lie is even cunning in the apparently innocent pretence that in making a search through tie4 Secret c, V- U uri VII'! for one kind of malefactor lie had run down another, and the case of that one of such serious importance that his sense of official obligation compelled him to prompt action. Mark you, he has been in the possession of all the fac-U in this case since July last, and men will bo curious to know why, if bis zeal was honest, he did not make thvn known then. The President announced in his special message to the House on January 1. . I have made no charge of corruption against Congress nor against any member 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 I my duty in the execution and en- < fbrcement of the laws without respect to persons. I Jut I do not I jr:i r<l O ... <i? wiinin ino province oc duties of the President to report to the House "alleged delinquencies" of members, or the supposed "corrupt action" of a member "in his oflieial capacity." It. therefore follows that he has 'ound no grounds for indicting me n the courts, which, no doubt, would lave rejoiced him overmuch, and id this fuss, fury, and fustian about he seriousness of the case and the rravlt.y of the offense with which he Varges me can be attributed to perid al malice alone. tn January I the President dedan <t \? ii>?? i<" "~s?* .. .. ....x, in: nniivivt'U IO 00 Ills olat lonship to tho 11ouho and th.it 10 would not do certain things. On lanuary ."> ho wrote a letter to Sena- ( or Hale, doing the very tiling in (" egard to a Senator which ho had ' lecllned to do toward a member of he House. Why this difference? n my public work here I have not lesitated to criticise and comment on f he official actions and utterances of t ^resident Roosevelt, and I have ' lou lit loss given him good cause t."> leek revenge. I have at varloua f itues arraigned him in the Senate or tyranlcal invasion of the rights >f Congress, for usurpation of au*| THE HC LIVED UNDER RUINS. A MAN AND WIFK CAMK FROM I'NDKR DKURJ8. TlmM' ('liihlmi Also Kiivisl Aft?*r I*? itig Rui'hwl for hoveu Days l.ar^ Sum of Money Found. Ueggio, Jan. S. Tho bum shone again. today in all its splendor, emphasizing tho beauties of nature in tho surrounding oouuiry along the mountains oovorod with groou, over tho vineyards and lemon groves and down tho smiling shore where it rebooted in the opalescent sou. Inside Rcggio, howcvor, its warms rays fe'l upon only huge pilos of debris. Proportionately with other towu.-? Rpggio gave the highest poreentage of orphans as a result of the earth <iuake. The boys were eagerly taken care of by relations, but the gi*ds were mostly aluindoued. fortunately, however, they have been entrusted to the ladies' committees, which | firrived here from all parts of Italy j and doubtless will see tiro good homes. I All t li? ? wounded have been removed from ? .x.x.. Hfell', illlll f>,UUU l'ffugees have departed from the town. Ohe thousand bodies have been dug from the ruins of fallen buildings and burned in improvised cemeturles. Among others who escaped uninjured when the shock canto! were three children, who, after having been buried in the debris of their home for seven days got out. unaided, burrowing like mice. A man and his wife also have boon found uninjured beneath ruins where they had lain for eight days subsisting on a pint of olive oil. The safe of the bank of Italy, containing ,noo.nno, has been found. KK< >. < it A Ki.l .S I Al.bS OI T. Willi Mis IVoucher on Account of Kro. Kill's Keligioii. Cineinnat i, ' ' n. h. (diaries l\ Taft has severad his connection with the ITesbyterian church of the Covenant as a result of a letter written by the pastor, llev. K. K. Watson, during t lie national political campaign. In his letter of resignation. Mr. Taft also asked to be released as one of those guaranteeing the salary of tlm pastor. The action of Charles I'. Taft was the outgrowth of estrangement between himself and Dr. Watson, which had its origin in a personal letter written to a Chicago minister by Dr. Watson some time previous to the presidential election, in which the latter expresseel regret at the liberal religiC ^ views of the presidential candidate, William II. Tart. thority not given him by tlm Constitution. for ilt?slwwll..?w.i> ? in i: <>l I 11?' IIIW itiid neglect of duty, and paitictilarlv in the case of Mrs. Morris, for lirutal and cruel conduct toward a helpless woman. I was not aware that these darts of mine had quivered in the lOxecutivc hide and stung him so, hut the eagerness and intensity with which he has presented las case against me, his making a precedent wiiere none has existed heretofore, his taking from the committee to which he had forwarded them the papers and giving them to the press before that committee had considered them, indicate that Theodore 1 loose ye It enjoys to the limit. the feeling of getting even with lien Tillman, and lays on the big stick with t tie keenest relish, doubtless believing that the pitchfork has gone >ut of business. In his letter to Senator Halo I lnd on page II the following: Hut a ease has just arisen of ft different kind, whieh it seems to im> i should j)iit before you as illustrating in striking fashion tho way in which investigations begun by any of these various agents in the strict line of their duty may develop facts of high importance, which the investigators would not in the first instance have sought to discover, which, when discovered, ought not to be bidden or suppressed, but the development of which may tend to create an erroneous impression that the agents in question were being used for purposes not within the line of their lawful duty. It is well to note that the l'rosi!t*nf nvoguiizoa the ox traded i nary haractor of his action as well as the mlawfnl use he has made of Secret Service. He pretends that Ins ase against me has been worked up >y accident, by reason of the discovry of the inspectors in investigating he fraduluent transactions of one Iryon it. I)oor, and that the facts 'ought not to be hidden or suppress>d." The President says: Senator Tillman denied tho statements of this circular, and (Continued on last page.) IRRV HE " V "* ' COTTON GINNED Censes Bureau Reports Over Twelve Million Bales TO JANUARY FIRST Soutli Carolina Koporta 1,17(1,71:1 Hales j>s lire Share t'p to That Time?Tin* Indications Now .Arts That tin* Total ("fop W ill IU1 Over Thirteen .Million Hales. W'ashinpton, Jan. S. The cciihuh bureau today reported 12.470.226 running bales of cotton tinned from the growth of 100 8 to January 1 las., against O.'Jft I .fiOo a year ago, and 27,286 ginneries operated against 27.276 a year ago. The pereentugo of the whole crop ginned to January I is 90 per cent for 1000, and 90.4 for l'.his Tin- report Includes 123 I,S2 1 round bales and 8 0.0 I 0 sea island bales for 10O0. It counts round bales as half bales and excludes (inters. Tho cotton pinned to lanuary I. 1007 and lltoo, was 11,74 1.039 and 9,7 - a, ! 2 ? babs respectively. Tho total crop of t 07 w :is 1 1,0.77,822, of which 02.7 per cent was pinned to .lanuarv 1 The crops of 100'i and I 0O.7 were 1 2.083,2m 1 and 10,4 0 0.1 0a respect i veI\ . The rtinninp bales pinned by States t^e January 1 last, and pintle i ies res pec' fully follow : Alabama. 1 .3n 1.112 4 and 3,107. Arkansas. (' I 1.1 2.'! and 2, lis. Florida, 00,SOS and 2.77. (lenrpia. 1,033,0.70 and t.ta.T. Kansas, Kentucky and New Mexico, 1,07 2 and 0. Louisiana, 1.70.1 SS and 1,001. Mississippi. I, .7 IS. 707. and 3,10.7. Missouri, o'l ,020 and 7s. North Carolina, 0 10,731 and 2,47 1. Oklahoma. 384,440 and 080. South Carolina, 1,170,7 13 and 3,2 19. , ' Tenness'ev. 3 17,343 and 0 10. I Texas, 3,1 8 0,.7 1 o and 4,14 7. i Virginia. 12,1 13, and I 1 1 There were 170.00 1 round bales and 73,12.7 sea island bales for 1008 j and 27.7,.700 round bales and 34,I 2 7:7 sea Island hales for 1007. Tho (list rilnit ion of sea island cotton for 1 000 follows: Florida, 3 2,7 08; (leorpia, 1 1,03 i; South Carolina, 12,181. The correct statist as of the quantity of cotton pinned to l)cccml>Q<* 13 last are 11.004,209 hales. | MtkDIJilJ) I\Y IMF MINI ST II It I Who Was Supposed to Have lleen Killed Himself. Fort Huron. Mich., .Ian. S.~ My means of two false teeth it was definitely established this afternoon that (iid'Mui Frowning, of Adair village, was the man who was butchered last Tuesday ev. ning in the liitie "Kattle Itun ' Methoulst church in Columbus Township. With part of the mystery whiith enshrouded the brutal crime thus cleared, the supervisor of St. Clair county immediately offered a reward of $.">00 for the arrest of the Kev. John II Carmiehael, of Adair, pastor of tho church, and the man who was at t lirst supposed to have been killed, dismembered and then burned in the church stove. It is supposed that he was demented. * STOMA) I 'HI >1 > LHIt TO DHATII. School Hoys Arrested in St. I.ouis on Murder Charm*. St. Louis, Jan. 8.? Hive boy*, ranging in age from eight to seventeen years, were arrested in their ,..>?ma in urn; snriw school oday; charged with the murder ?>f W'm. Wachter, a jioddler, who was found with his skull crushed Wednesday. The man was found dying hy neighbors, lie kept so much to himself that he was known in his neighborhood as a miser and hermit. The arrests followed information given to the police by Mrs. Mary (ioebehart, mother of two of tho prisoners. The boys told the police that they had stoned Wachter "jus. for fun." Itirt Inlay of Italy's Queen. Rome, Jan. 11.?The thirty-sixth birthday of the queen was celebrated throughout Italy Friday, Jan. in a quiet manner. Owing to tho gloom cast over the country hy tho catastrophe in Sicily and Calabria, no festivities were held. The queen spent the dav quietly with her husband and family at the Qulrlnai. 9 RALD