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MA. CARRINGER,
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Machinery given special attention, and
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Shop in roar of and just west of the
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Your patronage solicited.
' FRED. GRETTENBKRGER
Tim TIONESTA
Racket Store
Can supply your want iu such staple
lines as llatnl Painted China, Japan
ese Chioa, Decorated Glassware, and
riain ami Fancy Dishes, Candy, as
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mention.
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VOL. XLV. NO. 28
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS
TO TIUS CONSTITUTION SUBMIT
TED TO THE CITIZENS OF THIS
COMMONWEALTH FOR THEIR AP
PROVAL OB REJECTION, BY THE
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OP THE
COMMONWEALTH OP PENNSYL
VANIA, AND PUBLISHED BY OR
DER OP THE SECRETARY OP THE
COMMONWEALTH, IN PURSU
ANCE OP ARTICLE XVUI OP THE
CONSTITUTION.
Number One.
A JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to article
nlno, section four, of the Constitu
tion of the Commonwealth ot Penn
sylvania, authorizing the State to
issue bonds to the amount of fifty
millions of dollars for the Improve'
ment of the highways of the Com
monwealth.
Section 1. Be It resolved by the
Senate and House of Representatives
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
In General Assembly met, That the
following amendment to the Constltu
tlon of the Commonwealth of Pennsyl
vania be, and the same la hereby, pro
posed, in aevcordance with the eigh
teenth article thereof:
That section four of article nine,
which reads as follows:
"Section 4. No debt shall be creat
ed by or on behalf of the State, ex
cept to supply casual deficiencies of
revenue, repel invasion, suppress in'
surrection, defend the State In war, or
to pay existing debt; and the debt
created to supply deficiency in rev
enue Bhall never exceed, in the aggre
grate at any one time, one million of
dollars," be amended so as to read as
follows:
Section 4. No debt shall be created
by or on behalf of the State, except
to supply casual deficiencies or rev
enue, repel invasion, suppress Insur
rection, defend the State in war, or to
pay existing debt; and the debt creat
ed to supply deficiencies In revenue
shall never exceed, in the aggregate
at any ona time, one million ot dol
lars: Provided, however, 'ihat the
General Assembly, irrespective ot any
debt, may authorize the State to issue
bonds to the amount of fifty millions
of dollars for the purpose of lmprov
ing and rebuilding the highways of
the Commonwealth.
A true copy of Joint Resolution
No. 1.
ROBERT MCAFEE,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number Two.
A JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to section
seven, article three ot the Constitu
tion of Pennsylvania, so as to per
mit special legislation regulating
labor. ,
Section 1. Be it resolved by the
Senate and House of Representatives
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
in General Assembly met, That the
following is proposed as an amend
ment to the Constitution ot the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania, in ac
cordance with the provisions of the
eighteenth article thereof. Amend
ment to Article Three, Section Seven.
Section 2. Amend section seven,
article three of the Constitution ot
Pennsylvania, which reads as fol
lows: "Section 7. The General Assembly
shall not pass any local or special law
authorizing the creation, extension, or
impairing of liens:
"Regulating the affairs of counties,
cities, townships, wards, boroughs, or
school districts:
"Changing the names ot persons or
places:
' Changing the venue in civil or
criminal cases:
"Authorizing the laying out, open
ing, altering, or maintaining roads,
highways, streets or alleys:
"Relating to ferries or bridges, or
Incorporating ferry or bridge compan
ies, except for the erection of bridges
crossing streams which form bounda
ries between this and any other
State:
"Vacating roads, town plats, streets
or alleys:
"Relating to cemeteries, graveyards,
or public grounds not of the State:
"Authorizing the adoption or legiti
mation of children:
"Locating or changing county-seats,
erecting new counties, or changing
county lines:
"Incorporating cities, towns, or vil
lages, or changing their charters:
"For the opening and conducting Of
elections, or fixing or changing the
place of voting:
' Granting divorces:
"Erecting new townships or bor
oughs, changing township lines, bor
ough limits, or school districts:
"Creating offices, or prescribing the
Dowers and duties ot officers in coun
ties, cities, boroughB, townships, elec
tion of school districts:
"Changing the law of descent or
succession:
"Regulating the practice or Juris
diction of, or changing the rules of
evidence in, any Judicial proceeding
or inquiry before courts, aldermen,
Justices of the peace, sheriffs, commis
sioners, arbitrators, auditors, masters
in chancery, or other tribunals, or
providing or changing methods for the
collection of debts, or the enforcing
of Judgments, or prescribing the effect
of Judicial sales of real estate:
"Regulating the fees, or extending
the powers and duties of aldermen,
Justices of the peace, magistrates or
constables:
"Regulating the management of
public schools, the building or repair
ing of school houses and tue raising
of money for such purposes:
"Fixing the rate of interest:
"Affecting the estates of minors or
persons under disability, except after
due notice to all parties in interest,
to be recited iu the special enact
ment:
"Remitting fines, penalties and for
feitures, or refunding moneys legally
paid Into the treasury:
"Exempting property from taxation:
"Regulating labor, trade, mining or
manufacturing:
"Creating corporations, or amend
ing, renewing or extending the chart
ers thereof:
"Granting to any corporation, asso.
TIONESTA,
elation or individual any special or ex
clusive privilege or Immunity, or to
any corporation, association or indi
vidual the right to lay down a railroad
track,
"Nor shall the General Assembly In
directly enact such special or local
law by the partial repeal of a general
law; but laws repealing local or spec
ial acts may be passed:
"Nor shall any law be passed grant
ing powers and privileges In any case
where the granting of such powers
and privileges shall have been provid
ed for by general law, nor where the
courts nave jurisdiction to grant tne
same or give the relief asked for."
bo as to read as follows:
Section 7. The General Assembly
shall not pass any local or special law
authorizing the creation, extension or
impairing of Hens:
Regulating the affairs of counties,
cities, townships, wards, boroughs, or
school districts:
Changing the names ot persons oi
places:
Changing the venue In civil or crim
inal cases:
Authorizing the laying out, opening,
altering, or maintaining roads, high
ways, streets or alleys:
Relating to ferries or bridges, or in
corporating ferry or bridge com pan'
les, except for the erection ot bridges
crossing streams which form bounda
ries between this and other States:
Vacating roads, town plats, streets
or alleys:
Relating to cemeteries, graveyards,
or public grounds not ot the State:
Authorizing the adoption, or legiti
mation of children:
Locating or changing county-seats,
erecting new counties or changing
county lines:
Incorporating cities, towns or vill
ages, by changing their charters:
For the opening and conducting ot
elections, or fixing or changing the
place of voting.
Granting divorces:
Erecting new townships or bor
oughs, changing township lineB, bor
ough limits or school districts:
Creating offices, or prescribing the
powers and duties of officers in coun
ties, cities, boroughs, townships, elec
Mon or school districts:
Changing the law ot descent or suc
cession:
Regulating the practice or Jurlsdlc
tlon of, or changing the rules of evl
dence In, any Judicial proceeding or
inquiry before courts, aldermen. Jus
tices of the peace, sheriffs, commis
sioners, arbitrators, auditors, masters
in chancery or other tribunals, or pro
vlding or changing methods for the
collection of debts, or the enforcing
of Judgments, or prescribing the ef
fect of Judicial sales of real estate:
Regulating the tees, or extending
the powers and duties of aldermen,
Justices of the peace, magistrates or
constables:
Regulating the management of pub
lic schools, the building or repairing
of school houses and the raising of
money tor such purposes:
Fixing the rate of interest:
Affecting the estates of minors or
persons under disability, except after
due notice to all parties in interest,
to be recited in the special enact
ment: Remitting fines, penalties and for
feitures, or refunding moneys legally
paid Into the treasury:
Exempting property from taxation:
Regulating labor, trade, mining or
manufacturing; but the legislature
may regulate and fix the wages or
salaries, the hours of work or labcr,
and make provision for the protection,
welfare and safety of persons employ
ed by the State, or by any county,
city, borough, village, or other civil di
vision of the State, or by any contract
or or sub-contractor performing work,
labor or services for the State, or for
any county, city, borough, town, town
ship, school district, village or other
civil division thereof:
Creating corporations, or amending,
renewing or extending the charters
thereof:
Granting to any corporation, asso
ciation, or individual any special or
exclusive privilege or Immunity, or
to any corporation, association, or in
dividual the right to lay down a rail
road track:
Nor shall the General Assembly In
directly enact such special or local
law by the partial repeal of a special
law; but laws repealing local or spec
iau acts may be passed:
Nor shall any law be passed grant
ing powers or privileges in any case
where the granting of such powers
and privileges shall have been pro
vided for by general law, nor where
the courts have Jurisdiction to grant
the same or give the relief asked for,
A true copy ot Joint Resolution
No. 2.
ROBERT MCAFEE.
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number Three.
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION,
proposing an amendment to section
three of article eight of the Consti
tution ot Pennsylvania.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the
House of Representatives of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania (if the
Senate concur), That the following Is
proposed as an amendment to the Con
stitution of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, In accordance with the
provisions ot the eighteenth article
thereof:
Section 2. Amend section three of
article eight, which reads as follows:
"All Judges elected by the electors of
the State at large may be elected at
either a general or municipal election,
as circumstances may require. All
the elections for Judges of the courts
for the several judicial districts, and
for county, city, ward, borough, and
township officers, for regular terms of
service, shall be held on the municipal
election day; namely, the Tuesday
next following the first Monday of No
vember In each odd-numbered year,
but the General Assembly may by law
fix a different day, two-thirds of all
the members of each House consent
ing thereto: Provided, That such
elections shall always be held In an
odd-numbered year," so as to read:
Section 3. All Judges elected by
the electors of the State at large may
be elected at either a general or mu
nicipal election, as circumstances may
require. All elections for judges ot
the courts for the several judicial dis
tricts, and for county, city, ward, bor
ough, and township officers, tor regu
Republ
PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1912.
lar terms of service, shall be held oa
the municipal election day; namely,
the Tuesday following the first Mon
day of November in each odd-number
ed year, but the General Assembly
may by law fix a different day, two
thirds ot all the members of each
House consenting thereto: Provided,
That such elections shall be held In
an odd-numbered year: Provided fur
ther. That all judges for the courts
of the several judicial districts hold
ing office at the present time, whose
terms of office may end In an odd
numbered year, shall continue to hold
their offices until the first Monday ot
January in the next succeeding even'
numbered year.
A true copy of Concurrent Resolu
tion No. 3.
ROBERT McAFEE,
Secretary of the Commonwealth
Number Four.
A JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to section
one of article nine of the Const!
tution of Pennsylvania, relating to
taxation.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the
State and House of Representatives
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
in General Assembly met, That the
following is proposed as an amend
ment to the Constitution of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania, in ae
cordance with the provisions ot the
eighteenth article thereof:
Section 2. Amend section one ot
article nine of the Constitution of
Pennsylvania, which reads as follows:
"All taxes shall be uniform, upon
the same class of subjects, within the
territorial limits of the authority levy
Ing the tax, and shall be levied and
collected under general laws; but the
General Assembly may, by genera
laws, exempt from taxation public
property used for public purposes,
actual places of religious worship,
places of burial not used or held for
private or corporate profit, and Institu
Hons of purely public charity, so as
to read as follows:
All taxes shall be uniform upon the
same class of subjects, within the ter
ritorial limits of the authority levying
the tax, and shall be levied and col
lected under general laws, and the
subject of taxation may be classified
for the purpose of laying graded or
progressive taxes; but the General
Assembly may, by general laws, ex
empt from taxation public property
used for public purposes, actual places
of religious worship, places of burial
not used or held for private or cor
porate profit, and Institutions of pure
ly public charity.
A true copy of Joint Resolution
No. 4.
ROBERT McAFEE,
Secretary of the Commonwealth,
Number Five.
A JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to the Con
stitution of Pennsylvania.
Do it resolved by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania in Gener
al Assembly met, That the follow
ing is proposed as an amendment to
the Constitution of Pennsylvania in
accordance with the provisions of the
eighteenth article thereof:
Article IX.
Section 15. No obligations which
have been heretofore Issued, or which
may hereafter be issued, by any coun
ty or municipality, other than Phila
delphia, to provide for the construc
tion or acquisition of waterworks,
subways, underground railways or
street railways, or the appurtenances
thereof, shall be considered as a debt
of a municipality, within the meaning
ot section eight ot article nine ot the
Constitution of Pennsylvania or of
this amendment, If the net revenue
derived from said property for a per
iod of five years, either before or after
the acquisition thereof, or, where the
same is constructed by the county or
municipality, after the completion
thereof, shall have been sufficient to
pay interest and sinking-fund charges
during said period upon said obliga
tions, or if the said obligations shall
be secured by liens upon the respec
tive properties, and Bhall Impose no
municipal liability. Where munici
palities of counties Bhall issue obliga
tions to provide for the construction
of property, as herein provided. Bald
said municipalities or counties may
also issue obligations to provide for
the Interest and sinking-fund charges
accruing thereon until said properties
shall have been completed and In op
eration for a period of one year; and
said municipalities and counties shall
not be required to levy a tax to pay
said Interest and sinking-fund charges,
as required by section ten of article
nine of the Constitution of Pennsyl
vania, until after said properties shall
have been operated by said counties
or municipalities during said period
ot one year. Any of the said munici
palities or counties may Incur indebt
edness in excess ot seven per centum,
and not exceeding ten per centum, of
the assessed valuation of the taxable
property therein, if said Increase of
indebtedness shall have been assented
to by three-fifths of the electors vot
ing at a public election, In such man
ner as shall be provided by law.
A true copy of Joint Resolution
No. 5.
ROBERT McAFEE,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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TAFT DEFENDS
nECENT VETOES
Militant Speech at Columbus
Centennial Celebration
REFORMS SHOULD BE SLOW
Mentally Deranged Woman With Two
Knives Attemps to Interview Presi
dent; Detectives Nab Her In Time.
President Taft was the guest at the
Ohio-Columbus centennial celebration
at Columbus, O.
In one of his addresses the presl
dent took occasion to warmly defend
his recent vetoes and to uphold the
veto principle. Referring to his own
use of the veto the president said:
"1 think I have used It moderately,
though some of my friends do no
agree. They have said that if I were
a king and should do what 1 have done
my head would drop in a basket. Hut
I am not a king. I am a president
elected by the people and representing
a greater pr jportion of the people than
any legislator.
"The president, therefore, is re
sponsible to a greater extent for legis
lation which Is passed than any other
single person.
"One trouble with some legislation
Is that some reformers want every
reform put Into effect tomorrow mora
Ing befcre breakfast. It Is well to
make progress slowly, but to be sure
we are making it. Change is not
progress.
"A good executive must practice in
dividual self-restraint, weigh what he
is told and to do what he believes is
true. Cod is on the side of popular
government and It Is making progress
slowly but surely."
Caroline Beers, aged forty, of Green'
ville, O., was arrested in the Southern
hotel while awaiting the coming of
President Taft. The woman, who is
said to be mentally deranged, is al
leged to have declared she intended to
punish the president. "I have the
sacred knife for President Taft," she
said.
When searched two knives were
found on her, one a long keen-edged
weapon.
RENEW FIGHT ON SENATORS
Chilton and Watson of West Virginia
Again Attacked.
A demand for an Investigation of the
election of Senators William E. Chilton
and Clarence W. Watson of West Vir
ginia was made in a petition presented
to the senate before adjournment. The
petition called attention to charges
of bribery publicly made In reference
to the election of the two West Vir
ginia senators.
The document was referred to the
committee on privileges and elections.
Senators Hailey, Bacon and Martin,
all Democrats, declared the petition
had been made for political purposes.
Senator La Follette defended the
petition as furnishing more basis for
Investigation than did the original
charges against William l.orlmer.
The petition was signed by Gover
nor William E. Glasscock, William
Seymour Edwards, Ilerschel C. Ogdea,
llavid B. Smith and Frederick A. Mc
Donald and made a formal demand for
an Investigation.
The charges are similar to the ones
made to the West Virginia legislature
year ago.
BODY OF COAL MAN IN LAKE
Supposed to Be James Donnelly of
Bradford, Pa.
Mystery attaches to the finding In
Lake .Michigan, near Chicago, of
what Is thought to be the body of
James Donnelly, a wealthy coal
operator of Bradford, Pa.
The body was clad In expensive
clothing and In the pockets of his
coat were found over $2,000 wrapped
with a paper of the First National
bank of Bradford. There also was
a hank book issued by that bank in
which a notation of the withdrawal of
a larger sum was made.
There were no apparent marks of
violence, but the suicide theory Is con
sidered to be the least likely true of
all because of lack of motive.
BOY DROPS 2.000 FEET
Balloon Rope Grips Lad and Whirls
Him to Death From Lofty Height.
At Flint, Mich., fourteen-year-old
Chester Betts, son of Bert N. Betts
of Flint, was accidentally caught by
fie guy rope of a balloon and curried
up 2,0110 feet in the uir before the rope
untangled and hurled him to his death,
lie crashed against the roof of a barn
ml was still aive when spectators
reached Ii i m. hut he soon expired.
Many at first tlionshl the youMi
angling at the end of a rope was a
iiiumy.
Titanic Woman Suea Company.
Mrs. Elizabeth Faunthrope, widow
f a Titanic victim and herself a sur
ivor, has sued the White Star com
pany for $10,000 in the federal court
li Philadelphia for the loss of her
iisliaud.
Chicago's Population 2,450,000.
Chicago's new directory gives the
city an estimated population of 2,-
0,000.
Witnesses Get Away.
Three witnesses for the state in the
Rosenthal case are missing.
ICAN.
i no PEP AWWT1U
Wealthy Washingtonian
Called Tax Dodger
PERRY BELMONT.
Washington Is aroused over the
chaise that some of Us wealthiest
and most prominent residents have
been undervaluing their fine houses
in the northwest section of the city
In order to dodge their fair share of
taxes. Among those accused Is Perry
Belmont, former New Yorker, whose
fine house, built on a triangular plot,
is always pointed out to sightseers.
PARCELS POST JAN. 1
Postmaster General Hitchcock Work
ing Out Details.
Announcement was made by Post
master General Hitchcock that the
postolhce department would be in
readiness .Ian. 1, 191 :t, to put Into gen.
eral operation the recently authorized
parcels post system.
The postal express business, whirl
must be organized within the next
four months, will extend over mori
than a million miles of rural delivery
and the star routes and will cover, 1b
Us various ramifications, all systems
of transportation of parcels now
utilized by private express companies.
In order to take up personally and
Immediately the work of organization
of the new service Mr. Hitchcock has
cancelled engagements he had for his
vacation and will remain in Washing
ton to direct the organization.
OPTIMISM REIGNS
Period of Prosperity at Hand Dun's
Review.
Dun's Review of Trade sajs this
week:
"Advices from leading cities, both
east and west, with scarcely an excep
tion, speak of a bigger volnme of trade,
larger advance orders, better employ
ment of labor and a growing conti
dence that the now practically as
sured crops make the future secure.
"In every part of the country busi
ness optimism is the rule and all other
considerations are practically Ignored
In the light of the conviction that a
period of national prosperity has set
in which only some great and im
probable calamity could stop."
WOMEN TOOK TO THE ROOF
Imagined Burglars Were In House.
Rescued by Cop.
Mrs. V. I. Whitehouse, a seventeen-
year-old bride, and I.avinla Adams
were rescued by a policeman from tho
roof of the former's home at Louis
ville, Ky., where they had marooned
themselves to escape supposed bur
glars.
The two were startled by noises In
the house and climbed out of a window
onto a slanting root', where they stood
in the rain until their cries attracted
a neighbor, who untitled the police.
TEMPTS FATE AND LOSES
After Being Rescued Striley Goes Back
on River and Drowns.
A few minutes after he had been
rescued from drowning In the Alle
gheny river at Montrose, near Pitts
burg, Edward A. Striley, aged eighteen,
ventured hack upon the stream in an
(doit to recover a canoe which had
been abandoned in Hie lirst mishap.
Stiilev ai:ain fell Into the water,
drowning before assistance could
reach 1 j iiii.
Pcnnsy Telegraphers Vcte on Strike.
A strikp ballot Is being taken
among the telei:r;iiers employed on
the Pennsylvania Railroad lines east
uf Pittsburg. Three thousand men are
nvolved.
Storm Scares Boy to Death.
ICvideiitly frightened by a severe
electricul storm Frank C. Iloelzle,
aged lil'teen, of Sharon, who was visit-
ng at Uulontown, Pa., died suddenly
n bed.
Prod For Uncle Sam.
Protection for foreign interests In
Nicaragua may be made on the I'nited
States by England, Germany and
France.
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CLEAT T. R.
Makes Sweeping Denial of Pen-rose-ArchbDld
Allegations
GIVES OUT LETTER TO CLAPP
Penrose Compared to Grafting Coo.
Colonel Promises Full Publicity of
His Spring Primary Contributions.
Theodore Roosevelt gave out the let
ter which he has sent to Senator Clanp,
chairman of the senate committee In
vestigating campaign contributions,
before which Senator Penrose and
John U. Archbold charged that Mr.
Roosevelt had been party to the solicit
ing and accepting of Standard Oil
campaign contributions lu 1904.
Mr. Roosevelt almost at the opening
gives the lie in these words:
"As regards tho statements of Mr.
Tenrose and Mr. Archbold that with
my conseut or knowledge Mr. Bliss
asked the Standard Oil people for
f 1 110,000 or any other sum, or received
such sum from them, It Is an unquali
fied falsehood."
Further on Colonel Roosevelt com
pares Senator Penrose to a grafting
policeman and adds:
"Ills language Is precisely the
language that might be used by a
blackmailing police officer in a big
city in advising the keeper of a law
breaking liquor saloon or a gambling
house to contribute liberally, because
other .vise he might incur hostility in
fertain quarters. If this language
were proved against the policeman
he would be removed from the police
force and as it Is admitted by the sen
ator he should bo removed."
Mr. Roosevelt promises that there
shall be full publicity of contributions
in his primary campalcn last spring.
"I wish to emphasize the fact," he
continues, "that the testimony of Mr.
Archbold and Mr. Penrose in this mat
ter is an attack on Mr. Bliss, who Is
dead, and is also, unwittingly, the
severest possible reflection on them
selves, but it Is In no sense any attack
on me, except insofar as they assert
that the dead man said that I knew of
his request for money from them.
"I do not believe that Mr. Bliss said
this any more than I believe their ac
cusation that Mr. Bliss deliberately
tried to blackmail the Standard Oil.
But plcnse keep in mind that this Is
an assault on Mr. Bliss and not on
me."
After a sweeping denial of know
ledge or consent to any of the steps
in the transactions as set forth by the
two witnesses he pays' a glowing
tribute to the memory of Mr. Bliss,
hut adds that of course he could not
say whether Mr. Bliss had asked for
or had received the money.
Further to prove that his skirts aro
entirely clean in the matter, although
the skirts of others might not bo 30
clean, Mr. Roosevelt quotes from what
purported to be an Interview with Cor
nelius N. Bliss, published In the New
York Herald of Doc. 24, 1911. In this
Mr. Bliss is quoted us correcting Ed
ward II. llarriman's assertion that In
1904 he received word of the desperate
state In New York from Roosevelt.
.Mr. Bliss said that he conveyed that
Information to tho railroad man. Ho
discussed the situation anil the stops
taken to raise the $200,000. At the
coiiclu.iion of the Interview this ques
tion was quoted In tho Roosevelt let
ter which apparently further Involves
Mr. Bliss:
"Then the president had nothing o
do with the raising of the money?"
Answer: "Not once In the confer
ence of the committee was there any
suggestion that he was doing It. Tho
only thing that Mr. Roosevelt had to
do with such matters was to Issue
orders that money was not to be ac
cepted from this or that person. His
orders were ignored, as it was recog
nized that this was something about
which he must not Interfere and I
brooked no Interference."
I'he letter to Senator Ciapp, which
s about l.'i.Miin words long, goes x
laustively into his correspondence
with Chairman Cortelyou of Oct. 26
and 27. In which It Is ordered that the
$0il,nun from the Standard Oil com
pany be returned at once, although
the sum Is not mentioned, all of which
was Just uf' -r the time that Alton B.
Parker had lirst made his charge that
the Republican nominee and his chair
man were obtaining money from th
great corporations in an unusual way.
Tho often printed llarrlman corre
spondence Is reprinted In full and
liter amimincing Collector Loeb, then
private secretary, as corroborating
with it, lection Is made of Senator
.foii:i tli in Bourne as an intermediary
for th" Stan. I ird Oil at about the time
the s.'ils wrro to be brought.
Incidentally, a pan: graph is Injected
to give the colonel nn opportunity to
praise William t;. Hearst for his pub
lic service cf high importance and Mr.
Hearst Is requested to publish every
thing he lias of the Archbold letter
nies.
The Inst part of the letter Is taken
up with thirl patty propaganda and a
tribute to George W. Perkins. The
colonel goes on record as being against
the limitation of contributions to J."00
or $o,(ii0. He does not think the
amount of money has anything to do
with Improper use or purpose.
"We are anxious to have the help
of honest men of means." s:vs the
colonel as he draws near the ecd