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f'OL. XXXVI.
NUMBER 100.
COUNTY'S AUTO
BILL IS $26,000
IN 16 MONTHS
AUDITOR BLAMES DISTRICT
ATTORNEY'S OFFICE
DOW SANS HE GETS LITTLE AID
IN SAVING PUBLIC MONEY
Court Rules That Taxpayers Shall
Not Be Assessed for Motoring
Coats, Caps and
Goggles
HERRBERT G. DOW, county audit- i
or, won yesterday in his conten-!
tion that the county treasury
should not be called upon to pay for
the automobile clothing of county offi- •
cials. Judge Monroe, before whom the ■
hearing on the application for a writ of j
mandate to compel the payment of the '
bill was heard, refused to order the
auditor to pay for accessories, the price j
of which aggregated $79.50.
"I'd like to know what authority |
there is to make the county pay for
these things," said the court. "There!
is no more right in making the county |
pay for such items than for a silk hat
and a frock coat to be worn at a
funeral."
The auditor won in spite of lukewarm
counsel. An hour before the hearing
began Deputy Ristrict Attorney Shaw,
according to Mr. Dow, tried to prevail
upon him to pass the bill and have the
case dismissed. Even District Attor
ney Fredericks, it is said, tried to have
the bill settled in full.
On behalf of Mr. Dow, Deputy Shaw
prepared an anrver to the writ of man
date filed by the Los Angeles Motor
Car company. The answer noted only
a part of the exceptions taken by the
auditor to the coroner's bill. These
were as follows:
One automobile ci it, $28; another
coat, $35; two pairs of automobile
gloves, $9; two pairs of automobile
goggles, $5.50; one racin,-* cap. $1; one
regular automobile cap, $1; two blue
robes, $28.
Other Items Omitted
Why other things were not included
in the answer is a mystery. It certain
ly was not due to any wish on Mr.
Dow's part to keep them out. There
was the $95 speedometer and clock, and
the excess price for the automobile over
the list price as shown in the catalogue.
"You need not issue a warrant for
the coats, gloves, goggles and caps,"
(Continued on Page Two)
THE NEWS SUMMARY
FORECAST
For Los Angeles and vicinity: Rain
Saturday, brisk south winds. Maxi
mum temperature yesterday, 63 de
grees; minimum, 45 degrees.
LOCAL
Exposure of vice by Los Angeles Herald pro
duces consternation; Mayor Harper explains
his visit to Venice
Twenty-four young men at county court
house arraigned at one time on criminal
charges.
Post and Woman's Relief corps hold Joint
Installation of officers.
Court rules that Auditor Dow need not pay
' bills for unnecessary auto accessories presented
*by county \ officials.
Anti-racetrack Gambling league issues com
munication calling on citizens to contribute
money with which to fight the betting evil. I
Neighborhood row leads to arrest of wln«i
dealer who is alleged to have caused disturb
ance.
Negro is held to superior court on charge of
having robbed aged woman of $1500, which sum
the had accumulated by saving for a lifetime.
Grand jury busy with getting ready to render
report of its findings in its recent inquiry Into
I alleged vice protection.
Woman accuses detective in employ of board
of trade of defrauding her of money given him
to purchase land for her.
Man who managed McCabe's campaign for
membership on board of county supervisors is
elated for steward at county hospital.
Marriage which was celebrated on high seas
is annulled, wife alleging officiating clergy
man was ignorant of laws concerning matri
mony.
Police commission hold secret meeting in
which members say they discussed "new po
licemen."
Jud R. Rush addresses Jefferson club mem
bers at their observance of Jackson day, and
talks on modern graft.
Churches ask council to enact ordinance
which shall prohibit dice shaking at cigar
stands.
COAST
Northern California and Oregon cities cut
off from telegraph service and trains de
layed by storms; 100 inches of snow falls in
day at Summit; freezing weather at Port
land; California rivers badly swollen.
Great quantity of oil leaks out into San
Joaquin river, killing vast numbers of fish
and fowl and badly polluting waters. "
Over three hundred bills introduced by
solons of house and senate at California
legislature; two measures presented to abol
ish race track gambling and lobby is split
into many factions; lively battle expected.
Wheelwright who killed his wife in San
Francisco because she deserted him is
hanged at San Quentin with prayer on his
lips; shows no sign of nervousness.
Man arrested in Oakland on charge of
forging over $800,000 of notes must face
grand jury which is called to hear evidenco
against him.
San Diegans plan big celebration at open
, ing of two big water conduits just com
pleted. «.
Coast artilleryman accused of having shot
police sergeant in San Francisco while lat
ter attempted to aid provost guard in sub
duing him; officer dies on way to hospital.
Fight in the state legislature on the race
track issue is begun and it is claimed that
the gamblers themselves are in division on
. the question.
EASTERN
,* President Roosevelt alleges that Senator
/ Tillman used his influence to obtain timber
grant in Oregon for relatives and these ac
cusations are embodied in the president's
report to the senate.
Lower house of congress passes resolution
censuring the president for the language he
used in his message and in future it will
refuse to receive messages in which the acts
of members are denounced. Culberson reso
lution asking for president's authority in
instructing the attorney general not to
prosecute the steel trust for absorption of
the Virginia Iron and Coal company passed
by the senate by a big majority.
Teeth found in the church stove at St.
Clair, Mich., have been identified by a den
tist as belonging to a carpenter named
-Browning, who is known to have been seen
'with the clergyman, who Is also missing
and who is supposed to have been murdered
Belief *is now extant that the Rev. Car
michael is alive. J*
FOREIGN
Chinese reformer, Rang Tv Wei, : accuses
dismissed member of the grand . council of
China of being instrumental in the death of
emperor and predicts that the deposed of
ficial will be placed on trial for his connec
tion, with the matter. V v
LOS ANGELES HERALD
RULERS WHO MOURN
FOR QUAKE VICTIMS
y *** c!^s-4^*--,
QUEEN REFUSES TO
OBSERVE BIRTHDAY
BECAUSE OF QUAKE
Another Shock Causes Great Panic at
Messina—Unite-! States Gunboat
Arrives—All of Injured
Housed
ROME, Jan. B.—Following the de- j
sires expressed by Queen Helena, the
anniversary of her birth, which was ob
served here today, was not attended by
any of the usual festivities.
Her majesty, as well as the king,
said that this year she wished to cele
brate the day by working doubly hard
for the Calabrian and Sicilian earth
quake sufferers, whose sufferings she
cannot drive from her mind.
The United States supply ship Cul
goa arrived this morning from Port
Said.
A detail Of bluejackets from the
Scorpion constructed an Anglo-Ameri
can station this afternoon upon a space
adjoining the ruined building ln which
the American consulate was located.
Dr. George C. Rhoades, surgeon of the
Scorpion, has assumed charge.
An undulatory earthquake shock
caused a great panic last night.
All of the injured have been removed
from Reggio and housed.
One thousand bodies have been dug
from the ruins of fallen buildings and
buried in improvised cemeteries.
Among those who escaped uninjured
when the shock came were three chil-,
dren, who, after being buried in the
debris of their home for seven days,
got out unaided, burrowing like mice.
The safe of the Bank of Italy, con
taining $3,000,000, has been found.
Fresh earthquake shocks are being
felt here at Branca Tofe and Messina
each night. They are preceded by ex
plosions, and buildings that -were not
totally destroyed in the big shock are
being further damaged.
COUNT AND PRETTY
STENOGRAPHER WED;
AGAIN DISAPPEAR
Yon Horst and Helen Kukulski, Who
Eloped from Los Angeles, Mar
ried by Minister in San
Bernardino
SAN BERNARDINO, Jan. B.—Count
Yon Horst and pretty Helen Kukulski,
who were reported to have eloped from
Los Angeles a few days ago, were mar
ried here this afternoon by Rev. E. H.
Fessenden, pastor of the First Presby
terian church. They disappeared im
mediately after the ceremony.
The girl gave her age as 19 years,
and the count gave his name as Jonu
: Koenigwarter and declared Russia is
his native land. The couple did not
give any account of their whereabouts
since they left Los Angeles, but it is
believed they have been traveling to
gether and when they learned their
actions were being Investigated by the
police decided to have a marriage cere
mony performed.
Helen Kukulski's mother was found
at her home, 1360 Myrtle street, by a
Herald reporter last night and in
formed ' that her daughter was mar
ried. Mrs. Kukulski said she received
a letter from Helen the day before from
San Diego saying they were happy and
would be home soon. The letter was
signed "Helen Koenigwarter."
Mrs. Kukulski was unable to under
stand why her daughter was married
yesterday when she had been informed
the couple had been married several
days ago at Santa Ana. But mother
like, she has faith in her child and de
clares all will end well.
Solon Dies in Nordhoff
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. Word has
been received here of the death in Nord
hoff, Cal., of State Senator Algernon
B. Roberts, a son of the late President
George B. Roberts of the Pennsylvania
Railroad company.
SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 9, 1909.
EXPOSURE OF
VICE PRODUCES
CONSTERNATION
HARPER TRIES TO EXPLAIN
TRIP TO VENICE
POLICE COMMISSIONER AGENT
FOR NOTORIOUS RESORT
Respectable Citizens Everywhere De
mand Full Investigation of Awful
Conditions in Infamous
Girl Traps *
IN many other places besides Mayor
Harper's office The Herald's state
ment yesterday concerning the
reign of vice in Los Angeles and the
story of the excutive's night trip to
Venice were the leading topics of dis
cussion. The consternation that fol
lowed' The Herald's first announcement
was increased when the story was
made public of the mayor's attempt to
dictate to the people of the seaside city.
Everywhere the Interest was as great.
In business offices, In hotel lobbies, at
the court house, on the street cars, at
public gatherings— fact everywhere
that men came together The Herald's
question was repeatedly asked:
"IS VICE PROTECTED IN LOS AN
GELES?"
Everywhere were heard such ex
pressions as: "Good! I hope the matter
will be followed to the end."
"I am glad to see The. Herald go
after this so vigorously. The thing
should be thoroughly probed."
"If vice is NOT protected, why do we
witness such scenes in the cafes. I
have heard in restaurants supposed to
cater to the best element conversations
which were positively indecent, and
they indicated a freedom which would
not exist if everything was strictly su
pervised in an honest manner. There is
something wrong, and I am glad to see
The Herald go after it."
Approve Herald's Action
The tenor of the average citizen's
conversation was in approval of The
Herald's attitude. Not only was thi3
apparent in conversations, but it was
evidenced to the management by many
letters, telephone and personal calls,
and messages showing the intense in
terest in the question.
"That's the question." said one man,
"IS VICE PROTECTED IN LOS AN
GELES? And decent taxpayers and
citizens look for a full answer from
The Herald."
The position of the city's executive
acting as an intermediary for the "in
terests" at Venice and a special pleader
for retention of the all-night policy in
another city was a topic that called
forth much Indignant comment. Many
business men looked upon it as an
affront to the city of Los Angeles, to
say nothing of the Indignity offered
Ocean Park through the official sug
gestion regarding that city's moral con
duct. - _,
The exposure of Mayor Harper's er
rand fell like a bomb at the city hall
yesterday morning, and there were im
mediate consultations. Mayor Eakins
is said to have been hurriedly sum
moned to Los Angeles, and lt was re
ported that Harper and he were closeted
in an office of the Los Angeles aque
duct at the Central building.
A statement purporting to have been
Issued by Mayor Eakins, but which
was signed on the typewriter as "H. B.
Eakins, mayor of Venice," was handed
out yesterday afternoon by Herbert
Kennedy, Mayor Harper's secretary.
In the statement Mr. Eakins' reason
for restricting the liquor business along
the beach was attributed to his desire
to prevent the beach towns going for
prohibition. If the statement is what
it purports to be no doubt the wholesale
liquor men used the comic opera ex
pression, "Well, that's fair enough."
The statement which Private Secre
tary Kennedy handed out as coming
from the mayor of Ocean Park is as
follows :*
In justice to Mayor A. C. Harper, *
who has been unjustly criticised
and placed in a false light, I make
this explanation of his visit to
Venice Wednesday evening.
I have known the mayor a great
many years and the bond of friend
ship between us has been very
close. Since becoming mayor of
Venice I 'have frequently called on
him in his office and he has called
on me at Venice, and we have ex
changed views on municipal affairs.
If he had called on me at Venice
Wednesday night, as reported, there
would have been nothing strange
nor unusual about it. But the truth
of the matter is he did not do so.
Mayor Harper came to Venice with
his friend, Mr. Sawyer, in the lat
ter's car for a ride. While at the
Ship hotel James Morley took ad
vantage of his presence to send a
car for me and ask that I call on
Mayor Harper at the ship.
In the course of conversation the
subject of the proposed early clos
ing of the Ship restaurant on ac
count of the disgraceful "Brownies"
ball at Venice New Year's eve came
up, and Mayor Harper expressed
himself that an injustice would be
done the proprietors of the Ship
"restaurant should they be put out
of business on account of it, as he
had always heard of the good order
that prevailed at the restaurant.
I explained to Mr. Morley that be
cause of the sentiment of the peo
ple along the beach the liquor busi
ness must be restricted or the
beach towns would go prohibition.
That ended the discussion.
Mayor Harper made no request of
me concerning a "wide open"
town; In fact the subject was not
broached.
The mayor congratulated me on
closing the "Brownies" ball, say
ing while he was not at the ball
he had seen the program and con
sidered it the most disgraceful ever
- heard of in California.
"H. B. EAKINS,
"Mayor of Venice."
'Liquor Men Shown Up
Commendation of The Herald's
searchlight, turned upon vice, was not
by any means confined to any one
class. Proprietors of cigar stands and
saloons, who as taxpayers and business
men are entitled _j to protection from
exploitation, freely commended The
Herald. Several did not hesitate to
express the hope that "the thing would
be shown up." *-.■>.'■":•'--.-" \
The conservative membership of the
liquor element has resented approaches
which have been made by representa
tives of city officials at various times
to secure investment in stock con
cerns. "We want no club held over
(Continued on Pajte Three.)
IS VICE PROTECTED
IN LOS ANGELES?=III
How Police Commissioner Sam Schenck Suc
ceeded in Placing with Liquor Dealers Stock
of Corporations in Which Mayor Harper
and Majority of His First Police
Commission Were Interested
If! considering the efforts of Samuel Schenck, Police Commissioner, to place the
0N stock of the the efforts of Samuel with persons interested in liquor dealing in the
stock of the Sugar Corporations with persons interested in liquor dealing in the
j city of Los Angeles, it is worth while to remember the power possessed by the
®km Police Commission, a majority of whom, together with the Chief of Police, were
interested in the Corporations in whose stock Mr. Schenck was dealing.
Under the provisions of the city charter and ordinances, the Police Commission has di
rect and absolute control of the liquor business of the city. It has the power to cause
to be issued liquor licenses to saloons, restaurants, hotels and wholesale liquor houses,
and it has the right to cancel such licenses.
Controlling, as the Commission does, the Police force of the city, it is also within the
power of the majority of its members in association with the Chief of Police to virtually
accord special privileges to any liquor dealer or dealers whom this majority may desire
to favor by causing the Police force of the city to wink at violations of the law govern
ing the sale of liquors, time of closing, etc. •
These -facts may or may not have been a contributing influence in inducing the per
sons and firms interested in the liquor business in the city to become stockholders of
the Pacific Sugar Corporation, the Pacific Sugar Company and the Pacific Securities
Company. Certain it is that a good many of them purchased such stock.
The lists of stockholders of these corporations in the possession of The Herald show
that George Zobelein, President of the Los Angeles Brewing Company, is the owner of
200 shares of the stock of the Pacific Sugar Corporation of thenar value of $20,000, and
that, John Graft Zobelein, also an official o: the same corporation, owns forty shares in
the same corporation.
While' the lists of stockholders above mentioned do not show that any of the stock in
either one of the Sugar corporations is owned by either one of the Maier Brothers, who,
with other members of the Maier family, are the owners of the Maier Brewing' Com
pany, the largest brewery in the city, yet The Herald is informed, and it believes correct
ly, that the Maier brothers actually own $25,000 of the stock of the Pacific Sugar Corp
oration. ..-.-•.■ -v X
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The Herald has also imformation which it believes reliable to the effect
that the Los Angeles Brewing Company and The Maier Brewing Company
own or control 120 of the 200 retail liquor licenses now in force in the city of
Los Angeles. If this is true, then it means that by the Zobeleins and Maier
brothers owning sugar stock which they now hold, 120 of the 200 saloons in
the city of Los Angeles were, by such ownership, brought into business
association and mutuality of business interest with the majority of Mayor
Harper's first Police Commission and the Chief of Police of the city.
The lists of stockholders show J. Henry Zitt, President of the San Diego Brewing
Company, to own 250 shares of the par value of $25,000 of the stock of the Pacific Sugar
Corporation. It is a well known fact that the beer of the San Diego Brewing Company
is sold in the city Los Angeles. As to whether or not that Company has acquired con
trol of any saloons in the city The Herald is not informed, but it is extremely probable
that such is the case, judging from the fact that brewing companies always find it con
duces to the handling of their output to control as many retail liquor establishments as
possible.
There are also a number of independent liquor dealers in the city of Los Angeles
whom the stockholders lists above referred to show to have acquired' considerable inter
ests in the sugar corporations.
Darmody & Schaeffer running a saloon on the corner of Fifth and Main
streets are shown to own 625 shares of the Pacific Sugar Corporation of a
par value of $62,500.
John Koster and J. J. Lonergan of Koster & Lonergan, who run the
Imperial Cafe, are shown to be owners of 37 and 38 shares respectively of
the Pacific Sugar Corporation.
Alexander Aikman, who conducts a saloon on First street, east of the
Salt Lake System, is shown to be the owner of 50 shares of the stock of the
Pacific Sugar Company.
R. F. Goings, who conducts a saloon on Seventh and San Pedro streets, is
shown to own 125 shares of the par value of $12,500 of the stock of the
Pacific Sugar Company and 500 shares of the par value of $50,000 of the
stock of the Pacific Securities Company. Mr. Goings * establishment will be
referred to again in these articles.
J. E. Dunne, commonly called "Chowder House Jim" Dunne, who was connected
with the Manhattan Hotel, of which The Herald shall have something further to say, is
also, according to information in the possession of The Herald, the owner of a consid
erable amount of stock in one or more of the sugar corporations, although, as in the case
of the Maier brothers, his name is not shown upon the lists of stockholders in the pos
session of The Herald.
There is also no doubt that a number of other liquor dealers in the city whose names
are not shown upon the stockholders' lists in the possession of The Herald, are interested
in one or more of the sugar corporations; thus associating them in a mutuality of busi
ness interest with the Mayor and the majority of his first Police Commission and Chief
of Police Kern.
The sum total of the foregoing is that parties interested in liquor dealing in the city of
Los Angeles and whose businesses were, therefore, under the direct control and practically
at the mercy of the Police Commission and the Police Department are shown to have be
come the owners of 2115 shares of stock of the par value of $211,500 in corporations in
which the Mayor, with the majority of his first Police Commission and Chief of Police
Kern, were also stockholders.
As these figures do not include the stock owned by J. E. Dunne, the amount
of which is unknown to The Herald, and the probable stock ownership of
several other liquor dealers, the probabilities are that at least a quarter of a
million of dollars of the stock of these corporations, in which the majority of
Mayor Harper* first Police Commission and Chief of Police Kern were inter
ested, is held by persons engaged in the business of selling liquor in the city
of Los Angeles.
Including the saloons owned and controlled by the breweries whose own
ers are interested in the stock of the sugar corporations with other saloons
whose individual owners have subscribed for this stock, it appears extremely
probable that at least 150 of the 200 retail liquor establishments in the city
of Los Angeles were connected by mutuality of business interest with a ma
jority of Mayor Harper's first Police Commission and Chief of Police Kern.
One, and indeed the principal official duty of this Police Commission and the Chief of
Police was to regulate and control these liquor dealing establishments. Upon the care
and faithfulness with which that duty was performed depended the enforcement of ''-*
laws and the existence or non-existence in&he city of Los Angeles of the evils ss&r'£i?
spring from uncontrolled or loosely controlled liquor selling. .'« -"k- >) - ,
The amount of stock in the sugar corporations placed in the hands of persons interest
ed in liquor selling in the city would seem to indicate that the influence*'wielded by Mr.
Schenck as a member of the Police Commission in his efforts to place this stock was very
effective. Indeed, so effective was it that it seems to have inspired Mayor Harper with
a desire to further extend the operation of this influence in financing corporations.
For some time after Mr. Schenck undertook his financial campaign among the liquor
dealers, Mayor Harper and Mr. Schenck became parties to the organization of another
corporation known as the Los Angeles-Utah Oil Company, of which the Mayor became
President, and which was also extensively financed among Los Angeles liquor men.
The story of this feat in what might be called "Municipal official finance" will be told
in tomorrow's Herald. „.-.
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TILLMAN FACES
SERIOUS CHARGE
BY ROOSEVELT
ACCUSED OF ATTEMPT TO
"GRAB" OREGON LANDS
PRESIDENT MAKES ACCUSATIONS
IN REPORT TO SENATE
Chief Executive Declares Solon Used
Influence in Conspiracy to Ob
tain Timber Grant for
Relatives
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.-President
Roosevelt made public tonight
details of an investigation by
postofflce inspectors and secret service
agents of Senator Tillman's connection
with an alleged "land grab" in Oregon.
As he presents the evidence to Sena
tor Hale, in response to the latter's re
quest to the heads of the various ex
ecutive departments 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 cor
poration to relinquish its control of
land grants from the United States in
order that he and his family and his
secretary. J. B. Knight, might profit
through the purchase of some of the
land, and also that the senator used his
government franking privilege in nu
merous instances for the conduct of
private business.
Senator Tillman did not permit the
fact that President Roosevelt was giv
ing out the charges against him to
alter his determination to make no
statement until Monday.
Does Not Deny Effort
No effort was made by him to con
ceal that when he had learned the
facts concerning the railroad grant ho
made an effort to obtain portions of the
land in the names of his family and
himself, but he declared that, as at the
most he could have got possession of
only a few hundred acres, his efforts
were, after all, in behalf of the public
and not especially in his own interest.
Immediately, after the conclusion of
the chaplain's prayer Monday Mr. Till
man will ask the recognition of the
chair on a question of personal priv
ilege. Departing from his custom of
extemporaneous speaking, he will read
his statement. .
The communication to Senator Hale
is nearly 3000 words long, and in addi
tion there are appended numerous ex
hibits, including copies of letters writ
ten by Senator Tillman and his agent.
William E. Lee, showing that they did
make an effort to secure several quar
ter sections of the Oregon land, and the
report of the postofflce inspectors who
investigated the transaction of the land
agents. It was through this investiga
tion that the alleged interest of Senator
Tillman was brought to light, and.
fatefully, it appears that it was at his
instigation that the inquiry was begun.
Substance of Charges
The substance of the president's com
munication to Senator Hale follows:
"I have requested the different de
partments of the government to give
me all the information about the use of
special attorneys, special agents, in
spectors, etc., in their departments,
which will enable me to put before you
all the facts which, as I take it, your
committee desires to have.
"Let me at the outset express my
ocrdial agreement with the view that
it is not only the right but the duty of
congress to investigate the workings
of the secret service or detective agents
by which alone the government can
effectually safeguard itself against
wrongdoing, punish crime and bring to
Justice criminals. I am well aware of
the liability to abuse inherent in any
effective detective system or secret
service system.
"It nevertheless remains true that
this system is absolutely Indispensiblo
if the popular interest is to be ade
quately safeguarded and wrogdoers
continue to fear the law.
"I would like to state here that very
frequently accusations have been mad?
to me privately by members of the two
houses to the effect that the secret ser
vice had been used as a 'police of mor
als' or to shadow senators, congress
men and other public officials.
Detectives Baffled
"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 where
this has been done in times past.
"Of course, in the investigation of
specific frauds we sometimes come 1
across wholly unexpected cases of mis
conduct. The frauds in the postal de
partment which were unearthed some
six years ago, for instance, offer a case
in point.
"My suspicions were first aroused by
a report made as to the very extrava
gant and debauched manner of life of -
a certain postal employe, the report be
ing made by an official of the secret
service In connection with another
transaction at which he was at work.
"So it was with the cases of the abuse
of the franking privileges. The post
office never of sea purpose inspects any
printing sent through the mails by a
senator or congressman, but sometimes
through the accidental breaking of such
package the contents are exposed, and
if they are of a character which makes
their transmission by franking privilege
illegal steps are taken by the postofflce
authorities to collect the full postage.
' Ignorance or Carelessness
"Some of these instances are due to
carelessness or ignorance, and very of
ten doubtless are entirely unknown to
the congressmen themselves and no
good purpose would be served by any
publicity in the matter.
"But a case has just arisen of a dif
ferent kind, which it seems to me I
should put before you as illustrating in
striking fashion the way 'in which in
vestigation begun by. any of these
agents in the line of their duty may
develop facts of high Importance, -which
the investigators would not in the first
instance have so ight to discover, and
which, when dlscofigred, ought not to
be hidden or suppressed, but the de
velopment of which may tend to create
an erroneous impression that the agents
in question were being .used for. pur
poses not within the line c" their law
ful duties.
"On the 19th of February, 1908, (see
exhibit A) Senator Tillman called the
attention of the senate to a circular of
a syndicate firm for the sale of land in
Oregon, particularly in Coos and Doug
las counties, which had been granted
to corporations by the government, the;
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