| Show SENATOR FORAKER WITHDRAWS A SENSATIONAL DOCUMENT REFLECTING ON THE HIE PRESIDENT Washington March arch 30 Senator Fora Foraker Foraker Foraker ker obtained leave leae to withdraw from the senate flies files a paper by him himon himon himon on Wednesday last and printed as a pub public public public lic document and the order carried with it the suppression of oC all the printed copies of the paper His Introduction of the paper last week and the withdrawal today contained no intimation of the sen sensational sensational sensational character of oC the document which still would be unknown had it not been for the fact that several copies had been given out before beCore It was suppressed The paper was prepared by Henry W Y Elliott of or Lakewood 0 O and purported to be the official record of oC the loot and ruin of the fur seal herd of oC Alaska It was written In chronological order begin beginning beginning ning fling about issy and continuing to the present time It was written In long longhand longhand longhand hand closely closet written and difficult to read Professor Protessor Elliott had submitted records of oC pelagic sealing several times and they the had always been b n printed as pub public public lic lie documents Therefore when Senator Foraker was asked to have the alleged official record printed he hc made the re request quest in the usual form forni and did not take the tue trouble to read it It Today Todil he ho made apologies awl ap ogles logies to Vice ice President Fairbanks and anil several senator It was not nol until the paper came out in printed form today that Its Us character be came known It was found to reflect upon the integrity of the presiding officer of the senate and upon members of the senate and house and other govern government government ment officials Passing over thirty years of the official cial l records Professor ProCessor Elliott dealt with the work of the high commission In connection with the seal In question and told of an argument made ma by Mr Fairbanks in opposition to a abill sealing bill before beCore the senate te committee on foreign relations in when he was a member of the committee This paragraph is taken from mm the bill In the house But on Feb 17 l 1 in the senate for foreign foreign foreign j eign relations committee Senator Fair banks bariks deliberately tells the committee that this bill is not needed that the fur seal question has bas been agreed to by the Joint committee and only awaits the for formal formal mal publication when the commission as assembles assembles assembles he assured the committee that the reconvention of oC the commission is to take place soon after March 4 t C I The statement of Senator Fairbanks was an untruth In every eer respect a square and wholesale fabrication on his pad narl to defeat the pending bill Under the The cir circumstances his hi colleagues could not dis dispute dispute his hi false Calse reV rt therefore they took no action on all this Dill bill at a t his request The official record totem refers in a aging manner to the part taken by the late Secretary of State John Hay in re gard to the sealing question and charges I that legislation was bitterly opposed by I Ithe the land and sea butchers of the tho fur Cur seal herd who had suborned certain senators congressmen a department officials It refers alsoto 0 the extended trip of inspection over ove Alaska made by Sena tors Nelson Burnham and Patterson and mentions the fact that no legislation was accomplished Fault Is s found Cound also with the fact that Secretary Root and Assistant Secretary Bacon had done absolutely nothing although fully tully Informed that a plan of mutual concession and joint control of United States and Canada could be successfully negotiated in six weeks time The long icing record closes closs Us as follows Why should this infamous work of the land and sea butchers butche of ot our fur Cur seal herd go thus unchecked And nd that too when the Canadian government asks us to unite with it on a 1 proper plan to suppress it No quibbling or nonsense about the tho sity of seeing or sounding Japan Russia will bear the tho light of ot honest dis or These governments have hae both been ready tea d at any an hour since 87 to unite imite with us on any plan to suppress pelagic fur scaling which we w could coull first get Can ada to assent to |
