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Show SENATOR FORMER IS AGAIN HEARD FROM Virtually Declares That What He Received From Oil Trust Is His Owu Business. CINCINNATI, Oct. 1. That the law be Invoked against him if ho had dono wrong is the conclusion of a statement by United Unit-ed States Senator Forakcr, which no gavo to the Associated Press here today. Be-foro Be-foro making this suggestion, ho sums up tho various charges that havo been mado and discusses briefly the legal ethics aa to service for various clients. Tho statement state-ment Is in part as follows: "Tho questions in this whole matter in' which the public is concerned aro: "1. Whether I was employed, which was never concealed or denied; and. "2. Tho character of that employment whether It had anj relation to my duties du-ties as Senator or Influenced me in any J manner in regard thereto. "On all theso points I havo answered fully in my former published statements- "I havo not until now spoken of the compensation I received, because if tho employment was Improper. It would be no defense to show that It was a smull ployment was proper, tho compensation concerned only tho company and myself nobobdy else. If my former statements ore true, as I know them to be, tho employment em-ployment was entirely proper and legitimate, legiti-mate, and therefore the question of compensation com-pensation la ono I do not feel called upon to discuss with Mr. Hearst. "In view, however, of tho Important character of the service rendered, the ability of the company to pay, und If it may bo considered, although unforscen. tho disagreeable experience to which I am subjected, I think it would be difficult for Mr. Hearst to show thi I was over paid, but if ho should that would bo a mat tor for the company to complain about and not Mr. Hearst. "If I did not havo a right to accept that employment, I should probably bo criticised crit-icised for having been for years employed by tho Ohio Traction company on the ground that while such employment has no relation to my duties in Congress, yot in somo way now unforseen the company may be subjected hereafter to legislation by Congress or to rcderal procedure against it; or, perhaps, condemned for once representing the General Electric company, although that was beforo I was elected to the Senate, or tho Cincinnati Telephone company, by which I was employed em-ployed for many years before and for somo time after I was elected to tho Senate Sen-ate because It is a branch of tho Bell company, and these companies the Gon-eral Gon-eral Electric and tho Bell Telephone have now been charged according to tho newspapers with a violation of anti-trust laws and aro to be civilly and criminally proceeded against by the attorney-general of the 'United States." |
