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Show HERMANN TESTIFIES IN HIS OWN BEHALF PORTLAND. Or.. Feb. 3. The cross-examination cross-examination today of former Congressman Congress-man Blngcr Hermann, who Is testifying ln his own behalf ln his trial on a charge of conspiracy to defraud tho government of part of tho public domain, developed into a tedious session of arguments between be-tween counsel, submission of documentary documen-tary evldoncc and a long discussion between be-tween the defendnnt and Francis J. Honey, Ho-ney, special prosecutor for the government. govern-ment. Hermann testified that on receiving tho report of Special Agent Holzlnger, lie was astounded to learn that the creation of the Blue Mountain reserve was honeycombed honey-combed with fraud, and that he at once took the report to the late E. A. Hitchcock, Hitch-cock, then secretary of the Interior, and laid the whole matter before him. At this point Hermann denied that he did not lay the report before Hitchcock until un-til requested to do so by the secretary. The vest of the day was consumed ln the Introduction of a series of letters from Hermann to Dr. C. E. Loomis, a former special agent of the government. These letters had to do with apparent Irregularities Ir-regularities ln Loomis's accounts, which Hermann urged Loomis to try to explain; with Loomis's transfer from Washington atate to Oregon, and requests that Loomis quietly Investigate if conditions wore ripe for Hermann's candidacy for- United States senator. |