| Show G CHAIRMAN AIRMAN S AND CLOVER LEAf LEAFu LEAF Because of His Large Holdings He Want to Give Up Presidency PRESIDENT SPOKE TO HIM Kajs SIp Sum s lie I le S ii es I cit Will 1 tI I Toll JI Id I Him Ilium What Hi lie Want Him Hm To Vt f lo 11 I Washington fi Theodore P 1 chairman c lie I im of tt me I Ii 0 isthmian let ii mIami ca cc canal Cl nal commission today resumed hU his hll tee tes testimony before the time senate committee on omi canals Senator had lund read 1111 tin tim protest of ut t mind and Dumas s of Non New ow York to President against the time manner In iii which the thi gar concessions had been granted to Jacob E I of o Omaha mil anti urging Its Il discontinuance on the tha ground rid that It I t humid had been entered Into I mm to Ir II rl The ho New Nel York firm Irm sold said the time proceedings in with th the letting of ot time the contract were sero lero Irregular Intimating iii I I iima collusion cot lu lon in 11 I I 1 I u a predisposition pred tion to tl award I will It to Mo hH koi kel Mr I Shunts Shouts raid fold tho tutu loIter letter to tn the time president bud ret ref referred erred this protest to hIm mind and he toad lead the reply he imo had made to the president These documents made mato public at itt tho time flame The rite change chunga I Dumm DUIn made In iii II their iii bid ii tier lur a In month condi conditions tun had been be u culled called to tl their attention Mid Mr II Shouts made Illde their bid higher thin than thal that of o Mr Mi h to Mi I ii Shouts reply to time the president IJ wherein It wan ida stated that tho time I slim Sll had tho right to cancel the tho tim Murkel contract upon giving 30 31 days dus notice Mi Mr h asked I I Mr Ir Shouts Shoots tp tji t point out In the time contract this thi right of ot calm fr itil that at itt II the time time the time contract was imas kt let there Wil outs no 10 way Siut In Iii the could coult ecu Id be Ie cancelled ma lou as IS long bug Ion I tie as lS the tho con lived up UI tn to It the time of time the Thu jib Watt was WU nl at length concerning the time slIces th tho time Murkel and amid 11 the time and Dumas bids bils Reverting He again to time tho l con comm contract I tract Mr said ho imo understood the right of cancellation ns as 08 he lie hl hall hail stated In his letter leler to time the president but that he hud not analyzed U It from it ii I legal point of view let ns It not mint your our duty to do so IO goT asked Mr I suppose It imUL WI but hul I 1 then under tinder understood understood stood It I n mis I replied Mt Mr 11 Shunts Shouts Personally 1 however I hail had little Itt to do ho with preparing the contract That was uns done by b Mr Ir Ross Hais Do no you Intond to continue your con as lie I provident of or the Leaf asked Mr Ir That replied the time wit wi nuis 1115 nuisOn On Oil what Well el ehl soul suld the II Wil the time pi plo evi evident l dent Mit spoke poke to tf me mime I about that t I told him that on 01 account of my lY large hold holl I did not want to gIve Ilo up UIl thu th presidency 1 I talked with President Roosevelt more mOl frankly than I 1 nm alit talking with wih you ou 1 I did not want tn 10 ii embarrass him Hi lii said he hue thought there would be no objection to my lY iii holding the tibet place If IC I 1 nerved ferell without that Is If ir I I WM merely merel tho the nominal president Then Thon you dont know what your our Intentions are ure asked Mr Ir The Ilme he president will wi tell tail tel mo nie ino what ho wants me limo 10 to tl do 10 1 J suppose IP me II plIed piled the witness In response to n a number nf of o ques questions lions lons Mr Ir Mid that he lie was mias now going to get rid nt 11 of or If lute his hI Interest In thu tho Clover Leut f but hut h ii 11 did tild not lot know klow how hoi these would terminate |
