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Show president" after scalp Of SENATOR ILMAN Southern Senator Accused of Being Implicated In Land Grab In Ore-gon, Ore-gon, and Using Franking Prlv-lieges Prlv-lieges for Private Business. Washington. President Roosevelt on Friday night mndo public details of an Investigation by postofllco Inspectors Inspec-tors nnd secret servico agents of Senator Sen-ator Tillman's connection with nn nl-leged nl-leged "land grab" In Oregon. As ho presents tho evidence to Senator Halo, In response to the lnttcr's request re-quest to tho heads of the various cx5 ccutlvo departments for a statement of tho operations of tho secret service, ser-vice, tho president undertakes to show: That Mr. Tillman used his influcnco ns a senator In an effort to forco tho tho government to compel a railroad corporation to relinquish Its control of land grants from tho United States In order that ho and his family and his secretary, J. D. Knight, might profit through tho purchnso of somo of tho land; That tho senator used his government govern-ment franking privilege In numerous Instances for tho conduct of prlvato business. Comparatively few senators wero favored with tho opportunity of reading read-ing tho president's report to Senator Halo, hut thoso who did read tho report re-port took a Bcrlous vlow of It. although al-though most of tho senators refused to bellovo thnt Mr. Tlllnmn had ever dono anything In violation of his oath. |