| Show PROMINENT MEN TO TESTIFY IN GOVERNMENT LIBEL SUIT I KNOX AND ROOT TO tb fiO BEFORE JURORS I 4 4 A 4 4 4 4 4 4 t tP P 4 0 4 4 Washington Jan ElIhu f 4 Root secretary of ot state Phil Phil- f ff f ander C C. Knox senator from 4 44 I 4 Pennsylvania attorney general 4 at the time Ume of ot the purchase of ot off f ff f Panama canal and secretary of ot off f state In future and Assistant At- At 4 f torney General CharI Charles os W W. Rus- Rus f 1 4 sell Een will will before the f ff f Federal grand Jury tomorrow Inthe in inthe f 4 the action that Is being prepared 4 I f against the New York World f 4 4 and the Indianapolis News for tor f 4 alleged 4 all ged libel In connection with 44 4 4 the canal scandal 44 4 I 4 for nil all three o officials 1 were wre issued 4 I 4 late this afternoon It Is cx- cx 44 4 4 that they will wilt be the only 44 4 4 witnesses es examined tomorrow 4 a Ott OMM t t 4 4 s M 4 t 4 9 OThere O Q There was no session of or tho the grand jury today President Roosevelt Roose et and Attorney General Bonaparte conferred con con- erred on the subject at noon the tho attorney general eLl said that n aI ala long Ions promised statement on the case caso would not bo ho Js issued now until ne next nest t Ve week k The Tho full tull text of ot the alleged lIbelous statements which It Is U claimed were published In he World and Indian Indian- spoils News concerning the Ule connection connection tion of Charles P. P Taft Douglas P P. Robinson and W. W Nelson Cromwell with the purchase of or the Panama canal will be read rad to tho ho grand jury tomorrow by bv Assistant United States Attorney Stewart McNamara It isnow is hs isnow now hinted that th the discovery discovery- yesterday yesterday yester yester- ster- ster da day that the Indianapolis News Is not nota a corporation but a private partnershIp partnership partnership partner partner- ship puts a different phase upon th the tb Inquiry affecting that publication This is borne out by the fact tact that although books and papers were call called d for tor they were not presented to the grand nd jury Tho The Impression remains strong that an Indictment will be returned front from this jurisdiction All An efforts to obtain any Information either from the dietrict district die dis attorneys attorney's or tho the department depart mont ment of ot Justice Justice- ware In vain J I. I 4 Ic I S n W T I IAre II I I 45 k- k kT T t 4 3 tN V I I I CHARLES P. P TAFT Brother of the Next President Whose Slanderers Are Taking Tak- Tak ing to the Timber 4 |
