Show SMOOT AND lENROOT INSIST THERE WAS YAS NOTHING WRONG tHRONG ABOUT VISIT ViST TO ALBERT March arch Pre I-Pre- 1 Pre Pre senate discussion of the th oil matter Friday Senator Hemn thAt he might mi ht call 0 on time Ur senate nato by resolution to Itself to the tho propriety of ot Senators and Smoot making what h he characterized as a secret visit to rail Fall He lie d declared the ass nit as an extraordinary thing to m nl mind vt very ver r responsible ibm ible After dwelling upon the tho isit at atao ic atso-ic ao- ao so-Ic so icon i Heflin 1 tie tie- d to know aimo a ho Ius-geste Ius suggested to toI toI toI I all li that thit ho he tell the committee that McLean loaned him hint the them thee m mood About e ut the time most despicable of human Interrupted Se- Se Sen Senator ator Is the tho th assassin of and I ha e a right to aSk the b t he lie Intends to Insinuate b by Innuendo that I 1 had any part n n concocting a II lla lie on the tho part patt o of Senator benator Fall o I 1180 hate e not accused the son son- ator of ot trying tr Ing to concoct a lie said aid Sen But But I tilli III ask th that t question many a time time- time whoever hoe r suggested to Fall 1311 to state that he ho got col his money mom from Ld McLean Lean Again I ant to say Senator Lenroot that I thin think I of o an anything thins thing more despicable tItan than the insinuations the senator from Alabama Mould lea leae e with wl the senate enate I I cannot think of an thing thine more despicable Senator replied than Ihan a 0 pu tIan senator I leasing lea a InK his committee loom loom telling an any member except another peru peru- nan san slid goIng goIng- Into the loom of time the crimInal charged un H indictment and nd talking to him about nhit ito he ought to say lIlY ay or ought not to a say and then not tell the committee ili 11 about it rite rhe rh stated e- e ho had told one ono or t two tao o I ask me too senator what hat senator lIe be told I t after Mr McLean a s tes-I tes tos- tos tes testimony Senator oot r replied I I stated to the senator front Mon Mon- Montana Montana tana Senator Walsh Walh that Sen- Sen Senator Senator Sen Senator ator I Ixil had lied to the tho senator from rom Utah Mr Smoot and my- my myself my myself self as he lie had bad to the lh committee A eel ur r ten days day ago BIO I 1 told this ahole hole stor ston as I 1 told it yesterday to the nato from tram St Mr Dill Dill another D on the tho committee If It If the tho senator front from Wisconsin I told me m the hole tory story tory as a he told Jt It her here hete I 1 did not so HO understand It Intel inLet I Senator Dill Ino cr I Iamer no Cr knew and nd I 1 never had bad any Idea there ha had been any meeting between Senator Fall the sena- sena senator senator sena senator tor from Utah and the senator from H 1 Is thero there all an another other witness the senator would to put up upP asked Senator Heflin Rec h Ing no he asked Senator al aish h about the matter I I would not undertake said Walsh to to say tay that the senator from did not any SolY sayto to me mo Just exactly what ho be h said I 1 Ido Ido do recall that the senator from Utah told me after I got tot back from 1 lonida that th t Senator rail Fall had hint that he had got cot the tho mooney front from McLean Did he lie say way anything about call call- callIng calling call calling ing on him at Wardman Pal Fa k 1 Senator Heflin No No he lie not 3 1 the tho re- re spon re-spon ponso I Of course the tho statement that ho he did make necessarily implied im that lie had md mH Senator Fall some some- somewhere some somewhere where H s LH COU Senator Lenroot later told the senate enato that he lie had hod rail Pall to urge that he come before the sen- sen senate senate sen senate ate and tell teli the whole truth about the matter and that he bo h did that as ao aoa asa asa a matter of duly duty I cannot see nee any Impropriety In lathat that visit at all returned Senator Senator 1 Neither of the senators Indulged the suspicion about this hole whole transaction about which I IMAS aas Impressed from front the th rry sery ery bo be- be beginning bo ginning I 1 cannot doubt tor for a 0 a moment that thal the tho suspicions suspicion of the senator from Wisconsin and the time Senator Com Utah must mut have b been n arous arous- aroused arous- arous aroused aroused ed this matter bet before are Thatis the they Senator Full Fall That Is the plain statement of the til thinK thing and nd I again ln say that I can see no ImproprIety In those two to gentle genUe- gentlemen mon men political frIends an and former associate of Senator rail Fall going to find Cind out hat the tho th truth about the th matter Of course it would have been a II happier circumstance I says sa I frankli If It the th senators senator ha had come commit commit- committee committee tee teo and told u us that th they the had bad suit suited ed d Secretary I all and anti what hat he bo h had told th them pm 1 I want to say interrupted Senator Smoot that that alien ben hen ben benator ben ben-ator ator 1 all sent cent that letter to the I benI committee sa sayIng Ing he ha had borrow borrow- borrowed borrow rd ed believed the money tram front MeLean McLean I be- be be It as 88 a much as ae a I eer eser be- be beI b I he hated li ed anything that tier cur came tomy to toi i my notice i thought thou ht every very WOI worl woid J I j in it u a as true I I accept the tIme statement of the tho senator d Senator Walh and I 1 have no doubt It Is I J Correct but he h could not hM have hate e accepted It It if he h had hod pot not been decidedly fi to the cause caus of benator rail Pail no One on can take the letter and look at it and read rend lt tand t and Imagine that it II Wis tess 11 a franl rani statement nt of the affair I believed every word of ot It n as tru true astrue 1 Senator moot If Jr thon theon the th on monitor tor OKI 11 i ml cons eisel with th Ih about town lown selmo ho ho house house- Rn thing about Ted McLean Son Son- Senator Sen Senator ator ISaIah alah said 1 undertake tu to say that nine nino nin out of ey e ten tell would ha e been ben able to tell toll It could not possibly bo be b true I knew nothing about McLe n nor his condition I IC- IC le e- e eI plied the Utah senator t I n rUt Lenroot then n was waa able to continuo contInue his address I Ito If J there was seas anything an discreditable In urging ur Senator Fall to come corne before the tho th committee hI he saId said and and disclose fully to the tho commIttee the source of thIs mone money then I am gUilt guilty of an a mm- mm im impropriety propriety but bul not otherwise other I thought a public sen Ice isa nas 8 1 be- be beIng being be being ing rendered in doing what nas as done Senator Lent oot then referred to toan toan toan an muller callier statement by that the McLean lr wire Ire perba perhaps went into tho the VIt Wt W House Hous and stated that he h did not so Its It hat s hat are the tact facts about It asked S I 1 do not knon kno HAI as tho the re- re reply re pi ply We We Ve will wll find out before sic e get through I hope as to rho facts but the then e Is no wI wile e into Inlo the th White House Hou c as n I undu- undu undu stand tand the tho tells telegrams IsO 0 0 TE Senator Dill said sad he h alon un- un understood un understood 1 was no ato a Ire Into the House HoUke but that the tho operator at al the White Whitehouse WhiteHouse house operates the private Ire hire for Of course we will find put out fully Cully about that tor bi-tor MB hO et through Senator Lenroot asid Tue committee his hu not ye yet com COOl completed completed 11 Its In in In este on that subject It does docs expect to exam in hue Ine all of the parties who sent tel tl among amons th them thuin ln thoo who ho Bert ert or hav- hav havIng Ine log Ing r fes fel ence to the tho bite hite house Senator Dill lead tho th McLean telegram to the Hie wire Ire und mid the lII nt of Smithers to operate It 1 lb n sum sum- summing sum mint ming them then U Up ui lie he said saul I 1 read a II moment ago aeo a tele- tele telegram tele gram Irons from the th confidential man manof manof mano of Attorney Mr McLean ad- ad adIce au- au autice lice ad-lice tice Ice as to the of oC this thia com coin commIttee com mitte ln him because of the time way a ho lie had ad d ce td the Iho committee Tho The trail of this thIng goe goes the tho rounds of the th s of offices flee and It seems e en e In isis his 0 own n office wordin f yet ct et we e hl hiso ha o e had no word In explanation army y n o a man who ho Is pr 8 te confidential It she lio f milan man at atthe atthe the Write House Ilous become the private wire Ire lre man of E Ednard McLean a man mon who also ho I la is clearly gUilt guilty of Detore the corn corn- com and anti who I is clearly guilty guillY of ho basing hav ins Ing dece deceit ed tho time and combInation the country county and In Lion tion and in harmony armony with nith Mr Fall abe ho ho sold tho oil of tho the count country countr I 00 f |