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Show RACE TRACK BILL I ANDTHECOLONEL Syracuse N Y , April 27. Toward the close of Colonel Roosevelt s sixth day on the stand in the Barnes libel suit against him, William M. Ivins for Barnes began to rke the record of "President' Roosevelt as relentless ly as the record of "Governor" Roosevelt Roose-velt had been overhauled the day before. be-fore. First a letter was introduced showing that Mr Roosevelt when president had approved Barnes course in the race track bills, I course which succeeded in defeating him at the regular session In his answer to the complaint, Mr Roosevelt sets forth specifically that Barnes' action on the race track bills was one thing of which he emphatically emphat-ically did not approve. Next Mr Ivins reminded the witness wit-ness that H C. Prick and George V. Perkins of the United States Steel corporation had contributed to his presidential campaign in 1904. Ivins secured the admission that Mr Roosevelt while president had never instructed his attorney general to prosecute that corporation. After that the cross-examiner went into th ! matter of the Tennessee Coal & Iron company, whose purchase by the steel corporation was authorized by President Roosevelt. Again the witness wit-ness admitted that no action under the Sherman law had been sot on foot as the result of this alleged violation of that statute Probing for a like state of affairs . mil,. m- new i urh, iw na.t;ii & Hartford, Ivins fell foul on a sham answer. "I did,' the colonel exploded when the lawyer asked him if he had ordered or-dered any investigation into the affairs af-fairs of that railroad How far Ivins proposes to go into the colonel's relations with corporations corpora-tions he did not reveal. He informed the court, however, that to prove malice mal-ice and insincerity he will show that Mr. Roosevelt has done exactly the same things of which he accuses Barnes Also that Roosevelt's wrath was not kindled against Barnes unt.l the latter thwarted the colonel s effort to get the Republican presidential nomination in 1912 Tn support of this contention more of the Piatt-Roosevelt correspondency was read in the morning and a great number of Roosevelt-Barnes epistles in the afternoon. 'All right, of course, in view of your second telegram I will come, but ou arc not an 'easy boss, " was der by Piatt to attend a meeting of governors in Washington when Roose velt yearned to foregather with Odeil and other friends at a charter revision banquet in New York. When Piatt protested in the name of "our friends of the New York Central Cen-tral and the Long Island" against forcing the railroads to pay franchise tax on grade crossings, the colonel replied re-plied "I am exceedingly sorry if any hard ship has been caused either to the New York Central of the Long Islan 1 railroad, but this was a matter where I had to act by the advice of the i ommisslon " In another letter to Piatt, Governor Roosevelt ventured to recall that he was to name at least one of a three-man three-man commission which Piatt had apparently ap-parently filled to suit himself |