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TIIE SUNDAY OREGOJrtANY PORTLAND SEPTEMBER 20, 1903.
PHOTO GRAPHS SHOWING THE WEIGHT AEROPLANE, ITS MECHANISM AND ORVLLLE
FORAKER TELLS
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; Standard la Ohio Suits and Re
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fluence " Legislation.
CINCINNATI; Sept. 19. As part of
the purchase money In an unsuccessful
deal for the- ownership of the Ohio
State Journal at Columbus, the draft
for 150.00 mentioned In the -John D.
Archbold letter, inane public last night
In St. Louis by William R. Hearst, was
received by Senator Foraker, and on
' the failure of the attempt to buy "that
paper -the draft was returned-and the
Incident forgotten, according to a state
ment given to the Associated -Press by
the Senator here today.
Senator Foraker declares In his
statement that no one at any time
ever paid him a cent or suggested any
such payment In recognition of any
thing he might do as a. public man.
Iried- to Buy Newspapers.
The statement is as follows:
"The production by Mr. Hearst of the
letter of Mr. Archbold to me'dated Janu
ary 29. 19ui. referring to a certificate of
deposit enclosed for J50,000 and expressing
the hope that the transaction may be
safely concluded, illustrates hdw unreli
able is the memory and how easily ap
pearances may deceive.
"When I first read the letter "1 could
not recall that I had" ever received any
such letter or any such certificate. I at
once called up my house in Washington,
where my letters of that date are on file,
and had a search made, with the result
that a proposed transaction was recalled
that had gone entirely out of my mind.
"A friend of mine a newspaper man
Informed me that he held an option
on the Ohio State Journal, to purchase
it, according to my present recollec
tion., for J135.O0O. He was able him
self to advance but a small amount of
this" purchase price. He applied to me
! to help: him, I did not have enough
! money to be of very material assist
ance, buc for the sake of having the
I -paper in friendly hands I was willing
I to advauice a part of it. I applied to a
number of friends to see if they would
not make up the balance of the amount.
V
ot Standard to Help.
"Among others, I applied to the Stand
( ard Oil Company. They first agreed to
loan to the newspaper company when
I purchased 'and reorganized 132,000, ac
I cording to my present recollection, the
sale to' be secured by the stock of the
newspaper company. Somebody who
I was expected to go Into the enterprise
J dropped out, and that made It neces
j sary for all the others to increase the
I amounts they proposed to advce. At
the request of my friend I asked the
different parties to. Increase the- ad
J vances-, and thereupon the Standard Oil
1 Company did accordingly inorease the
I amount from $35,000 to $50,000. and
sent me the letter with certificate in
closed, as stated. It was thought at
that time that the transaction would
be Immediately closed, but there was
a delay of a few days, and at the end
of that delay the whole transaction fell
to the ground because other people had
sterPed in and purchased the property.
"Thereupon I returned the draft to
the Standard Oil Company. I had no
employment in the matter and never
derived a cent of profit from It and
never made any charge on account of
it to anybody. I am at the disadvan
tage of not being able to produce this
correspondence because it is in my files
in Washington, and I cannot get at it
for the present, but I am confident that
when I am able to produce it, it will
be found to be in exact i-ccord with
my statement.
Supported Bennett's Claims.
"I do not remember to have received the
letter relating to the bill introduced by
Senator Jones, of Arkansas, but whether
I received such a letter ot not. it had
no reference to any employment of any
kind from the Standard Oil Company or
anybody else; nor did the letters about
Smith Bennett and Judge Burkett. read
by Mr. Hearst at Columbus, have any
. reference to any employment. I favored
: the nomination of Mr. Bennett notwith
standing Mr. Archbold's objection to him,
i and would have favored Judge Burkett's
' nomination if I had not heard from Mr.
1 Archbold. Judge Burkett was a personal
i as well as political friend of many years'
! standing, and 1 favored him the first
time he was nominated, which was long
. before I knew Mr. Archbold.
i "1 can only repeat that the only em
i ployment 1 ever had by the Standard Oil
Company was as set forth in my state
ment published yesterday, as advisory
! counsel with respect to their affulra In
. Ohio.
Legal Services to Standard.
"It will be remembered that the Ptand
! ard Oil Company was first sued and a de
! cree ot -dissolution was entered in the Su
! preme Court, which made it necessary for
. the company to reorganize. Dlmcultles
arose in carrying out that -decree, which
delayed their reorganization, and pro
ceedings were Instituted against them by
Attorney-General Monnett in the Supreme
Court to enforce the former decrees and
for other relief.. It was then that I
was employed, not to participate in the
litigation, which -was in the hands of
competent 'eounsei, but to investigate
the whole situation, the records in the
case, the statutes in Ohio applicable to
the 'company, and the case against it,
the decree and all the records in the
case, with a view to advising the com
pany how, in my. opinion, it could
most aafely proceed to comply with the
orders of -the court and conform to our
statutes, and-so -reorganise as not -to
violate any law or Judgment.
"This work" Involved frequent con
sultation with the 'attorneys of the
company, the examination of the vol
uminous records, the judgments and
decrees" of the court and a general
study of what was best to be done, not
to evade the law and the decrees of the
courts, but to comply with the same
No Connection W ith Legislation.
"Nothing connected with this work
had" relation to anything whatever
pending in Congress or to any matter
In whlch-the National Government was
interested in the slightest degree, nor
did anything connected with the em
ployment ' rfclate to or conflict with
" anv duty of mine as Senator.
"The company finally concluded, as
a result of all the investigations and
consu.'tations and advice, to reorganise
bv Incorporating under the law- of the
State of New Jersey, and then my
services ended. I never have had any
relations whatever with the company
since. " ... .
"Any matters Mr. Archbold may hare
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VXtTW S3W1T3 . MECHAH15M ACF. TTXE1 ."VVRJCfiX 'jEUSOFlsJ!E. ''
WASHINGTON Sept. 14. (Special) These pictures show better than any that have been published the mechan
ism of the machine with which Orville Wright met his accident. The motor was designed by the. Wrights. It is
started by a stark from the storage battery, and when it is started, this battery Is removed -so" a, td. lessen the
weight of the machine, while a magnetc supplies the spark. The radiator is an upright device of flat copper tubing.
A small pump keeps the water in circulation for cooling the motor. The snapshot of Orville Wright is one of tne
very few made since he. has been in Washington. . He seriously objects to being photographed and alj photogra
phers are Instructed to keep away from him. ' . r
written me on any subject since that
time have been written as any citizen
might write to any legislator with
whom he was acquainted, concerning
pending legislation that affected hiin
or his' interests, and from the time my
service ended I have never been under
any obligations to the company nor
the company under any obligations
to me.
Not Paid for Publc Service.
"Neither the Standard Oil Company
nor any other company or Individual
has ever paid me a cent on account of
any public service, nor has that com
pany or anybody else ever even sug
gested to me any compensation or re
ward of any kind in consideration of
support for any bill or opposition to
any bill or for any action of any nature
whatever."
A short time after giving out the
above statement, Mr. Foraker was
in long-distance communication with
Washington, after which he gave out
the following:
Letter Corroborates Story.
Since dictating the foregoing my
clerk has found and read to me over
the telephone the following letter,
which is confirmatory of what I said
above about returning the $50,00J:
"Washington. T. C Jan. 4, 1902.
Hear Mr. Archbold: I very greatly re
gret to have to Inform you that the
proposed transaction at Columbus has
failed, at least for the Present. It
mny be revived later, but I doubt If 1
shall care to bother about It any more.
However that may be. I herewith send
you. with, many thanks 'or your kind
ness in the matter, my draft for $50,000
payable to your order, as repayment of
the -money advanced by you on tha
above rrentloned account.
"Kindly acknowledge receipt of the
same and oblige. Very truly yours,
elCm "J. B. FORAKER.
FORAKER DELIVERED GOODS
Bills Aimed at Oil Trust W ere Killed
In Ohio. .
COLiTJM BITS, O., Sept- 19. The Price
bills referred to in the correspondence
between John D. Archbold and Senator
Foraker were killed by the Ohio legisla
ture as It was bills pending there to
which the correspondence referred. Price,
the author of the measures distasteful to
the Standard Oil .Company. Is Aaron A.
Price of Athens County, who was the de
feated Foraker candidate for speaker of
the house In the Foraker and Hanna fight
of that- time to -control the organization.
The Price bills referred to were House
Bills 469 and 600 of that session. Section 9
which was the same in the two bills,
was what the Standard Oil objected to
Ko. 469 sought to require all corpora
tions to report annually to- the secretary
of state, and -the ninth Item which they
were to be required to report was a list of
all stockholders. ' the number of shares
held by each, and the postofflce address
of all shareholders.
No. BOO sought to require only foreign
corporations to do this. The Journal of
1900 House of Representatives shows
that the Price bill. No. 469. was reported
from the Judiciary committee, with a rec
ommendation for passage. When it came
up on the calendar a few days later It
was referred to Price, as a select commit
tee of one. On April 11. 1900. Price re
ported back a substitute with the pro
vision for reporting stockholders dropped
out. The substitute passed the house,
but was never acted on by the senate, so
did not become law.
Price's bill. No. 600. was reported for
passage before the Judiciary committee
of the house. March 14. 19U0. before the
legislature adjourned, but simply died
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on the calendar, for the Journal makes no
record of it after it had been reported
from the committee.
W, C. HASKELL DENIES CHARGE
Ohio Man Says He Is Not Hearst's
Target.
WASHINGTON, Sept. ID. When the at
tention of W. C. Haskell, formerly United
State Marshall at Cleveland and now
Sealer of Weights end Measures for the
District of Columbia, was called to the
statement of Governor Haskell, of Okla
homa, that It was he to whom Mr. Hearst
referred in a Columbus speech as having
relations with the Standard Oil Com
pany. Mr. Haskell said:
"Governor Haskell Is evidently mis
taken. I never had any connection with
the Standard Oil Company or any of its
officers, either in a business or a social
way, and I have never had the pleasure
of acquaintance of officials or members of
the Standard Oil Company. I do not re
call ever having a case involving the
Standard Oil Company while I held the
position of marshal of the United States
District of Northern Ohio from 1S92 to
1!96. The Haskell referred to is some one
else. I do not know what Haskell Mr.
Hearst referred to."
W. C- Haskell was appointed as marshal
of the Northern District of Ohio by Presi
dent Harrison.
HASKELL SAYS HEARST LIES
Oklahoma Governor Says He Was
Exonerated by Monnett.
CHICAGO. Sept 19. In the face of the
assertion of Mr. Hearst at St. Louis that
an affidavit, signed by F. S. Monnett, for
mer Attorney-General of Ohio, Identifying
Governor C. N. Haskell, of Oklahoma, aa
having been a party to Standard Oil al
leged negotiations. Governor Haskell to
day declared that the statements were
absolutely false.
"The assertion that I had anything to
do with the Standard Oil Company is ab
solutely false." said Governor Haskell.
"On the day the affidavits are said to
have been signed. September 12. 1908. Mr.
Monnett -was in Oklahoma City and on
that day made a speech In which he exon
erated me from all connection with the
Standard Oil matter. It Is unbelievable
that any man would make such a speech
and on the same day sign an affidavit
stating the contrary thing. There Is no
truth in the charges."
GOT NOTHING FROM STANDARD
Bryan Denies Hearst's Charge About
Campaign Donation.
NEW YORK, Sept. 19. W. J. Bryan left
this morning for New Haven and Provi
dence. He was accompanied by National
Committeemen Cummins, of Connecticut,
and Green, of Rhode Island, and State
Chairman Mahan, of Connecticut.
As he was departing from this city Mr.
Bryan was asked whether the Standard
OH Company has contributed to the Dem
ocratic party, as charged by William R.
Hearst in an address at Columbus, O. Mr.
Bryan replied:
"The Standard OH Company has con
tributed nothing to the Democratic party."
New Land Agent for S. P. Road.
OMAHA, Neb., Sept 19. (Special.)
W. B. McAllister has resigned as land
commissioner of the Union Pacific
Railroad to accept a similar position
with the Southern Pacific. He has sold
7,000,000 acres of Union Pacific land.
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CJETFfEZ ElTSOIZjAJSrE
BIG LINER HELPLESS
Mauretania Loses Propeller
Blade in Storm.
PANIC AMONG PASSENGERS
Loosened Propeller Deals Great
Steamer -Staggering Blow, Which
Causes Terror Wallows in
Sea for Hours.
N.W YORK, Sept. 19. For more
than hlf an hour last Wednesday the
great turbine steamer Mauretania, with
all her cabins filled with frightened
passengers, rolled and pitched help
lessly in mid-ocean, with waves con
stantly breaking over her decks. She
had run into the storm hours before,
but had been kept under headway un
til one of her propeller blada flew off
with a crash that alarmed nearly every
one on board.
So tremendous was the force of the
blow which the loosened propeller dealt
the ship that the whole middle section
seemed to rise, the flooring buckled
untii the tacks from, the carpet were
hurled against the ceilings and pas
sengers were thrown about the cabins.
The engines were stopped at once
and the big ship, losing her way, be
gan to wallow in the trough of the
seas, while the passengers besieged
the captain. Imploring him to tell the
nature of the accident- Every effort
was made to quiet the frightened ones,
but the intense excitement did not sub
side until the steamer started once
more on her way. r
The compartment adjoining the -pro-peller
Joints filled with water. It Is
believed that the detached propeller
drove a hole In the steamer's bottom.
The severe weather continued
throughout the voyage and yesterday
when Sandy Hook, at the gateway of
New Yora- harbor, was reached, the
steamer ran into a fog bank which
compelled her to lie at anchor for more
than 19 hours. She came today Into
the harbor and to her dock.
LIGHT WIND SPOILS RACE
Eleven Tachts Abandon Contest for
Phillip's Cup
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 19. Light airs
and a heavy fog combined to prevent the
completion of .the yacht race aroupd the
Farallone Islands, in which 11 yachts
started this morning with a 14-hour time
limit, the trophy being a cup offered by
Commodore F. G. Phillip, now held by
the sloop Yankee, which won it last year.
- Ever since the fleet set sail the yachts
have been lost to view In the fog, and re
ports from the fleet tonight gave Its posi-
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FOUR DROWN IN WRECK
Launch Party on Ix)ng Island Sound
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BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Sept. 19. Four
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Mrs. Roswell, his wife.
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May, a daughter, aged 7.
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Enoch Anderson, Douglas Pioneer.
' ROSEBTTRG. Or., Sept. 19. (Special.)
Enoch Anderson, a pioneer of Doug
las County, died at his home near Dix
onville yesterday, at the age of 73
years. He was an old soldier and well
known throughout Douglas County.
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