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Newspaper Page Text$ emi-Welda So iir mil VOL. XI. WHO IS PUniNG IIP UNDERWOOD MOE? ASTOUNDING LETTER That the Underwood Candi dacy Is Backed by Strong Financial Aid From Some- ( where’ls Sure BY RALPH SMITH. ’r k WASHINGTON, D. C.» Feb. •.-Some idea of the activity of the Underwood candidacy for the Democratic nomination. % and the financial strength behind that candidacy is revealed by a circular letter has been sent to all the weekly newspapers in the southern states, offer ing to pay for the publication of a special supplement in each of these newspapers, booming Underwood. The letter is signed by Senator John H- Bankhead, of Alabama, who, according to his letter-head, is the chairman of I the Underwood campaign committee- Who jbe other members of the com mittee are, the letter-head offers no in formation. la as much a* there are several thou sand of these weekly newspapers in the south, it is obvious that the Underwood campaign committee is plentifully sup pled with funds. The payments to the newspapers will aggregate a large sum. in addition to which there will be the cost of the supplements, the expense of distributing them to the weekly papers, and the heavy postage bill necessary to make the arrangements. With each of the letters which Senator Bankhead has t sent out there is enclosed a stamped en velope for the reply of the editor to which the particular letter is addressed. « A report current here which adds in terest to this revealed financial streug’’i on the part of the Underwood campaign committee, la that Senator Bar...head has just returned from a visit to the tine j country home in Virginia of Thomas F. , Ryan. Mr. Ryan, it will be remembered, was ; suggested as a possible financial backer to Gov. Woodrow Wilson, and the gov ernor resented the suggestion in a man ner which so sorely offended Col. Henry Watterson. It might not be surprising here were it discovered that in this case the Ryan rocks rejected by Woodrow Wilson are to be used to erect a temple for Representative Underwood. So far as Democrats here know, there has not been in many years such mani festation of easy financial conditions ty a Democratic candidate for the nomina tion. The similarity to the methods of the late Mark Hanna, who was prepared and willing to pay for any service ren dered bis candidate, is remarked in this case as peculiarly striking. Senator Bankhead's letter to the editors of the weekly papers in the south is as fol * io we: Gentlemen: The friends of Hon. Oscar W. Underwood desire to give the widest pubflclry to his claims and fitness for the nomination to. the presidency at the hands of the Democratic, party. To that end. his campaign committee has prepared a four-peige. seven-column 'newspaper supplment, which is intended for circulation through the entire south. VI am now writing to ask ts arrange ments can be made with your paper to use the supplment. It will contain noth ing but material bearing upon the can didacy of Mr. Underwood, there will be no criticism of or attacks upon the other Democratic candidates, or upon the He publics n candidates. The committee tel directed me to offer a sliding scale of prices for the use of the supplment. dependent in part upon circulation, as well as upon the inability of the com mittee to offer a >arger compensation, namely. $lO. to papers whvjse circulation does not exceed l.lKM); $1450 to papers with a circulation from I.OW to 1.500; sls to papers with a circulation from 1.500 _ up to 2.090. and S2O to papers with* a circulation of 2,000 and upwards. “If this »ugg<wtion meets with your concurrence, please let me hear from you by return mall, with date of publi atlon. number of circulation, a clipping of section containing the head of your paper., your nearest express office, and any other particulars which would expe dite the delivery of the supplment to you “The use of the supplment would not be intended to in any way commit you to Mr. Underwood's claims for the nomi nation. The whole transaction is purely a business one, and is allowable in every way by ths ethics of good journalism, ft is proper to say further that the supplement will In all respects conform to the lostal laws and reguiationa. Awaiting your prompt attention. I am, "Respectfully yours, “J. M. BANKHEAD.” Senator Banl head's assurances re flecting the ethics of journalism and the i testa I laws indicate tliat he recog nises his proposition as new and novel in Democratic pre-conventlon contests. U. S. AGRICULTURE PROBE MAY MAKE BIG SCANDAL Another McCabe-Wiley Epi sode in Connection With Florida Drainage (By Auociated Frau.) WASHINCfroN, Feb. A new situ ation in the department of sgriculture. Closely resembling the McCabe-Wiley episode, was partly disclosed at a hearing before the department commit tee on expenditures, today, when it was decided to begin an early investi gation into the affairs of experiment stations, relating principally to the proposition to drain the Florida Ever glades. Representative Frank Clark, of Flor ids. charged tost Chief Engineer C. G. Elliott and his assistant. A. D. More house. who hud made adverse reports on the drainage of he Everglades, had been dismissed from tne department on technicalities involving a transfer ul government funds from one account to another. The chief accountant of the office Mr. Htngletun. also has been dismissed. Tills action was itased on the opinion of Solicitor McCabe, who also acted in the Dr. Wiley case. Representative Clark asserted that pri vate interests, exploiting Florida lands, lad used officials of the department of agriculture to further their schemes, and that one company alone had sold for mil lions of dollars land that was now under water. It 1s said that an engineer, formerly in the employ of the department, who re ported favorably on the drainage project and afterward resigned to a>>ter private practice in Florida, had made the charge® oa which the recent dismissal at the de partment had been based. There was a hint of suppressed reports in the department and the committee on expenditures decided that an early in vestigation was demanded. « | Li I | f j- —I L l7 —l I J BB I .JjaarLaT" ' Z i K I m sunri has —! zgm.—- -_. \, r** I k 11 1) 'I Lj' in !*” HI , . J lll _ JT - '' . r® J “ r rr =s rf“ v s t ; I ‘""’“Us — «= — ? jagL .-r< r - y I "**“* 'P*’ i jsssa —Saar J e- . —iLurj""_L. r4r T^J~c * ig ■ V 3 /\ /sj \ a.-~— ~ j ~ "Jr ~T *~F i "j » 11 H I ’v- ' I ' vvtl’ MAP ,ho«l« ,pr..d „t l»nv,.wi from 18M «o 1.11, Py .»«■ of Bpwmolpry, SUU. D.pjrtuu. of tions by the Bureau of Entomology. Broad Une indicates the limit of the territory infested at the and of the Beason, 1911. Xt is estimated that the post will jnvated Ge g years’ time. ;. ' ROOSEVELT AND LA FOLLETTE ARE BOTH CANDIDATES, AND WILL FIGHT TO THE FINISH Lincoln Steffens, Famous Author and Leading ‘'Progressive,” Gives Exclusive, Inside Story of the “Progressive Confer ences” in New York —What Roosevelt Has Said and Done and Means —Lafollette’s Position BY LINCOLN STEFFENS. Copyright by Lincoln Stoffena NEW YORK, Feb. B.—Out of some conferences of progres sive leaders held in New York City during three days, these 'gets emerge: Roosevelt is a candidate. BSMoos^M^mMi m LaFollette is a candidate. SPoosevelt will run tor the nom ination and stay with the fight to the end, even though he turn up in the convention with only tive or six delegates. So with LaFollete. LaFollette’s recent statement, which was taken by some progressives, like Record, of New Jersey, and Amos Pinchot to be signs ot his withdrawal, was not a withdrawal: not by him. It was merely permission to quit to the La- Follette leaders who wanted to quit. • LaFollette himself has not quit and his representatives says he will not quit; neither now or before the convention; nor after it, nor even after the next president Is elected. The sincerest, most impersonal objection to Roosevelt by progres sive leaders is that the colonel 1« not really a progressive. He will meet this sincere objection sincerely —by putting out, in the course of the next two or three weeks, a state- UMCOLM STEFFEN'S. inent of principles which will show whether or not he is a progressive. Now, some of these facts today may be changed in the next few days. One of the purposes of the conferences has been to adjust conflicting facts, like the rival candidates of Roosevelt and LaFollette. And rep resentatives of the conference will go to both ot these men to labor with them for a better understanding. For, while the conferee are only men drawn acldentally together by the coincidence that they hap | pened to be in New York at the same moment, they felt that they were I and they were, representatives of the many men who are trying to organize the progressive movement in the Republican party if possible, or at any rate the progressive movement in the United States. Among those that were there at different times were: Amos i Pinchot, of New York; Charles R. Record, of New Jersey; Gov. Hiram I Johnson, of California; Medill McCormick, ot Illinois; Walter Rogers, • of Illinois, and Charles R. Crane, of Illinois. Yesterday Walter Houser, LaFollette’s campaign manager, and I Congressman of Wisconsin, appeared, but only to bear mes- I sages from the Senator and not to take part in the conference. One j thing was clear in all the conversations at these conferences; an 1m- I personal view is taken of the work that was to be done; the movement, and not the persons its it, was paramount. # The whole progressive movement has suffered because this has not been understood. WHY THE PROGRESSIVE LEADERS MET. It has begun to look like a long series of personal squabbles. This is due to the fact that the progressive movement tn this presi dential campaign has been suffering fron.' old time political mehods. The leaders met, discussed plans, and reached decisions; met again, ; and unmade the previous decisions; got together, and split; all in good i faith, but in the meantime the public has not been let into the confi dence of this new democratic movement. The result has been not only I that the leaders have been working the situation with no direct pres i sure of an enlightened public opinion and therefore no public support, I but all the troubles have been misinterpreted by other persons and parties that has been a purpose of their own in misinterpreting every thing. The only story as developed at tin? talks among the men who dls- 1 agreed tn all sorts of ways but with mutual respect, is not unfit to be printed anywhere. LaFollette was asked by the progressive leaders at 1 Washington to go ahead and take the leadership of the progressive movement as the progressive candidate for the Republican nomination for president. He said at the time that it meant the end ot his chances I to become president. But all hands urged him to do it anyhow; that there was no other way to defeat and save the progressive movement. Even Roosevelt took this view and it is said told two men. who told, LaFollette, that •>aFollette should do this. This does not imply bad faith on Roose velt’s part. His boom began later and it was begun api»areiitly by re actionaries, who simply used him to counteract the LaFollette boom, which showed growing strength. But when LaFollette's strength showed Taft’s weakness, Roosavelt’s friends jumped in and the Roose velt boom was on in full vigor. Then the trouble began. In states like California, New Jersey, and Illinois, the rank and tile began to split between Roosevelt and LaFollette. And so did the leaders. The old machine men in these and other states began to pick up fresh hope of coming back under Roosevelt. Nor does this mean that Roosevelt was dealing with them. Roosevelt’s position at that time seemed to be that he did not expect or wanted the nomination; that ho regarded himself,only as an emergency candidate and subject only (Contlaued on Fags 7, Column 4.) BOLL WEEVIL WILL CATCH US IF WE DON'T WATCH OUT ATLANTA. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9. 1912 DEMOCRAT SENATORS MAKE PLANS TO OUST MimS LEADER Solider and More Aggressive Party Organization Abso lutely Needed in the Upper House, Say Senators BT BALPH SMITH. WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. &r-Grow ing dissatisfaction among the Democrats of the-senate with tt>e lack of IwkAe”- ship will be threshed out at a confer ence to be called in a few days by Sen ator Martin, of Virginia, the caucus chairman. A petition requesting a con ference was circulated in the senate yes terday. Twenty Democrats signed the petition which was presented to Senator Martin just before adjournment. The advisability of a conference l as been the subject of cloak room agita tion for several days. Probably the most important matter that will engage the attention of the conference will be the proposal for the creation and selection of a legislative committee whose func tions shall be to keep the Democratic merbership fully informed as to the status of pending legislation. There has been much criticism of the present leadership of the senate about the easy-going, matter of fact manner in which the minority has been allowed to fall into its accustomed rut. There is no organized party opposition to anything proposed by the Republi cans, nor has the party, under the lead ership of Senator Martin, stood for any constructive policies. It has been con tent to ’let well, t nough alone” and ac cept things as they come. “What we need is a committee of ‘live wires’ to look out for legislation,” ex plained a prominent Democratic senator last night, > “The party has not been eggressive enough and the leadership is none too progressive. The present movement should not, however, be construed as a strictly ‘progressive’ iflhovation, in the sense the word ’progressive’ is popular ly used in politics today. Many of the conservative Democrats of the senate realize that the party is really going to pieces for want of militant leader? ship?’ The senator continued by saying that the Democrats of the senate should sup port the house of representatives in its efforts to e :onomize ana watch the big appropriations with care. He said that instead of trying to get their hints in the “pork barrel” and restore appropriations that are cut out -by the house, the Democrats of the senate should try to go the house «>ne better in the matter of economy. FARMER ARRESTED FOR MURDERING_SWEETHEART C. L. Harkins Held for Okla homa Tragedy—Threats of Lynching (By Associated Press.) NOWATA, Okla., Feb. 7.—U. L. Hark ins, a wealthy farmer, living near Dela ware, Okla., was arrested late last night and brought here today by De’puty Sher iff Ponnell to prevent a lynching. Hark ‘ ins is known to have been keeping com pany with Elsie Adams, the girl whose body was found partially burned in the home of Harvey Hurst last Sunday night when Hurst and his wife were also found dead. Harkins admits that he was engaged to the Adams girl and says they were to have been married today. He says lie is the man seen at 11 o’clock at the Hurst home Sunday night. He took the Adams girl to church and returned with her. “I am innocent of any crime,” said Harkins. “I loved the girl and still love her. We were to have been married today.” Reward for “Sniping” (By Associated Press.) FRANKFURT, Ky., Feb. B.—Civil au thorities will be able to cope with the race war situation in Fulton county. County Attorney J. W. Romey has re quested the governor to offer a reward for the arrest of the white men who have been “sniping” negroes from am bush, and for the capture of the un known murderers of R. J. Bugg, two years ago, . ( LOOKING MUCH LIKE A WELL MAN MORSE TELLS ATLANTA GOOD-BY Former Prisoner Walked From Elevator to Waiting Car riage Practically Without Aid —As He Sat in Depot Wait ing for Train His Eyes Sparkled and His Cheeks Took on Ruddy Tinge—Will Soon Be in New York Thursday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock (At lanta time), Charles W. Morse will step from the Birmingham special of the Southern railway into the crisp air of New York that he left over two years ago for a cot in the Federal penitentiary in Atlanta. As told exclusively in The Journal Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Morse left the Terminal station at JMf o’clock ■with his We afld- physlcfan, Dr. A. L. Fowler. 'The station employes and the passengers of the Birmingham special had little idea thatWhe gray-halred man who shivered as he was wheeled to the train in a roller chair was formerly one of America’s greatest financiers. Only two Southern railway officials, the manager of the Piedmont hotel and a Journal reporter, saw Mrs. Morse re ceive her free husband with open arms as he walked into the Pullman, and saw her place a pillow *for his tired head and smile through tears of happiness as she pinned a flower on his coat, just as their train started. It was nearly 20 minutes after 2 o’clock when Charles W. Morse took the freight elevator of the Piedmont hotel on the fourth floor, and rode down to the bag gage entrance on Forsyth street. There a carriage had been waiting for him since 2 o’clock. And before he left more than one baggage wagon driver had kicked when he found the entrance for trunks blocked by an equipage , which they knew had no business there. Mr. Morse looks far from a doomed man. Mr. Taylor, of the hotel, had him by one arm, but he stood erect, and stepped into the waiting carriage without any apparent effort. Mr. Morse looks like the r Jsperous financier one sees any day in the banking district of New York. His full mustache is still quite dark much darker than ..is hair, which is very gray. He wore a neat black overcoat, and. around his neck w’as a black scarf to protect his throat. His face was pale, but not emanclated. He wore the regu lation black derby. The entrance to the' freight elevatßr is on the Fore—*h street side of the hotel,- just opposite the Forsyth theater. And as Morse stepp-1 intd the carriage there we j perhaps 50 or more people hurrying to the matinee performance, but it is safe to say not one in that theater-going crowd had any idea that Mr. Morse was leaving Atlanta. ,»irs. '’orse - ad Mr. Morse’s sister left the hotel promptly at 2 o’clock, taking a taxi fnom the Luckie street entrance. Mrs. Morse was not veiled, and wore the same black coat and hat she had on when she arrived from Washington not long ago. • CHAIR WAS WAITING. Mr. Morse was driven quickly to the Terminal station. For 15 minutes a roller chair had chair been waiting at the main entrance. The carrage was driven to the main entrance, where Mr. Taylor consulted with Dr. Fowler, Mr. Morse’s physician. Then the shades were drawn and the carriage was parked among the cabs near the sta tion entrance, where it waited until al most train time. At 2:30 the carriage was again driv en to the main entrance at a signal from Dr. Fowler, and Mr. Morse was helped into the roller chair. He anx iously looked around as he took his seat, but he attracted no more aaten tion than an invalid girl who had been wheeuqd to the entrance in the same chair five minutes before. Mr. Morse wore a long overcoat with collar and cuffs of minx fur. His new patent leather shoes looked As if they had never touched the ground. He pulled his overcoat collar over his ears and huddled in his chair as if to hide from the public gaze. Then he was wheeled by a negro porter through the main waiting room to the elevator that let him down to the tracks. It was found that they had reached the tracks too soon and for fully ten minutes Mr. Morse sat in bis chair waiting for his train. The wind was chilly and h? pulled his coat collar further over his ears. At first he seemed inclined to shrink from public gaze, but finding that he was practl cz.ally unnoticed except by those whom he knew, the ex-banker straightened a trifle and chatted occasionally with his physician while he waited. ENJOYED FRESH AIR. The breeze brought a tinge of red to his nose. His cheeks, which were as fleshey as those of a man in the prime of health, took on a ruddy tint. Once in a. while he smiled faintly and when the train pulled in his eyes sparkled. - t Mrs. Morse, who had gotten on the train In advance of her husband, stood at the entrance of the coach tp wel come him. She was wearing a bouquet of pink carsations. As her husband was being lifted to the steps of the coach, she clapped her hands like a *«v-an<l into the cuaSfiF 'jJLb.iJe he walked behind her. “My husband?’ f she said, introducing him to the railroad official with whom she had previously made the reserva tions for his compartment. Mr. Morse sat in the seat opposite his wife. Mrs. Morse placed her left arm about his shoulders and extended her right hand to a road official. “God-bye,” she said. She made no attempt to check the tear that rolled down her cheeks while she smiled. “You have been so good to us,’’ she sai<j. “Good-bye.” Mr. : Moree- smiled as he shook bands with the hotel manager and railroad official. .His overcoat lay on the seat beside him, and his wife placed one ot the carnations she had worn in his buttonhole as the train pulled out for New York, As soon ’ a§--Ms-condition permits, Mr. Morse plans going to Germany to regain his health. J . , “ Pass Through Charlotte (By Associated Press.) CHARLOTTE; N. C„ Feb. S.—Charles W. Morse, accompanied by his wife, a physician* and several friends, passed through here last night on the Birming ham special, en route to the financier’s home in New York city. The entire party had retired for the night when the train reached here at 11:20 o’clock and refused to be disturbed. It was learned from passengers on the train w’ho had talked with members of the Morse party that the former banker will be taken to Carlsbad on the first ship out of New York, in an effort to prolong his life. Morse and His Family Pass Through Washington WASHINGTON, Feb. B.—Charles W. Morse, with his wife, his sister, Jennie, ar\d Dr. A. L. Fowler, of Atlanta, passed through here at 10:40 this morning on his way to New York. The former banker was dressed and sit ting up in his drawing room and had eaten breakfast brought in from the dining car. Morse declined to see any interviewers, as did Mrs. Morse. Dr. Fowler did the talking for the party. SCREVEN FARMERS PLAN TO REDUCE ACREAGE (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) SYLVANIA, Ga., Feb. 7. —There is a strongest sentiment in Screven county among the farmers, especially among those who are members of the Farmers’ union, in favor of the plan now being pushed to reduce the number of acres to be utilized in growing cotton for this season. The farmers here do not look upon the slight advance in the cotton market as indicating what the price will be this fall, but rather as a trap to se cure the planting of a bumper crop. The labor situation, also, presents a problem that it is difficult for them to solve. Ordinary day laborers cannot be secured for less than $1 per day, backed up by three square meals. And at this many of the negroes who have hereto fore run share crops, or worked for wages on the farm, are returning to pub lic work of one kind or another. There are still hundreds of bales of cotton in the fields, and $1 per 100 is the price that is being paid to get it gathered, while some of the farmers, refusing to pay this much, have already run the stalk cutter over large fields of the staple. “Vivas” for Gomez (By Associated Press.) TORREON, Mexico, Feb. B.—Rebels shouting “vivas” for Vasques Gomez, raided a number of haciendas in the vi cinity of Torreon, Cosh'uila,yesterday, ac cording to today’s advices, and near Sabinas a passenger train was fired on. Two members of the train crew were wounded. GOVERNMENT PLANS PROCESS AGAINST BIG MING GO. Bill of Indictment May Be Pre sented to Federal Grand Jury Involving Cudahy Packing Company Government officials are preparing charges against the Cudahy Packing company that are said to allege false entries to the company. A bill of Indictment containing numer ous charges may be presenaed to the federal grand jury thait meets on Mota- • day. A careful investigation is said to have been completed, and it is thought that | the government wishes to make a test • ’ case that would have a far-riaching effect. • The information was obtained frem a number of small restaurants that they j have been asked to furnish reports of | the oleomargerine they use; and It is l f ’ understood that a number of. small caJe managers may appear before the fed eral grand jury. Oleomargerine is one of the products of the Cudahy company. According to information that was gained Thursday morning, the charges the government is considering would be local only on their fape. in effect, the, government is said to mean that they shall be wide-spreading. Preparations for whatever proceedings the government will take have gone forward, with much care and quietness. Not until Thursday morning did the fact become known that the gand jury may be asked tov return an indictment. No announcement whatever could then be obtained from the United States dis trict attorney’s office. All Information concerning the proposed indictment was - withheld, and no answer would be given to the question of whether or not prose-, cution was intended. Unless something unexpected inter venes, however, charges against the r Cudahy company will be laid before the grand jury on Monday. A session of , the grand jury has been called for* that day, and information from witnesses wire have been summoned is that the govern ment will then lay the results of its in vestigation before the jury and ask for an indictment. The extended charge that the govern ment is said to be considering, illus- 3 trates how important this case is held to be. Any bill of indictment that !s presented, would, it is said, go Into I numerous details, enumerating count af i ter count, and constituting one of the most . elaborate charges ever made to • , federal grand jury meeting in Atlanta, i The government has for some time been particularly active in its investigation t in the south of business corporations. 1 Recently District Attoniey Akerman, of s the southern district of Georgia, was . relieved of the duties of district attor ney;--and—tn- th» * ifi*’ » vestlgattng such enterprises. Examinations of this sort havo resulted ; in the action that the government is now contemplating before the federal grand jury meeting here. No other case of importance is to ’ come before the jury- Other charges i made to the jury will be principally for illicit distilling. : y. 5. ffllS® DEFT. i SHIELDED LIND THIEVES? 1 ‘ ~ ’> (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON. Feb. 7.—New devetop ’ merits in the prospective < ongresstaßkl investigation into the attitude of depart ment of agricultural officials toward the exploitation of the Florida everglade lands, were promised today when Chair man Moss, of the house committee: » on v expenditures in that department, called i a meeting of *the Democratic members of his committee and went into an exec- . session with Senators Fletcher and > Bryan, of Florida. i Neither senator would discuss the sit uation but Chairman Moss indicated the > result of the meeting might be made i known late today. > Solicitor McCabe, of the department of • agriculture, had planned to appear to- ■ day before the committee find tell the > department’s side of the case, but this was deferred at the last moment, Sensational charges by Representative Frank Clark, of Florida, and Reprsenta- , tive Bathrock, of Ohio, that through ' the influence of Everglade land agents. • department officials had suppressed re- ■ ports on the drainage situation and two 1 officials of the department. Engineers 1 Elliott and Morehouse, had been dis missed from the service after refusing - to retract statements unfavorable to i the land promoters, have created a sen s sation. It resembles the situation in the ' controversy between Solicitor McCabs and Dr. Wiley, the government’s pure . food expert, in which McCabe recom mended the doctor for dismissal. This case, however, ended in President Taft’s vindication of Dr. Wiley. - ■ Thousands of acres of Everglade ■ lands, priced at millions of dollars, have been sold all over the United States by the promotion syndicates. So wide- 1 spread was the selling campaign that d r the department of agriculture received j r thousands of inquiries for an official ’ opinion upon the value of the lands and ( sent engineers to the Everglades to s make reports. s The proposed investigation and the ; changes of suppression of reports and i undue influence of land promoters grow [ out of this, although, department of . agriculture officials maintain that Elliow and Morehouse were dismissed and that i A. G. Singleton, an accountant, was sus- > pended on a technical charge of trans . ference of public funds. The men plaim I a few hundred dollars were transferred | . from Nine fund to another to caury on ’ work for wlich money Wis running ’ short, and there is no charge that any ' of them profited by the transfer. '.T Those who are insisting cn the inves- ' , tigation say when the charges are aired it will be shewn that the men were re moved because they refused to recede from their reports on the true condition ; of the Everglade lands. ‘ It developed today that a senate docu- ■ ment ordered printed last summer relat- ing to the Everglades did not contain the report made by former Department Engineer J. O. Wright, as revised by -i Chief Engineer Elliott, but contained | t a second revision made by Wrigh,t, aft er he had left the employ of the gov ernment to Income chief engineer of tbs . state of Florida. » In, a letter to Secretary Wilson, cm Jj November 25. 1911, Wright stated that ■ in the revision of the report he had been aided by Senator Fletchen MH NO. 41.