AMERICAN POLITICIANS.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12455, 3 February 1909, Page 3

AMERICAN POLITICIANS.

PRESIDENT AND COMMITTEE. , A QUANDARY. [Pbess Absooiation— Copybight.] • New YorKi Feb. 1. Regarding Senator Oulbertson's resolution making a counter-charge against President Koosevelt in connection with the latter's references to politicians!-,:ptivate lives," Pfesi* dent Roosevelt has placed the Committee, in a quandary. U The Senate originally, when the Bureaatf Corporations' was created, declined President Roosevelt's strong recommendation empowering it-to compel a corporation to furnish information for publication concerning their , operations, and the Senate merely, enacted that information might bejgatheied under pledge of ,. corifidenco when, the corporations were' willing. President Roosevelt has, now obtained from the Bureau alldata which ; the Steel and Iron.Companies thus furnished, -and haslocked the documents in a safe in the White House, remarking that the Government had ,no information it was at liberty 1 to disclose. Hence the Judiciary Committee is unable, to demand the< data as, a ba sis of its case without asking President Roosevelt to violate the confidence imposed on him by the Senate itself in t^e interests of .corporations. (