CORRUPT POLITICS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3091, 13 January 1909, Page 5

CORRUPT POLITICS.

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CHARGES AGAINST SENATOR TILLMAN. SENATOR IN REPLY. Receiver! January 12, 9.20 p.m. NEW YORK, January 12. Senator B. R. Tillman's speech in the Senate was the most striking episode of the debate on President Roosevelt's recent message to Congress. The galleries were packed. Diplomatists and Congressmen made'a riotous'rush to secure admittance. Senator Tillman denied doing anything illegal, and accused President Roosevelt of personal malice, calling him a dodger and a coward. While President Roosevelt, he said, shielded his dear friend Harriman, who held two million acres of public domain, he a!tacked the speaker for wanting to buy 1,440 acres. Senator Tillman demanded a searching investigation into the whole matter. The speech was heard in silence, and there was no applause. President Roosevelt caused a sensation by publishing details of an investigation by post office inspectors and by secret service agents of the connection of Senator B. R. Tillman (Democrat, South Carolina), with an alleged land grab in Oregon. President Roosevelt declared that Senator Tillman used his influence as a Senator in an effort to force the Government to compel a railroad corporation to relinquish the control of land grants from the United States, in order to enable him and Jlis family, and his secretary, to profit by the purchase of the land. Mr Roosevelt also alleged that Senator Tillman frequently used his granting privileges in the conduct of his private business.