14 AUTOMATIC AUTOMATIC SHOTGUX. said, “T am with you in sentiment,” and I said, “ May I quote you in print?” He said, “ Yes,” and he sat down and talked with me and gave me this interview for publicatio n. r. Capron. Would it not be an entir ely different thing, giving you his views for discussion in a ma gazine and giving you somethin g, 1f he had known that it would be brought before a legislative committee of Congress for the purpose of influencing legislation? Do you think he would then have given you tas everything in the bearing whic that expression of his opinion ? h it has in this connection, in my Judgment. Mr. Suretps. I have no desire to place this matter Mr. Kiepprr. Under the rules of the committee could we not, after we hear the reading of these lette rs, strike out that portion of the hearing that refers to anything that the President may have said ? Mr. Cotz. Did he give you any authority in that letter to use it in this connection 2 Mr. Suierps. Most emphatically . Here is his letter. Pass it. ons you; you can all look at it | offering letter to the committee]. He says that I have reported the substance of what he said, and that I might go ahead and use it. Here are several copies of the interview as finally used, not in the first person, and not quoted. What the President objects to is that when I sent this out to some of the: newspapers some of them edited it and put it in the first person, whic liberally, put it in quotation marks, h I did not do. STATEMENT OF MR. C. N. BOVEE. Mr. Bovrer. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, I appear here as a lawyer to speak for the Winchester Repeating Arms Company against the pending bill. The reputation and character of my client, I think, calls for no expl It has done more to advance the name of Amer anation from me. ican gun inventors and American manufacturers of firearms than any It is perhaps the most reputable manu other concern in the world. fact I regret that Mr. Shields has seen urer of firearms in the world. fit to bring in the name of the President of the United States in this discussion. I think this com. mittee could have disposed of this question without involving him In a question of veracity between him and the gentleman who has just spoken, but, in view of what has been stated, I will now read the entire letter of the President of the addressed to him after the intervie United States to this gentleman, after the publications of the press w which he has referred to, and , and I ask you gentlemen to give attention particularly to what the President has said, in view what the gentleman has said as of to the statement made by the Presi dent that he was not to quote him as having made the statements. THz WHITE Houskg, Washington, February 19, 1906. Sir: It appears that you have purported to give an extended interview with in quotation marks, putting my expressions in the first person so as to make responsible for both the thoug ht and the language. This is, inexcusable on your part. At the time you called upon me and I talked over informally you the question of the prese with rvation of game and of wild life senerally in its various aspects, I told you explicitly that while you could state that I was in hearty general accord with your efforts, you were not to try to quote my language, and subsequently I wrote you this. As a matter of fact, tS purports : I used. a casi Te false in » 5 « | » no me leave vou and 1 \ LC 4 € v ind by whatat you omit,it, as as well as ling to give : } on pana artal ae had thus ints an Lpudia not said, entirely you it,convey te Or et Fe Al ga ay ks svg ‘eager alternative impression, and 4} ae 1 Had you been con ste ih your stateme ent, which ARN authori I hereby he horized nt, tac you havevf done lone what youHG were whi I said Co... you would a] } sens rhe ASA ze Sc abit : apa Re only did whi fods. when youyouyouattemp ¥ ae ‘But ted notto do, i told give butmy | exact should valetwords AT Seepliit nee Sel oR Mick Be cote iss ly & I explicitly _ pan e hast capemem Not one single s ‘ey ae ae ase accurate. Om I told you was : stions. in no Cas Others are inventira ‘es are sheer ons inventi ons. i id i ae y I chari PTR he sentences are she és is 1ersunnecess ary to u is It ind things I said were omitted. :and Pee a JAY §s§ HEY ry Boa at acterize such conduct on your part. THEODORE ROOSEVELT.. Yours, ete., Mr. G. O. SHIELDS, Be 1269 Broadway, Bi Room 601, ae New York fee u ue “ATA 1A TOU did Tow, gentlemen, I reiterate what I have stated Mn e) gc luced thatCt letter in this discussion if the ge es cake anea ae Mee le “ivate zens nak Beto i because I do not think that Savas tee theseekright to Q ey Mi tion eee Pan controversy of paneyi in1 Re aidvoca te legisla estion aof veracit : » President in a em questio ae ; material sy nye he a But the letter becomes pertinent and tech akeupon Nae ry of He re ation of the this ae in \ as an illustr 3 The aaa ecentleman ec s here a anated. e 2g hibit the use of any shotguns a these statements have emané lustries like the Remington adnuits that; he would prop frankly Bk ) r . a lAyac , j Ss 3 rifles whatever, and that great industr W inchest er Repeat inaing oreat industries like the Winch . Arie Company 8 as that institution does, over 4, Arms Company, employing, as tation of the United States as.i a gg : lo ees and spreading the great repu ns bs of oa: Fe . tore ors, shouldeentle of inventors, be men, closed destroyed. Why, ge | vee oy es ao of the best ae up ? tor it isup monstrous! promotels ndusiny snd Ge The ie roposition prop A pk ok man knows of that decisio OE n of thisbo esjudge of The gentle 1s28 a the Unite san ‘federal judgee 1in ata ered by aa FedeHed ral judg would be presentedin a deci sion rend e ‘ecisely the point involved Sign here, this; country Pa n eee in o : Californiais upo aio n win that this e inqu iry decision an rine of this deci vie TE: Sarees | he stit utioss nal, see Ve ae of him as to whether this bill w hog: ey oe ca nore tae d indulges in general remarks to he United Supreme Court altn The oug h the , chac irman ; of the Ross Oran States , - would and if that case had been taken up;_ t oa have reversed si) ate Judg yet he can not cite a case, i him: to ‘par ticularize. commitequs a wse teee ther 1s n oisuch. case. « OF iets aC Buk RR hens ae u amo Of courirse f gam gamee which can se he can not cite a case, beca t the unt of w . es have a ‘se aStat a righ limittati| and also to placet ato limi to the time within which on as re: the Supreme Court bere Wall be killed, and within such Rae ee iis United States has held such nh oN O . Ine me repeating what that 15 SHOTGUN. armined ey e! | a Sows by tent a compete ai Shae autnor1 i 4 * og ne and ape hat heh claims to e that , acer Ke ee an entertai n NE 5 pac er r to the views of th is mattatte eeksion Supremi e bring here the deci of the Suy Cane a of been verythesimp Opi lee’mattStat e es to be ‘hiche heiehas Fa refeyr rrede, beca cok usepotlanthe O ai d in , ende re udge Ross was rend ; | deeply inteter- ee onde Cone of the United States if he was so sated in the principle which he advocates 1e _ e 2 2 e x deeply