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the papers- over to hin. Presicent Roosevelt then declared he had the papers and that the Senate should not have thems that his impeachment would be necessary in order to get the papers and that he had so informed Senator Clark. He said the Senator had told him that the Senate wished to exercise its prerogatives but tf the papers were of such a nature they should not be made publie then the committee was ready to endorse the Fresident's utews. President Roosevelt stated "Some of these facts which they want, for what purpose I hardly know, were given to the Governnent under the seal of secrecy and cannot be civulged, and I will see to it that the word of this Government to the incivicual is kept sacred." (The Letters of Archie Butt, Fersonal aide to President Roosevelt, by Abbott, pages 305- 306.) See also The President--Office and Powers, by Corwin, pages 2&1 and 28,