, 1884-07-17
MANN'S STATEMENT.
He Says the Charges Preferred BY
a Correspondent
Are Altogether False, and the Reg
ister's Office
Is Open for inspection Any Day in
The Week.

SN' NhsPuCHLNN " lSolCl ul1 ,
which reached Cheyenne early in the
evening, contained a long special dispatch
from the correspondent of that paper in
this city, which purports to give 4 history
of 2 transaction which occurred in the
United States Land Office in this city
which, if it were true, would be a very
serious thing in the way of official con-
duct The same dispatch also undertakes
to explain why it was that Hon. W. W.
Corlett did lot receive the appointment
as Chief Justice of Wyoming and states
that it was on account Of a communication
sent from Cheyenne by the Knights of
Labor, calling President Arthur's atten-
ton to the fact that Mr.. Corlett is the at
torney of the Union Pacific Railway Com
pany and also for certain parties
against whom suits have been instituted
for fencing up the government lands. A
word in reference to this matter will suf-
flee. 1t seems very doubtful whether this
communication had much to do with Mr..
Corlett's failure to get the appointment,
for s5fE b Wa
THESE FACTS wERE KNOWN
in Washington and have been known for
years. 1t would be stretching the point
considerably to assume that any state
ments made from here at this time would
enlieEten anybody in Washington very
much in regard to this matter.
But to return to Mr.. Mann. The sum
and substance of the charge made against
him is that as Register Of the Land Office
he received money to the extent Of 500
for services rendered in the line of his
duty as such Register, whereas the law
does not permit this officer to receive any
other compensation than that which is
provided by law, and if he does 50 it be-
comes a punishable offense. The fore
going is substantially what the charge
amounts to, although there is coupled
with it the further charge that Mr.. Frank
Clark, who is employed in the Land
Office, has been making improper
use of the knowledge which
he would naturally obtain there
with the connivance and instigation of
Register Mann. Something is also said
in the dispatch alluded to about Mr..
Mann's not attending to a suit in a land
contest which he had promised to do Us
an attorney, but just how he failed to try
anybody's case while appearing before
himself as be would have to do, the dis
patch does not undertake to explain.
HE LEADER reporter called on Mr..
Mann last evening and showed him the
paper containing the dispatch and asked
him what he thought of it, Mr.. Mann,
as soon as he glanced at it, began to
smile and said he believed he knew what
it meant and at the same time remarked
to Mrs. Mann, who sat-near by, that it was
Il WORK OF THE SAME PARTY
he had heretofore mentioned to her. He
then explained to THE LEADERS, repre-
sentative that all there is of this 500
matter is simply that a certain well known
Cheyenne man had an additional
soldiers homestead certificate and
hardly knew what its value was. Nh.
Mann, as an attorney and in no other
capacity, told him the value of the certif-
cate or scrip, and the party disposed of it
in time to pretty good advantage, After
this he came and paid Mr., Mann $50,
which he says he considered then and
still considers he had a perfect right to
take. That, !" said he, is all there is of
this matter, and all there ever has been"
He then explained who the party was that
gave him the $50, and that this gentle
man had been prevailed upon to make
some sort of an affidavit against him,
which he presumed was the same one a
copy of which is given in the special dis
patch. He referred to Frank Clark also,
and finally said: You can say generally
in regard to these charges that they are
absolutely false, and if anybody wants to
investigate me the quicker they do SO the
better it will suit me. -
Some further talk occurred, in which
Mr.. Mann explained what the difficulty
was with the man whom he charges is at
the bottom of all of these false and mali
cious statements, after which THE LEADER
man left.
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