The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-09-11
ANOTHER ERUPTION
In the Worlds Fair Horticultu.
raj Department.
THE CALIFoRNIANs ARE KICKING
Rumors Of Unfair Means to Secure Samuels
Appointment-Di rector-General Davis said
Not to Have Acted Squarely.
Especial to TsE HERALp-Examiner Dispatch.

Especial to TIE HERALD--Examlner DlspaJcn-l
CHICAGO, Sept 1O.-The volcano of the
Worlds fair-the department OF horu-
culture-is once more afiame. While no
concerted plan of investigation has as yet
been instituted, and no formal inquiry into
the reasons which control General Davis
and the national commissioners in their
action in appointing ]. M. Samuels of Ken
lucky, to the chieftancy, much discomfort
is expressed and many rumors are afoat.
1t is whispered that unfair means have
been employed which tended to suppress
and keep from the BOARD of control and the
national commissioners data which should
have been submitted to them and upon
which they could have exercised an intel
hgent Judgment. Mr.. Samuels' name was
presented for the place simultaneously
with that of ]. De Barth Schorb, of Call
fornia.
How do you account for the appoint
ment of Mr.. Samuels by Director General
Davism was asked of Mr.. Shorb this even
ing.
General Davis replied Shorb, twas
very warm supporter of Messrs. Maxwell
and Forsythe, and was especially anxious
that one or the other of those gentlemen
should receive the appointment SO much so
that Notwithstanding the fact that Mr.. For
sythe was rejected by the board of control,
General Davis still persisted in nominating
him for an honorary position as representa-
tive of the fair in Europe, and those who
had strongly endorsed him for the position
had as strongly opposed the confirmation Of
Maxwell and Forsythe."
Are you sure your endorsements for
warded from California and elsewhere
were presented to General Davis, and he
in turn presented them to the board of con-
trol!"
$50 far as l can rely on the service of the
telegraph wire, have TO presume that all
such endorsements were sent to General
Davis. Whether he in turn made known
such endorsements either to the board of
control or to the local board Of the national
commissioners, / am in great doubt. l am
aware of one fact" continued Mr.. Shorb,
''that at the time Mr.. Davis was urging on
the local board the confirmation of Mr.
Forsythe, he stated at meeting of the
board of control that G. P. Huntington had
endorsed Mr.. Forsythe. He sid of him
that he was the brainiest man in California
for the position. When Mr.. Davis au-
thority was challenged for this statement
by members of the local board of control,
Mr.. Davis replied that he had the informa-
ton from one of the commissioners and
that member replied that he held in his
hand telegram from Mr.. Huntington
which was highly eulogistic of person
whose name had not yet been presented to
the board of control by Mr.. Davis which
telegram heartily endorsed that person. In
confirmation of his statement Mr.. Shorb
here produced the following telegram:
''NEw YORK, Sept. 4, 1891.
ITO j. DeBarth Shorb, Auditorium Hotel, Chi
cago:
al have just received dispatch asking il
] have not endorsed you for the position o.
chief of horticulture to Mr.. Davis. / have
done SO several times, first on my own mo-
ton, and afterwards at the request of vari.
Gus parties in California.
(Signed) G. p. HUNTINGTON"
Continuing, Mr.. Shorb said: II re-
ceived telegram from California stating
that the commission from that state had re
celved an official communication from
General George r. Davis stating that b,
had received from some person from my
own town and county letter in which wal
preferred serious charges against me- TIL,
letter purported to be from one DAME
Freeman, gentleman holding high posi-
ton both in the financial and social worlc
of Los Angeles county. This same lette
from which MIR. Davis quoted was shown
by him General Davis to Mr.. Dan Free
man as he passed through Chicago on hi
way home from Europe. MIR. Freeman de
clared TO General Davis at that time tina
the letter was forgery, and his nam
had been used for the purpose of deceiv
ing"
Mr.. Shorb, in supporting his statement
produced the following telegram:
Los ANGELES, Cal, Sept. l, 1891.
~. De Barth Shorb, Grand Pacific Hotel. Chi
cago:
IL am not the author of the letter sen
from here to General Davis regardin
your fitness for chief of the horticulture
bureau. 1t was signed, l understand. d
G. Freeman. l find no such person here.
(Signed), d. f. FREEMAN
at was subsequent to the time,n adde
MIR. Shorb, ''as l understand it, of MI
Freemau's visit to Chicago and denounce
ment of this letter as a forgery, tina
Director General Davis wrote his letter t
the commissioner of our state, and shove
F'reeman's letter to several other commits
sioners here in Chicago as to newspape
reporters afterward.n
"Haye you any objection to giving tn
names of the commissioners here to who1
MIR. DAVIS exhibited this letter?n
''At the proper time and place, If MI
Davis invites it, will make q full dis
closure so far as that can be done withou
any breach of confidence heretofore re
posed In me. II would be difficult indee
10 answer in full what, if any, ulteric
motive Mr.. Davis had so as to convey tn
entire cause, but l believe il to be due
the fact that those men who had recon
mended me had protested against b
former appointments"