The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-08
ANDERSON WINS.
Effort to Dust Receiver Of Colby
Land Office Fails.
Senatorial Question Behind
Investigation
OFFICIAL FOR BURTON.
Senator Bakers Friends Are
Consequently AggrieVed.
Charges We're Preferred by A.
r. Greene of LecOmptOn.

The Sixth congressional district Re-
publlcans have been involved for some
weeks IN a quarrel over Cyrus Ander- /
son. receiver Of the United States land
Office at Colby. an effort being made TO
have Anderson removed from Office.
The quarrel has ended by the report
Of Commissioner Bingham Herman of
the general land Office, who has sustain
ed Anderson and finds that the receiver
is not guilty of the charges. The
charges were made by A. r. Greene of
Lecompton, an examiner for the land
Offices A dispatch from Washington
tells the following story of the trou-
bic:
The fight was opened on Anderson
by Greene on March 8. In a report to
the department he made several charges
against the receiver, among others
that the receiver was absent from his
Office without leave, that he permitted
his clerk TO sign his name to important
official documents, that he made false
| certificates, and that he was in col
| fusion with other parties to secure gov
| eminent land for his own use for
small amount In support OF the charges
an affidavit of a former clerk in the
office, A L. Rich, was fled by the in
spector-
Receiver Anderson was notified of
the charges preferred against him and
| in reply denied each and every one ex-
/ cept the one charging him with absent
| ing himself from office without leave
! He also produced an affidavit from A.
| l. Rich which placed Inspector Greene
| in an embarrassing situation In this
affidavit Rich swore that he was in
! duced by Greene to sign the hrSr am
| davit; that he did not know what it
contained as he read it over very hur-
riedly; that in consideration Of his
signing it Greene and Register Will
cOxson promised to see that he was re-
instated in the civil service and sta ton
ed at New Orleans at $1,000 per year.
Rich produced a letter from WillcOxsOn
in which the latter said that Senator
Baker, being at the head of the civil
service committee, can fix matters O.
X and that he lWincOxsou) could
always get help from Senator Baker
when every one else fails
From a kansan now holding a posi-
ton here, but who keeps in close touch
with politics at home, it is asserted
| that the movement to remove Anderson
is due to the senatorial squabbIe in
that state. Senator Baker named An
| dersOu for receiver of the Colby land
Office. Anderson is now working for
| J. r. Burton Greene also owes his
appointment to Senator Baker and, in
order to punish Anderson for his in
gratitude towards Baker, concluded to
have him removed from office But
Commissioners Hermann, of the general
land Office, stood by Anderson
"A supplemental charge was made
that Anderson was a hard drinker- To
show that Anderson had always been
a total abstainer; that he does not even
know what liquor tastes like, and its
hilarious effect is a stranger to him.
In his report to the secretary Of the
interior the land commissioner re-
views all OF the evidence submitted in
the case at length
Neglect of duty. habitual careless
ness and absence without leave formed
the basis of charges 1 and p Speak
; ing of them. the land commissioner
says:
these charges are that the receiver was
absent from his office about One-hfth
= Of the time when he should have been
there, that he was grossly careless IN
; his handling of important official pa
pers, and that he permitted his clerk &c
sign his name to receipts which he
> ! should have signed himself In sup
| port Of these, the inspector presented
the affidavit of A L Rich, a former
| me1y was adduced In his affidavit
/ Rich declared that the receiver would
= / absent himself for intervals of three
4 and four days at a time; that he was
| away fully one-hfth or the time and
: | that on ore occasion, a whole day was
spent in searching for a homestead ap-
, | plicatiOn which the receiver had mis-
laid. This Office is now in receipt o.
an affidavit from Mr. Rich in which
he says the Inspector Greene called
at his Office on March Is last and re
I Guested him to make the affidavit. bu
that he declined to do SO on that occa
sion; that the inspector returned {
2 week later when he consented to maxi
f it, after being urgently requested K
do so by the inspector and Register
4 WfIIcoxson of the Colby land Office, anC
[ after they had each given him assur
= auce Of their personal friendship ant
their promise that they would see tina
he was reinstated in the civil servici
= | and secure for him at any time a clerk
s shin at New Orleans at 1920 per an
= num- and he further says that he nov
j feels and realizes that he was undul!
n