The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-01
WARREN MAKES
GENERAL DENIAL
Never Entered Into Conspiracy
to- Choke Off Investigation
of Coal Land Frauds.
KNOWS AGENT MYENDORFF
GIVES HIS VERSION OF MEETING
- IN DENVER.

Washington, Nov: Ex-senator Warren
of Wyoming, who arrived in the city to-
day, made the following statement in
contradiction of the affidavit of Special
Agent Myendorff of the general land
office. made Wednesday al Salt Lake
City, in which Mr.. Warren and his col
league, Senator Clark, were charged with
cohspiring with others to put stop TO
investigations into charges made in con-
nection with the entry of coal lands
owned by the Union Pacific Railway
company:
of Myendorff made such an affidavit
he must have been indulging in pipe
dreams. / am informed that Senator
Clark never saw the man, and never had
any connection with him, oral or writ
ten,
.sThe idea of Senator Clark needing
MyeDdorff's assistance in his reelection
is absurd, as Wyoming was practically
cold for him and no candidate opposing.
Letter From Myendorff.
''As for myself, never knew that such
man as Special Agent Myendorff eX-
isted until some time later in 1903 or in
1900. when / received a letter from him
saving that he wished to see me; that he
had heard that somebody had been writ
ing me TO his discredit, and asking If l
would not let him know when was in
Cheyenne or Denver so that he might
call; that we were both soldiers in the
civil war, etc.
'.In accordance with the request I some
months dIIer INFORMED MIN IndI i 6A-
pected 10 be in Denver few days later,
sending him the date. He called at my
hotel, asking my help to get him promo
tion to the position of a special agent in
charge or a place in the consular ser
vice, because neither his work nor the
climate of Colorado entirely agreed with
him; that the altitude there made him
nervous, etc
Was Sympathetic.
He based his request to me on grounds
of his civil war record, his friendship for
my friends, Mark Hanna, Elmer Dover
and others. He appealed strongly to my
sympathy, and 1 consented to mention
his case to his superiors. He then vol
unteered the information that he had a
lot of irregular and illegal coal claim
cases made by parties in Colorado for
land in Wyoming, said TO be in the in
terest of the Union Pacific Coal COM
pany. He asked my advice how to pro-
coed. I suggested that he follow the law
II never read any private letters of his
10 Commissioner Richards and have nc
knowledge that such ever existed.
Made a Second Call.
-"0n a later occasion when I happened
10 be in Denver on business Myendorfi
again called on me and again solicited
my assistance. l think he called on me
once afterward at my committee room
in Washington, but had no conversation
with him beyond the customary saluta-
tion | would extend to any visitor of my
acquaintance. Some time afterward ]
read in the Denver newspapers of Myen-
dorff's attempt to commit suicide, and
later on that he had left Denver, and SC
] do not know whether he ever received
a promotion.
"As to the subject matter of the tes-
timony referred TO, 1 have no connection
with coal or other land entries of the
Union Pacific or any other railroad OF
any other company, and no interest what
further than
have the people of my country get plenty
of coal of good quality and at reasonable
prices, and that the world might know OF
the vast deposits of coal underlying the
soil.
And further than this I desire to say
that any one who accuses me otherwise
speaks falsely, no matter who. when OF
where"