The Washington herald., 1906-12-01
JUST A PIPE DREAM
So Says Senator Warren of
Land Frauds Story.
TOLD AGENT TO FOLLOW LAW
That Was His Only Communication
With MeyeRdOrf Regarding Al
Have been in Interests of Union Pa
ciac-CIarL Sever saw Meyendorff.

And further than this I desire TO say
that anyo .e who accuses me otherwise.
speaks falsely-no matter who, when. or
where"
With these words. Senator Francis E.
Warren closed a statement with refer
ence 10 salt Lake dispatches. published
| by a local paper. and others. in which II
was charged that he and his colleague,
Senator Clark, had undertaken 10 in
fuence Special Land Agent Meyendorff
to assist the Union Pacific Railway Com
pany in obtaining fraudulent title to coal
lands in Wyoming. and asserting that the
testimony given by Meyendorff and other
special agents followed closely an afi-
davit, the preparation Of which was sug-
gested by Secretary OF the Interior Hitch
cock. The whole matter was a pipe
dream. the Senator said.
Senator Warren arrived in Washington
yesterday afternoon, and, after register
ing at the Willard. went direct to his
committee room at the Capitol Seen
there by a representative Of The Herald,
he said that he was then engaged in GO
ing over his correspondence with Meyen-
dorff. in order to refresh his memory con-
/ cerning that individual
The charges against himself and his
/ colleague was absurd, the Senator said.
Wyoming is practically solid for Sena-
tor Clark, and there is no candidate Op-
posing him." said he. "That ought to
show how ridiculous IS the statement that
Senator Clark needed Aieyendorfr's assist
! ance in his campaign for reelection"
MeyendorfF Wanted Help.
His own acquaintance with Meyendorff,
Senator Warren said. dated back to 1903
or 1904. A. that time Meyendorf sent a
written request for permission to call.
Some one had been writing letters to his
discredit he said, and he wished TO con-
suit the Senator about it. He was a G.. A
r. man, and asked the Senator's sympa-
| thy on that account.
IN accordance with his request I, some
months afterward, informed him that I
! expected to be in Denver on a specified
date" said Senator Warren. He called
at my hotel, asked that help to get him
promotion to the position of special agent
| in charge or place in the consular serv-
/ Ice, because neither his work nor the eli
mate OF Colorado entirely agreed with
! him. He based his request on the grounds
/ Of his civil war record, his friendship for
my friends, Mark Hanna, Elmer Dover,
and others. He appealed strongly to my
sympathy. and I consented to mention his
case TO his superiors. He then volunteer
ed the information that he had a lot of
I IRE gular and Illegal cOal-claim cases
made by parties in Colorado for land in
| Wyoming, said to be in the interest of the
/ Union Pacific Coal Company. He asked
my advice how to proceed. I suggested
that he follow the law and his instruc-
tons.
story of Attempt at Suicide,
7 never read Myendorf any private let
ters of his to Commissioner Richards 3"
! declared the Senator emphatically, ''and
have no knowledge that any such ever ex-
listed.
"On a later occasion when / happened
to be in Denver on business. Meyendorff
again called on me- and again solicited
my assistance. think he called on me
once afterward at my committee room In
Washington, but / had no conversation
with him beyond the customary saluta-