Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-03
MYENpOREE ANSWERS WARREN
Denies Matters Imputed to Him by
the Senator from
wyOmlnE.

PORTLAND. Ore, Dec. 2-Michael A.
Myondorff. the special hgent. who returned
TO Portland yesterday from Salt Lake City,
has made a statement in reply to United
States Senator Francis E. Warren Of wy
oming. Mr.. Myendorff begins with state
ment Of those portions OF the affidavit made
by him before the Interstate Commerce
commission at Salt Lake City. referring to
Mr. Warren. and to which Warren takes
exceptions. He continues:
IF he Cwarren) Is correctly quoted he
asserted that In writing to him described
myself as being an old soldier of the civil
war This statement was never made by
me and It would have been absurd for any
body to have made any declaration of that
character. The records Of the State de-
partment show that it was in 1866 that
Abraham Lincoln obtained my release from
exile In Siberia and that I did not arrive
in this country until 1866, a year after the
close of the civil war.
Furthermore, l never solicited Senator
Warren or anyone else for the position Of a
special agent in the consular service.
Mr.. Warren is also quoted as saying
that he never read to me any private letters
of mine addressed to Commissioner Rich
ards. Never said he did. What l did
say, however, was that the senator read
me extracts from letters which I had ad-
dressed to the commissioner Of the general
land office. These letters were official and
not private communica tions and they have
never been designated as private letters
by anybody 10 my knpwledRe, except by
Senator Warren himself.
Senator Warren speaks Of having read
in the Denver newspapers of Myendorff S
attempt to commit suicide I am surprised
that the senator should attempt to cir
culate such a ridiculous story. It is a
fact easily susceptible of definite and sub
stantial proof that made no attempt to
commit suicide at Denver OF at any other
place, for that matter If the senator be-
lieves, however, that trumped up suicide
story has any bearing on the coal land
frauds in his state I will gladly furnish
him any evidence that he may need to
satisfy himself on that point"
I'm my opinion there is only one state
ment attributed to Senator Warren that
has any direct bearing on the coal land in
vestigations in Wyoming That statement
is his assertion that 1 asked him to pro-
ceed in the matter and that he suggested
that 1 should follow the law and instruc-
tons. In that connection the following ex-
t"S' liOHl " letler written 10 me Dy Mr.
| Warren under date Of April T. 1904 in re-
ply to letter which ] addressed to him
five days prior to that date may indicate
whether or not the senator was anxious
for the investigation to rvoceed without
delay in his state, Wyoming.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., April 4. l9O4. Dear
Mr.. Myendorff 1 know of nothing that is
pressing in the state north of you, and
should say that il would be just as well
! to do the work nearest to you that Is
| pressing hardest. After we adjourn here
and return to Wyoming ! hope to see
you at some early and convenient date
| las the letter was addressed to me al
Denver it Will readily be seen to what
portion Of the map the senator was al
luding when he wrote fhe state north OF
! you f"