The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-12-03

Reply of Meyendorff to the
Statement of Senator
Warren of Wyoming.
MAKES SOME CORRECTIONS
TELLTAlE LETTER OF CHEY-
ENNE STATESMAN.

Portland, Ore. Dec. Especial Agent
Michael \. Myendorff, who returned to
Portland yesterday from Salt Lake
city, has made a statement in reply 10
United States Senator Francis E. War
rem of Wyoming. Mr.. Myendorfr be-
gins with the statement of those nor
tons of the affidavit made bv him be-
fore the interstate commerce commits
sion at Salt Lake City referring to Mr.
Warren and to which Mr. Warren takes
exceptions. and continues:
If he (WarTen) is correctly quoted
he asserted that in writing to him 1
described myself as being an old SOL
der of the civil war This statement
was never made by me. and it would
have been absurd for ANYBODY to have
made any declaration of that characte.
The records of the state department
show that if was in 1865 that Abraham
Lincoln obtained my release from exile
in Siberia. and that did not arrive i'm
this country until 1866, a year after the
close of the civil war.
Never Asked for a Place.
Furthermore 1 never solicited SEN
ator Warren or any one else for the po-
Sition of Snecial agent or place in the
consular service.
Mr.. Warren is also quoted as say
ing that he never read to me any pri-
Vate letters of mine addressed to Com
missioner Richards. / never said he
did What l did say. however. as is
proved by the foregoing quotations
from my affidavit. was that the senator
read me extracts from letters which ]
lad addressed to the commissioner of
the general land office These letters
were official, and not private cOmnuni-
cations and they have never been de-
signated as private letters bv any
body. to my knowledge, except by Sem
atOr Warren himself.
The Suicide Yarn.
Senator Warren speaks of having
read in the Denver newspaper of Mey-
endorff's attempt to commit suicide, 7
am surprised that the senator should
to circulate such a ridiculous
story. 1t is fact easily susceptible Of
definite and substantial proof that ]
made no attempt TO commit suicide at
Denver, or at any other place, for that
matter. If the senator believes. how
ever, that a tTumDed up suicide story
has any bearing on the coal land frauds
i'm his state l will gladly furnish him
any evidence that he may need to sat
isfy himself on that point
The Wyoming Investigation.
I'm my opinion, there is only one
statement attributed TO Senator War
rem that has any direct bearing on the
coal land Investigations in Wyoming
That statement is his assertion that 1
asked him how to proceed in the mat
ter, and that he suggested that l should
follow the law and the Instructions In
that connection the following extract
from a letter written to me by Mr..
Warren under date of April 4. 1904. i'm
reply to a letter which I addressed 20
him five days Lrior to that date may
indicate whether or not the senator was
anxious for the investigation to proceed
without delay in his state Wyoming:
Warren's Letter.
" Washington. D. c.. April 4. 1901
Dear Mr. Meyendorff: l know of Moth
Ing that is pressing in the state north
Of you. and shols say that it would be
Just as well to 10 the work nearest to
you that is pressing hardest. After we
adjourn here and l return to Wyoming
l hone to see you at some early and
date.
OF F. WARREN
As the letter was addressed to me at
Denver, Colo, it will readily be seen
to what portion of the map the senator
was abiding when he wrote the state