The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-07-21
Gets MONEY
FOR NO WORK
SPECIAL PROSECUTOR HENEY
RECEIVED $4,000 FROM Gov
ERNMENT LAST YEAR FOR
WHICH HE DID NO SERVICE.

WASHINGTON, July 20.-That
Francis j. Heney, special counsel OF
the department of Justice and also
assistant prosecutor in the so-called
graft cases in San Francisco, received
from the government last year $685..
600 for which he performed no Sci.
vice, was the frank admission OF
Chairman Tawney of the appropria.
tions committee in the house today
How much did Heney receiva dur.
ing the year 190S?" demanded Mr.
Murphy (Dem., Mo- land what ser.
vice did he perform?'
HE received $4,000 and per-
formed no service for the govern
ment whatever during that year.
answered Mr.. Tawney.
Subsequently Mr.. Tawney said.
.'.As matter of fact, Mr.. Heney
has never performed any active SER
vice for the last three years. He
was appointed November Z, 1908, and
his active service continued for about
three years, and for which he re-
ceived in all $69,000."
Mr.. Tawney stated, however, that
Mr. Heney's salary had nothing to
do with the $4,000 deficiency of
the department of justice for which
provision is made in the urgent de-
ficiency bill. Hr. Heney, he said,
had received in all from the gov
ernment $4,000. Asked by Mr.. Cox
(Ind.) If any of this deficiency was
due to the employment of special
counsel to- prosecute any trust. Mr..
TN ;,,t ho offS n ;xro
said that the suit against the tobacco
trust had occasioned some of it. Mr..
Bennett IN. Y.) added that the pros
ecution of the turpenrfne trust also
was responsible for part of it. Mr..
Clark (Mo.) denounced the appoint
ment of incompetent district attor-
neys, necessitating, as he said, the
employment of special counsel The
practice had grown into a fad, he
said, and very expensive fad. He
declared if there had been COM
petent district attorney or two in the
west there would not have been so
much stealing of public lands.
Mr.. Mann (Ill.) said Mr.. Heney
needed no defense 1.-THE only people
opposed to him." he remarked, "are
those who sympathize with some of
those who have been accused, if not
convicted of graft.
Mr.. Burke (Pa. called the Illois-
an to order, saying that Mr.. Mann's S
admission that Mr.. Heney needed no
defense did dispose of the necessity
of consuming the houses time.
Il am glad" said Mr.. Mann. that
only one member, and he from the
great and pure state of Pennsylvania,
is opposed to Mr.. Heney." Fearful
that Mr.. Heney would get further
allowance, Mr.. Fitzgerald offered an
amendment prohibiting it.
Smarting under Mr.. Mann's sarcas-
tic reference to Pennsylvania as a
great and pure state" Mr.. Burke
charged that he had been placed in
the position of denouncing a COM
petent and earnest public officer. He
had objected. he said, because Mr..
Mann was abusing the provisions and
power of the house. The suggestion
of Mr.. Mann be charged as gratuitous
But l want to say" he remarked
with some warmth, that when the
great and pure state or Pennsylvania
wishes to have it's politics or its
moral tone improved it will not go
to the gentleman of Illinois, the state
of Illinois, or the city of Chicago,
from which the gentleman halls"
Far back in the chamber, Mr.. Moore
(Penn.) was trying to attract the at
tention of Mr.. Burke. When he
succeeded he propounded series of
questions. which moved the house to
laughter.
do you not asked Mr.. Moore,
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