The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-07-20
HENEY PAID $4,000
HE DOES NOT EARN

Washington. July 19.-That Francis
j. Heney, special counsel of the de-
partment OF justice and also assistant
prosecutor in the so-called graft cases
in San Francisco received from the
government last year $4,000 for
which he performed no service. was
the frank admission of Chairman
Tawney Of the appropriations COM
mittee in the house today.
How much did Heney receive dur
ing the year 1902" demanded Mr.
Murphy democrat. MissourD and
what service did he pcrform?"
He received $4,000 and performed
no service for the government what
ever during that year" answered Mr..
1dwney.
Subsequently Mr. Tawney said
"As a matter Of fact Nh Heney has
not performed any active service for
the last three years He was appoint
ed Nov Z. 1903, and his active SER
vice continued for about three years
and for which he received In all $685.
600"
He stated, however. that Mr.
Heney's salary had nothing to do With
the twenty-seven-thousa dollar de-
ficiency for the department OF justice.
for which provision is made in the
urgent deficiency bill. Mr. Heney, he
said, had received in all from the gov
ernment $4,000.
Asked BY Mr.. Cox of Indiana If any
Of this deficiency was due TO tho en-
ployment of special counsel to prose-
cute any trust. Mr. Tawney, answer
ing In the affirmative. said the suit
against the tobacco trust had occa
stoned some Of 1t.
Mr. Bennett. New York, added that
the prosecution Of the turpentine trust
also was responsible for part OF il.
Mr. Clark (MissouriD denounced the
appointment of incompetent district
attorneys, necessitating. as he said,
the employment of special counsel
The practice had grown into fad
he said and very expensive fad He
declared II there had been a compe-
tent district attorney OF two in the
west there would not have been so
much stealing Of public lands.
Mr.. Mann Gllinois) said Mr. Heney
needed no defense. The only people
opposed to him." he remarked. ARE
those who sympathize with some Of
those who have been accused IL not
convicted, of graft
! Mr Burke (Pennsylvania) called the
Illinoisan to order. saying that Mr..
Manns admission that Mr., Heney
needed no defense disposed Of the ne
! cesSity Of consuming the houses time
Il am glad.' said Mr.. Mann, that
only one member, and he from the
| OF aI ~ c n IN, a niD
! is opposed to Mr.. Heney"
Fearful that Mr.. Heney would get a
further allowance, MI Fitzgerald Of
fered an amendment prohibiting 1t.
| Smarting under Mr. MannS sarcaS-
tic reference to Pennsylvania as a
great and pure state" Mr.. Burke
charged that he had been placed in
the position of denounclnG a compe-
tent and earnest public Official He
had objected. he said, because Mr..
Mann was abusing the privileges and
power of the house.
The suggestion of Mr.. Mann he
charged as gratultous
But ] want TO say" he remarked,
with some warmth. that when the
great and pure state OF Pennsylvania
wishes to have its politics or Its moral
tone improved l will not go TO the
gentleman of Illinois, the state of III
nois or the city of Chicago, from which
the gentleman halls"
Far back in the chamber Mr.. Moore
! (Pennsylyania) was trying to attract
the attention OF Mr.. Burke. When he
succeeded he pTopounded series oi
questions which moved the house tc
laughter.
"Do you not" asked Mr.. Moore, "re
gard as highly complimentary the
reference to Pennsylvania"
Il do" emphatically replied Mr.
Burke.
do you deny that Pennsylvania is
a great and pure state?"
II do not" responded Mr. Burke
The Fitzgerald resolution was voted
down, as was one by MT. Cullop Indi
anal prohibiting the payment Of an!
part OF the deficiency appropriation
toward the employment of specia
counsel TO assist In prosecuting Della
van Smith OF the Indianapolis News
or Joseph Pulitzer of the New Yorl
World in connection with the govern
mentS libel suits growing out OF tn,