, 1912-10-03

remainder of their salaries to employ
! clerks to help keep up the great and
burdensome volume of work in Wash
ington.
In no year since 1 have been in
Congress has the allowance for my
clerk hire been v great as the
amount l have expended. Each and
every year since l have been in the
Senate I have expended personal
funds for government clerk hire.
As a matter of fact, when I en-
tered the Senate-desiring, as did.
to procure competent help-my first
aim was to try out each one before
placing him permanently upon the
rolls. It will be observed that the
names n amounts complained of re-
late to clerkships of long ago from
ten to twelve years back.) When the
clerkships in my control became
filled by those who were found COM
petent and whom I desired to retain
permanently in my employ, they re-
NAMED continuously fflled-as, for in
stance. ]. A. Breckons has been en-
rolled as my chief clerk for ten years
or more: L. M. Wells has been en-
rolled as assistant clerk twelve
years. and c. E. Lane and others
have been enrolled for long periods.
AS to the accusation that I have
employed relatives in the public SER
vice: | know of no law nor custom
which forbids It. The pay rolls OF
Seiate inc House nave shown In
Vulnerable cases of such employment
ever since the foundation of the gov
eminent, and show them at this time.
since when should a man be forbid
den to employ the most competent
and trustworthy assistants he can
find, even though they may happen to
be related to him?
i cheerfully and confidently refer to
the manner in which the duties Of tho
committees of which I have been
chairman have been performed, as
evidence of whether the work has
been kept up to date and done in an
efficient manner or otherwise. Run
| backward through my chairman
ship of the committees on appropria-
tons and military affairs to the com.
mittee on claims, when the clerks
complained of were employed, I wish
to recall the fact that during my in
cumbency as chairman Of the claims
committee several omnibus claims
bills were prepared. each covering
thousands of claims. Two of these
became laws and included appropria-
tons for the payment Of tens of
thousands Of claims, amounting in all
to millions OF dollars, of poor people,
some of whom had been waiting
many. many years for their money.
This work was done in addition to
the clerical work connected with the
care of thousands Of individual bills
and court of claims findings. An
elaborate index of all claims against
the government. of every nature, in
nllIdtn0 nAnQiNn elaine nAndfn@ hA-
fore the Senate, was brought up to
date, by my clerks. from the close of
the hfty-fifth Congress to and includ-
ing the final session in which I was
the claims committee chairman-the
last session of the fifty-eighth Con-
gress; and though seven years have
passed since I left that chalrmanship,
that was Tho last Index Of private
claims published, and no omnibus
claims bill has become 4 law since the
approval Of the ones | have just men
toned. / consider this an evidence
that the Senate had confidence in my
work.
ALLEGED MISUSE OF TERRIFIC
RIAL FUNDS.
In the next paragraph I am accused
as follows:
Warren. in course Of time, got
himself appointed territorial
treasurer. He Used the public
funds to start himself in a mer-
camille enterprise"
Answering this: The records show
that l embarked in the mercantile
business in Cheyenne In June. 1868.
while my first service as treasurer OF
Wyoming territory was from Septem-
Der 30. 1876, to December Is. 1877.
and my econd service was from De-
cember 10, 1879, to March 2, 1886
eight to seventeen years thereafter
and pretty late to start a mercantile
enterprise" And no responsible per-
son will pretend to assert that / used
the t%erritory's money in my business
every dollar of the public funds.
ALLEGED REMOVAL FROM Or
FicE FOR ILLEGAL FENCING.
Next comes the charge that Presi-
lent Cleveland removed me from the
office of territorial governor because
| had Illegally fenced large areas Of
the government land. This Is not
true, and the records will show that
no complaint Of that kind was made
against me or considered by President
Cleveland either before or at the date
Of my removal. l was removed. as l
should have been, because l was a
Republican territorial governor serv-
ing under q Democratic president who
had allowed me. or rather requested
me. to serve nearly twenty-one months
during a Democratic administration.
Further Charges Of illegal Fencing.
Then follow the further charges
about my being guilty of illegally in
closing the public domain. In ans
wer to these l submit the following
from the files of the General Land Of
flee:
DEPARTMENT OF THE IN
TERlOR,