Arizona republican., 1913-01-16
Special Inspector Who Made Inspection of Op- crations of Warren Live stock Company Severely Censured by Roosevelt
HIS REPORT
 DISCREDITED
But the House Committee Adopts Findings Expect ing That Minority Report Will Be Presented by Dakota Representative
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ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPATCHl
 WASHINGTON. Jan. 15.-That tue Warren Livestock company. of which senator Frances F.. Warren of Wy oming is at the head. was maintaining unlawful inclOsureS on public lands in Wyoming and Colorado in 1906 was the substance Of d report adopted by the house committee on expenditures from the interior department The commit tees conclusions are based on com plete inspection records, reports and correspondence procured from the in teriOr department, covering an inVestl- gation by the government in 1906 and 1907. These records showed that, after d second inspection by Assistant At torney General Milton D. Purdy, at the request of President Roosevelt, Sena- tor Warren's company was eXonerat- ed from illegal acts which agents of the interior department had charged.
 A minority report drawn by Repre- sentative Burke of South Dakota, will also be presented to the house. Burke holds that the records show that Sen ator Warren's company was not hold ing illegally public lands in 1906. No action against Warrens company was | recommended by the committee and the report was limited to a statement 1 of the conclusion that his company ! then maintained legal fences 1 In letter to President Roosevelt in ! 1906, Warren declared his company was observing the laws; that he per l sonally had no illegal fences and that he protested against the "assassinat I ing and dark lantern procedure" of the l special agents of the interior depart rlent.
 1 Records made public today showed 1 that President Roosevelt held Secrc- 1 tary Hitchcock of the interior depart l ment. responsible for many newspaper ] attacks on Senator Warren. One let 1 ter from the former president con l tained bitter denunciation of Special 1 Inspector r. B. Linnen, who made the | Investigation. for including in his re- ] port a file of newspaper clippings and l reports that denounced Senator War
 ren: but which were based on no facts 1 or allegations.
 l This exhibit 3 is simply bundle of l scurrilous allegations said Roosevelt in a letter dated January r.. 1907 | 1 why such an exhibit should have been forwarded by the department of the l interior to me. It was valuable how ever because it deeply discredits the l words and judgment of Inspector Lin nen."
 \ second investigation of the War ren operations, made by Assistant At | torney General Purdy was completed and reported on January 9. 1907. Pur- lays report also made public today. held that it had not been shown by the inspectors that Senator Warrens com pany at that time had any public land incIosed: but that the government in speCtors had mistaken fences belong ing to other parties.
 1 T am of the opinion that no suit
 should be instituted against the War ren Livestock company said Purdy's $
 report "or it's officers or agents on
 the report and accompanying plats.' l Tn sending the report of Secretary Hitchcock of the interior department
 on January 26. 1907, President Roose l welt said
 "Boraparte' (the attorney general
 feels as of course I do, that there has
 been a complete breakdown on the part Of the agents of the interior depart ment in this matter so far as making any case against Senator Warren is concerned. The case is particularly bad for Linnen, I regaNl the case as
 much graver against him than against l District Attorney Burke IL appears l | from Purdy's report that his case has been prepared in the loosest and most f fnacCuoate manner.