The Washington herald., 1913-11-13
PINDELL TO GET
POST in RUSSIA,
LEWISEXPLAINS
Bargain" Letter Was Work
Of a Faithless Employe,
Says Senator.
/" PRESIDENT SATISFIED "
Correspondence Shown Mr.. Wilson
and Secretary Bryan-Peoria
Editor viii Be Nominated.

Senator James Hamilton Lewis of I'LL
nois and Secretary OF State Bryan both
issued statements yesterday on the now
famous Lewis-Pindell letter offering
Henry NJ. Pindell of Peoria, Ill, the
Enthusiastically to Russia for a year.
Senator Lewis statement was issued
following a call at the White House. He
b says Pindell will be appointed.
Secretary Bryan's statement admits the
administration knew Pindell would resign
before the expiration of the full term.
He says also that Pindell will be ap-
pointed.
The nomination may be sent to the
Senate today. Senator Lewis has appealed
to the Democratic members of the Sem
ate to confirm Pindelrs appointment and
says, he has received assurances the
Peoria editor will be confirmed. There
is good reason to believe, however, that
fight will be made in the Senate. 1t is
possible that the nomination will be held
back until the entire Senate membership
has been sounded.
Senator Lewis explains the circum-
stances under which he admitted having
written the letter and gives a new theory
of how the letter came into existence.
This is still at variance with the original
comment of Pindell, who said the letter
had been stolen from his desk. Senator
Lewis statement is as follows:
Statement of Lewis.
The appointment of Mr.. PindelI by
the President will close that phase of
the subject. However, it is now but fair
for me to state that il the newspapers
have published letter that was mis-
leading and misinforming, in so far as it
appeared 10 be, either my statements or
as coming from mel am responsible for
this, and not the papers. When the mat
ter of some letters of mine to Mr.. Pin
dell was brought to my attention by the
representatives of some paper l said:
I have written Mr.. PindeI on the
subject, and SO far as I am concerned,
any letter OF mine on public business IL
the business of the public. At a proper |
time you may put it upon the bilIboards |
or the lamp posts.
Mr.. Pindell, however, is the man to |
talk of any letters he has from me, and
not l.
This doubtless led the papers to as
sumo that did not deny the particular
letters that had been imposed upon them
as being from me. The creation in these
letters, assumed to have been from me
to Mr.. Pindell have been published now
develops to have been the result of a
collusion on the part of a former en-
pIoye of my office in Washington, who
checks, and had been discharged, but
who had been protected by me from the
penalty because of his famiiy-and GER
tain of his confederates. He shaped
these letters and sought to dispose of the
same as being from me to Mr. PindeII-ll
the stenographer having memory that
the letters of some kind on the subjects
referred TO had been dictated by me to
Mr.. Pindell. However, the language used
and the phraseoIogy in the invented let
tiers were so foreign to anything ever
used by me, that for three weeks
throughout the country he had been un-
successful. "
Secrctary Bryan's Statement. IC
Secretary Bryan, in his statement, SAYS !
the President knew PindelI personally, {
and the appointment was not solicited. =
The Enthusiastically to Russia is va 8
ca Mt" said Secretary Bryan's statement
and the President has for some time \
been desirous of filling it by an appoint =
nent which would be entirely worthy Z
of the great dignity of the Importance :,
# the post. Knowing Mr. PindeH per-
Sonally, his character. his ability and ..
MS exceptional fitness for the duties of :,
such place, he offered him the appoint
nent.
In response to the offer he simply .
stated that he would be glad to serve =
nc administration in any way in which
he President thought he could serve it |
The President asked him to accept it for