Show WARREN MAKES l Ii DENIAL Never Entered Into Conspiracy lo Choke Off Investigation of Coal Land Frauds KNOWS AGENT GENT T s HIS VERSION OF MEETING IN DENVER DENVERD D Washington Nov 0 Senator Warren of ot Wyoming who arrived In the city to today toai toi i day ai made the following statement in contradiction of the affidavit of ot Special I Ag g nl pl of ot the general land office made Wednesday at Salt Lake City in which Mr Warren and his col east Senator Clark were charged with 1 conspiring with others to put a stop to investigations into charges made in con connection connectIon conA A with the entry of ot coal lands owned by the Union Pacific Railway I company co pany I If It made such an affidavit I he must have h ve been indulging in pipe pipedream t dreams dream I r am Informed that Senator saw the man and never had hadan hadan any an connection with him Wm oral or writ tr tea tep The iThe idea of ot Senator Clark needing assistance in his reelection l absurd as Wyoming was practically I for him and no candidate opposing Letter From from I As for tor myself m I never knew that such sucha a R man as Special Agent ex cx existed exIsted isted until soma somo time later In 1903 or in JOW 1004 when I received a letter from him Baying that he ho wished to see me that he q had heard that somebody had been writ writing Ins ing in me to his discredit and asking If I p would not let lot him know when I was in Cheyenne he enne or Denver so that he might call that we were both boUt soldiers in the civil war etc ete accordance dance with the request I r some months after atter informed him that I ex cx expected expected to be In Denver a few days later 1 sending him the date He called at my m iv hotel asking my help to get him promo promotion promoS S I tion to the position of a special agent in inh inI I bage h or a place in the consular ser service servIce serI I vice vIcC because neither his hla work nor the Climate of Colorado entirely agreed with that the altitude there made him nervous erVo etc ete I fi Was Sympathetic I He lle based his request to me on grounds of his civil war record his friendship for formy forny forny ny my friends Mark Hanna Elmer Dover DoverI I and others He appealed strongly to my mya a sympathy and I consented to mention k his li case to his superiors He then vol J the Information that he had a alot alot alot lot of ot Irregular and illegal coal c al claim I cases made by parties in Colorado for forland forland forI I t land hind in Wyoming said sald to be bo in the in interest interest InI I terest of the Union Pacific Coal com corn company company cornI I pany pa ny He ask my advice how to pro proceed proc I c ed I suggested that he follow the law lawand lawand and nd his instructions I r T never read any private letters of his histo hist Ic to t Commissioner Richards and have no knowledge that such ever existed 1 Made a Second Call I On a later occasion when I happened I r to be in Denver on business again called on me and again solicited my assistance I think he called on me mc meonce meonce once afterward at my committee room Toom in Washington but I r had iad no conversation with him beyond the customary saluta salutation salutation salutation tion I would extend to any visitor of my m acquaintance Some time afterward I Ir I r read ad In the Denver newspapers of Myon 1 attempt to commit suicide and andi 7 later on that he had loft Denver and so soI sol i ij I l do not know whether he ever over received I a promotion As to the matter of the tes testimony testimony 1 referred to I have no connection with coal or other land entries of tho the 4 Union Pacific or any other railroad or j any other company and no Interest what whatever whatever whatever ever In coal further than ambition to toA 4 A have hae the people of ot my country get plenty t r of coal of ot good quality and at reasonable and that the world might know of oC 1 the vast vat deposits of coal underlying tho the soil eoll I And further than this I 1 desire to say that any anyone one who accuses me rue otherwise speaks falsely no matter who when or where |