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Show YOUNG RUSSELL HARRISON SCORED. A Transaction Whereby He is Said to Have Turned a Cool $5000. Washington, July 20. The commit'ee on public lands submitted to the house the report re-port of the committee on public lands, which was instructed to examine and report as to the circumstances under which certain leases of ground in the Yellowstone National Nation-al park were made in March, 1889, by the secretary of the interior to the Yellowstone Yellow-stone park association. Said leases to transport passengers in the park was afterward af-terward rescinded and the same granted to 'one 3. S. Huntley. ' The report was for the transportation of business only and was without obligation to build hotels, and declared de-clared the forfeiture of the right of transportation trans-portation of the Yellowstone National Park association without notice, without trial or any statement of any complaints for non-use or misuse of rights. Wakefield, who had conducted the transportation trans-portation business, says the report is a democratic dem-ocratic measure, and Huntley, a republican and a personal and political friend of Russel E. Harrison, son of the president and secretary, secre-tary, says Huntley was recommended to him by several senators and congressmen and once or twice by Russell Harrison. The committee was uuable to find how public service was in the least promoted by the forfeiture. for-feiture. In another connection the renort speaks of the friendship existing between Harrison and E. C. Waters, the later having stated to Gibson, president of the association, associa-tion, that he and Harrison were old friends in Montana and he thought he could get him to aid in the arrangement of matters with Waters. The testimony was plainly evasive and with the evident desire to shield Harrison's name. In conclusion the report has the following to say in respect to Russel Harrison : "It may not be remarkable in a Monarchv for the heir-apparent to strive to influence official actions, but in a replentic their being no heir-apparent, heir-apparent, the co-existenco of facta warranting the conclusion that the president's son was influential only in that capacity is called upon to exert, and does exert an influence for the corporation dealing with a great department of the government, and that about the same time $50O'J of stock of the same corporation is sought to be set aside for this same son. This coincidence stands out for legislative condemnation condem-nation having escaped official criticism by the executive ex-ecutive department." . a |