Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-08-25 | Page 2 | Burton is Cleared

BURTON IS CLEARED Warrants for Services Prior to Election Elec-tion as Senator. WASHINGTON. Aug. 21. Acting Secretary Sec-retary Ryan of tho Interior department today contradicted a statement published hero that that department had made public a report reflecting upon Senator purton In connection with tho school warrants of tho Chickasaw Indians. IIo said that an Investigation had been had Into the iflsuanco of those warrants In tho course or which tho discovery had been made that gome of them had been Issued to Senator Burton and his brother for services as attorneys, but that no teeord had been found of tho Issuance of warrants, to the Senator for such . services ser-vices performed subsequent to hia election. elec-tion. .