Ogden Weekly Standard | 1905-09-29 | Page 7 | More Land Fraud Work for Heney

MORE LAND FRAUD WORK FOR HENEY washington sept ac secretary hitchcock in an interview said after the land fraud basea in bic gon have been wound up united states attorney heney who has been conducting them will come to washington and will look after the california cases in which hyde dimond and others have been indicted later on there will probably be other indictments in other states the loss to the government these frauds have aggregated aggie gated millions of acres of land and millions more of dollars the interest of the people of this country in the prosecution of these cases Is only an evidence of tho determination of the nation to run down gratteri grat wherever they may bo found secretary hitchcock in speaking of campaign contributions said 1 I have all along been opposed to secret contributions and I 1 am in favor of preparing a law compelling full publicity of campaign expenses the secrecy given to campaign contributions Is apt to lead to undesirable results and caus suspicion it lations arc legitimate there Is nothing to be feared through publicity 1 I do not believe that the campaign contribution of the new york life insurance company to the republican party means corruption ane party Is not responsible for what individuals may do I 1 really believe that mr mccall thought he was doing what was right when he gave of the funds of the company to maintain the party which believe in sound money I 1 think however that mr mccall made a mistake in using the money of the policy holders ot the company for that purpose without in any way consulting them