Show rl 1 I 1 h 11 I 1 I 1 ih I 1 IM MAKs it M all ff F sim I 1 ti U ST sm IVE I 1 DENIAL I 1 has no interest whatever in coal further I 1 than ambition to have the P people i I 1 I 1 I 1 1 get plenty of coal I 1 1 1 I 1 s 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 washington nov 0 30 O senator war var ren of wyoming who arrived in the city today made the following statement in contradiction of the affidavit affidavit of special agent Meyen Meyon dorn dorff of the general land office made wednesday at salt lake city in which mr warren and his colleague senator dark clark were vere charged wit with conspiring with others to put a stop to investigations into charges made maj in connection with the entry of coal lands owned by thal union pacific railway company if Meyen Aleyen dorn dorff made such an affidavit I 1 he must have been indulging in pipe dreams I 1 am informed that senator dark clark never saw the man and never had any connection with him oral or written the idea of senator dark clark needing assistance in his reelection is absurd as wyoming was practically solid for him and no candidate opposing As ag for myself I 1 never knew that such a man as special agent existed until some time late in 1903 or in 1904 when I 1 received a letter from him saying that lie ho w wished to see me that he had bad had heard that somebody had been writing me to his discredit and asking it if I 1 would not let him know when I 1 was in cheyenne or denver so that he might call that we brother soldiers of 0 the civil war etc etc first met in ac accordance accordian cordan 0 with the request I 1 some months after ard informed him that I 1 expected to be in denver a few days later sending him the date ho called at my hotel asking my iipp to get him promotion to inc position of special agent in charge of a place in the consular service because neither his wark nor the climate of colorado entirely agreed with hini him that the altitude there made him nervous 0 etc tc he based his request to me on the grounds of his civil war record his friendship for my friends mark hanna elmer dover and others he app elied strongly to my sympathy and I 1 consented tra to mention his case cabe to his superiors superior S lie he then volunteered the information that he had a lot of Jr irregular regular and illegal coal claim cases made by parti parties Qs in colorado for land in wyoming said to be in the trite interest r eckof of the union pacific coal company he hb acice ached d my advice how to proe proceed eed I 1 that lie he follow the law and his instructions 1 I never read Meyen dorn any private letters ot 0 ills his to commissioner richards and have no knowledge that such over ever existed called again on the later occasion when I 1 hap bened to be in denver on business again called on me and again solicited my assistance I 1 think lie he called on me once afterward at my committee room in washington but I 1 had no conversation with him beyond the customary salutation I 1 would extend to any visitor of my acquaintance some time afterward I 1 read in the denver n newspapers of I 1 s sensational attempts to commit suicide and later on that he had left denver and so I 1 do not know whether he oyer received a promotion As to the subject matter of the testimony fefe referred to I 1 have no connection with coal or other laid entries of the union pacific or other railroad or any other company and no interest whatever in coal further than ambition to have the p people ale of my country ga abt plenty of coal of good quality and at reasonable prices and thit the world might know of the vast deposits 0 of coal underlying the soil and further than this I 1 desire to say that any one who accuses me otherwise speaks falsely no matter who when or whore where I 1 I 1 ho be could place all the filings he c could get he preferred soldiers who had the longest service in the army because they could prove up soonest ife he said he had a talk with my brotha broth er james C hull a few jays days before and I 1 being an old soldier he thou thought glit I 1 could get old soldiers to file better that lie he he said a man named comstock could place the filings the agreement was that the soldiers were to go out to the land make a lease of and when it was made out he would pay the filing expenses to be taken out of the lease money and the balance of the proceeds of the would go to huntington and my brother the leashes were to put the improvements provo prove ments on the land I 1 was to tell our men that when the they proved up they were to get for the land there was a perfect understanding that when they proved up lip they were to sell tile the land for huntington said that ho he had seen comstock and made arrangements for these thesa filings and would take all he could get and we would make lots of money out of the deal I 1 brought men from iowa 1 I then went to iowa and got all the declaratory statements I 1 at logan e Misso missouri url valley and magnolia tw twenty enty in number and sent them to lo huntington by registe registered fed letter I 1 paid the expenses of the entry men out to gordon but the hot e expenses were paid by some one else I 1 was afterwards reimbursed for the expense I 1 had advanced I 1 took a number df soldiers down front from gordon to file on cross examination the defense tried to develop a motive for hulls testimony I 1 james C hull of gordon neb followed ills his testimony in the man mam corroborating rob roh that of his drother other or he S said aid he was associated with thomas at huntington in securing homstead ers under the kinwald law lie he brought twenty two old soldiers from dunlap iowa the filing papers were filled out ourt in Hunting tons office at gordon the old soldiers were taken out to the overton and spade ranches and shown what was vas said to be the lands filed on the expenses were paid by huntington and himself I 1 three old soldiers corroborated the prace preceding ding testimony |