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The M’Kinley Doctor Bills
Compensation Has Been Agreed Upon and the Figures
Sent to Washington.
(From Yesterday’s Last Edition.)
John G. Milburn, president of the
Pan-American Exposition Company, had his attention invited this
morning to an article in the Enquirer in which it was stated that
he and Senator Marcus A. Hanna had charge of the matter of the payment
of the bills of the physicians who attended the late President McKinley;
that the physicians were “put out” because Dr. Matthew D. Mann was
to obtain the largest fee; and that the rate of compensation agreed
upon to be presented in a bill to Congress was as follows:
Dr. Matthew D. Mann, $10,000; Dr.
Herman Mynter, $5000; Dr. Roswell Park, $5000; Dr. Charles McBurney,
$2500; Dr. Charles G. Stockton, $1000; Dr. N. W. Johnson, $1000;
Dr. Janeway, $1000.
Mr. Milburn read the article carefully,
then with much deliberation wrote the following statement:
“There is no basis whatsoever for
the statement that the bills for the services of the doctors who
attended the late President were referred to Senator Hanna and myself;
that any bills rendered had been revised or cut down; or that I
have anything to do with the preparation of any bill to be submitted
to Congress. Some time ago I was requested to confer with the doctors
about their compensation. No bills have been rendered by them. We
met and talked the matter over. There has been no controversy between
the doctors themselves or between me and any of them. As the result
of our talk certain figures were made which were agreed on all around
and impressed me as very reasonable, and those figures I sent to
Washington, which is the last I have heard of the matter.
“It is unjust to the doctors to represent
them as having rendered bills which were cut down, or as having
asked for compensation which was not allowed, or as differing between
themselves.
“I am not at liberty to give the figures
which I sent to Washington. Those which are given in the Enquirer
are not correct. That is all I can say.”
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