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Leipold, an exceedingly unpleasant though very
efficient person, was soon at loggerheads with
the other commissioners because they would not
work, and for other personal reasons.
DISAGREEMENTS AMONG THE COMMISSIONERS
Purvis drew his salary to the last for being a
Negro member, and Creswell drew his for being
a friend of the Negroes. Leipold, who was certainly
 not a friend of the Negroes, treated rudely
all of them who had business with the commissioners.
 Purvis, who had all the American
Negro’s dislike of foreigners, complained that
Leipold was a lowborn, bad-mannered, foreign
fortune hunter, whose eccentricities amounted
almost to craziness, but both Purvis and Creswell
testified that their disagreeable colleague was an
efficient business man.*
The squabbles among the commissioners soon
attracted the attention of the public. Some were
as interesting and about as dignified as a dog
fight. Leipold objected to being made the only
burden bearer, but when he suggested that the
other members do some of the work or pay for
assistants to do it, the latter were quite indignant.
 Creswell recalled that when he was nominated
 the trustees told him: “General, we don’t
want your time, we want your name.” “Mr.
Leipold,” Creswell said, “was to have charge of
the details and Mr. Purvis and myself were to
assist in all matters of advice and generally in
the conduct of affairs.” When Leipold complained
 later that he had been “the pack horse
¢ Bruce Report, pp. 73-89, 127, 128, 187, 239, and report of the
committee: Douglas DD ps 77.