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Show IS HE AT IT AGAIN? It transpired that Senator Smoot was j a. little late in discovering that the ij government planned to purchase silver in nnch quantities as to make it unnec eeeary for the sil er mines of the west rf to close down The senator n a dls patch to John Dern of this c ty says Washington D C Aug 10 1914 Hon Tohn Dern Salt Lake Utah ! D rector of M nt Boberts author T.es me to stato that government w 11 make arrangements w th smel J tors that w 11 enable them to pur j! base s Iver as n the past No ne ess ty of clos ng the mines Letter wiU follow REED SMOOT ifl Here is a tlour sh of trumpets wh ch would load one to bel eve that the sen ator deserves the credit for the go c eminent act on Ho says nothing fjp which would ind cate that the I rector f of the m nt ha 1 dec dod upon govern mental purchase of s 1 cr several dajs , before Senator Smoot communicated BjT w th hioi and indeed before John Dern H wired to the senator for act on on Au gust 8 Is it posB bla that the man who " once was to speak nstead ot the pres dent and who pilfered a s eech ! and a poem that d d not belong to h m is uga n seek ng to cla m red t wh ch belongs to others! Witness how pla n 8 a tale shall set h m lown In the jM k Eocky Mounta n News of last Sundaj iugust 9 s a spec al d spatch from y ah pgton dated August S which tells If what action had been lec ded pon by L the d rector of the m nt and h s su ' per ors with reference to the purchase of nilpr In thfl Tlnckv IVfounta i JMows t Bp4 art le we read 8 Senator 'lhafroth called today 5? ( Vugust 8) ou Secretary of the gk Treasury I Adoo Ass stant Secre fflfif tary Haml n and D rector of the Miut Toberts and la d before them the con pla nt of Colorado m ne owners that the American Sn elting tr anl Ref ning company had dec ded to ad anc only 5 cents an ounce c ior si er v,b h uany Coloradoans Ifi think spe s ru n to the ndustr Is Senator Shafroth also has rece ved 9" a mebsage troi Thomas Annear cs s per nten lent of tho m nt at Den ft er making certa n mqu r es rel H at vo to th,e purcha e of s lver by the government to el evo the s t uation L After h s eonterence at the treas B t tv lepartment Senator fehafroth v re 1 to Super ntendent Annear f- Sec etary AIcAdoo v 11 recon ft nen 1 pur hase of 1 000 000 a weel H for se eral veeks ATo are do ng f. a 1 we can to help j The art clo n the Ne s a Ids j 1 rankbn Gu tern au n anager of the imer can Smelting and Ref n nig ompau was nore today and j he and Senator Thon as cal ed ou If Ass stant Secretarv of the Treas RU. uiy Ilsjnl n an I had a long confer ji ence regard ng western 'd n ng cou S d tions Later they found Secretarj i oi State Brjan Secretary of T eas R. ury VcAdoo 8e rtary of the Navy ? Dan els Secrtary of Wa Garr son 3 an 1 Secretary of Agnc lit re IIous It ton m conference They went be it lore the five cab net officers and d sturbances n the s lver market J. were d scused U Daniel Guggenhe m head of the IJ. smelt ng company s at Aix les Ba ns France He wants to retu n Sf home and t was explained that U the cond t on of the metal marl et ij mperatively den ands hs presence n th s country It was agreed that , w thout prejud clng the r ghts of M others who wish -to return ho ne IV every fae 1 ty poss ble will be pro vided to expedite Guggenheim s r home com ng j It appears that statesmen of cons d erable influence w th the present ad ministration were at work for the gov ernmental purchase of silver some t me , w iituu iue alter ego of Jasper T Darling the self ac elaimed leader of the leaders in the (j senate went into action ulider the gen tie pur of a telegram fron Mr Dern |