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Show w McCUKE CHARGED WITH BRIBERY. EepretoiUtlTe Law or Oacbe Oonnty Pre-fen Pre-fen the Charge. Haji .Melons A(reeil lo lar lllm el 800 for Ills y ola, an 1 1 l I so Down to lllnd II llarg ln-The I hart Irealra a Ureal heasallon and a tninnillUa I lliossn In lairslliala II. Sll fake City, reb. 31 A W Mrtuoe, leading candidate for United State senator, I charged with bribery to secure hi election III accuser I Urpresentntlve Law of Cache county McCune enter a firm denial of the charge which It met by Law with the asiertlun that he la prepared to prove the charge L tali politic have never knonn such a sensation a tho charge ha produced and little else Is talked of A commission composed of bena tors shurtllrr, Whitney and Howell and lEcpresentatlrcsSorense n, Stewart, Cummlng and Mansfield ha been chosen to Investigate, the charge. They are now sitting a n court of In qulry but a report I hardly expected before Wednesday T,e TOmmIslon a empowered to summon witnesses and compel them to testify At the opening of the Joint sestlnn Soturday. Itepresentntlve Law arose to a question of personal privilege lilt manner Indicated that something unusual un-usual wa about to transpire. He ipoke with earnestness nnd seemed to weigh hit wordt a ho uttered them There wa marked stillness when in clear, positive tone he charged that Mr McCune hill given him money for hit vote Afler a few preliminary remark, Mr Law continued: Mr president and mombeni of thl trglslature-1 will now give tho proof for these charge made Now, lr, I will state that last Tuesday night I held an Interview with that gentleman (Mi McCune) and In tho course of our remarka he said that ho proposed to lie elected that ho had a pent too much lu this fight to lose And, air, on topof that he aal I I aw, If you will vote forme toinormev you may name your price Mr President, I did not take a lvanlage of tliat offer because I am not built that nay I elalm to bo an honest man and I cannot bo ta attracted at-tracted from my line of duty Had It not been for the knowlcelgu that I might detect the foul schemes of thlt nun and expose them to you nnd the nun and expose them to you nnd the people I should must assuredly havo ilang everything back Into his teeth I have taken a atand against that can-dlelttc. can-dlelttc. and I then determined to disclose dis-close thl kind of buslne. Now, lr, yestenlny afternoon I wat telephoned to from the McCuno head pnrtrn and wa asked to come to loose headquarters. 1 made, the appointment ap-pointment at S o clock, and the same propwltlou was made me aa on 1 ues-day ues-day night Now, sir nfter Iliftthose-headquarter Iliftthose-headquarter I waa detained for tivo houra after which 1 went at once to tho chief of police, Mr Prntt, and I agreed that It wa our duty to detect ami expose and drag Into tho Iron arms of tho Ian, thla culprit thl man that waa trying to purchase the honor of thl gnat state of Utah Wei acted on short notice Wo Instantly made n plan to renal to the nubile till eehime that had been to fully plotted Now, sir, I am hero now to present tho facta In thlt case I telephoned to the McCune head-quarter head-quarter thl morning, and after Insist lug on teeing McCuno personal!) Mc Cune himself McCuue enma to the telephone I then reminded him of the conversation Tuesday and told him fllod forgive me for telling a He, but I did it for the honor of Utah) I told him that I had reconsidered his oiler and wanted to meet Mm for further arrangements of the proposition Mr McCune and I then met nt the n sotch drug tore t and there and then we held a conversation, the substance of which wa how much It would take to buy my vote eagre id upon tho price The exct amount I not necessary neces-sary to he named, but I will name It If sary in ue nainrei, uui i will name It If you want mo to do so (Numerous cries of "Name It, name Itf) It n II MO. rlfleen hundred dollars, my fellow legislator fifteen hundred dot-Isrt dot-Isrt for me to sacrifice the honor of myself, my citizenship, our Utah, our grctt republic! That waa the prlte tgrted upon and In a fow minutes It vraiagreed that I shonld be paid JIOO thlt morning, ami between 3 and 4 0 deck this afternoon I waa to receive the remainder of tho sum Now, air, I tvant to tell you Just how 1 proposed to detect tho thing and fur-Disk fur-Disk ludltputnblo evidence for the tchime, In order that the public may not doubt the foul effort, nnd In order thai we might strike a terrific, a staggering stag-gering blow to this corruption of state! No, I slept lu the Ji nnliigt block lstt night, and Itwaaour plan to have Mr Slctjune meet me there In lu) room thlt morning, while Mr Pratt should be where he could listen to what should btttld by us. Hut, lr when I asked Mr McCuno thl morning to go Into thi privacy of in) room, ha said: No let u go Into jmo saloon I replied thit there wa too much nt stake for tni to go Into so public a place and toll him that my room where I slept 1st night In the Jennings block would belhe most secret place Then Mr MCune said) 'Walt till I get some chiuge," and ho bought sorao cigars at 'atand While he was doing thl I I ' a friend of mine standing on the slajtvalk, a man that used to work for me, and whom I had not teen before for a long time I said to him tow ler, when a man come out of there and accompanies me, you follow us and watch what we r and do " McCune and I then Joined each other and walked across to the south lde of Second South and Stnte street. There he shook hand with me nnd said that he wat StO abort and placed foir twenty-dollar greenback In my hands Thlt transaction waa seen and watched by rowltrand the chief of police One thing more t then went to those person per-son and turned the money over to them An authorlred statement lint been made by Mr McCune In which beta) the charge Is the-result of n conspiracy to Injure him He any Law offered to vote for him fort) ooo but that ho told Law to ' go to h-1 " Ho then clslmi Law trumped up tho charge to Injure him There Is little doubt that Mr Mc Cune would have been elected Saturday Satur-day but for the charge N'u election Is looked for now until nfter the report of the Investigation commission Threat to cxpcll Law hare been mndo by some of the extreme parti an of the accused but no action In the matter will lie had before the committee com-mittee report |