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Show Dement's Further Statement. Washington, February 2. In addition to the dispatch sent the Democrat . this afternoon. after-noon. General Dement said " he had never stated that he took four detectives to Utah, and did not, in fact, take them. He did not state that fifty per cent, of the land entries were fraudulent. He made no statement about the mineral lands being entered as homesteads. He did not state that there was a ring, inclnding all the Federal officials offi-cials from the Governor down. He had made no discovery to warrant any such state-, ment. He had discovered nothing which would implicate Governor Murray .. or any other official in Utah in the frauds. He never stated that any Western Republican Senator received $25,003 for opposing the Edmunds bill, nor that several Democratic members of the House had received several thousand dollars for services of the same sort. The newspaper men who sent out the interviews in-terviews which Surveyor-General Dement of Utah repudiates, will ask the Public Lands Committee of the Senate to grant them a hearing, in order ; that they may vindicate themselves and give the sources of their information. |