Show UTAH DELEGATION Very Bright Prospects for the Home Rule Bill DOING GOOD MISSIONARY WORK Opponents of the Measure Must Be in Wash incton by the 17th to Ee Heard Liberals Want the Hearings Postponed HERALD BUREAU Corner lath and G Streets N YoW > Yo-W A 1SGTOS D C Feb b J The faces of Utahs delegation who are here working in the in crest of the Home Rule bill are illuminated with smiles of intense in-tense satisfaction Under the chaperonage i of Delegate Caine they wero taken to the capitol to day and introduced to the solid men in both houses of Congress When I met several of them this afternoon they were radiant with happiness The outlook out-look is favorable said Mr F S Richards bejohd our utmost expectations Wo wore hopeful when wo came on but wo are now encouraged to believe FAVORABLE ACTION UPON OCR BILL will result You may say to our friends in Salt Lake he continued that we intend to stay nere until all the hearings are concluded con-cluded and until every argument has been advanced pro and con that can be suggested sug-gested In other words wo are going to remain and see it through Judge J W Judd and exGovernor West arrived this evening The bearing before tbe House committee wH occur on Wednesday and that before the Senate committee on Ihursdny 1 the gentlemen who desire to be beard on tbe other sido are here not later than the 17th inst they will be heard by the House committee on that day und by tho Senate committee on the day following But they must bo hero on the morning of the 17th as neither the House nor the Senate committee meets I but once a week The meetings of next week will be simply continuations of these of this week The argument which tho Home Rule m n are making with Senators and Representatives Repre-sentatives alike is that while they are all Democrats they are not here as partisans but that they are wonting for THE BEST INTERESTS OF TUE PEOPLE I of Utah They favor the Home Rule bill because it afioras an immediate relief and I because it is practicable They muke an I especial point of the fact that they are not I opposing anything They would be en j i timely satisfied with statehood but they i have already seen enough to convince them j that the passage of a atatbood bill by this PiS lfi h thl I Congress is wbolly out of the question It is for this reason therefore that they are urging the adoption of the Home Rule bill I and tbe missionary work thus far performed per-formed by them convinces them that the latter 1 measure is almost certain to be passed 1 by the Senate As I have taid they are all immensely delighted with tho outlook and outook I HOPEFUL OF AN UNQUALIFIED SUCCESS With the aid of five western Republican votes in the Senate the bill will readily pass that bcdy for it is believed that tbe eastern Senators will be greatly influenced in their action by what the western men may do and that when the find the latter heartily support the measure they will allow It to pass without practical opposition opposi-tion The Democrats as 1 have already telegraphed favor you are a practical unit in its I learn this evening that O W Powers C S Varian F J Klosel and H W Lawrence Law-rence have telegraphed the chairman of the House and Senate territories committees commit-tees asking that the hearings be postponed UNTIL THEIB DELEGATION AIUUVES on the 18th Chairman Washington of the House committee has replIed that they can be heard on the 17th if they can get here by that time Bnt they must he hero as I have said by the 17th or the chance of their being heard l a very slight one as the House committee is not disposed to devote de-vote three sessions to the Utah bills |