| Show HOME RULE ASSURED Both Committees of Congress Favorable to the Bill SUCCESS OF OUR DELEGATION The Arguments Were All Temperate and Effective Powers Convert a Republican Republi-can Congressman to Home Rule Hon J L Rawlins one of the Demo ratic delegation which went to Washington Washing-ton at tho beginning of the month in the interest of the Home Rule bill returned to the city on Sunday morning having been recalled from the capital as our members are aware by wire The business which brings him earlier then he expected to return is the trial of the Cass Hite case at Provoset for this week ho being an attorney in the case However the hearings In the Home Rule matter before the Senate and House committees on territories were very nearly concluded before he left Washington and the sentiment in Congress had practically crystallized hence the gentleman is well prepared to speak as to TiE PROSPECTS OF THE MEASURE in which the peopleof Utah are so deeply interested A HERALD representative found Mr Rawlins in his office in the Hooper building yesterday morning and while the attorney was busy with the affairs af-fairs of his profession getting ready for the important murder trial to begin at Provo tomorrow morning he found time to tell briefly whnt has been done at the capital nand o report progress so to speak THE HERALD readers said the news gatherer would like to hear from you in regard to your Washington visit and as to the prospects for the passage of the Faulkner Faulk-ner bill and I may add the people want a good report I is only a good report that I can give milingly replied Mr Rawlins for any other would be incorrect The gentleman then went on to say Tho visit of tho Democratic delegation was both interesting interest-ing and in every way satisfactory I left Washington on the afternoon of the ISth last Thursday and at that time the success of the bill was practically assured IT IS LIKELY TO PASS the House at any time under a suspension of the rules The members of the House committee on territories are almost i not quite to man in favor of the measure all looking upon it as right and just and the I proper thing under the circumstances and not one member of the House was met wit by any of our delegation who expressed opposition to the bill In fact the almost universal sentiment in Washington is that the bill ought to and will become a law The Senate is naturally a more reluctant and conservative body than the House and less sensitive to the touch of progress but I even there very little opposition was encountered en-countered All the Democratic Senators with a single exception aro heartily in favor of tho bill and not a few Republican Senators may be classed on the same side I think a majority of the Senate committee on territories are in favor of it Faulkner Hill Carlisle and Gordon of tho Democrats Demo-crats on the committee are OUTSPOKEN IN ADVOCACY of the measure and Davis Hansbrough and Carey Republicans will vote for tbe bill unless we aro much mistaken Senator Sen-ator Davis was of the opinion that even I Senator Stewart favored it Thus we have eight and probably nine of the eleven members which will insure a favorable report Wellinformed Senators whom I met vere emphatically of the opinion that the bill would be passed by the Senate Senator Platt the chairman is counted against us How about Senator Jones of Arkansas Ar-kansas queried the reporter Well replied Mr Rawlins he hesitates hesi-tates about supporting a measure which i it becomes a law will throw an old I friend and neighbor General Williams of the Utah commission out of a lucrative position Senator Shoup of Idado is also a member of the committee and is said to be unfriendly but we think he will be lined up later on HE IS A WESTERN MAN which is equivalent to saying that he will be found on tho side of right He is very genial and courteous and was very complimentary com-plimentary to our delegation and the manner man-ner in which they had presented their cause The evening before I left Mr H W Smith and I passed the evening playing play-ing whist with the Senator at his elegant parlors in the Willard hotel During the evening Mr Leech director of the mint joined us and though politics had not been mentioned by any of us Mr Leech remarked re-marked The country is not quite ready to admit Utah to the Union as a state The right thing to do in the meantime is to pass the Homo Rule bill and let the peopie out I there attend to their own affairs The Senator smiling suggested We are not talking politics now LETS TAKE ANOTHER DRINK Our delegation was entertained very pleasantly by Senator Davis Mr Wilson Mr Washington Senator Faulkner Senator Carlisle and others Senator Dubois also proved himself the prince of good fellows and is doing yeoman service for the good cause of Home Rule I the bill passes Utah will bp much indebted to AttorneyGeneral Clapp of Minnesota and Bob Evans a former intimate friend of mine and a classmate and now a member of tho national Republican committee for Minnesota Both these gentlemen are working heroically for our deliverance Now Mr Rawlins it has been published pub-lished in the Tribune here that gentlemen of the Democratic delegation injured the cause by making wholesale and unfounded charges against local ofllcias What is there about i Absolutely nothing whatever That was simply a play set on loot by THE ENEMIES TO HOME BULB in Utah lace it is stated that Judge Judd mado reckless accusations This is not true In his argument tho judge referred the committee to the decision of the supreme su-preme court in the Ferguson vs Allen case to show that the commission had appointed irresponsible persons for registration and election officers Senator Jones asked the judge if he thought the commission acted corruptly in making those appointments Judge Judd said No but they spend so little lit-tle time in Utah they have no personal knowledge of the men they appoint and are often imposed upon Jones had been under the impression the commission spent all their time in this territory When Judge Judd referred to the FergusonAllen decision Senator Davis who is an exceed ingly keen and able lawyer at once perceived per-ceived that the election should have been declared invalid and asked the judge how the court could have rendered such a decision de-cision Judd said he simply referred to the case for the facts and not to question the conclusions of the court Senator Jones wanted to know i Judge Judd thought the court which rendered such a decision could bo honest Tho judge replied re-plied CERTAINLY THEY WERE HONEST because a court makes a mistake in law it does not follow that it is dishonest Sena folow tor Jones couldnt see it and persisted in the conclusion that the court must be dishonest dis-honest when Judge Judd finally retorted The statement is mine the conclusion yours Jones was trying to entrap the judge but didnt succeed Jones is the only Democrat who opposes Homo Rule How about Kentucky Smiths argument I argu-ment the Liberal organ here has been scoring ill It was temperate and elicited much praise from those who heard i The report from the Washington bureau of the Tribune bore little resemblance to what Mr Smith said The false report was sent out with the hope that the Utah officials would be aroused into antagonizing the bill The charges said to have been made were the conclusions of the Tribune and not of Mr Smith as tho stenographic report of tho speech will demonstrate Tho excerpt from tne Washington Star telegraphed to the Tribune is of the same parentage inspired from the same source And what about tho speech of Mr C C Richards concerning which the Tribune has had so much to say It was a careful masterly review of the situation I was wired by the Associated Press that Mr F S Richards apologzed to the committee for something said by Mr C C Richards regarding Senator Paddock and exSenator Ramsey What about that Only this The Washington Post published pub-lished a report of tho speech id which some I of tho statements were transposed thus making it read as if an attack had been made on tho gentlemen named whereas nothing of the kind was contemplated Mr Richards took a transcript of tho stenographic steno-graphic report to Senator Paddock who was satisfied when he saw the connection in which the words were spoken that no attack upon him had been made or even intended It was the incorrect report in the Post that Mr F S Richards explained and corrected before the committee There was no withdrawal of anything that had been said ando and-o APOLOGY In his speech Mr C C Richards said the Utah commission began its career by usurpation of authority and trenching upon the rights of tho people Senator Davis asked if he included in this allegation Mr Ramsey and Senator Paddock and Mr Richards replied that he assuredly did The United States supreme court decision in the case of Murphy vs Ramsey et al was then handed to the Senator who with the aptitude and learning of a great lawyer at once perceived that the opinion justified all that had been charged The Senator will vote for the Home Rule bill you may depend upon that What he doesnt know about our situation is not worth learning Mr McMilliu had told us that as soon as tho system in Utah was assailed we would find its beneficiaries throwing out their tentacles We met some of those tentacles tentaces Judge Powers directed most of his speech to answering charges against persons which had been made only through the Tribune When he got through Mr ODon nell a Republican member of the committee commit-tee announced that he was now ready to vote for Homo Rule for Utah From the beginning to tho end no reckless reck-Less talk or untrue charges were made by any member of tho Democratic delegation Everything of that nature was carefully avoided Our cause was so just and our arguments so forcible that there was NO OCCASION TO OVERDRAW THE SITUATION or indulge in extravagant statements I any charge has been made it has been couched in moderate language and can be verified beyond all doubt 1 want to say to THE HERALD readers that Utah is no longer discredited in the eyes of the nation Our cause appeals to tho sense of justice in all good people and when we tell our story it is listened to with attention and excites sympathy in our behalf The Democratic and Republican delegations delega-tions in Washington have worked in harmony har-mony for tho best that can bo obtained for Utah We told everybody that we are entitled en-titled to statehood and wo would be glad if Congress would give it to us The Democrats Dem-ocrats in the Senate will propose to join the Republicans in a bill to admit Utah and will vote for an enabling act but will insist that the Home Rule bill shall be passed so that in the event of the failure of the statehood bill the territory will still obtain relief The House is ready to confer statehood at once all tho Democrats and many Republicans being in favor of it but as a rule the Republicans are afraid of their constituents at this juncture They say that statehood will follow Home Rule very closely As to all the speeches delivered by our delegation before the committees you may say with confidence that when the people have an opportunity to read those speeches in full as they will in a little while the good people of this territory will thank tho delegation for the manner in which they have pleaded tho causO of an oppressed community One word more I wish you would say that we are all under obligations to Delegate Dele-gate Caine who was of great assistance to I I us Mr Caine stands very high in Congressional Con-gressional and official circles and tho territory ter-ritory has reason to be proud of its Delegate Del-egate egate1H trouble you with only one other matter said the reporter THE HERALD and Tribune telegraphic reports ot tho speeches before the committees varied widely at times I presume you have road both How do you account for the difference differ-ence enceTHE THE HERALD reports were correct plain statements of fact without embellishment embel-lishment the Tribune reports were evidently evi-dently colored for D purpose Why sometimes some-times when the lastnamed paper would reach Washington with statements manifestly mani-festly incorrect the correspondent would come to us and explain that his matter was bulled in I transmission |
