Show Mr Cooks Statement Mr D S Cook of Rich county yesterday yester-day made and requested the publication of the following statement as to his sfv oral altercations with hU fellow rpnre entatlve Air j G Bywater of Salt Lake On Monday I went out in the noab room and met Mr Bywater and he seal How are you feeling today I s < UJ I am not feeling very well Now I said in regard to that matter of satisfaction if you want satisfaction I will be pleased to accommodate you any time plao ur way and he saW Your explanation > ff Saturday on the floor was satisfait > hat as long as I did not know that he lad been circulating the Thatcher pcti ion and did refer to h m why it was al right with him I said I It is all rtgtit with me then Now i said you SPOKO of the little tilt ie had when we flnt came down iiere 1 supposed that was settled at the time I had no feeling he said and 1 told him I haJnt either so ve shook hands and agreed to let the matter dro at that The next mornins he came to me as I was sitting at my tiak here reading a letter He came up with the article in the Tribune and said Are you ivsponsi We for this I said I am not M3r you approve of it Not altogether Then ho bald Did you get me in the corner and I said I did not Well he said wha4 have you to say about this I saJ There are a few minor details that are not correct but principally it Is correct He said You are a liar We will settla this thing right now I said Not here before these ladies He said Anywhere Well I said lets go out In the cloakroom cloak-room or some place away from the ladies la-dies and so we went out at that They would not let us fight and the matter was dropped as I supposed and he said We nil settle it another time and as he passed me and said those words ho snapped his fingers In my face the ends of his fingers striking my eyebrow Well of course I struck him Nobody was holding Bywater when I struck him I made no apology any more than to explain that I did not know that he was circulating the Thatcher petition I made no retraction and have none to make |