Show SHOUP WilL NOT BOLT BOL Idahos Senator Proposes to Stick to the Administration STILL ENTERTAINS HOPES AND DOES NOT ENDORSE TH GAGE PLAITS Sees No Reason Why He Should Cut Loose Prom the McHanna Regime Re-gime Senator Rawlins Assists I Securing a Pardon For a Wyoming Wyo-ming Man Utah Postmasters Special to The Herald Washington Dec UThe Republican senators from the intermountain states are undoubtedly much disturbed by the Gage proposition to convert all coin obligations ob-ligations into gold ones and the other plan originating with the secretary of the treasury There seems to be little doubt that they will all vot3 solidly against such a proposition if offered in the senate Beyond Be-yond this they are not prepared to go There seems to be no likelihood whatever that there will be anything like a bolt from the patty Senator Shoup of Idaho was the only one of the Republican senators from th3 intermountain states who was available to the interviewer this evening To your correspondent Mr Shoup said 1 have heard nothing whatever of any determination on the part of any western senators to leave the party For one I do not believe there is any truth in i I am still a Rspublican just as I was at the St Louis convention and I expect to remain I am still a strong bimetallist and continue to have confidence that the Republican administration will do much for bimetallism How about Secretary Gage the ssna tor was asked Well there are some of his views with which we of the west are not agreed but he is not th5 resident Do you attach particular signncance to Senator Wolcotts speech at the dinner of the New England society I have not read the speech closely but I do not suppose that any afterdmnar address has the importance that would attach to a speech in the senate Then you take no stock in the report of another bolt I have heard nothing about it and I sea no reason for nothing to be a Republican can As I said at the St Louis convention conven-tion something might arise to the future to affect the loyalty of bimetalllsts to the party but it had not at that time arisen and has not since I hope it never will UTAH POSTMASTERS Fourthclass postmasters appointsd today to-day Utah Dry Fork Uintah county George Smith vice Matthew Caldwell resigned Henefer Summit county William Brewer Brew-er vice William Richins removed Portage Box Elder county Jams Parkinson Park-inson vice William H Anderson resigned re-signed IdahoNez Percss Nez Perces county Wilson Bowlby vice G H Tamblin resigned re-signed Eliza Metcalf was today commissioned postmaster at Gunnison Utah H R McGrew of Provo who is a student at the college of Physicians and Surgeons in Baltimore is spending the holidays with R B Thurman Senator Rawlins private secretary An original pension of 1 is granted to Cornelius Shrader Glenns Fery Ida and an original of 6 is granted John F Riff Green River Wyo I WYOMING A PARDONED Dan Parker who was this afternoon pardoned by President McKinley was sent to the Detroit house of correction for life in 1S90 The judge who pronounced lfe the sentence was United States Judge Riner of Wyoming Parker who is now 2 years old was 17 when he received his life sentence He was convicted of robbing rob-bing the United States mails and of using force and violence against a mail carrier There ware some extenuating circumstances circum-stances and these together with the youth of the convict caused his liberation libera-tion Senator Rawlins was active in securing Parkers pardon having enlisted in the cass on receipt of a letter from the convicts con-victs mother He urged that it be granted in time to be a Christmas present pres-ent for the unhappy mother II |