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Show Cornering Coukllnc. New York, 14. Responding to Senator Conkling's personal explanation explana-tion in the senate in regard t the bier aid interview that pupgr agreee with the senator that it whs nut what is generally called an interview, but says it wis written from memory alter a conversation with the senator. The reporter affirms that his memory is better than Cunkling'B as Oonkling does not select any particular par-ticular statement for denial. It ia needless to say more uutil be chooaeB to be epecifio. The Times on the aauio subject says there ib a alory told of a man who thot at an animal in the underbrush, I so as to hit it if it wore a deer and mies it if it were a cow. Conkling uiiocod fire and says it was a cow. As his o called iulerview baa laiaed" a breeze he has not held an interview for publication for monlhs. Possibly if the interview had been well received re-ceived he would have said of it as he said of his Rochester performances that he had notbine Lo take back. nothing to be sorry tor. The Times suggests bat one way out of Conkling's dilemma, and that i for him to publish an edition of tbe conversation reviced and corrected by himself. It specifically suggests an inquiry whether he deniee referring to "Little Evarts" and "Little Roberts." |