Show WAS DELAYED Utah Not Represented When the Senate After Holidays Special to Th Tb Herald Y n Jan wa was seated In the senate at the reopening of congress today toda after atter the close or of the holiday hOllday recess Senator Kearns WitS was d de tamed and will not reach here until to tomorrow tomorrow morrow and Senator Smoot Is not expect expected ed to arrive arrivo until the Persistent rumors and whisperings have been circulated here for several days conn connectIng the name of Senator with alleged land frauds In Idaho It was said evidently with au authority of officers of oC the Interior depart that he had acted as attorney for persons of Idaho who acquired large g gunder rel holdings of timber e 13 land and who are now under charges or of obtaining the same b by fraud Today Heyburn Heburn gave indignant son on of his anno annoyance ance relative to the floating of oC rumors and Insinuations and andI I made a strong statement denying an any I knowledge or complicity In the alleged I frauds He said h he had consistently OP OPposed posed frauds In land matters and a year ear I ao ago in discussing Northern Pacific mat matters mattera tera on the floor ot of the senate he gave notice that timber frauds were being committed in Idaho Continuing he said saidI I stand ready teady now to aid the officers of oC justice In an Investigation of these frauds Certainly I 1 have no desire to shield ld anyone who has hIlS been guilty of their perpetuation The men a used are no friends of oC mine said id the senator If they are I guilty I want to see them punished and at an any rate I want to have the whole I matter Investigated Persistent rumors have also made it appear that the development ot of the Idaho frauds was a phase or of the controversies between Dubois and Reyburn Heyburn In regard to this rumor Senator Dubois Dubols enters a positive denial and that there was no intention or purpOSe on his 1115 Part art to associate Senator Heyburn Heburn with the case and in the whole matter he simply trans transmitted transmitted charges s and papers sent gent to him b by his constituents to the president of the United States for investigation and this it ii now being conducted b by the pr proper per officials of the government Senator Du hots said Id the relations between himself and Heyburn are friendly even it if thC they disagree In politics and he has hall not made madean an any charges directly or Indirectly against him e |