Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1900-05-04 | Page 7 | Mountain States

MOUNTAIN STATES HE CAllS O B OF 01 O DALENE ALENE D MINERS Says Say They Lied on the Witness Stand at the Congressional Investigation Status of the Case Og a j Special to The Tho Herald Boise Ida IdL May 3 State Auditor Sin Sinclair clair turned returned r tonight from Washington In the course of an interview he said The investigation is practically ended Captain Edwards and Major Smith will wUl wind up the military branch of ot the teat testimony mony mon then th rebutting witnesses s of th the dynamiters will take the stand A As e latter have hoe already Med lied so o freely treely It Jt is hard to conjecture what they will not swear to The character of or the th witnesses and the animus of ot their testimony is well understood by every ever member of ef the cow coat The charges mentioned in the Lents Lent resolutions re affecting the treatment of UM tl prisoners have been abandoned We proved conclusively that all the acts coo con complaIned of were done by the state and nut act t the military A few members ot of th the minority strove at first fi t hard to show T that t tall all arrests were made by soldiers and that nobody but innocent men were taken takeD into custody The committee was as startled when in la formed that upwards of ot indictments indictment were found against the men They tried very hard to prove that UMI tho county officials were removed by the mili mUl military tar tary authorities and when testimony te Was wan adduced that these removal cas cases s took look place in a district court before an ablo able and aDd impartial judge and that all decisions had been affirmed by b the supreme court of ot our state the fighting minority were Rm staggered This Thu all shows how now completely I the dynamiters had stuffed some somo of ot tm the congressmen If lf any congressmen had hopes of malt mak making maltIng ing political capital out of our troubles trouble they have riven given up that notion now Mr Mt Lentz entz left Washington three of four weeks w eka a ago go o and nobody seems Se 10 LO o Know h hB he heis Js is B Sulzer told me the day I left that thit the tie state authorities would not be cis d But before leaving Washington I 1 Ivas Iwas was vas informed that Mr Hay Ha of ot the corn com committee would submit a report finding fault with the president for sending the troops troop there