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Show HOME RULE IS Dill Judjre Powers ReviewB the Recent War Between Be-tween the Liberals and Missionaries Mission-aries at Washington. The Measure Will Secure a Majority Report Re-port in the House, but Perish in the Senate. ATTACK ON JUDGE MINER. The Stenographer's Report of Kentucky Smith' 8 Speech Before It Was "Medicated." THE FACTS IN THE CASE, 1 special 'connection' with the celestial central office. But how quickly he chanted when he read hetween the Hues ot romance and saw the grim locks of treachery and dissembling. dis-sembling. He will speak against the measure meas-ure and I imagine that When he is heard from The (lootl Saints w ho are slumbering over in the empire of silence will move in their graves." Then you feel quito positive that the home rule bill is dead?' ' "1 believe it as sure as I am standiug here. I am assured by expressions from the senators, sena-tors, one of whom said: " '1 know something about Utah, myself.' my-self.' " "And, when he said that, there was no getting get-ting around its siguilicance. He had evidently evi-dently been here himself, and seen as a reality what we were representing. No, ex-(iovcruor ex-(iovcruor West will not rejuvenate his gubernatorial gub-ernatorial grandeur next November. Frank Dyer may go to congress as the sequel to our friend Cattle, but there is speculation there because Jiuld and "Kentucky'' Smith are aspirants. Jlcbcr M. Wells, of whom you may have heard in the recent election, will not be secretary of a state with high-water high-water pants, nor will the church restore the AttifiHle of the House unit Senate Committees Commit-tees When Hostilities Closed A ( lean Statement of the Issues front tlte first Qua. The "early bird" on the Union Pacific, which arrives in this city just as day is shedding shed-ding its dark nightshirt, brought, among other patriotic valuables, Hon. (). W. Powers, Pow-ers, who has just met the enemy at Washington. Wash-ington. Hooked to appear ill the defense of Cass Hite, w ho is charged w ith the murder of a human being in October last, he had scarce more than time to embrace his wife, deliver a few hasty charge to Newt Straup, and then started for the Rio Grande depot, where he caught the morning train for Prpvo. A representative of The Times had, in the meantime, seen the judge. The interview in-terview was upon the fate of the "homo rule" measure now before congress. "The advocates ot the bill," said Judge Powers, "are as much mistaken when they say its success is assured as were they in August last when they stated that by the vote of Zion they would show that the hour seven queens of one household to 'her' former loftiness. "Home rule is dead." "And the Anionics';" "They are Hooked for Home so soon as they can open the gates. Kentucky Ken-tucky Smith is wailing for the wrath of Og-den Og-den to subside. Judge Judd is writing an explanation to submit to the Gardo house. Governor West well, the governor is thinking think-ing about taking a rest from his arduous and engrossing labors. It's a peculiar state of affairs that the missionaries have struck." "And Mr. Allen?" "He did himself and the liberal party proud, lie made a tine impression on the committees lie addressed, notwithstanding the effort to cripple him with shot from ambush. They were not willing to discuss the bill on its merits they sought to undermine un-dermine the men who were opposing it. They fought us in a most shameful manner, and we could have no more valuable logic in our behalf than the false logic they themselves them-selves introduced. Mr. Allen is now ticketed for home, and his reception should be a cordial one." had arrived for a Division on Party Lines, that .the old tight waa a back number, that the liberal party had served its usefulness and that the war was now a thing of the. past. "I say on my judgment that Utah will secure se-cure neither home rule or statehood at the present time and congratulate myself that 1 have canvassed tin1 sentiments of both bodies in congress before arriving at this verdict." "It has been urged that the liberal representation repre-sentation convinced the committees of nothing noth-ing unless it was that they were vampires, charlatans and iaotitebanks V" "In that event," replied Judge Powers spiritedly, "the enemy at least admitled that we were in possession of our faculties. 1 won't discuss the fact that some other partiesthe par-tiesthe record for imbecility that never will be outdone, for the reason that it would excuse their conduct before the distinguished disting-uished gentlemen before whom they appeared. ap-peared. I shall leave That I'npleasant Task SjtA" committees themselves. We resorted lo KJ venality', to no acrimony there, and we are none here. The issue was too serious seri-ous r that, and yet Kentucky Smith and ic J .fnd .Gobi delivered themselves of emu of it to last the committees for a lifetime. Kentucky Smith was painted for war carnage. He assailed everybody within with-in the liberal party, and it was no fault of his that his list was not driven through the table." 'You heard of his reference to Judge Miner?" "They were infamous outrageous!" "And of the rumor that Judge Miner would ask for their verification uudor au actio! ac-tio! for libel?" "That's the stuff! The committees at Washington take no stock in tho charges, but (hey agree with others that such charge! acsf st an honorable member of tho bench WOUTl impair his usefulness unless they wc i d contradicted. The attack was shauie-ful. shauie-ful. rind, while the committees themselves didn t dignify it with a serious thought, Utllels it was to manifest their disapproval, tho attention of The Attorney-General was called to it. Then, I understand, Kentucky Ken-tucky Smith transmitted a most abject cun-tradiitiou cun-tradiitiou to Judge Miner, in which lie pro. nounccs Anuet, the Washington representative representa-tive of the Tribune, a liar of the first water. Mv impression of the correspondent was (battle showed great integrity in his reports which were exceptionally accurate es-neciallv es-neciallv when it is takeu into consideration that be was reporting in long hand. However, How-ever, the stenographic reports are in his favor and to corroborate the correspondent, to show to the people of Utah just what the missionaries, iu their ranting appeals for home rule, resorted to. I have with me a stenographic sten-ographic report of what Kentucky Smith did say. They are not doctored or medicated medi-cated reports, hut just as the language was delivered by the speakers in ambush. It is the report of tho addresses before they were me report 01 uio euureaaoa oeioie uicj cio corrected, and I shall keep it as au oracular curiosity. Kredcn's reply to the attack aud his description of Kentucky Smith's Voyage to Damascus was the occasion for considerable consider-able merriment in the committee rooms and was the fatal blow to the Charges. Well, it was 1 general attack on every man who was op losed to moriuocracy and I'm surprised sur-prised 'nit Frank Dyer, and F. S. Richards didn t 1 nil the string before they did. Stupidity Stu-pidity I or one time ran its course. ' "But tho bill; will it pass?" "No, emphatically 110! The house will receive two reports from its committee. The ma irity will report favorably 011 home rub- ''U will oppose statehood. There will be a mi ority report which will oppose both and Mi .h, I am informed, will go on to show t at Utah's unfitness for local self govt 1 ut icnt has been established in the debates de-bates b foro the committee. This report will be .catted by Representative Perkins of Iowa, a d, by the way, I want to say iu be. tail uf ie Iowans in Utah that their labors Were hi bly appreciated. Their protest w as eouserv tive and was Hesperled by Kvory Man who li-I uiedo its reading. "But ie senate committee which the mis-ilonarit mis-ilonarit , inform the good people of Zion is in hear' j sympathy with the Faulkner bill. It will ' mply report nothing It will let the. measun die a peaceful, utisctisational death. Such a nth as you and I would depicture in case M n man who was 'found dead.' Of course nator Faulkner will make a report be haslto. Senator Jones will not add to the 11 poft which he has already made in his expressiftis on the bill. Originally Senator Jones wiM in favor of the homo rule measure. meas-ure. BeMiad been induced to believe that the Diinflesto which had been received by PrcMilcnB Woodruff while be was dreaming ovei I conditions in Utah was (tralght goods auB that the Gardo house did have a |