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Show j HE ROASTED THEM, Judge Powers Shows Up tho Schemes of ''Kentucky'' Smith, Ex-Gov. West and the Rest of That Ilk. The Liberal Warhorse's Powerful Argu-gument Argu-gument Before the House Committee Commit-tee on Territories Yesterday. BACKED UP BY FACTS His Speech Was a Brilliant and Telling Effort His Tribute to the Lib- could completely and in a moment rid himself him-self of Adherence to l'rmrlple. Ulid tti the prejudice which had been Instilled in his young mind at his mother's knee, and bad been made a part and parcel of htl moral nature for years afterwards. I call as a witness a gentleman whom we have admired, ad-mired, respected anil honored in Utah, and a man who has held a high official position, and who in that official position was in a position po-sition to speak by authority. 1 call as a witness ex-Governor Caleb W. West, now sitting here, who in his message of lvs to the legislative assembly of the territory of Utah, spoke as follows. Judge Powers here quoted very fully from Governor West's message, in whieh he assorted as-sorted that the enforeeinent of the laws by federal otlleials had incurred for them the reproach and enmity of a majority of the people, claiming to be governed immediately by God himself Tliruueli Ills Priesthood. Judge Powers, the argument here is that tho people of Utah have been oppressed by these liberal vultures, vampires and scoundrels, scoun-drels, who were federal officials. 1 offer iu evidence Frank H. Dyer.ex-marshal, ex-Governor ( aleh W. West j and the judges who have addressed you. Look into their honest faces and say whether they arc as , Hid as They Have Heen fainted by their own friends. I was much shocked at the charges made by the gentleman from Ogdeu.W. 11. Smith, which I have read iu the Stenographer's report now before mc. On behalf of the liberals of Utah, on behalf of the men who have been sent by both political politi-cal parties to administer the affairs of government gov-ernment in that territory, on behalf of tho , 4 prosperous cities which have been impliedly assailed by this arraigumoni of those who preside over the administration of affairs, I deny and resent the assertions made of , wholesale venality and corruption. We havo 1 I as good a class of officials as there is in this I country. Our pontile kuow them and they are indignant at such sweeping eharges ! against men who are honored and located iu their midst. I desire briefly, before tak- oral Party of Utah. JUDGE MINER'S LETTER Knocks the Pins from Incler the Charges Trumpet! I'p by tho Hungry "!e-lnncraey"- An Lai'lieit Appeal for the Protection of American Ameri-can Ilumesand Institutions. The follow iug is the speech made by Judge 0. W. Powers before the house committee com-mittee on territories at Washington yesterday. yester-day. It is presented in full through the courtesy of tho Tribune: Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of (As Vtiumit- confess that 1 arose with some em; barrassroent to present to you the objections whieh the liberal party have to tho two bills pending before your committee. My embarrassment em-barrassment arises from the fact that I represent rep-resent a great party, a party not great in numbers, but great in being composed of both democrats ami republicans, w ho for the time being have cast aside their national political preferences to aid in building tip a lie quoted his query why thu Mormon people peo-ple stand singular ami alone In its woeful history, and that cause he found in the hierarchy established and maintained in the complete and perfect nnity existing among the mormon people, in the absolutism which stiilcs enterprise, preyentl progress, is death to property, and unites all the people opposed op-posed to it. These quotations of Judge Powers from West's report created a decided sensation. He went on to quote from Governor West's report of 1KS7 to the secretary of tho Interior. Judge Powers said it had been charged that the tcdcral officials in Utah are adveuturors. They have boen oalled vampires, bloodsuckers, blood-suckers, etc, I quote from Governor West upon this point: "1 kuow that it has boon persistently urged Ibat the non-mormons of this territory are A Set of Political Adventurers, socking to excite the enmity of the country against the majority, that they might obtain political power and the opportunity to plunder and rob the tcrritorv. Is it not true that the uon-morinons are of tho character slated, or that they seek by any means to accomplish ac-complish the piirpo.se charged. According to then- numbers they will compare favorably favor-ably With any people in our land, and have, 1 suppose, fewer political adventurers among them than any portion of the country." Judge Powers continued to quote Governor Gov-ernor West from his report to tho secretary nf the interior of Oclobef lbss niton the hi; 1 1 f 1 .-..ii'.ii 1 nurses 01 ueiaii, 10 I can a letter from an attorney at Ogden. I take it, gentlemen, thai if I can discredit Mr. Ninth's statements upon several vital points, that you will be careful how you credit the remainder of his remarks. Judge Powers here road, amidst much laughter, the following letter from M. A. Broaden of Ogden, addressed to Chairman Washington of the committee, and dated February 11, 1809 Sin-1 learn through the Associated P-ss this mnrniuit that, on yesterday, your committee wus nddrcsKetl by some gentlemen from Utah in support sup-port of the pending so culled home rule bill, and that, anion:; other speakers, was H. W, Smith ior "Kcntnrky" Smith). The day before this gentleman gentle-man leu this city for Washington he said to me that statehood for t tab won lit be a great calamity, calam-ity, and that f the Teller bill should lieeonie a law no gentile could live in this territory. He had HO faith in the mormon professions, and said they were siniplv deceiving the people to gain power again, and that, as soon as the conditions w ere chanced, the brethren would have another re, elation and re e-tanli-li polygamy and drive the Americans out of the territory, lie said that th reason he was in finor of the I 'aulkner-i'Mino lull was to prevent the democrats from forcing statehood upon us. Judging from tl;e speech this gentleman presented to your roniintiilttee, it must have been prepared hy the Brat president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or the gentleman himself must have had a revelation revela-tion from Cod Almighty, when ho was on the road to Damascus or Washington). His wholesolo charges against the fi drab officials of this territory terri-tory are without, foundation, unless be referred 10 the ex-officeholders who honored your committee com-mittee with their presence in the company of said gentleman, and 1 am sure these gentlemen would repudiate s.oh an im rin-ution with indignation. The American citizens of Utah ass your committee commit-tee to keep your hands off and let us work out our own salvation. Utah's development iu the last two years has been miraculous, and the people peo-ple are contented anil happy. (Signed. M. A. BiiKEDKX. "Kentucky" Smith lu re arose with much heat, and assefted that he had not spoken to Mr. Hreedon since the 1st of January. "Thai statement," he said, "is simply a lie." Judge Towers 1 shall have to let his statement go against yours. 1 fchr 1 havo So many contradictions of your statement) that this committee will feci that very littlo dependence can be placed upon your testimony. testi-mony. Judge Powers continued. Mr. Smith has made three charges against Judge James A. Miner, an honest and hard-working official. He charges, in the first place, that appointed ap-pointed his son-in-law as clerk of his court, in defiance of the United States statute; that his income for four and one-half years had been $80,000, and that he does not know where it goes, to, unless there is a divvy, lie charges, in the second charge, that he appointed, ap-pointed, against tho report of the committee of examination, an incompetent stenographer. stenogra-pher. He charges, in the third place, that, having wrongfully referred a ease to a referee which should have beeu tried by a jury, he afterwards fined the attorney who called his attention to what, he supposed was a judicial mistake $15. 1 shall let Judge Minor speak for himself, and rend to you the following telegrams received by me today: OUDKK, Utah, Feb. 18, 1892, lion. 0. W. Powers, Arlington, Hotel, tYaxh-intjton tYaxh-intjton ' .'In October, 181)0, 1 appointed a committee commit-tee of three members of the bar to examine George Mattrell, a stenographer, as to his competency com-petency and qualifications. The following report re-port was made by them : "We, the undersigned, members of the 'bur of this court, heretofore de- great American state In the midst of tho mountains. We are not there to assault any one, or to call in question the motives of any one. The people 1 represent are as sincere sin-cere as those represented by previous speakers. speak-ers. I can truthfully say that I am convinced con-vinced that Hie mormon people are sincere ni their belief and true to their convictions, h'lly it is because I believe that the Npli Mormons Aro Sincere 1 j true to their past professions and loyal 10 their religious convictions, that I believe the time has not yet come to give home rule to tab. 1 have been instructed by a convention con-vention of 404 delegates, representing nearly nil the country in Utah, to present to this congress their memorial or urgent protest against turning over the people of Utah to tho mormon theocracy. Here Judge Powers read the memorial of the liberal convention held February 4; also 11 protest by the James W McKean Woman's Relief corps of Halt Lake on behalf of the women of Utah, and likewise the address of the Tuscarora society of Salt Lake. An now, gentlemen, went on Judge Pow-"Ars. Pow-"Ars. T admit that this state of affairs issiogu-1 issiogu-1 lar'and anomalous. Here are men of diverge political views, who, in any other Btatc or territory, would be divided on party lines, banded together here in Utah in defense of a common interest. Such a state of affairs requires an explanation. When the mormons mor-mons were driven from tho several states On Account of Their Olsloyalty to the government, and reached Utah, they questions as to what lias caused the apoarent change in sentiment among tin: mormons. "It is proper to remark that all of the change he noted havo occurred since the enactment of the law of congress of 18S7, and the taking of the oath prescribed by said law for the mormons, and the inauguration inaugu-ration by them of the movement to secure The Admission of the Territory as a slate. It eau scarcely be doubled that tho impelling inducement moving the mormon leaders to the better and more liberal policy above indicated, and the object they wish to attain, is the admission of Utah as a state," Now, said Judge Powers, Governor West in here pleading lor statehood, with a siring to it. lie is here urging the enactment of a law which says: "If you do not believe our profession, ami we do not prove to be straight goods, a yard wide, as represented, you can pull the string and jerk us back into subjection." He, with his friends, come hero with an imputation against the people of Utah, thrown upon them by the very terms of this bill. He would make of Utah, said Judge Powers, raising his voice, a sort of Ucltet-of-leave commonwealth. lie would say to tho people, of that territory: "If you are good, all right ; if bad. you must go buck, to Australia.'' Laughter. Governor Gov-ernor West asserted in his report that It Was No Easy Task for the people to free themselves from the prejudices and the preachings of the past, and 1 entirely agree, wilh him, and insist Ihuttho burden of proof that they have done so must rest upon the advocates of this measure. Judge Powers here, entered upon a brilliant bril-liant eulogy of the liberals of Utah. He said that they have done as much for the carried with them no love for either political uarty. They divided on no party lines, but they proceeded to build up a theocracy, in which God was supposed to speak directly to the people, upon political as well as religious relig-ious questions, through the mouths of the leaders of the church. Out of this idea, in that wonderful organization oalled the Mormon Mor-mon church, was evolved the people's party, whose object it was to hold together the mormon people in political defense of their peculiar institutions. When the gentiles came into Utah they found this organization confronting (hem. National questions were of little interest. Issues on which men, honest and intelligent, every, where else throughout tho union were divided, were of no moment to this organization, organi-zation, which simply concerned iteelf with local matters, and was banded together to prevent assault from the outside. The duty devolved upon tho gentiles to hold up The Banner of Americanism in that far distant territory, to teach their children and those w ho followed them that there was such a thing in Utah as loyalty to the principles of government as laid down by the founders of the republic, and, iu spite of all questions of personal aggrandizement, aggran-dizement, which was denied them as a hope less minority, to build up and maintain an organization of loyal, liberty-loving American Ameri-can citizens. How well they have done this the result will show. Amid every possible discouragement they carried on their work. Often in some little outlying settlement merely a single vote was east for the liberal candidate, but the leaders of the party UpOUHUlUg 01 Liie iuinii'1,1 , 11" j .,. done as much to make the desert blossom llkothcro.se; that they had done us much to make the arid fields blooming gardens, as had the old pioneers. They hail gone out into the unresponsive, mountains and gained from the reluctant hills their treasures; treas-ures; they had pushed Utah to the front as a great mining state; they had attracted capital capi-tal and assured it liberal returns. Slm e 1889 they have expended 13.000,000 in buildings in Salt Lake City. The great prosperity of I tab, talked of by speakers on the. other side, has been The Blossom and I ruitago of their unremitting labors, and the. result of their ability to inform cautions capital that investments were safe, and that American Ameri-can institutions were nourishing in Utah. We may be all that these gentlemen on the other side have said, remarked Judge Powers Pow-ers earnestly, w e may be scoundrels, we may be Vampires, we may be blood-suckers, and we may be political adventurers, but we have been men confessedly strongly instrumental in building up a great and prosperous commonwealth com-monwealth in the heart of the Rocky mountains, moun-tains, and we are willing to be judged by our record. Not a state or territory has been bettor governed than Utah, and no political commonwealth oa this continent has more able, more efficient, more honest, more libertv-loving and more loyol officials than those which, under tho law. have directed direc-ted its destiny. We hear much, wont on Judge Powers, of The Chunked Conditions. When, he asked, did tho oouditions begin to change,; It was only when the church found liiat their political power was slipping from between their lingers. It was then that they begau to attempt to secure hy strategy what they had failed to accomplish by main strength. oiMLCuiNiii.imiuuimi ej li iw .-Aaiiuuo i, Ueorge Mattrell as to his competency as a stenographic sten-ographic reporter, beg leave to report that vve have examined said Mattrelf as to iiis qualifications qualifica-tions ami that his qualifications are satisfactory, and, in our judgment, he is competent and qualified quali-fied for the position of official reporter of this court. "L. R. Rooms, "JAHIS N. klMRAI.L, 'JACOB U. Bohkman, "Committee." Acting on this report and my own knowledge, 1 I appointed Mattrell in July, 1891. In order to aeiept this position'.Mattreli gave up the position of official reporter ui the Third district in Michigan. Michi-gan. He had twenty years' experience In reporting, re-porting, was a professor in a phonographic college, aptly qualified, and with a char acier above reproach, lie lias made an excellent ex-cellent stenographer here. II. W. Smith recommended rec-ommended his office stenographer, M. D. Bar-stow, Bar-stow, ami had him anter a competitive examination examina-tion wiih Mattrell. Regarding my clerk, C. B, McClure, whom I appointed, lie was not a relative nor a pros pact! VI relative when appointed. Afterwards lie married my daughter. I don't consider him within the United States statute, which has been construed to apply to circuit courts and not to territories. 1 understand that Examiner Stutsman stated that the statute could not be construed to apply to McClare. Henderson appointed his cousin, Kinerson his son, and in Oklahoma and New Mexico -ons of judges lio'.d positions as clerks under their fathers. I have to have some one as cl.-rk hom 1 can rely 011 and who is above suspicion. suspi-cion. McClure makes a splendid clerk. He was appointed less than eighteen months au'o, and receives re-ceives onlv the fees allowed by law. not one-tenth the amount claimed, and he accounts to the government gov-ernment therefor. The charge that the clerk di-vtdel di-vtdel with ine is a malicious falsehood in every respect. I referred an appeal case involving mutual accounts, ac-counts, as the statute directs, and I have no apology apol-ogy to make therefor. I denied a motion to set a-i'le the order of reference, and allowed only $5 attorney's fee to the opposite party, under the rule of this court. 1 ask the fullest investigation, JAMKS A. MINER. Judge Powers also read a telegram from Frank J. Cannon, stating that the attacks upon Judge Miner were received with amasemcnt in Ogden; also a telegram from never despaired. 1 lie organization grew; it grew because it had to grow; it grew because be-cause there was An Irrepresailile Conlliot represented between the liberal and people's party, one of these affirming that the voice of Hod, as expressed by the leader of the church, should be the voice of the people, and the other boldly asserting, amidst discouragement dis-couragement and apparently hopeless obstacles, ob-stacles, that the untrauinioled voice of tho people was the voice of (iod. From the time when K. N. llaskin received the magnificent support of the miners of I'ark City and ;110() votes for delegate to congress throughout the territory, tho liberal party began to fool that their work on behalf of Americanism I was not Without hope of success. They I have struggled until today tho three greatest great-est cities of the territory, Salt Lake, Ogdcn ! aitd Park t'itj, have beeu wrested from the i coVtrol of the mormon theocracy and placed j mil, r the control of loyal, law-abiding and I )rlj:res3ive citizens. I .Judge Powers asserted that the great un-! un-! deSj ing trouble with mormonism has not ! I. In polygamy. This wa9 simply I A Vlani testation of the Power "'the mormon church to enforce its de. ill . upon the people. But, be said, the t M ,,f th- ' barch has been Upon the slate, ml that is the trouble today. For, after fnly years of teaching and schooling, can il I possible that, by an edict, iii a single .1 1 this condition is to be totally changed, ail tin: mormons become genuine re licBis ami democrats, interested in national ises which nerer interested them before dllus'slng honestly and with avidity the tl iKt ion whether s high tariff on tin or a lalf .a wool IS for ihe best interests of t lie reBblic, instead of that one question which bEuied their minds for years, to the exclu- nf 8Try other question, namely, the n fl Min:; of the church of ion. K can't be, sMVidge Power. No Catholic, Methodist d'H. ibj ti nan. brought up in the tenets of I biBuui-cn, howtu-r muyu "9 .ludge Powers then detailed the account of Ihe importation of O'Brien, a soldier of fortune, for-tune, into the territory, the advent of .fosse Barton and Inspector Bontleld, the publication publica-tion of the Barton letter. Which he commented com-mented upon wilh stinging sarcasm, stating, iu p'lation to Barton's ascer'.ion that he had no political axe to grind, and was only for the interest of the oountry. "They are all patriotic, when they desire to break up the liberal party." lie recounted the dissolution of the people') party by resolution into its original elements. Where else ou earth, he asked, could you tlnd a party, tinn in its conviction, believing in its principles, cer-tain cer-tain that (iod rules through the presidency, jel, w ithout a convention, Hy the Wave ol a Hand, in' a single moment, that could rosoive to die, without a kick from a single voter, from one end of the territory to the otter. After this, said Judge Powers, some peculiar tilings happened. The flue work of the oliurch, which is no longer supposed to dominate dom-inate In politics, began to assert itself. Men who had boon avowedly iu sympathy with democratic principles became republicans, and republicans became democrat!. A very shrewd plan was adopted by which tho ehurcb should control even iu the assumed division on "arty lines. In littlo towns where there w'as no chance of agentile beiug elected the mormons divided as nearly as possible. In Bali Lake QoTCTOOr West, fresh from a campaign in behalf of liberal principles in Washington, was made chairman chair-man of tho democrats mmittoe, aud he so thoroughly convinced Ihe members of the people's party in that great city that demoe-jacy demoe-jacy was right that he got all nut S4l men, who voted the republican ticket. It was assumed as-sumed In Salt Lake that such a plan would more thoroughly Disrupt the Liberals. No, gentlemen, said Judge Powers, the change was ouly a change of name it was not a change of condition. At this point ,1 udge Powers asked permission to Hie extracts ex-tracts from a speech delivered by him at Salt Lake City in 1890, showing how the church ran things when It was in absolute , ontrol, and when the bishop organized a lire department, w hen tho church ran Ihe. saloons, sa-loons, had its ow u beer, and charged up its own drink Laughter, But today, said the bar of Ogden, signed ' Dy over imriy members of the bar, denouncing the assault on Judge Miner as malicious; also a telegram tele-gram from the mayor, stating that the people of Ogden, irrespective of politics or religion, denounced the attack upon the judge; also a telegram signed by every bank in Ogden, endorsing Judge Miuer. This testimony, cried Judge Powers, dashing the telegrams upon the table, and looking "Kentucky Smith in the face, Bhould dispose dis-pose of all the charges against Judge Minor, and it is partly on this testimony and others as unfounded that these eharges of misgov-ernment misgov-ernment in Ltah have been made before the gentlemen of this committee. Judge Powers then took up one by one tho charges against the governor, that he had uo secretary that anyone knew of, unless it was s littlo boy: that the perquisites of otlleials otll-eials were illegal, and disposed of them in short order. He Handled Without Gloves the charge that Governor F.li II. Murray had refused to sign an appropriation bill because he was not satistied with the appropriations made for his office, and brought out the fact that the mormon legislature had refused to sign an appropriation bill because he was not satisfied with the appropriations made for his office, and brought out tho fact that the mormoe legislature had refused to eom-tirra eom-tirra appointees of Governor Murray, whoso title had beeu sustained by the local courts, and that the governor bad said in effect: "Gentlemen, you must recognize my author, ity or I will decline to sign the hills appropriatlugmoney which have been passed by you." ... , !' Mr. Frank S. Richards interrupted: "Didn't the legislature inform tho governor that he must wait until tho United States supreme court passed upon his right to ap. poiut the officials V" Judge Powers I believe they did. They alwavs procrastinated when we desired them to yield to our interpretation of the laws, but if we ourselves did not yield to theira' wo were denounced as usurpers. I will now take up That Fourth Precinct Case of which so much has been made, said Judge rowers, 1 will discuss the election roccuUjr licM in Salt Lake, which our opponent have been attempting to discredit here, and tliey may well attempt to discredit nuclei-Hon, nuclei-Hon, in wliieli, wo claim, a vote -watt taken of the people .of Salt I.ake upon the propose tiona now pending before tbl committee. That hub the Ibbuc, gentleman, upon which llie voters of WI.OIX) people passed. It was a question whether the old conditions should be restored, mid not whether t lie assumed new condltiod should he admitted. It was a question whether, in the Judgment of the law abiding, loyal American people of 1'tah, that territory was ready to give up the results of tiio past, and hand itself over to a majority which bad been forced Into (liiasi.loyalty by lone years of hard struggle and riirid enforcement of the statutes. The liberals wero confronted by a combination os so-called republicans and democrats, an enormous majority of which were members of the old church party. Yet, when The Vote Was Counted, the general election law, the statutes of the United States Stood in the Way, and congressional authority would have to be invoked before such changes could be operative. Judge Powers then took up where he bad left otT Kentucky Smith's charges against the secretary and the governor, reading ex. te naively from .lodge Goodwin's editorial of the I8th of February, lie said tnat he held in his hand the Salt hake Trilmin, a paper Which bad often been referred to sneeriuglv in this hearing, hut one of the ablest of papers, ami one which bad made an honest and earnest tight for years for American consideration. con-sideration. Tu conclusion, he said: Gentlemen, I desire de-sire to thank you for the kindly attention paid to my remarks. I shall be followed by a gentleman, the Hon. C. E. Allen, clerk of the county of Salt I.ake, who will present to you facts anil figures that should make you seriously pause before granting the request of the advocates of either of the bills. I apprehend ap-prehend that we shall show to you, conclusively, conclu-sively, that the great liberal party of I'tali is Still Practically Intact; that the so-called division on party lines lines of the people's parly Is but a ruse; that not more thau 150 gentile democrats and 100 gentile repub-lieans repub-lieans have gone off on party lines in Salt I.ake (,'ity. and that those who have assumed to speak for an alleged considerable liberal defection represent but a trifliug and inconsiderable minority. This whole effort is an effort to once more politically control a wealthy and prosperous territory, that is passing rapidly uuder the authority of the American (iovernment, and which, when it shall so pass, will become a state of the Union w here children will enjoy en-joy the licncllts of the American free school system, and tbe men and women will bask in the sunshine of American insti-tutions. insti-tutions. Hut it cannot be built up under a theocratic form of government. Its interests inter-ests at present cannot be forwarded b( such a bill as that which wo have been discussing, dis-cussing, lialher than be IMrteed in Leading Strings, rather than be saddled with a measure of the kind which these gentlemen before me have advocated, we prefer absolute and unquali-lied unquali-lied statehood; we prefer to bo able to voice our Withe In the national halls of congress; we prefer to be able to present our wrongs before our equals; we prefer to pass in at the front door rather ban lie let in under the canvas of the tent. But, within a few years, gentlemen, we hope, and we conll-deutlv conll-deutlv expect, to be able to come before you nnd to say to you, the representatives of the American people, that our territory, through the operation of t lie laws which you have enacted and through their enforcement by the honest, efficient and able officials w hich you have placed over us, and through the influence of a sentiment of loynltv for American institutions which the liberal party has begotten, fostered aud stimulated, has reached u point when we can, with safety to the country and to ourselves and to free institutions, ask admission to the glorious sisterhood of states. Twelve o'clock having arrived, tbe hearing hear-ing ended with Hie close of Judge Powcrs's spec, h, aud will bo continued at a later duy. Today the liberal delegation w ill appear before be-fore tbe senate commiltcc on territories. the liberals were found to have an avt rago of 1104 majority over republicans and ten, ocrat combined. That is a genuine expression ex-pression on home rule and against a bill drawn up in a lawyer's back office, presented to you here, and which has been repudiated at the polls by the very men w hom congress has looked to for years to give moral support sup-port to the laws which it has passed and to uphold the banner of republicanism in our lovely territory in the heart of the mountains. moun-tains. The speaker then went on to explain the circumstances of the frauds in the Fourth Itreclnct which Mr. Rawlins had defended, le said that soon after the polls were opened he was informed that men were being be-ing refused the franchise In the precinct on the most frivolous grounds. lie asserted that every man who presented himself at the polling booth was a qualified voter under un-der the territory law. the L' tali election law, he said, were possibly not perfect, but if there was fault it must be laid at the door of the mormons, who passed such a registration regis-tration law In order to make it difficult for new gentiles coming into tbe tciritory To Cast Their Votes against the old residents. Owing to the division di-vision of the people's party, in every precinct pre-cinct there was a democratic and a republican judge, ill addition to the one representing (he libera party. The result of the election, and the incidents which took place throughout the city, proved conclusively that the so-called so-called democratic and republican judges had conspired beforehand to throw out every vote, where there was a possible pretext for doing so, which would increase the liberal majority. In the Fourth precinct l'Jl, instead in-stead of 110, as stated, were refused Unfranchise. Un-franchise. Judge Powers added that, going personally to the scene, bo secured llfteeu democratic badges, pinned them on the lapels of fifteen voters who had been refused the franchise, nnd bad them present them selves s Second time at tho polling booth; and then, lie milled, An Alleged Hepiiollcin. and a judge of the Fourth precinct voted those fifteen democratic badges. Hon nor HVsf Did the liberals challenge those votes y You bad liberal challengers, ! presume. Judge Power No; wo naturally did not challenge our own men, each one of which we knew to be a qualified voter. Governor West No; I suppose not. You showed by your own trick what you arc capable of. Judge Powers I shall have to call you down, and It is not the lirst time. You and I were chairmen of opposition parties last August, when we forced you to your - knees. Judge Powers then w ent to speak of the proposed revision of the election laws and the purging of the registration list, tin-suggestion tin-suggestion of which, he said, came from Mr. Ltppmann, secretary of the liberal party. tiovernor West I beg your pardon. Judge Powers You have it in advance, governor. You have never had to ask it in vain. Mr. Richard-Uried whether Judge Pow. ers remembered the effort made to change lite registration law of the territory by tin-last tin-last legislature. Judge Powers replied that In- (lid perfectly, but, us u change of the reg titration meant a change of principle under |