Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-22 | Page 15 | Congressman Howell Denies an Interview

CONGRESSMAN HOWELL ' DENIES AN INTERVIEW Senator Kearns's attention was called last night to a purported Interview with Congressman Howell printed In a Salt Lake paper, In which Mr. Howell criticised the Senator and declared ho was unpopular In the State-Senator State-Senator Kcarns in renly said that he did not believe Mr. Howell had expressed ex-pressed himself In the manner printed, as he and tho Congressman had been on thp most friendly terms and both had worked in harmony for what he believed to be for the best Interests ot the State, and he therefore questioned the Interview. Tho Tribune telephoned Mr. Howell at Logan regarding the alleged lnter-"vlow, lnter-"vlow, and Mr. Howell gave the following follow-ing signed statement for publication; "LOGAN, Utah. May 21. My attention atten-tion has just been called to an article in this morning's Herald, In which I am quoted as saying that Senator KearnB is decidedly unpopular In this section, owing to his attitude toward Senator SmooU I desire to enter an emphatic denial of that statement, as It Is entirely en-tirely erroneous and misleading. "In the minute's passing conversation conversa-tion with a Herald reporter on the sidewalk side-walk In front of the Herald building, I Incidentally expressed the apprehension apprehen-sion that owing to tho early position taken by the Senator In reference to Senator Smoot and the general tone of The Tribune, that notwithstanding that Senator Kearns had always expressed himself to me aa deploring the Smoot investigation and his willingness to do. all he could to restrict and curtail the scope of It In the Interest of the State, and had disavowed responsibility for the views expressed by The Tribune, I feared that his attitude would be misconstrued mis-construed and misjudged to some extent ex-tent throughout the State. I "JOSEPH HOWELL.'" j