Show tai beair kale bail the salt lake herald p the following special D C feb 11 char maa platt eat at the bead of the long cable in the centre of the committee room on territories this and grouped around about him were the various aad democratic members of the committee it was re gular meeting day ant the entire se bien was spent in hearing an argument which H W of made in favor of the home rule adl the atah gem leisen who were in attendance at the meeting of the house hou se eom cittee yesterday yeat erday were present as were also mr john henry smith of salt lake and C F bahlo ie of edreka mr smith firpi read the memorial prepared by the legislature of utah j and then grakin gt akin the home rule bill analysed it thoroughly and explained its pravia ions he referred with pardonable pride to the ability ef the territory to take care of itself in every particular ti he narrated a whole list of abuses so familiar ta the people of utah which exist in different departments ef loal government gavern ment he referred briefly in passing tu the utah aad stated that polygamy was as dead in th territory aa in any elate of the union and that that was ane only objection that had ever beon urged against the people referring to the frequently expressed feature of the domination of the mr amith said there was nothing in it that the peoples party had ben disbanded and that the church waa out of politics the senators followed mr smitha argument and interrupted him at with questions calculated te make clear to them the situation in the territory they inquired particularly as to ch nam which the bill would make u the er gaage act and as the details t both ef this aad atie statehood bill aad ake ea 8 differ eare between them it ws expected that mr 0 0 richards would follow mr and give a still further review f the bleil and po lotical conditions of the territory but the hear of noon had nearly bean reached before mr smith had e abil an adjournment was taken until saturday Sat arday morning next in order that mr richarda might matee a full arm inept without chairman platt at the conclusion of alio nearine that the leopla iari wanted to be gitsa an audience and would probably decide b saturday whon thov too might be heard th healin heal in today demonstrated the fact that mr carey of Wyo mias who is one of the bembera Bemb sra of the n in hearty eyma atha with the utah i s in their to throw off the aad govera themselves he spoke with strong m phalis of the evila of boim 01 gover ninen and in various other gayb satisfied the utah people that his sympathy had been folly in their behalf |