Show IE mm kot iu CALLED ON CLEVELAND ke also visited cabinet of ficiala affairs of utah company hon goorge Q cannon of utah re turned to bait lake over the union pacific yesterday morning alter several weeks absence in the east president bannon was found in ex health and spirits when a representative of tha tribano called on him yesterday he talked freely concerning the ot the utah company our are now in excellent in abo eist and had it been possible for ma to have remained remain Bd in new york two or threes days longer I 1 should have returned prepared to launch some of the railroad enterprises which have absorbed the interest of our corn pany but the near proximity of the annual of the church demanded my presence here and I 1 wua duty bound to leave the negotiations still pending after conference I 1 will return east prepared to bring all our negotiations to a close when questioned as to the later attacks against himself and the mormon church published by the new aik oik times mr cannon said 1 I nava read none ol 01 them but tho first and to that I 1 replied I 1 have dismissed the subject from my mind and from mv presence and I 1 do not even know what allegations have been put forth in the subsequent arti clea while I 1 was in new york a oi the timea called on me and tendered me the columns of the paper if I 1 would offer a reply to the allegations I 1 declined the courtesy him as I 1 am telling you that I 1 had replied to the only attack I 1 bad read and that if there were subsequent attacks on me personally nally or on the churan of which I 1 am a member I 1 had not read them and did not propose to be farther interested te in them in regard to the purported interview had by a representative of the wash v ington star in which mr cannon was quoted as being a democrat and de coloring the republican victory in utah of last fall at the same time express ing the firm belief that utah would send two democratic senators to wash iceton mr cannon emphatically stated that there waa not one eingle word ot truth in the entire article 1 I was in washington but a few hours and daring my stay I 1 had koths ing to nay to anyone on the condition of utah politics it is a subject that I 1 have steadily etea dily refrained from discussing because of prudential reasons and as to my personal politics that is a matter that concerns no one bat myself I 1 called on some of the members of pros ident Clev elands cabinet out of courtesy secretaries carlisle morton and herbert with whom I 1 was intimately acquainted while I 1 served utah aa a delegate to congrave Con graae it was what ia known as close day at the while house and I 1 did not expect to call on tha president but at the solicitation of secretary herbert I 1 presented my card and was invited to the presidents office 1 I spent about twenty minutes in his office and many things were spoken of but not did the question of the political complexion of utah come up the nearest ao to the subject was mr cleveland somewhat humorously remarked that he understood the new york times was making attacks on tha moamoa church and bad singled out one of the leaders of the church as a epenial target I 1 replied mr president I 1 am the special target referred to by both yourself and the new york times after acme more purely commonplace talk I 1 retired and proceeded direct to new york As to the article in the washington star which by the way I 1 have not yet seen I 1 wish to state that if it took tho form of an or an expression of my sentiments it ia a fabrication I 1 saw no newspaper men while I 1 was in washington and no newspaper men saw me or attempted to gt an interview with me |