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Show I ! ; P C. RICHAEDS, Salt Lake attor-i attor-i ncy, who has been tendered ap- ; i pointment as assistant attorney gen- i eral of United States, on recommen- j datlon of United states Senator W II. King. i'4 rr I Wd '' M ; RICHARDS WED TO U. S. POSITION j - Appointment to Important Government Post Announced. An-nounced. United Slates Senator 'William H. King, who is in the city on a short visit, announced last night that on his recommendation recom-mendation the appointment as assistant attorney general of the United States has been tendered C. C. Richards, Salt Lake attorney and speaker of the house of representatives of the thirteenth session ses-sion of the state legislature, Mr. Richards Rich-ards has not as yet accepted the position but announced last night that he will probably do so if he can suitably arrange ar-range his business affairs to permit his assumption of the post. Senator King stated that special duties and prosecutions under the anti-trust laws would fall within the scope of the position. During the past thirty years Charles C. Richards has qualified in the "war horse" division of Utah democracy. As far back as 189.1 and for some years thereafter he was a member of the executive committee of the Xational Association As-sociation of Democratic cluba and did much for the cause of Democracy in the then territory of Utah. During Cleveland's second term as nrpsident n n-pll n 1 thp, spfinil t nr-m as governor of Utah of the late Caleb West, Mr. Richards was secretary of state of the territory of Utah, and as secretary and much of the time as acting act-ing governor he did much toward preparing pre-paring the territory for statehood. Mr. Richards also has served three terms as a lawmaker. In 1888 he was a member of the territorial assembly from Weber county and it was he who introduced the state industrial school bill, which resulted in the establishment of the institution at Ogden. Mr. Richards was again elected in I'jO to the council, which became the senate upon the entry' of the territory to the union. He was a member of the lower house and speaker of that body in the last legislature. Jn addition Mr. Richards has many times been chairman of the Democratic county committee of Weber county, where he resided for a long period before returning re-turning to Salt Lake, where he was horn. In 1892 Mr. Richards conducted the campaign in which Joseph L.. Rawlins defeated Frank J. Cannon for the office of delegate to congress and it was Delegate Dele-gate Rawlins who put the .Utah statehood bill through. Stnator King referred last night to the recognition which the state is receiving at Washington. He cited the appointment of S. A. Maginnis as minister to Bolivia, of James H. Moyle as assistant secretary secre-tary of the treasury, of Frank K. Xcbe-ker Xcbe-ker as special prosecutor for the government gov-ernment in the I. W. W. cases and more recently as assistant attorney general of the United States, and of J. C. Dick as a member of the board of review concerned chiefly with the enforcement of the revenue laws and the fixing of taxation of mines. He declared that many other less important positions are filled by Utahans. He pointed out too, that Utah has been made a new revenue district. , , , Senator King said that he has high hopes for the passing of his bill, introduced intro-duced in the senate for an appropriation to increase the size of the local federal building. Senator King, who is resting here a short time following his recent illness, win return to Washington with his family fam-ily In two or three days. |