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Show ! j fl CATCIIl.G AT A SIIADOTTT . ' 1 Ul STltAAV. IS As drowning men will catch at a ' 9r .traw, so the swamped "Liberals," j ' SI over a helmed with the flood of proofs iWn of Jofin T. Colue's Indefatigable 9 .' labors. In behalf of the people of 9 . Utah, catch atan expression drawn i i X outof a coujresional clerk by a pro- i ''M fesslonal lie-catcher, i. e. a Tribune I lm reporter, and tliU "straw'.' was ''3j. nothing but a shadow. 'm The bill far the public bull JIng in I Jj this -city, which John T. Calne B j , 3j' worked for at least as faithfully as H ' 't thoseMral lobbyists, C. W. West Hi I i St an A. Jj. Thomas, shared the fate PB 'iffl' of alut forty other similar mea- PJ I - jig suros. .V clerk employed in the H ! ' In House of Representatives was vlslt- H )S : , 1 in? this city, a reporter from the PR . , JJl '-Liberal" organ met him, and B , catechisedhimln"IiiberaI"fashion, PJj SI for the purpose or drawing some- H . rljg thinz from him which could bo tor- H I n tared into a charge against the Dele- B It' IB SaJe- Ho succeeded In getting the sH ''- tial clerk to say that members of B ! HH Congress were expected to put Into I': Bg shape the kind of report which they I i ?J3 wished committees having bills hi J'1 charge that those members favored. ?' tomn'cBto the House. Also that H ; : ; .probably Mr. Caiue neglected to do PJ ' thl, and so the public buildings bill PB 1 for Salt Like City was not reported B ,j in time for its passage. pi t And now the tiling that daily. ft ' pours forth falsehood in the editorial ft jj columns, attacks Mr. Ciine and f II charges him with letting the bill be I "fatally delayed of report from the ' ' I committee simply by neglecting to , " j-" write the report expected of him in ftftf support of the measure." PPJ ' ,:" "ow, hi the first place, the chair- PPJ 'v k man of the committee and tbe mem- PK Js brrs composing it will not very B H highly appreciate the statement of a PH ijj clerk that tliey expect Congressmen PB W who do not belong to their coinmit- PPJ jj tee to write their reports for them, BH :F and to do so according to the private HBE views and wishes of those members BSE I who desire the bill to pass. BBJ In the second place, it was not HH the duty of John T. Calne to write BBj or prepare a report for that com- BB mittee, and ho would have been BBJ considered a little too ofllcious if he BBJ 4 JiaJ proposed to do such a thing. BBJ , Iu the third place, the report teas BBJ I I ready, the committee was prepared BBJ I - (o recommvnd the passage of the B I bill, and Delegate Caine saw to that BBJ ' matter, and dl J his complete duty H !' in relaUon to it BBJ ' ,j Intlie fourth place, the bill would BBJ have been reported to the House, BBJj with other similar, bills but for the BBE inJispotition of the Speaker to recog- BBl nize tbe chairman of that committee BBJj when he tried to get the floor. BBS There were other measures which BBBi , the Speaker considered of greater BBJj i f Importance, and to which ho gave BBJj the preference. H In the fifth place, the Salt Lake B public building bill fared no worte BBB than forty others for buildings In H j various State?, and the members BBE t of Congress from those States are BBB not blamabie for their failure. And BBB so Delegate Caine is not to be BBB blamed because the bill which BBB Messrs. West and Thomas were BBB hired to see enacted failed to get BBK through. BBB The thing that is engaged In utter- BBBj ing dally libels against Mr. Caine BBB and other gentlemen, says: "Iiut BBBj l that it was Delegate Caine's duty BBBi to attend to this report there is no BBBj question." AcoorJiug to this rule BVBj it is the duty of a DIrgate to Con- BJVJ grcss to write the reports of a com- HBJ mittee of members to which he BJB I iloes not belong. If that Is really BJj one of the Delegate's duties, it !is not so unduitocd either in tbe committees or in the House BBBJ or in the Senate. It is one of the BBBJ "duties" manufactured by the BBBJ Tribune thing, as an excuse for at-BBBJ at-BBBJ , 'tacking Mr. Caine, and Is simply a BBBJ ( campaign lie. It will do the "Lib-BBBJ "Lib-BBBJ eral" candidate no good, and ought BBBJ 'to, do tho People's candidate no BBBJ harm. In orJer to say something BBBJ against him his sinking assailants BBJbj are obliged to lie. As for the BBKI writer of the libel, it simply adds BBJN one more falsehood to his journal-BBC journal-BBC J isllc record of Infamy. |