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Show i ' . ! GIVE A BILL OF PARTICULARS. The American party in Utah would gladly recommend re-commend that Congress should order paid Senator Smoot's expense account on the trial of his case before be-fore the Senate, if heWould but file his full bill of particulars. He. says lie has expended over $30,000. iWe believe him, bu( it will not do to charge it all in a lump to attorney fees. He had a law firm in Salt 'Lake as attorneys. The members are his personal friends and they would only register a reasonable fee. He hacr a Washington lawyer who could be easily, retained for $1500 a year, and that would be ,most generous for all the services he could render. Now where did the rest go! That is what we in Utah 'are anxious to find out. Every argument in the Senate in his favor, save one, was a special plea, 'where the anxiety was to make points mostly on side issues and to keep concealed the facts. What did 1 'they cost? '''. What did all the notices sent out by Washing-i Washing-i ' . .ton correspondents to the journals cost? How many I 'journals were hired to keep out of their columns i . everything sinister to Smoot? What induced great magazines to print flabby articles on the law of ithe case by men who are not lawyers? ' J When the report came up from the committee and was filed in the Senate, had a vote been called Mr. Smoot would have been declared no longer a member of the Senate. How much did the Senator I 'pay to have a change of sentiment broughj around! n"We all think we know what caused the administra-' administra-' jtion to get under the Smoot apple cart and help ''steady it over the rough road, but what fixed the V -rest? How was it that wise editors who never read three pages of the evidence write long and ponderous ponder-ous artcles, with a wise air, declaring that a man must not be punished for his religious opinions? Give us a bill of particulars, Mr. Senator. The money is nothing, the facts behind it would be worth everything every-thing to the American people and to young Utah. |