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Show TRUTHS. H Tho I'iiso against Senator Smooi H will dip with this congress on March M A. It will never come to a vole, but M ' being properly beforo tho senato com- mitlco'H report, will be laid on tho tn-M tn-M ' bio as uufltiibhcd business and slay B there. It cannot ho revived ngnli. M either, unless the protcstauts begin M where they stained four years ago ana M go all over the ground again which is M hardly probable. Hurrows and Du-M Du-M bois won't bring It to a vote for thb M simple reason that they know a mo-M mo-M lion to cither cxcludo or expel would M lio overwhelmingly defentcd. It's M hardly fair to Senator Smoot to let it M go in that way. It would bo n good M deal more manly to bring It np and B vote on It, but tho great majority of M tho senators know thero Is no reason M legal or otherwise, why Mr. Smooi M should either ho excluded or expel-B. expel-B. led, but at tho samo timo to vote in B favor of tho Mormon would get many B of them into trouble with tho old m maid portion of tholr constituents M henco they nro very willing to lot. the B question solve itself without their bo H ing put on record. If wo mlstako not H tho late Senator Hoar nearly four H years ago said tho caso would end In H tho manner Indicated above. Mr. Hoar H was a great constitutional lawyer and K from tho beginning said that Mr. B Smoot was as well entitled to Ills seat M as any membor of the senato was to his. B The fact that Congressman Howell m of Utah Is ono of the' ten inembors of U the house of representatives chosen BB BJr Bb to mnko a visit of investigation to tho Panama canal works is quito an honor to Utah. Ilo Is the only western representative rep-resentative so honored. Howell is 'somo pumpkins" in Washington not withstanding tho efforts of his detractors detrac-tors hero to belittle him. Judge Diehl has decided that tho oporatton of "trado slot machines" is not contrary to the anti gambling law. Tho Herald tnkes exception to tho -tiling basing its objection on n die 'ionary definition of tho word gamble. rt is something now to substitute a lictlonary for a law text hook, but that's near enough for tho Herald. Mcnntlmo It may bo remarked that 'ho higher court's aro quite likely to sustain Judge Dlchl's ruling. This s not a plea for slot machines either, ror we think they nro an abomination. abomina-tion. Truth said a month ago that it was inltc likely that Joo Cottlo would succeed suc-ceed James Sabine, Jr., as superintendent superin-tendent of the county infirmary. Tho Tribune discovered it a day or two ago, and mado a scaro head story about It. J There is very little use in making objections to tho payment by tho city to Contractor Moran of about ?9,000 bonus ho claims for having finished certain work beforo tho stipulated time. His claim appears to bo in accordance ac-cordance with tho contract, which provides pro-vides that he was to receive so much per day for every day the work was completed beforo a specified time. He was also to pay a flno of so much per day for each day ho might bo behind. Ho completed the work long beforo the expiration of tho time limit. A bargain bar-gain is a bargain and wo see no reason why Moran should not get tho bonus. It is not an uncommon thing for bonuses to bo paid to contractors, ship builders nnd others for finishing contracts earlier than the time limit. Anyway tho city council should not have mado tho agreement unless they Intended to keep it. |