| Show THE DENIALS OP OF DEMENT tux THE more the dement affair I 1 is 8 discussed the worse it loop looks in response to pertin pertinent ento inquiries by the senate committee on public lands the surveyor general of utah enters specific 1 de alais ol of all the statements credited to him in the press dispatches an investigation vesti vesta gation into the sources of information or of the reporters who sent the 4 dispatches patches is se seams ams no now w to be in order it is represented that they des desire re to be aicard on this matter and are willing to appear before the committee which general I 1 Der dement nent we hope this request will not be de billed aled it is due to the country and to the individuals who have been slandered that some explanation be given as to the author ox of these calumnies calum nies general Sai lomon Is directly implicated and the aholo who all federal fraternity 1 in utah are belmire besmirched by the stories that haye been circulated throughout the united SUM states purporting to have bave come from general demerit dement if as he says he has not been interviewed at all and has hai not made any of the accusations attributed to hium he ought to td be cleared of the suspicion that still hangs to nm hm and add the author of the falsehoods should be ex posed and punished gen salomon telegraphed to senator logan lur in relation to the statement which appeared in a dispatch to the effect that dement had informed the senator that when he retook betook took the position he be found the affairs of the surveyor generals office in a bad shape senator logan replied that lie he had made no statement on OA the sub subject t we think that if me the truth is ever developed it will show that dement has talked very foolishly about utah affairs and that his statements have been caught up and manipulated into the sensational slanders which have occasioned so much comment the explanation of the newspaper men who are responsible for the reports will be looked for with interest and accounts of interviews with general demerit dement whether chev appear garippa 41 papers ersa at home thome or abroad will henceforth reviewed be viewed with no little suspicion |
