Show DEMENTIS PROSPECTS the official head of richard S dement of illinois recently appointed to be united scales surveyor general for utah is in danger he was appointed about two months ago out but unless a transformation should occur in the minds of senators teller maxey and coke he will never be confirmed he made sensational statements about land frauds in utah and accused senators and members of congress of having been bribed by the railroad corporations and monopolists monopolist s of the west st at prices ranging from to he indicated the geographical location of certain of the persons said to have been bribed with such minuteness that their names might as well have been published mr dement apparently did not realize the broad character of his charges until he cawthern saw them thern in print and now he denies that he ever said anything attributed to him save one paragraph of his interview that plasters commissioner sparks with taffy the commissioner repudiates dement says he be never made any such statements as were reported by his interviewer and denies that land frauds of any magnitude so far as lie he knows have ever been committed in utah new york mail and express |