Show A MALICIOUS misrepresentation THE following appeared in a W washington ash ington special of march ath to io the salt lake debune the salt lake public B building alding bill died with fifty other public building bills it a monument to the dilatoriness and inefficiency of john T caine that sentence embodies a wilful and malicious untruth the efforts of delegate caine to procure the passage of the bill for an appropriation fora public building in this city were given publicity only a short time since he labored energetically with the congressional committee which had bad the matter in hand in answer to his earnest pleadings the chairman informed him that the committee could not properly report the salt lake bill for passage in view of the denials to so many other and larger cities mr caine then presented reasons why this city should be preferred to many others such as her rapidly growing population and the immense resources of the surrounding country but even aside from the fact of the labors of mr caine before the committee the dispatch itself exhibits the injustice J nitice of the imputation thrown upon him the utah bill simply shared the same fate as fifty other public buil building diLg bills the logic of the telegram followed legitimately would imply that the half jed other measures were defeated by the sime same cause the dilatoriness and inefficiency of the various congressmen who represented the proposed beneficiaries of the bills the defeat of all those measures simply exemplifies the argument with which mr caine was met when he be urged a favorable report upon the one relating to salt lake |