| Show ERRORS OF A washington BUREAU A of papers receive their washington news from a bureau I 1 which wads mends the same dispatch to all jt if the correspondent maie makee an error or to is biased the incorrect items be sends are circulated as news over a wide area we find this to be the moo case in regard to an alleged report of the recent proceedings proceeding before congressional com witts on utah affairs it appears in montreal form tin lm several papers purporting ing to conae come from the washington bureau of each or their special correspondent spon dent IP it cosit contains ains a number cf palpable untruths un truths among them are these first that a number of cormons mormons Mor mons I who now claim to be ex opened up their campaign by presenting to president harrison a most moat humiliating and abject memorial for amnesty and that they asked to have their citizenship restored I second that then came delegate gaine with his bill for statehood ii this to is followed by an incorrect account of the arguments presented before the committee we the comment concern ling ing the who appeared that 4 they w e fet ander church rule are rebels now and hated bated everything I 1 having a fe federal leral flavor 0 third that it became plain enough that with state government utah would be dominated by the mormon church and as far as possible would be a secessionist so the plea for statehood in a moment became not only a farce butan but an abomination 2 fourth th that at th the e 16 lt Liberale made e ap for the home rule measure and it not been for the flasco fiasco of the calne caine crowd it is not altogether improbable wat the reque request of the liberals who have been fighting mormonism tooth tooth and nail for ye year w would have been grante dand utah uta int a pro pra fe i a gb government half way between the present fa form and statehood a government by ta the people of the territory selected tod under federal laws and supervised b by y the president that seemed to be a fair proposition it Is known as a provisional government pl fifth that the straight out republicans public ans of the territory oppose any change of the present form ol dt government bel believing leing that the mormon real residents oft of the territory have not mufti sufficiently ci departed from their habits and fot forms misto to receive statehood then follow a lot of opi opinions nione derived from these egregious errors of fact and which tome washington correspondents seem eem to 0 think are Or preferable I 1 to io news a common mistake of writers who are engaged to furnish facts and not surmises for FOE the benefit of the journals which have been imposed upon by this bure bureau auly of alleged information we will point out the absurdity of the un truthful statements they have bae pub the ap application fotion for ampo amnesty poty wah wab sent seat to president eat carrlon Harr lon by the he presidency diio and apostles of the mormon C church h u ach and has been well received by all parti parties ew ww pronounced by leading journals as an a manly and outspoken document they were not so ignorant as toasa to bienve their heir citizenship restored they had never fiedor lest that but they ariker for gen general gendral pral amnesty for thelt their people who are under I 1 abili M il 4 they were not ex e who appeared before the congressional corn cora anut the idea of closing attorney W H hsmith judge judd jadd ex gover nor west I 1 ex marshal dyer and aad other speakers ex the government will strike their acquaintances as richly bu humorous mr caine did not advocate a statehood L 0 od scheme schema for utah and the calne caine crowd as toe the veracious corres i pendent calls thom them were all advocates of the home rule neasure measure which he a fair proposition and says was submitted bythe by the liberals the straight out republicans who he explains are opposed to any change of government were the advocates of the statehood measure measure and the liberals 1 thoria he credits with hie fhe scheme fora provisional government were vehemently opposed to bath Mia takes will happen even in a letter from an ordinary washington correspondent but so many blunders wilful or otherwise are rarely to be found in one communication unless it appears in the salt bait lake tribune Is it possible that the immaculate correspondent bf that sheet is the ll bureau burek of these various journals that ha have been thus deceived such stuff as we have exposed is a caricature on journalism and is in liable to throw doubt on sh all the pro pretended tended news from the capital which appears in papers distant from the seat of government |
