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Show WELLING GETS HOT UNDER THE COLLAR Congressman Welling got warm under tho collnr tho other night at Salt Lako, also at Provo. From his koy note speech until tho present tlmo ho has continually tried to bo-little bo-little Senator Smoot, but when his own case came up he flew Into a rage. In a letter to Logan Morris from Aneol Wold, printing clerk of tho senate of tho United States, it was stated that "during tho time that Sonntor Smoot had bocn In the senate sen-ate ho had been thoauthor of 214 laws, and that a. hasty examination ot tho rccodds of the Sixty-sixth congress con-gress to date showed soven public and two prlvnto bills thus far in this congress." Mr. Wold's letter also stAlcd: "I find that thrco public bills Introduced Intro-duced by Senator King have becomo laws during tho Sixty-fifth congress" I ."The C"ngrcsslonnl Record for tho Slxtyrflfth and Sixty-sixth congresses,' con-gresses,' continued tho letter of Mr. Wold, "docs not show any public or private bills Introduced by Congressman Congress-man Mays or Welling as having becomo be-como law." This letter, it will be recalled. I was printed m an advertisement in tho press and Congressman Welling i nt Salt Lake on Thursday night, and in Provo Friday night denounced it as not truo, characterized It as a lie nnd tho author a conscious liar. , Tho letter was dated September 27, 1920, and wns addressed to Mr. Logan Lo-gan Morris In Salt Lako and the advertisement ad-vertisement containing the letter was signed by E. M. Athton. That tho people may know who. is tho liar In tho raso Mr, James H, Anderson rend tho following telegram tele-gram from Mr. Wold, printing clerk, U. S. Scnnto, which explains Itself: "Washington, D. C, Oct. 29. Edward Ed-ward M Ashton, Salt Lake: In response re-sponse to your iQulry, will say that lettor which I addressed to Logan Morris under dato of September 2( rolntlvo to records of Utah delegation delega-tion In congress Is entirely authentic and was compiled by myself and assistant as-sistant from odlclal records In tho odlco of tho secretady of tho sonnto. Ansel Wold, printing dcrk, United States Senate.' "This," concluded Mr. Anderson, Bhould show who Is tho conscious " Mr. Welling should havo known bettor. Ho nbovo nil men should H havo known that when ho attacked H Reed Smoot, ho was up against a fl big Job, and It 111 Becomes him to fly Into a rage when tho light is H turned on his own decord, Tho peo- H plo of Utah havo honored Congress- M ninn Woiling. Thoy nil hope ho has H dono well nnd for every good deed H ho will recelvo their appreciation but B thoy njra not In sympathy with his ,M unwlso nnd untrue nnd vicious at- M tack on Sonator Smoot. M - H |