Show BASKINS BUNCOMBE before the Jud clary lelary committees Commit teeA A rehash re be hash of the old story tho the salt lake heralds wash ington coi correspondent respondent states that on monday last mr baskin spoke for the second time in favor of the passage of further legislation for the territory of utah he took up the new nev edmunds bill section by section and dealt with them from hia his own standpoint U anfor n for tuna tely y or fortunately when the resources ol 01 true argument and logic were finished which waa was very soon he lie drifted into the field of assertion and assumption and finally stranded upon the old shore the shore of abuse slander and vilification his whole speech i in a a word was a fierce attack upon the mormon people and the mor mou men hierarchy in particular he rehearsed the old thread barewald bare bar ebald bald bad dime novel stories about the mormon church stories that have been circulated from one end of the world to the other and which have been contradicted a thousand and one times within the last lest le st fifty five years he laid great stress upon the monopolizing spirit of the mormon leaders showed to hia his own satisfaction that they had gobbled up everything in the territory of bah that was worth gobbling to the exclusion of the gentiles ab ats tempted to prove that the mormon were serfs that the organization or church to which they belonged was vas un on america U a and nd sought to establish an institution which could not be tolerated that those who belonged to said church even if they did not practice polygamy ought to be disfranchised and stripped of nil all political politic dl power inasmuch as 43 they were allied to an organization that taught and encouraged something which the united states congress had declared a crime in addition to all this this he had of course to ring in the mountain meadow massacre and the doctrine of blood atonement he spread himself upon the latter business and told borne some V very thrilling though very stale state blog blood curdling stories ho ile also touched upon the endowment house and would have the committee believe that inter jn the fc place terrible oaths had bad to be taken against the government under which the people of utah are permitted lo 10 to live in this connection and alid with great feeling h hd introduced to the honi arable committee no less a person than carrie owen he related the story how carrie had been deceived by a man named miles how she found herself a second wife or no wife at all and all that ant sort of rot roto how she sought to redress such a fearful wrong and how ae as a sense of duty she had written an expose of the ceremonies in the endowment house carrie during all this grand eulogy was sitting on a sofa immediately behind beh in d kate field upon her spread several copies of the tribune in which the alleged expose aphea appeared red one of these was handed to mr baskin which he handed to the chairman who quickly laid it upon the table the expose cut no figure created no kind of a it sensation 11 tion the only persons interest 11 nog g themselves in the document being sev elveral ertl well known newspaper men two of them sat on the the right of kate field glanced over the article cracked a smi smile leor or two but they took no stock in the business the whole thing fell very flat carrie t I 1 guess wished herself out of the room she was flushed and nervous while all this highly dramatic show was going on 1 believe she felt ashamed of herself if slie she she ought to mr Baskin blankly stated kanahe was the author of the expose in question and hand banded edit it in W to support 9 throat cutting theory he lie also informed the committee that ehe she ad been employed in one ot of tho departments here hut but had loft left tu to go to england to look tok after some property which had been let her by Y an aunt she bad had returned ie centhy and intended to settle in washington or somewhere else in this country mr baskin spoke nearly four hours the average mormon can imagine the whaling the mormon mormons and the mormon C church received in that time tinie he ile made the mormons out to be the worst people oa oil the face of the earth cut throats th murderers thieves liars and a hundred and one other things dhigh I 1 cannot remember beT finally he subsided and the committee adjourned until the next morning tuesday at 10 afo c k the u understanding n being that mr caine should make tho the closing reply at the hour appointed on tues day permission 1 chairman oia if mr jos JosA A was filly fd a hearing he or two kours hours aal made come some very good I 1 points aa he detailed the eff lortis of the late laid legislative assembly faud and showed how their work was made abortive by the veto power of U the governor he also explained how many non mormons were abused by the salt lake tribune T that in any ay way undertook to say a y a word in in favor of the to substantiate L his remark remarks he ie read rena several editorials from tho paper in question and called calle d te the atten attention ti on of the committee to ar er te telegram leiam dated washington which stated that the chair man of the house judiciary committee J randolph tucker of virginia and which committee hae has now under consideration the edmunds bill as it c came a me from the senate has a brother in the city who has been retained iLs as the paid attorney of the mormon church to chow how gentlemen were abused and slandered by the T tribune mr C 0 goodwin he said was the author pf the above telegram and an no associate of mr baskins during the reading of the i telegram legram it could easily be seen that mr tucker felt ver very y indignant indi indignant di gnant he asked for fur the paper again read the telegram and turned to the stenographer and dictated a scathing denunciation of ot the statement in contained much to mr baskina baskins discomfiture and chagrin mr baskin pleaded jg 9 norance of the whole anair affair eaid said that he be was not responsible for the utterances of the tribune that be did nob belong to to that party parly that he be ai a de democrat me crat and aid was in washington as the v of the utah democrats and had nothing to do with the party with which mr goodwi goodwin n was allied this little incident annoyed mr baskin very much and over and over again be stated that ho be didiot did not believe in any newspaper making euch much rec klese sg statements aa as the tel 11 egra agram in just read contained that was not his style of warfare |