Show AT HOME arom washington I 1 what C C richards has to 1 say of statehood I 1 I 1 HE HAS NO APOLOGY GY TO OFFER I 1 the Tri tribune burre reporter he says had to lie for his paper hit his remarks garbled and misquoted hon 0 0 richards returned from washington sunday morning having done all be he could for the passage of be the borne home rule bill while there lie was seen yesterday by a reporter of TUB tits STANDARD relative to the reports received b here ere as to charges made against court officials governor utah commission m etc before the house committee on ter stories nt rit ories he a stated that he be waa was unfamiliar with the re reports ts received here and th therefore was unable able to state whether they w were ere true or not however to throw light on what did appear he stated that in bis his presence the tribunes washington correspond corre correspondent spon spoke to ken tacky smith at the conclusion of bis his speech before the committee and complimented him on the fair statement be he bad made roade he farther bald said that be wished be could reproduce what bad had been bald said for the tribune but that was not the kind of report hia his paper wanted if 11 be he sent itebe report would not be published therefore I 1 aca am going to lie about it and lie like the d 11 or words to that effect mr richards bays says that he bad had evidently done so from what be he could learn AB As to the wholesale cla charges arges against court officials be he considered it folly to attempt any explanation while unacquainted anted with the be statements re erred to he knew nothing of the stenographic reports having ha vine been doctored rio so far as bis his own speech was concerned be bad no apology to oner offer and never would have any what about the associated press to the effect that F S richards offered an apology or withdrew some of the remarks made by you the day previous mr richards answered the ques question by explaining the matter in bis his speech he had attacked the system inaugurated by the utah commission com the question as to whether certain statements applied to paddock and ramsey was evaded twice by mr richards not because he bad had not stated the truth he I 1 said but because be he did not wish to i make his statements personal yet 1 when forced by the third question to an ewer as to whether be he meant that these statements were true as to senator paddock and ramsey he affirmed it citing the murphy vs ramsey case he had then been saying that when the utah commission commie sion began its work it began to take from frair i the people their sacred rights right a the washington boet published my statements be he said made twenty five minutes lail later er and beneath this statement added the questions from this mis mique quo tation certain inferences were made altogether contrary to the statements in my speech F B S richards was in the middle of his speech when the saturday adjournment came and on monday morn ing in resuming be he said that by some inadvertency it bad had been made to appear I 1 that senator ramsey had been anduly attacked that Tha io all there is of this question it was never intended for a p personal assault on any one and their names would never have been brought in bad had it not been insisted on I 1 only showed the abuses existing under this system we did not care to have present incumbents ousted onsted and others put in that would not relieve us we wanted the system itself abolished and a better one instituted what is your position on statehood 1 I favor it you misquoted mip quoted me a few days ago when you said sala I 1 bad had gone to washington to fight statehood could we have secured statehood we would have done so 80 but feeling that though we were fully prepared for statehood in every way they would not be ready to grant us statehood we asked for the passage of the home rula rule bill so aa as to get some relief from a bad system I 1 cited oar our resource population aaion our wealth our children of school age and the amount expended per capita presented all possible statistics to prove that we were fitted for statehood and I 1 would gladly have accepted it but in the event that statehood could not be granted I 1 fitted ked for the passage of the home rule bill at the same time I 1 did no not want the death of the statehood bill to militate against the h hame me role rule measure I 1 beard mr smiths speech breech and there was much truth in it what in your estimation was the reason for bending sending out such reports none N one that I 1 can see except what I 1 tayon told you in the bogi beginning fining it waa was certainly taw y for political effect |