| Show LOCAL RULE BILLS ministers of the territory put their foot down THEY DESIRE NO STATEHOOD senator platt declares that be he has made no rio expression favoring Favor lne or opposing statehood D C april 22 salt lake tribune special Representative e P erkins of iowa the leader minority of the committee committe eon on territories has received a bigotes protest from alie ministerial association of utah in which the sig signers sera take st strong T ng ground grounds against in either r t the caine faulkner a k ner or the tile teller er b bills ills A letter ac accompanying aln the tile protest says there was no time compan to 0 canvass canvas an the ministers of the christian churches in that territory but the writers feel confident in III asserting that every one of them with possibly one exception would have af sign edthe protest had he the 0 opportunity u 1 benator tor paddock today to day introduced six petitions signed by citizens of salt lake praying that tha if any d disposition 1 tion be made of the property of the I 1 romans ans industrial robertr ch christian rr stian I 1 home ome that it be set aside for use as a soldiers soldier home shome for disabled soldiers and collors bailors bai wol lors SENATOR PLATT ON UTAH he has made no expression on the state I 1 hood bill washington D caphil ril 22 salt lake take tribune special 1 in an interview here senator platt denied most emphatically the statements attributed to him that be he had p read d himself as favoring ane admission s ei 0 n of utah as a state or that he had crit governor thomas for vetoing the worlds fair bill lie ile said no oue one has any right to state that I 1 either favor or oppose the a admission of any territory into th the union it would be inconsistent with my position as chairman of the committee on territories that I 1 should do so and you may deny flat footed any statement which asserts that I 1 have expressed in myself self on this sub subject jector or that of the worlds fair bill |
