The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-11
he WANTS TO KNOW
Powers Can't Understand Why
Mr.. Washington Got Mad.
HE SENDS ANOTHER TELEGRAM
Every Member of the Committee Construed the
Judges First Message as an Insult
That is Why.
HERALD BUREAU, !
Cor. 18th and q Streets, n. w. :

WASHINGTON, d. c., March 10. /
Judge Powers wants to know He can't
understand why Mr. Washington, the
chairman of the House committee on ter
ritorles, should have taken offense at his
telegram day before yesterday, wherein
he asserts, by implication, that Mr.. Wash
ington had garbled his speech before the
House committee. When Mr.. Washington
came to the capitol this morning he was
haaded a telegram from Judge Powers,
which read as follows:
SALT LAKE Utah, March 9, 1892.
To Hon. ]. E. Washington, Chairman House
Committee on Territories, Washington:
Icaunot understand your Indignation at my
inquiry, directing attention to the emascula-
ton of my argument.
(Signed) O. W. POWERS.
Mr.. Washington was justly indig-
nant at the tone of Mr.. Powers first dis
patch. Both he and every other member
of the committee who read the dispatch
interpreted it TO mean that in the opinion
of Judge Powers, the chairman of the COM
mittee had revised Pow ers's argument,
and stricken out certain parts which Mr..
Powers thought vital in the proper pre-
sentation of his objections to the Game
bill. In fact neither the chairman nor any
member of the committee had ever seen
MIR. Powers manuscript or argument I'M
til after it was printed. The chairman on
investigation became satisfied that while
Judge Powers in his remarks as taken
down by the stenographer alluded to the
fact that he would read extracts from
speech which be had made on a previous
date in Utah, and stated that he would af-
forwards file that speech. with the steno-
grapher, failed to file the pamphlet
''No record of it," said Mr.. Washington,
lean be found here and when gentleman
reads extracts from printed documents in an
argument before committee, it is the Gus
tom Of the stenographer to have a note of
the fact that extracts were read and not
taken down but to receive the pamphlet af-
| forwards, and cut from it such parts as are
desired by the speaker to go in the re-
marks. 1t was MIR Powers duty to re-
main here to receive his manuscript from
the stenographer, revise his remarks and
punctuation and insert any such matter as
he chose to extract from his speech, which
did not reflect personally upon any one who
would have no opportunity to reply before
the committee feel satisfied that made
this statement to Judge Powers,
as I did to every gentlemen who
addressed the committee on Utah
matters, Oklohoma matters, and
matters affecting every other territory. Sc
far as 1 am aware, every speaker from
Utah took his own manuscript apd person
ally revised it and corrected the same, then
handed it to the clerk to be printed. l die
not look over any remarks made by any
speaker and did rot handle in any way the
manuscript reports of the same. l regret
if the symmetry of Judge Powers argu.
ments was in any way marred, but an
absolutely blameless in the matter"
Mr.. Washington says that under the cir
cumstances he does not think it necessary
to carry on any further correspondence
with Mr.. Powers over the wires, and this
is the last the judge will hear from him.