The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-01-30


in them than gossip telegraphed to
the Tribune and repeated by it now
as though the repetition made it all
true.
Last February the Wyoming Legisia-
ture attempted to elect a United States
Senator The majority of the Demo-
Gratis favored A. L. New. The Re-
pubhcans were divided on Warren,
Clark, DeForrest and some others.
complimentary votes being given from
day to day to various persons without
a chance of electing either. Warren
was wanted by the Republican ring,
but there were several Republicans
pledged to others and would not vote
for him, and as the Populists were
opposed to him, desperate efforts were
made to debauch three Democrats and
gain their votes for Warren. They
were not successful.
On February Srd Senator John l..
Russell, Republican who had pledged
his vote to Mr.. Clark and who had
regularly voted for him day after day,
except perhaps when casting a com
plimentary," was not in his seat in
the Assembly and was absent three or
four days He had not asked leave
and sensational story was started
that he had been spirited away. OF
course that was telegraphed to the Salt
Lake Tribune and special pains were
taken to connect Bishop c. w. Pen
rose with the alleged abduction be-
cause that would please the Tribune
and a number of it's readers.
But to the confusion of the scandal
mongers the absent member returned
and quietly took his seat. When asked
about his absence he explained it
frankly to his Republican friends, and
secuted the idea that he had been alb
Quoted or induced to leave by any
person or party. The Tribune of Feb
ruary 9th had a dispatch stating;
John L. Russell. the legislative Char
lie Ross was in his seat at the capital
this morning, after an unaccountable
absence of three days. He will only
say that he had been in Colorado on
business"
There was never any evidence of alb
duction, or of any conspiracy. or of
cajolery or anything else'to justify the
newspaper sensations that were made
out of his departure, nor was there any
expense in Securing the country for
him He gave full explanation of
the whole matter to a committee of
the Senate. The result was telegraphed
in part to the Tribune and published in
that paper February II, 1893, but with
its accustomed fairness(?) and accur-
acy(D it finds it convenient now to
leave that out of 'the record of the
case. We here copy the special to the
Tribune which it has omitted to repro-
duce:
cheyenne. Feb. 11.-At the earnest
request of Russell the Senatorial COM
mittee made out it's report imr1 edia tely.
The return is that the evidence is not
sufficient to uphold the charge that he
was a party with intent to lessen the
vote of the joint session, according to
the committee. Russell's explanation
that he was absent on business is en-
| tirely satisfactory. His integrity and
honor are re-establshed and he is ex-
cused on the journal for absence. Pen
rose, New and Beckwith are not men
toned in the report but may receive a
mention in the supplement-
We have given the Tribune's own
account of the result of the investiga-
ton because. meagre as it is. it COM
pletely disposes of the trash INDUCED
in about Russells abduction, and of
course exposes the folly of what was
alleged" about the persons supposed
to be implicated in the removal of a
state Senator"
Now as to the reported arrest of C..
W. Penrose. That was published in
the Tribune on February 8th. On the
same day the Deseret News made a
personal notice of the presence of c..
w. Penrose, who called at the office
of that paper about noon. There was
no such arrest. Nor was any charge
preferred to cause such arrest. The
Tribune's special was self-contradic-
tory. 1t had C. w. Penrose arrested
in the afternoon and before the Senate
Committee at Cheyenne in the evening,
which was impossible, as he was in
this city next morning. But there is
another incongruity connected with
these scandals. The Tribune of Jan.
81, 1893, had special from Washington,
D. c., which read thus:
Since the last caucus Washington
has been inundated with Republican
advocates of Utah's immediate adms-
sion. Cannon and Penrose, Trumbo
and Estee, Frank Cannon and the local
lobby have been daily and nightly at
work.
On February LIST another Washington
special to the Tribune said:
The Church lobby have been working
| like beavers ever since their arrival,
assuring all doubling Thomases that
Utah's admission would certainly mean
two Republican Senators.
The Cheyenne special dispatches to
the Tribune stated that Bishop Pen
rose had been there two weeks, when
the abduction rubbish was manufac-
tured. The reliable specials of that
paper had G. w. Penrose in Washing
ton and Cheyenne at the same time,
and also under arrest at the latter
place when he was in Salt Lake City.
The specials of the Tribune are almost