The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-23

United States let ii be dealt with &C
cording TO law. We are not the apollo
glsts of that company or any other
The want Of popularity of that com
| pany or any other can never of tsel
be held to be ground for investigat
ing the right of senators to theil
! seats If it be our duty, upon our owl
initiative, and without the slightesi
warrant from any known fact to inves
S1sate whether corporation has con
tT.5uted to or controlled che election
OF senator in this body at any time,
'Wny step at one corporation? Why
not prepare a list of all corporal tons
In the United States. call up the Of
ficers of each and examine into the
question whether any such corpora
tIcns have in any way contributed
TO or controlled the election of a SEN
ator az any time
QUESTION OF PROPERTY.
The committee goes on at length
into the question of the propriety CT
expeiing from the senate press gal
correspondents VINO make false
charges, taking a position against 10th
suggestions.
They say that expulsion from the
gallery would be disp- oportionate 10 the
of1ense as the other galleries of the
senate would be open to the offender
1T might even be-" the committee
adds, mat the nOtoriety acquired by
a correspondent by the occasion of
such expulsion instead of operating as
a punishment would prove a source of
promotion in his profession
Furthermore, they conclude that such
punishment would have no influence
upon the newspaper prOprietors them
selves, and that with tae press asso-
Citations covering the ground it would
be impossible to deprive newspapers
from securing the news. The committee
supplies a list of prosecutions of news
paper writer's by the senate, beginning
with the case of William Duane, of
1Sv0, from which the conclusion is
drawn, that no very heavy penalties
have been imposed for the recreancy of
newspaper Witnesses; as to the impris-
onment of newspaper correspondents,
editors or publishers for making state
ments not warranted by the facts. the
committee consider that nothing but
the Impairment OF the gravest public
interests snould compel resort to such
an extremity
The committee does not accept the
view that the senate will stand con-
V-cted OF the charges il ii does not
officially dispTove them.
HAVE a DOUBT.
Although" the report says. tine
press is a most powerful institution,
we are very confident that this is a
great eXasgeration of its power.
Neither do all newspapers make these
CaarSes nor believe them."
Reference is made in this connection
to the gauntlet of newspaper criticism
that ever man elecsea to the senate
runs before ne reaches that goal and
me conclusion drawn that their sue
cess is sufficient evidence that those
Who succeed are worthy of the conf
1enoe OF the people who send tgaem,
and this presumption" it is added, lis
me requiring evidence TO rebut"
In conclusion the committee recon-
nends that the resolution be indef- |
liteiy postponed, saying: 1T seems TO |
rour committee that the time has come /
vlen the senate should empnatically /
ieck<re by its action that it would not /
)e accessory to attacks upon itself or
is members from irresponsible sources.
80 investigation of any charge affect
ng the integrity of the senate or its
members should at any time be under
AIKEN, unless such charge be definite
nd specific and made by some known
nd responsible person not engaged
in sensational journal
sm.'