The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-13

true that 81 years ago he had been
! indicted in Syracuse. y. Y. 1t was true
that he went to California to create a
new home. But it was not true that he
went there under new name. In a
voice choked with emotion, MT-5ohn-
son said that by the blessing Of God
/ and the help Of his wife he had been
able TO pay back every dollar he owed
in the city of Syracuse.
Here a round Of applause came from
I the members. No man, continued Mr..
! Johnson, had suffered pecuniary loss
at his expense. He had paid back all
! he owed and had visited Syracuse
number of times since his Indictment.
He had made a clean breast of his
early life to the convention at Sacra-
mento that nominated him for the leg
islature, and he had been nominated
by a thTee-fourths vote and elected.
Daring mis- congressional campaigns ne
had told the people that he was the
same Cove Johnson who had been in
dicted, and he had been nominated
and re-elected.- He did not try to con-
! ceal his youthful fault. I did wrong,
he said. i know it. but ] have made
up for it as well as any man could.N
CHere Mr.. Johnson's voice broke). The
people Of the city and county of Sac
ramento where he lived knew his
whole life, and yet, despite the fact
that Brvan had received 800 majority
in Sacramento county, he d ReDub-
lican, carried every district in that
county. (Applause.) He said that
Irish informers and Russian police
spies would have scorned to do what
the gentleman from California (Mr
Maguire) had done in thus attacking
him in a speech not delivered but in
serted in the official record.
MAGUIRES TURN.
Mr. johnson sat down amid applause
and then Mr.. Mcguire arose. He said
he was not afraid 10 speak out He
referred to MI Johnson's attack on
Mr.. Heart as the most bitter and ma
licious assault he had ever heard de-
livered against an absent man, who
had no means of answering on the
floor.
Mr.. Mcguire then told of the in
eftectual attempts to answer Mr.. john
son, and denounced as false the
charges made by him.
After some discussion as to a proper
disposition Of the matter. a motion by
Mr.. Poole (Rep. n. Y.,) was adopted
to eXpunge from the Record certain
portions of the speech supposed to
have been delivered by Mr.. Mcguire
and printed in the Congressional Rec
ord this morning, rejecting on Mr..
Johnson.
Mr. Towne ISL. Minn.) then offered a
resolution striking from the record a
portion of the remarks of Mr.. Johnson
last week, in which the latter reflected
severely on the character of Mr..
Hearst. In reply to a request reading
of the paragraph to be eXpunged. the
speaker suggested that this would be
simply inserting in the record in an
other place what was being stricken
out. and the request was withdrawn.
Mr.. Townes motion to strike out was
lost-ayes, 50; nays, "a.
A resolution providing for the pay
ment of the expense of the last illness
and funeral of ex-Speaker Crisp,
amounting to S1,4S0, was passed.
BRIDGE BILLS.
These bridge bills were passed:
Providing for bridges over the Cum
berlard river Kentucky, and the Ten
nessee river. Kentucky, to be con-
structed by the Tennessee & Kentucky
Railroad company; over the Red River
of the North. two bridges TO be"con-
structed by the Duluth & North Da-
kota Railroad company in North Da- /
kota and Minnesota; over the Monon-
gahela river, Pa. at MiffIin township /
by the Union railroad; over the Red
river at Alexandria, La. by the Kan
sas City, Watkins & Gulf Railroad
company.
The senate bill constituting the acts
OF congress IN relation TO DeStON ing lie I
saving medals was also passed.
During the discussion of a bill pro-
viding a penalty for the use of con
gressional mail franks without author |
ity, Mr. Loud (Rep CALI explained |
that during the late campaign his I
frank had been used by persons who I
had no such authority. Some opposi- /
tion developed to the measure. MIR. /
Boutelle (Rep. Me.) for instance, /
making the point that if member of /
congress or his clerk were TO inad- ]
verteutly nut unfrankable matter in /
a frauked envelope. he would be liable 1
to fine or Imprisonment He thought |
it better that the government should /
lose > cents once in awhile than that |
d quorum Of the house should be ar /
rested.
a motion to order the previous ques-
ton was voted down. and after a long
over a point of order the
house at y. N. adjourned until to-
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