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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-18
Pennsylvania Legislative Commit
tee Makes Its Report.
CRIMINAL PROSECUTION
CONDITIONS BROUGHT ABOUT
BY THE QUAY FIGHT.
Some of the Implicated Parties Were
Only Censured, While Others Were
Accused Directly of the Crime
How the Committee Stood On the
Report to the House.

Harrisburg. April 17.-Majority and
minority reports were presented to the
house this evening from the committee
which has for several weeks past been in
vestigating the charges of attempted
bribery in connection with the ballotfng
for Cnited States senator, and the con-
Slderauon in the house OF the McCarroH
The latter bill, which was eventually
deteated, was said to have bsen intro
duced 10 aid Senator Quay in his then APP
hroachag trial in the Philadelphia courts
Inc majority report recites at consider
able length the testimony taken by the
committee and says the evidence disclosed
that undue means were taken by many
persons to corruptly solicit members of
the house. both for the purpose of in
huencinS their official action in reference
TO the McCarroH jury bill and in reference
10 their official action as to the election
OF United States senator.
This corrupt solicitation, the report saws
consisted of offers of money, position,
advantage and political preferment. The
report charges that in furtherance of an
unlawful conspiracy to carry out the
ScHelne, rooms were maintained at the
Lochfal hotel in Harrisburg for the pur-
pose of having members of the house
brought there that they might be ap-
preached in reference TO the subject mat
terS referred.
Those who maintained those rooms and
corruptly approached certain members
the report continues, were John j. Coyle
Charles i. p. Spatz, Thomas 3. Moyles
Michael J. Costello and Martin Lawler.
other persons are named as having been
engaged in efforts to corruptly solicit
members.
Some of these are passed over as merely
deserving censure, but in the concluding
paragraph of the report, nine persons are
named against whom the committee
recommends that legal action be brought.
This paragraph is as follows:
In conclusion your committee respect
ion sufficient evidence against Charles
Spatz. John r. Byrne, Parker Titus,
Frank 3. Jones, Monroe II. Kulp, Thomas
Is. Moyles. Robert Evans. John J. Coyle
and Nj. J. Costello, for this house to direct
that criminal proceedings be brought
against them in the courts of quarter
sessions of Dauphin county. and it is
Immediately be commenced and vigorous
y prosecuted by the authority of this
house"
Spatz is at present a member of the
house from Berks county and is a Demo-
crat. Kulp was member of the fifty
fourth and fifty-fifth house and is Re-
publican. Coyle Costello. Byrne and
Some are Democrats and some Republic
cans.
The majority report is signed by five Of
the nine members of the committee.
The report reaches substantially the
same conclusions as the majority re-
port. It however. advises censure of
some persons named and recommends:
Messrs. Coyle, Costello, Spatz, Evans,
Moyles kulp. Byrne. Titus and Jones be
referred to the proper tribunal for de-
termination"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-18
WILL DESERT QUAY.
Some of His Supporters Say They
Will Leave Him.

Harrisburg, Pa, April ia conference
of Republican senators and members vot-
ing for Senator Quay was held in the
supreme court chamber tonight to consid
er the letter of Senator Flynn. chairman
of the anti-Quay Republican organization,
suggesting a committee of conference be
named on the part of those voting for Mr..
Quay 10 confer with a like committee on
the 2art Of those opposing him, with a
view to adjusting factional differences
and the election of a senator.
There was a large attendance of leGis-
lators and Republican politicians from
over the state. Senator Grady read a let
Philadelphia today. in which Mr. Quay
deprecated any change in position by his
followers i'll the Legislature, pending pro-
ceedings i'll philadelphia" he said, amy
one who would change position might as
we'll como here and go on the witness
stand against me-" Continuing, he said:
To temDorize with those persons who
for three months have prevented the cleo
ton OF Il senator from Pennsylvania
would eXtricate them from the abyss into
which they have plunged. Instead of
making their treason to their party odiouS
their treason would be made respecta-
bic
Speeches were made by United States
Senator PonrOSe and others, saying that
Mr.. Quay was the nominee of the regular
Republican caucus. and was entitled to
the support of every Republican Sena-
tbi Nltbtt Npllltilbtu llldl inc 1NSpublltdHS
should get together and elect Il senator
before adjournment of the legislature on
Thursday.
Representative Hosack of Pittsburg an
nounced that he would not hereafter vote
for Quay. The meeting declined to con-
fer with the anti-Quay members and
adopted n resolution declaring that Mr..
Qua- was the unanimous choice of the
Republican caucus. composed of more
than two-thirds of all the Republicans of
the assembly, and it is the duty of all
Republican members of the joint commit
tee 10 sustain the organization by sup
porting the caucus nominee, and calling
upon those now opposing the regular can
didate 10 lay aside factional feeling and
unite in the election of d Republican to
the United States senate.
After the conference, Senator MCGEE.
who has steadfastly refused to vote for
Quay, announced that he would not vote
for the ex-senator tomorrow and that
other members from Allegheny county
had also cast their last vote for Mr.. Quay
He predicted that Mr.. Quay would lose
twenty supporters tomorrow and said the
prospects would be bright for the election
a
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-18
HIS FACE FILLED WITH ROCK
SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO WORK
MEN IN PROVO CANYON.
Peter McGouren May Die and Arthur
Bird Badly Hurt As a Result of
a Blast.
Especial to The Herald.l

Provo, April 17.-This afternoon an acci-
dent occurred on the Rio Grande Western
grade in Provo canyon whereby one man
is seriously injured and another hurt.
They are Peter McGouren and Arthur
Bird.
Near the hanging rock, a short distance
above the power dam, a gang of railroad
men were building an abutment for
bridge, while below this. in u cut, a gang
OF Deal Bros. men were at work on the
grade. The bridgemen put in a heavy
charge of giant powder and then, before
giving the men below warning, touched 1t
off. cloud of big rocks and dirt fell
among the fleeing men on the grade. Nc
Gouren was struck by a boulder weighing
about four pounds, which felled him to
the ground, while another struck the
the animal and caused him to run away,
throwing Bird, the driver, under the car.
This evening DR.. Allen attended to the
wounded men, and stated that McGour-
ems skull was fractured his nose mash
ed and his upper lip cut in two. His case
Is very serious, and the doctor has small
hopes for his recovery. All afternoon and
tonight he was delirious, and while the
doctor was removing particles of rock
from his head and face, twenty in all. he
imagined it was q barber pulling hair
from his eyebrows.
The injuries of Bir dare not so serious.
The ore car ran over him, bruising his
right leg above the knee. He also sus-
tanned a. scalp wound on the right side of
the head three inches long. Both men
are from Springville.
The 14-year-old son of Luke Deal was
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-18
THE PRESIDE RIOT.
Officers Found the Men Who Gave
King a Beating

San Francisco, April 17.-There were
no new developments today in the
trouble which occurred at the Presidio
reservation last night. The timely ar
rival of Lieutenant Harris, with a
squad of soldiers and a number of
policemen doubtless prevented more
serious disturbance, possibly murder
The trouble, so far as can be ascer-
tanned, started in the saloon OF Adolph
Rehfeld, when several soldiers who
gathered there commenced a discussion
of the Cuban campaign. One of the
soldiers, Charles l.. King, claimed to
have been in the Cuban campaign and
on being questioned, became badly
mixed up in his story and one of the
fnterrogators called him a liar and
was punched for his remark This
man who represented himself as being
a returned soldier from Cuba received
a terrible drubbing.
Later in the day the investigating
officers discovered the culprits who so
numerically beat King. They are
known as Clark. Shorty and Miller So
far all efforts to discover the perpe-
traitors of the inCendiarism have been
unavailing.
Rehfeld, the saloonman feels certain
that he can identify the ringleaders.
but is afraid to do so, for fear that the
soldiers Will do him some bodily in
jury. He has been assured of protec-
ton and. is now looked upon to make
some startling disclosures.
The Saloonman, the barber and the
tailor, whose shops were destroyed by
the fire will take immediate action to
get compensation for their losses.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-18
GET GOOD WILL OF NATIVES
How Americans May Succeed In the
Philippines.

London. April 1.-THE Daily Chron-
1cle publishes this morning an inter-
view with Lieutenant General Sir An
drew Clarke, agent general for Vic
tor1a and Tasmania. and former gov
ernor and commander-in-chief of the
Straits Settlements, regarding Amer
lean policy in the Philippines
Sir Andrew urges a thorough under
standing of the native character and a
government. so far as possible, by ma
tive institutions. The Americans. in
his opinion, should first discover Aguin-
aldo's sources of supply and then turn
these into agencies of trade for the set
tlement of the country. They should
show the natives that this would be a
better outlet for capital and they
would thus be depriving the enemy of
the sinews of war.
After that. he continues. they~shou1d
buy out the religious orders, with the
sanction of the pope. and attach the
secular clergy in some way to the ad
ministration, securing their powerful
influence.
Underlying every government SAYS
Sir Andrew, must be the goodwill Of
the natives; then, with carefully Sc
lected administrators, the United States
would have nothing to fear from the
Filipinos."
The interview was supplemented by 2.
report based upon the experience of
British administrators in the Straits
Settlement.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-18
ELECTION RIOTS IN SPAIN.
Twenty-six People Wounded In an
Affair at Bilbao.

Madrid. April 17.-During the election
riots at Bilbao, twenty-six persons were
wounded. Popular feeling runs high in
Valencia and the surrounding districts.
There was a serious affair in the town
of PortOs, province of Tarragona,
where, the official candidate being beat
en-, the municipal officials fired guns at
the crowd, injuring a number of per-
sons.
The Socialists are preparing to make
a demonstration at Bilbao as a protest
against a. defeat of their candidate
which they allege was due to the
"scandalous conduct of police provoca-
teurs in instigating disorder"
The newspapers have announced that
Don Jaime. son of Don Carlos, the
Spanish pretender, is on his way to the
Pyrenes.
The latest indications as to the result
of the elections are that the ministers
will have a large majority. Senior Mo-
ret, who was minister to the colonies
in the Sagasta cabinet, has been elected
at SardgOOSd.
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Several Elders Are Driven Out of
Frederick, Nd.
MISS TAR AND FEATHERS
FREE FIGHT IN WHICH NUMER-
Gus WOMEN JOINED.
Attempted to Establish Congrega-
ton In the Town and Some of
the Men Became Excited-Police
Rescued the Elders and Got Them
Aboard a Train.
Especial to The Herald.)

Washington, D. c., April ia spe-
cial to the Post says:
Several Mormon elders arrived in
Frederick. Md, few days ago, and
attempted to establish a congregation
there by a house-to-house canvass.
praying and preaching to the women
and children. Enraged husbands ad-
vised the elders to leave town. One
young woman, the wife of a prominent
merchant, started to interceue IN bahalf
of the Mormon elders, and her husband
promptly knocked an elder down. This
was followed by free fight, in which
numerous women Joined. The police
rescued the Mormons, and, hurrying
them through a back street, got them
on a train before an excited mob, armed
with tar and feathers, appeared at the
depot.
Previous to the riot the Mormons had
called on the mayor and announced
their intention of staying in Frederick
all summer, seeking converts. They
were refused the use of several build
ings. and were then advised 10 leave the
city before trouble ensued. The Nor
mons attempted to induce a number of
young women to go TO Utah with
them -
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raigned in the United States court on
charges of forgery.

raigned in the United States court on
charges of forgery.
Judge Dickson, who appeared for the
defense, announced that he would waive
a formal reading of the Indictment. He
entered a general demurrer to the first
count, which was making false entries
in a report to the comptroller of the
currency. On the second count, making
false entries in the books of the Utah
National bank, Judge Dickson said Mr..
Stout desired to enter d plea of not
guilty
In presenting his demurrer on the
first count, Judge Dickson said it COW
cred five separate and distinct offenses,
any one of which would be sufficient to
send Stout, if proven guilty, to the
penitentiary. The first offenSe charged
was a false entry as to the amount due
on demand paper. The second was as
to the amount due from ]. NJ. Stout to
the bank. The third covered an alleged
false entry as to the defendants over
draft. The fourth was in loans and dis
counts, and the fifth in resources.
Judge Dickson cited federal statute
covering the case, and quoted law to
SHOW that the prosecution must confine
itself to one charge in each count. He
referred to d case or two that had
UGs1u utClueu luIS
United States Attorney .Whittemore
replied briefly to Judge Dickson. He
said that the count demurred to was
all one act, as the, proof would snow
There were merely five different par
ticulars. THE making of the first false
entry by Mr.. Stout" he declared, ne
cessitated other false entries to balance
the report"
Judge Marshall indicated that he
would overrule the demurrer. but would
require the prosecution to elect as to
which of the five specifications, in the
first count would be proceeded upon. He
took the question under advisement,
however. The trial of the case is set
for May 9.
Mr. Stout was looking in first-rate
fettle yesterday morning. He chatted
smilingly with Judge Dickson before his
case was reached, and walked briskly
out of the court room aS soon as the
attorneys had finished arguing the de-
murrer. He expressed himself as being
perfectly confident of an ultimate ac-
quittal.
NO. have nothing more to say about
the case" he went on, except that it
is piece of malicious prosecution for
the purpose of breaking down my evil
dence against A. B. Jones. There isn't
a particle of truth in the charges, and
L have plenty of evidence to kick the
whole thing out of court"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-18
FIGHT INSURANCE BILL.
Hornets Nest Stirred Up In the
Texas Legislature.

Austin, Tex, April 17.-Dozens of fire
insurance men in the legislative lobby
today and the receipt of thousands Of
telegrams from every section of the
state by members of the insurance COM
panies, show that the Introduction of
the Arkansas insurance bill in the Texas
legislature has stirred up hornets
nest. The senators have announced
that they intend to try to take action
on the bill tomorrow, and as a result
an enormous number of kilograms have
beeen pouring in on them today from
every section of the state from business
firms. asking that the bill be not passed.
The consideration of the bill by the
legislature will be attended by the larg
est lobby ever assembled here on any
legislative measure
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-18
THE HERALD BULLETIN.

PAGE ONE
Banker Stout Arraigned.
Says the Beef Was Good.
Charge of Bribery Is Made.
Fever the Filipino's Ally.
Mormon Elders Are Assailed.
New York Police Share In Rob-
berries.
PAGE TWO.
Mahomnedans to Wage War.
Baseball Games Yesterday.
Crimes and Casualties of the Day.
PAGE THREE.
Model Railway Town.
Germans Fight American Meat.
PAGE FOUR.
PAGE FIVE.
State News.
William Groesbeck a Bankrupt.
Salt Palace Site.
PAGE SIX.
Mining Stock Market.
Peace at Daly-West.
Some Comfort For Quay.
PAGE SEVEN.
Financial and Commercial.
PAGE EIGHT.
Made Lively Bout.
Ex-Governor Cleveland's Views.
Bright Future For Utah Sugar In
dustry.
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Will Take a Trip to Alaska.

Wapekoneta, O., April IA party OF
United States senators, including Senators
Gray of Delaware, Bacon of Georgia, Gal
linger of New Hampshire, Hansbrough of
North Dakota, Clark of Wyoming. Held
feldt of Iowa, Turner of Washington and
Hon. p. 3. German congressman from
the Fourth Ohio district. of St. Mary's.
will make an extended Alaskan trip this
summer. TO the klondike regions. They
viii leave Seattle about June !: go by
water 10 Skaguay; from there to Lake
Bennett and Dawson City. where they
will be taken charge of by the North Am
eIican Transportation & Trading COM
pany, on whose boats they will go down
The Yukon to ST. Michael's and thece by
ocean back to Seattle. Their journey viii
be solely Tor pleasure. and viii occupy
ninety days and cover some 600 miles.
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LITIGATION OVER WALL.
Judge Hiles Renders An Important
Decision
Especial to che Herald.

Especial to 1he Herald)
Ogden, April 17.-Judge Hiles this
evening occupied the bench in the Sec
ond district court long enough to rem
der his decision in the case of the
WOOdmansee estate VS.. II. l.. White.
The case involved the respective rights
of parties using a common wall in
cases where their buildings join. The
property in question was on Washing
ton avenue north of Twenty fourth
street. When White came into pos
session of his property he got with the
deed a guaranty of the former owner
of the right to use a wall in common
with the Woodmansee property. Re-
Gently, White began the erection of a
new building and endeavOred to make
use ot this common wall for his new
building also. An Injunction was
secured by the attorney for the Wood
mansee estate, and Whites attorney
entered a demurrer. The hearing came
up on this matter and Judge Hiles
overruled the same. This decision is
admitted by most attorneys to settle
the case in the estates favor, and de-
cides an important question of law.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-18
PRAIRIE FIRES ARE RAGING.
Two Men Are Burned to Death In
Nebraska

Omaha, April IA Bee special special
from Broken Sow. Custer county, says:
A fierce fire, which started in the sand
hills. is raging northwest and west of
town. consuming everything in its path.
Tom Morrissey of Eureka Valley was
caught while trying to remove his horses
from the stable and consumed with the
stock. John Koch started to return to his
house from some haystacks which he had
been trying to save, and was burned to
A dispatch from Ainsworth, Brown
county. says the country is lit UP with
huge prairie fires and thousands of dol
lars worth of property is being destroyed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-18
Rampolla the Real Pope.

London, April 1S-The Rome CORES
pondent of the Daily Telegraph sends the
subject of an interview he had with the
prelate who assisted yesterday in the eel
bration of the twenty-first anniversary of
the coronation of the pope at st. Peters
cathedral. The prelate in question said
that Cardinal Rampolla, the papal secre-
tary of state, is the real pope, and that
his object is to elect himself or one of
his nominees to succeed Leo. ITO obtain
this declared the ecclesiastic 'it is
necessary that the pope should create new
cardinals, as the sacred college is now so
grouped as TO leave Rampolla no chance
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-18
Large Order For Rifles.

New York, April 17.-An order for
$4,000 military rifles of light power
has been placed by the Mexican gov
ernment in this city. This order is the
largest one in this country by foreign
power in the last twenty-five years.
Among ordnance men it is attributed
directly to the results of the Spanish
American war. The arms called for by
Mexico will be of single shot, small
calibre type, capable of long range
They are intended for the use of the
infantrY
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-18

The natural salts We're more important,
but these were also secured in vege-
tables.
Colonel j. F. Weston was also re-
called. He said that prior to the be-
ginning of the war he had recommend
ed the purchase of canned roast beef
for the army but that he contemplated
that vegetables and condiments would
be used with the beef. He had thought
it might be well to put a potato and
an onion in each can
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-18
Senator Heitfeld Better.
(SueciaI to The HeraIdO

NDFCN1ttI 10 7 IIV IIVI ttIVl'I
Washington, April Ex-senator Henry
Heitfeld of Idaho who has been con-
fined to his house by illness, is out
again attending to business in the de-
partments. He will not leave for home
before June. Ex-Representative James
Gum of the same state. is also still in
the city attending to some important
business matters
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Discharged without Honor.
fSpecial to The Herald.)

Washington, April 17.-Private Rich
ard A. Wood, now at Boise Barracks,
Ida, has been assigned to duty as an
acting hospital steward. Private Leads
H. Taylor, company H, United States
Twenty-fourth infantry, now in the
hands of the civil authorities serving
sentence of imprisonment, is ordered
discharged without honor from the SER
vice by the commanding officer at Fort
DouglaS
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-18
RETURN OF THE SOLDIERS.

What Governors of Different States
Think of Matter.
Tacoma. Wash. April IA special
to the Ledger from Olympia, Wash,
says:
Governor Rogers is in receipt of Il
good many letters from relatives Of
soldiers in the First Washington, ask
ing him to emulate Governor Lee of
South Dakota in demanding the re-
turn of the volunteers. To a father
who seemed particularly insistent ne
wrote:
Z" Please stop and think for a mo-
ment What influence" do you sup