The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-01
representative REDD'S
STARTLING STATEMENT
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to the Tribune Office. The statement is
absolutely false. had no connection
with this matter whatever The first
knowledge l had of it was while in my
Office was ;elephoned from my head
quarters to the effect that a charge
was being made. had no suspicion OF
it had called at the Knutsford no
tel the evening previous with some gem
tlemen. remaining there twenty or
thirty miftutes: did not go outside of
the office; had no talk with anyone
connected with this affair, nor upon
any subject connected with it at all.
have avoided taking any part what
ever; have been a candidate for Unit
ed States senator; / did not think it
would be seeIniy, did not think il would
be professional. This morning in the
embalmed organ of the Democratic
party ] find thisi Judge Powers was
one of the busiest men on the outside
OF the committeeman yesterday after
noon; he spent long hour ia consulta-
tion with c. c. Dey, who is assisting
MI. Evans in the prosecution of the
case. IF any new bombs are exploded
it is believed that the judge will not
be far off when the crash comes In
fact il was intimated quite strongly
that the Judge had q fuil-fiedged set of
charges which was all prepared to
spring on the public at the first oppor-
tunity and this will come today. prob
y
day 10 file brief with Judge Hiles in
the case of Morehouse against Bamber-
ger; ] walked into the senate chamber
and asked the observation-disclosures to call
out MIR. Dey; / called Mr.. Dey's atten-.
ton TO the fact that Mr.. Lapish. a
friend of mine, might be summoned be-
fore the committee; that he had asked
me IL ne was examined that / should
protect his rights; that / had told him
that as a friend | would do it. While
talking. Mr.. Lapish came down the hall
with the sergeant-at-arnl was escort
ed into the senate chamber. took his
seat, and l inquired whether he thought
he would need me, and he said he
thought not. and L told him probably
there would be no occasion for me to
appear for him, but that l would re-
main in the building; if he wanted me
he could send for ME. l went into the
supreme court clerks office: my con-
versation with MIR. Dey did not exceed
i've minutes; l have no charges to
make, no bombs to explode. In no way
have been connected with this matter,
and this attempt to drag me into this
thing is manifestly for the purpose of
injuring me, and for no other cause.
That is all 1 want to say.
EVANS WANTED VINDICATION.
Mr. Evans--I would like to ask a
question. During the entire progress
of this investigation, or at any time
since Mr.. Law made the charges before
the joint assembly, have | ever met
with you on any occasion whatever?
have never met you.
Questions by Mr.. Evans:
Have l ever seen you? I have not
seen you.
You remember once my calling you
UP over the telephone ana asking you
If you had any suggestions to make,
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that the matter was entirely in my
hands? L remember that l gave that
answer TO you.
And is il a matter of fact that that
is the only thing that ever occurred be-
tween US since the investigation has
been in progress? That is all that has
occurred between us.
Mr.. Dichson-Judge Powers does not
offer himself here as a witness as TO
anything concerning the matter under
investigation?
Mr.. Evans--He simply is a senatorial
candidate and these charges have been
made against him and he desires to
make an explanation.
Mr.. Stewart-Inasmuch as made the
motion. / desire to say this. that
made this motion, not With az under
standing that this is part of the Law
case, bat the judge asked that he be
permitted to make an explanation, and
i ash0G lnal tiidt pe zone before We
proceed this morning.
Mr.. Dickson-No objection anywhere
to the statement.
Q. T. Whitney, being recalled in be-
kaf OF the complainant. testified as
follows:
Examined by Mr.. Evans:
I would like to ask you. bishop. If it
is not q fact that you were employed
by George Q. Cannon & Sons Publish
ing company to write the fourth vol
ume of the History of Utah? Yes. sir.
AND your COMPENSATION was agreed
upon, was it not? Yes, sir.
And you were to receive it from that
company? Yes sir.
We're you in any manner authorized
to receive any money from any per-
son outside of your employers? ! con-
sideged myself free to do SO after the
expiration OF that contract. which /
had failed to fulfil owing to the lack
of time. l found myself dn hole. in
other words. with a great many biOg-
raphies on hand and no pay FOR it.
The question / asked you Vas wheth- |
CT you were authorized by that COM
pany tc make any charges outside of
the compensation which they had |
agreed to pay you Tor writing that /
history? / was not authorized by them |
I happen to be a member of the His !
tory company as we'll as George @. |
Cannon & Sons company.
Did you communicate to them the !
fact that you had received any money !
whatever outside Of the condensation |
which they paid you? They were !
aware of It: yes, sir
Whom did you inform? Mr.. Hugh |
Cannon, the manager of the company, |
paid me the hundred dollars for Sem /
ator Frank j. Cannon.
/ understood you To say yesterday |
that Frank Cannon paid you that |
Well. he did pay it, but through his |
brother.
That is what you mean? Yes, sir; |
that is what l mean.
As a matter of fact didn't the Can |
non company pay you that hundred |
dollars2 No sir.
Didn't the manager OF the company? |
No, sir. ] didn't so consider that they |
were paying it.
And wasn't it a fact that they ar
ranged with you to write the history,
and not Frank Cannon? The biog /
raphy?
The biography. yes. No, sir; that is
That is not true? Frank Cannon ar
ranged with me to write it himself.
And isn't IL also true thai they paid !
you the money for writing Rawlins'
biography? No sir.
WHY HE VOTES FOR McUNE.
Cross-examination by MIR. Dickson:
Some remark was made. or rather. |
question put by Mr.. Evans yesterday |
to one of the witnesses as TO whether !
or not you and certain other members /
of the committee had not continued TO !
vote for Mr.. McCune pending this IN /
Yestigation? Yes, sir.
And you said you had, you and some
others on the committee; do you desire
20 make any explanation of why you |
so yoted2 Yes. sir.