The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-10

Cannon, and Senator Alder to George
Q. Cannon
There were no other changes or
speeches and the ballot ended with Mr..
McCune within four votes of victory.
The vote was: a. W. McCune, 2S;
! George @. Cannon, IA; William H. King,
u; Frank J. Cannon, Z, George Suth-
erland, 2.
The crowd had greeted the changes
of Bennion, Forman and Redd with en-
thusEastic cheers on the 150th' ballot, but
not until Senator Whitney arose on the
next ballot and paid a tribute TO Mr..
McCune did the audience get well
worked up. Bishop Whitney's speech
was punctuated with applause and
cheers, and when he concluded by
again casting his ballot for McCune, the
crowd went wild.
BISHOP WHITNEY'S ADDRESS.
This is what he said:
II feel impelled this morning to break
the silence which, as a member of the
Investigating committee, l have main
tanned since the rendition of the re-
ports. 1 have no fault to find with the
disposition of those reports, L am per-
fectly willing to accede to the will of
the majority who decided that discus
sion thereupon should be indefinitely
who desired this step to be taken,
stated that they intended it as no re-
Election upon the committee. They in
sisted upon it merely as a measure of
peace / am a man of peace, as much
so as any man of this assembly. l alb
hor mud-finging, SANDER, crimina ton
and recrimination, and / am not pre-
pared TO say but what that was the
wisest step that could have been taken,
and a slight upon the committee. New
ertheless, in the interests of peace, 1
bow to the decision of the majority 1t
was unfortunate that the functions of
that committee We're not more fully un-
derStOod by the committee and by this
assembly. 1t seems that there is a
great difference of opinion upon this
subject. l suppose when the resolution
was passed comforting upon US the
power to subpoena witnesses and to eX-
anime and swear them, and to do all
things necessary to be done to carry out
the intent of this investigation, that
we had some powers conferred upon us
other than those of mere messenger
boys sent after the evidence to bring it
into this assembly but we are told here
by one faction that our duties We're
purely ministeriai; that we used judi
cial functions which we should not
nave uSeQ, I0aI we Went TOO Tar, on
the other hand, it is claimed that we
did not go far enough; that we should
have exonerated Mr.. McCune in SD
many words, and recommended the ex-
pulsion of Mr.. Law. Do you wonder
when you find this divergence of views
upon the. subject, that the committee
themselves We're divided regarding the
functions which had been placed upon
them? Therefore, they took the mid
die ground that they We're not mere
messenger boys sent after the evidence
to bring It before this assembly, nor
did it devolve upon them to sit and
render a final verdict in this matter
They held that they had no jurisdic-
ticn over Mr.. Law: they could only rec
ommend that which affected him while
a member of this joint assembly. On
the other hand, we felt it merely to be
our duty to report our findings and let
this assembly deal finally with the
question as to the guilt or in
nocence of the accused. We felt
that was the proper course to pursue.
When a case is given to a jury, it is
true that they say, we find the defend
ant is either guilty or not guilty. But
we felt under the circumstances, con-
sidering all things, that it was our
duty as q committee to hear the evil
dence, to sit in solemn judgment upon
1t, and not merely to bring in the find !