The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-01

/ whose portraits and biographies snail
be included in that fourth volume? Yes,
sir.
Did l not sign the original circular
| letter. sent out all through the state to
prominent citizens, inviting them TO
| take their places? I believe so.
And to subscribe for portraits If they
saw sit? Yes. sir.
Have you ever taken an order for
| portrait from Mr.. Clarence E. Allen,
/ not.
Did you know that / was preparing
his biography No, sir.
| Did l ever inform you that | was
preparing the biography of Mr.. Joseph
l.. Rawlins? l don't think you did, eX-
cept 1 have a faint recollection of your
saying something about a chapter on
congressman: that is all.
What makes you think that 1 did
anything improper, if you do Think
| viii put it in another form. Is 1t not
| fact that the affairs of the History
company are in a more or less unset
! tied state? Yes, sir.
| And that ] have been working on
| them in desultory sort of way? Yes.
! Did you ever think | did ANYTHING
| improper in soliciting biographies from
! various citizens with a view to report
! ing them to you afterwards at the final
settlement? Well, no; don't think that
! it would be, not if they were reported
to us later
| What makes you think that you, or
| the George Q. Cannon &, Sons company
were paying me for writing Mr.. Raw
| Inns biography? Simply because I think
we paid you for writing all the biog-
raphies that we had plates for; my I'M
| Outstanding all the time has been that
every man who had a plate in that his
| tory would have biography there,
and MIR. Rawlins, inasmuch as he had
a biography there. we would naturally
suppose plate there-we would nat
urally suppose that his biography
! would be there, and would be written
| for this amount which we had agreed
Ito pay your for writing the fourth vol
ume--just the same as every other gen.
! tleman
Provided I could fulfill my contract?
! Well, of course that was something
! which had been agreed to do.
| You did not mean to say that you
paid me this $1l5-that MIR. Rawlins
| did not? Well, l don't know how much
! Mr.. Rawlins paid you; I know what he
paid us.
l testified yesterday that he paid me
| $1l5 for writing his biography on an in
dependent arrangement that had moth
| ing to do with the contract with the
| History company. You don't mean to
! say that he didn't do that and that
| George Q. Cannon & Sons paid me that
| S1t5, do you? l mean to say Mr.. Raw
! Inns paid us for inserting his plate and
his biography in the History of Utah;
if he paid any one else anything addi-
tional, 1t was his own lookout and not
ours.
Precisely. But he paid us and we
supposed he had paid you for doing it.
Mr.. whitney, could make that plain
by an additional statement, if you
wish.
Mr.. Dickson-I didn't understand I'm
der your contract with Mr.. Rawlins or
anybody else who had plate in the
history that you were not only to pub
lish his biography but to procure it to
be written for him Did you pay for
the writing? ! don't understand the
question.
Questions by Mr. Dickson:
You did not understand that your
contract with Mr.. Rawlins and others
who had plates in the history imposed
only of publishing the biography OF
such persons, but to procure them TO
be written and pay for the writing?
Yes, sir; we understand it that way,
and that the contract states we Will
do that. l am not quite positive on
that point L think that is part of
the contract with Mr.. Rawlins and
take.
You say that you did pay, on the as
surance of reimbursement by your
brother, Senator Whitney for writing
the biography of your brother. Yes,
sir
And you thought Senator Whitney
was entitled to compensation for writ
ing the biography under those circum
stances? For tniS reason, Lnat when
we made the arrangement with Mr..
Whitney to write the fourth volume,
it was not contemplated in our minds,
at least that Frank Cannon's biog-
raphy would be written; therefore, 1t
was some additional work-somethinS
more than we had counted on.
You did not contemplate the writing
of biographies for people who had not
plates? No. sir.
Therefore you recognized that your
brother Frank, not having a plate in
the history, that Senator Whitney was
entitled to compensation for writing
that biography, If it found a place in
the history? Yes, sir.
Mr.. McCune, you say, had no plate?
No, s.r.
WHERE,THE DIFFERENCE IS.
And Senator Whitney would be en-
titled to compensation for writing his
biography, if it found a place in that
history, on the same grounds? Well,
yes sir; the only difference there is
between Senator Whitney and us is
that we think these things should so
through us.
They will have to go through you be-
fore they are published? The manu-
script will have to come to us, but the
money may not necessarily.
The money in your brothers instance
went to Senator Whitney. not to the
company-that is true, isn't it? No,
sir
Did it go to the company? 1t came
to the company.
The hundred dollars for writing your
brothers biography? Yes, sir.
Didn't that go To Senator Whitney?
No. sir.
No, sir.
Oh, but he got a hundred dollars?
Yes.
He was paid for that? Yes.
And your explanation why he was
entitled to compensation for that was
that your brother had no plate in the
history, isn't it? Yes, sir.
Now, Mr.. McCune had no plate there?
No, sir.
II his biography was to find place
in that history and it was written by |
Senator Whitney. he would be entitled
to compensation for it on the same
grounds, wouldn't he? Yes.
Questions by Mr.. Whitney:
You recognized. did you not, Mr. |
Cannon. that as these things have been
left to my discretion from the begin |
ming, largely. that / had the right to
call upon Mr. Allen, Mr.. McCune, Mr. |
John r. Caine, Mr.. Frank Cannon. or
any one whom in my Judgment we
wanted, we needed. to complete con-
gressiohal group or a group of bust
ness men; that j had the right to do
lol I tod tn y-ntl
ually? Yes. we would be willing to |
admit that.
Questions by Mr.. Evans:
Wasn't 1t the rule that he repOrted |