The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-07
Mr.. M'cuNs ExoNERATED.

The committee appointed for the in
vestigation OF Laws bribery charges
reported last evening.
A. w. McCUne is exonerateu and A
A. Law stands before the people of
Utah as d confessed ccnspirator, a
bribe-solicitor, n tool in Che hands OF
desperate sehe1reTs, = disgrace to the
Third Legislature Of the SKATE. a miser-
able, pitable wretch. despised by his
own party. stunned by every other.
compelled to seek for sympathy and
refuge in the bosom of a colleague
equally corrupt whose completely in
the Hayken bribery affair few
years ago only needs TO be reviewed
10 show that this is no new experience
tor him, ut least
Mr.. McCune began this senatorial
fgnt with the threats of blackmailers
ringing in bis ears. Men who applied
70 hiln :er money for unlawful pur-
poses invariably identified themselves
with some other camp and became his
uitter enemies. lie WAS pursued by
blaclNnailers and brine solicitors and
as'saile1 by de-l2g osges--ali on account
of his wealth. Day after day he was
attacked by q newspaper whose policy
is to paint the people. the legislators
and the morals Of the state a dun
black. Week after week Law went
around saloons threatening 70 do Nc
Cune Win a Montana sensation" In
the meann:.1e, Jackson Was indugtri-
ousay circulating d report that he had
hapn af74-l hut >
maaded Of him to state the time and
place ana man, he refused to say and
skulked away. At the very outset. one
Of the opposing candidates published =
falsehOod about NJ. McCune's business
affairs in connection with The Utah d.
Pacific, owned up in private that it was
lie. but stuck 10 Il in public.
Wllh az these elements 10 contend
with, It is a wonder Mr. McCune as-
capped from their clutches with his life
aud matter of congratulation 10 him
SELF and 10 the state that there is JUS
lice Yet in legislature cursed by the
presence Of . partisan outcast and a
political prostitute.
After listening to all the evidence
and taking plenty CT time to review il
ana deliberate upon the matters drawn
ouL the committee rendered the FOL
lowing verdict:
Il? u. the matter of the charge of
bribery preferred by Representative
-aiF against \. ". McCune. we find.
Alter the most careful consideration.
that the charge is no. sustained by the
evidence.
I'D In The Sloan-Nebeker speciica-
ton. NE and that The said r. w. Sloan
Improperly approached Senator W. G.
Nebeker for the purpose of securing
Nebeker's support Tor Mr. McCune. but
the evidence does not establish an at
tempted bribery.
80 In the Ivins-Jacksor case the
evidence is not sufficient to justify the
conclusion that any attempt was made
TO secure by improper means Mr.. Jack
soa's vote. We believe that Mr.. Jack
soE. in this matter labored under an
EcncsJ. hut mistaken impression.
% The evidence in the Cook-Farr
matter is 50 remote that we deem it tr-
relevant 10 any issue under considera-
ton.
90 The Lapish charge-a supple
mental case-is one in which the evil
dence bearing upon the statements
made is not sufficient to warrant the
finding that an attempted bribery was
committed.
The report is signed by Representa-
tives Sorenson, Mansfield, Stewart and
Cummings and Senator Whitney.