The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-02

bribing anybody else? No.
PURPOSE OF CONSPIRACY.
What was it done for, gentlemen? 1t
was done for the sole purpose of de-
feating Mr. McCune's election, which
was imminent on that morning. 1t was
not done to prevent crime. 1t was not
done for the purpose of detecting one
in the act of crime that the alleged
criminal was about to perpetrate. 1t
was done according to their own theory
to draw the man into the commission
of a crime. Can such conduct as this
receive the stamp Of approval from my
friend, Mr.. Dey, who preceded me, or
will it receive the stamp of approval
from my friend, Mir. Evans, who will
follow me? That this man was iusti-
fed in what? In seeking to bring
about the accomplishment of q crime
by McCune. Will any one of you. gen.
tlemen, approve 1t? Wouldn't it be an
insult to, not your intelligence, but an
insult to your honor and your man
hood to ask you to put the seal of your
approval upon conduct such as this?
And unless you are prepared to set your
hand to a report which will in effect
approve the conduct of this man Law,
you must agree with me that this tes-
timony comes here clouded with suspi-
cion to start with. And ] viii call your
attention to the fact as we go on that
this man who comes here under this
Cloud of suspicion finds confederation
not in 81 syllable of testimony that has
been lisped from the lips of any wit
ness who has been called here. So far
as his testimony is concerned of the
attempt and offer and bride of him he
stands here alone. Not single witness
has said a word that even tends to
corroborate him in that story. How
n ,O ~
stands as well in the community | un-
dertake to say as Mr.. Law. Mr.. Nc
Cune impeaches him. Mr.. Joseph Mon
son impeaches him. Mr.. Dunbar i'm
peaches him. Mr.. S'oan impeaches him.
Mr.. Turner, the 4 sheriff, impeaches
him. Major Stanton impeaches him.
John Quillan impeaches him. On ma
terial matters he is brought directly
in conflict with each one of these gen
tlemen on our side OF the case. On. the
other side of the case, Carl Hard. the
Tribune reporter, inpeaches him. Chief
Pratt impeacheS him. Detective Sheets
impeaches him and Burbidge and Hill
ton impeach him and Horn impeaches
him. He stands here uncorroboTated so
fas as the fact of bribery is concerned
by a single witness, not even excepting
Fryer And he stands here contradicted
and impeached by more than a dozen
men. More, d little more, that casts
some suspicion upon this gentleman
whom my friend, Mr.. Dey eulogiZes for
his conduct.
LAWS NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
I want to read briefly from Mr. Laws
testimony as to when he first heard of
any charges OF bribery, when he first
had any definite information at all. You
will remember that he was approached
according to his statement the Tuesday
preceding the Saturday, that was the
first approach that had been made so
faS as he was concerned; it was re-
peated by Sloan on Saturday evening.
They filed additional charges, as you
will remember on Monday evening and
on Tuesday morning 1 asked Mr.. Law
if he had any objection now to telling
US who his informants were and he
said he had not, although you remem-
Der it was objected to the night before.
They would not give US the informa-
ton as long as they could hold it back
(Reading.)
Who, prior to the time when you
filed the first verified charges here had
given you any such information, Mr.
Law? Mr.. Nebeker; he gave me the
information himself.
The information that you now have
embodied in the charge filed here this
morning? Yes, sir.
And who else? And Mr.. Jackson gave
me the information that was specified
in his case.
When? Saturday.
That is the very day that he made
the charges, the first he had heard of
Jackson.
who else-by the way, when did Mr..
Nebeker give you his information? 1
think it was either Friday or Satur-
day"
So that the Nebeler information and
the Jackson information did not reach
him until the day that he made these
charges, or the day before at the ear
lest.
and the other was Representative
Cook. and the first he heard of that
was Saturday, when MI Cook made his
speech on the floor Of the house. And
those we're all the charges that he had
any information about. All these mat
ters then came to him during either the
day that he made the charge or at
earliest some of them the day before he
made the charge
Mr.. Thurman-Mr Nebeker swore it
was on the day after.
Mr.. DicksOn-Yes, Mr.. Nebeker sword
that 1T was the Saturday after Law had
made his charges. He had not himself
been approached, and he does not pre-
tend he had until the Tuesday before he
made these charges When he was
upon the stand. recalled the other day,
I asked him this question:
IF 1 understood you correctly the
otheE day, when you filed these addi-
tional specifications, you then specified
all that you had definite information
about? Yes, sir"
So that the day that we started into
this investigation we had in these adj
ditional charges filed by Mr. Law all
the definite information he had Of brib-
cry or any attempt to brfbe anybody.
HARD's HONEST FACE.
Now, what significance has that? In
view of the fact that a month before
that time he said to Johnny Quillan and
Carl Hard what he did-a month before
he had any information-stand in
that saloon one Sunday evening, What
did he say? We will not stop to call
attention to what Mr.. Quillan said
about it. We will take their own wit
ness, Carl Hard. This young man, en-
ployed upon the Tribune as a reporter;
you saw his honest, bOyish face as he
sat there, and there is not a man here
that did not believe that Carl Hard
told the truth. There is not a man who
sat here and saw the witness who be-
lieyeS that Carl Hard uttered word
upon that witness stand as having
come from this man Law that he, Hard,
was in any doubt about at all; and
what did he say?
A month before this excellent gentle
man, Mr.. Law, had any information of
corrupt practices, he said to Carl Hard,
in answer to the questions whether the
talk in the newspapers and on the
streets of bribery were true, he says:
And at the same time the sugges-
ton was made. the one who made it
wondered if it were fact, and Mr.
Law said, What? Yes, you know it is
a fact; whenever Mr.. McCune's cleo
ton becomes imminent there is men,
Der of the house of representatives who
will say and prove that Mr.. McCune