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

qualifications. / think myself that it
would be a great disaster, and it would
be shameful for this legislature to adj
JouTn without electng a United States
senator. l think it would be disastrous
to this state. / think we would all be
ashamed of ourselves. and all the peo-
pie of this state would be ashamed of
this legislature. We have a right to two
seats in the United States senate rep
reSenting the state of Utah, and not
any particular party or faction of the
state. As l understand it, our Fenator
that is here with us now is the sena-
tor representing the state of Utah, and
not any faction and not any partisan
element, he represents the state of Utah
as a statesman and an able man, and |
calculate that if we send another sena-
tor there he will represent all the people
Of Utah as does our present senator. He
viii be supposed to have breadth of
vision and look after the interests of all
the people of the state. 1 believe in
fealty to ones party principles, 1 be-
lieve man should pay heed to the vot-
ers who elected him, and to their wishes.
L now consider that we have come to a
crisis, there are conditions that our sup
porterS never thought of when we were
elected, and while we had the voice of
the people then as to the matter, l do
not know what the people would say
now If they could express themselves,
for the question now is, Shall we have
a senator at ALL? That is the question
of the hour"
After ,Bennion had been droning along
for a half hour or so Shepard lost pa
thence and interrupted with a point CT
order that he had already abused the
patience of the assembly too long, but
President Nebeker held that Mr.. BEN
MON had right to explain his vote,
and he concluded as follows:
Il now have determined to lay asid3
my partisanship. l ann not SO hidez
bound and narrow that 1 cannot rise to
this occasion and stand on the platform
of a statesman and as a patriot in be-
half of all the people of this state, for
feel if we had their voice here tonight
they would say let us have a senator so
long as he is able, even though the man
of your choice. Let US have some
moral and upright man to represent
Utah ably and the interest of this great
state of uors. / believe that would be
the sentiment of the people of this
state, and whether 1 am ever elected to
office again or not, or ever enjoy the
confidence of the people of this state, I
am going to act on my best judgment
and leave the people to decide and
judge in this matter. | am, therefore,
SOlIlS W NOlC LOT d IldI WHO VIII SIdnQ
for and represent the people of this
state as a. bright minded statesman,
that will have great influence in con-
gress in behalf of this people, the people
of this state, and will work in the In
terests of peace and harmony for Nor
mon and Gentle, and Democrat and
Republican, and / believe in two years
time the people of this state will say
it was all right, and that it was the
best thing that could be done under the
circumstances. I vote for George @.
Cannon"
MANSFIELD DESERTS.
Representative Mansfield sent dismay
into the hearts of the Democrats by
going to George @. Cannon without a
word of explanation. His faithful ally,
Representative McQuarrie, stayed with
McCune, and Mrs. Horne raised a tenn
pest of applause by voting for "a DEM
ocrat, A. w. McCune.''
The ballot resulted as follows: A.
w. McCune, %; w. H. King. IL;
George @. Cannon. IS; George Suther-
land, 3; Frank j. Cannon, Z.
After the announcement of the re-
suit, Speaker Roylance moved that the
speakers be allowed to consume but
two minutes each in explaining their
votes. Senator Whitney amended to
amended the amendment to extend the
time to thirty minutes. The whole
question was lost by a motion to lay on
the table, which carried-55 to g.
On the one hundred and fifty-fifth
ballot there were no changes until
Representative Greenwood was reached.
He changed from King to George Q.
Cannon, without comment.
LAW TRIES a SPEECH.
Again things went merrily for a mo-
ment, but presently Representative
Laws name was called. He rose in
his place while murmur, partly of
approval. mostly of disapproval, arose.
He began:
I have not since the report of the
committee trespassed
upon the time of this assembly up un-
til the present time. ] have sat quietly
in my seat for the last two days and
heard every member of the opposition
who spoke upon the floor uf this house
cast his insinuations upon me- upon
my motives and my conduct, and here
l am going to answer them and, as far
as l may, justify my conduct and the
policy l have pursued
i rise to a point of order" inter-
rupted Mrs. Cannon. II would like the
gentleman to retract his statement. He
says every member of the opposition
has thrown reflections upon him since
the report. ] wish to state that l. for
one have never mentioned it in any
shape or form. and [ wish to
be excused from that reflection
Law Immediately apologized, and
went on as follows:
Before go farther 1 want to state
definitely what l intend to discuss. I
intend to discuss first the charges that
have been made against me and
against other honorable gentlemen of
this city by The Salt Lake Herald, and
echoed by members on this floor, to
the effect that l have. and these hon
orable gentlemen have, been engaged
in conspiracy to injure the reputa-
ton or character of McCune, and l
want to emphatically deny, and to
anyone to produce one atom
of evidence to show that L have been
engaged in any conspiracy. Yesterday
my attention was called to an
in The Salt Lake Herald
say my attention was called to it, be-
cause. as a usual thing, ! never read
The Salt Lake Herald. l was claimed
to be acting on impulses suggested by
The Salt Lake Herald to ruin the
character of A. w. McCune. | was ac-
cused of being in conspiracy with Mr.
Lannan, Mr.. Pratt, Mr.. Cannon and
Mr.. Powers. I want to tell you that
am not acquainted with, and have
never spoken to Mr.. Lannan in my life;
that l have not said over fifty words
in my life to Mr.. Powers; and
want to tell you that
never spoke to the chief of po-
lice Of this city until the night
before l made that charge, and then
only in the company of two of my col
leagues on this floor, and in view of !
these facts I assert that ] have never |
been engaged in a conspiracy to injure |
A. w. McCune, and the evidence taken |
before the investigating committee sus- ,
tains me. l am not going to define my
and in view of this shameful !
perjury attributed to me, 1 am going to |
offer a few remarks and define to you