The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-21
quarters; You had been going there all

quarters; you had been going there all
the time? Well
Mr.. Evans understood him to say
that he didn't think he had any rights
TO denounce him in his headquarters.
DIDN'T you say. now, that you didn't
think you had any right in his head
quarters? Wei. 1 have no inherent
right to go to his headquarters.
No inherent or vested right, but there
was nothing improper in your going TO
his headquarters. was there? Nothing
particularly improper about it.
| DID II ever occur to you that it was
improper for you TO be in those head
: quarters Yes, sir: it did.
When first? When he made that
proposition.
! Before that, however. did it ever &C.
| cur TO you that it was improper for you
to be there? Well. my conscience smote
me for that several times.
Why didn't you keep away? Because
they wouldn't let man stay away
! You went uD there of your own ac-
cord again and again, didn't you? Yes,
/ sir.
He didn't drag you up there? He
came pretty near it.
You went up there again and again OF
your own accord, didn't you. without
any 1nvitation2 1 never went there
but once of my own accord.
Well, you went once? Yes, sir.
AN ACTIVE CONSCIENCE.
And your conscience smote you, but
up to this time neither Mr. McCune nor
anybody acting in his behalf had at
! tempted TO approach you improperly in
any manner: why did your conscience
smite you? Because have no business
gong around mans headquarters If
have no sympathy with him.
f4far fafe.
cause you felt that you We're hanging
around those headquarters in the hope
and expectation that some money might
be given you? No. sir: it did not.
What was there that caused your
conscience to smite you when you went
up there, if, up to that time, there had
been no improper advances made to
you at all? Because, as L stated. I
didn't consider that I had any real right
TO go up there. in view of the fact that
had no sympathy with the man or his
aspirations.
At all events, you walked into this
room with Mr.. McCune, as You have
said, without any thought that there
was anything improper in it at ell; you
went in there and discussed public
questions of the day. the silver Ques-
ton, the Grant letters. and those
things; nothing had taken place that
was improper until Mr.. McCune made
NAiio " DAiOSctA 10 YOU. NJ SIT.
Then what did you mean when YOU
said on Saturday that you would have
flung it in his teeth then and there, ex-
cept that you then felt and now felt
that you had lain yourself open to the
proposition?
HAD INVITED OFFER.
Well. I said. didn't didn't ex-
plain that 1 laid myself open to the :,
proposition by the mere fact that 1 con-
sorted with them personally.
You thought that if you accepted an
invitation from Mr.. McCune that even
if it was entirely proper to go into that
room that it gave him a license TO in
suit you and to assault your honor, did
You? Not entirely.
Did you think it did at all? The invi-
tation was all right
Now, Mr.. Law, there was nothing
improper in that as you view it; you
went in there; you were talking about
these public questions that were en-
tirely proper to be talked about? Yes,
sir.
And all at once he said he proposed
to be elected. Il have spent too much
money in this thing to lose it now for
any paltry consideration; Law, if you
viii vote for me tomorrow you can
name your own price he said and you
thought by accepting his hospitality,
SOlAA5 4AlO tlldl lDOllA Win MN, That IL
gave him the license to insult you or
else otherwise you would have flung
that in his teeth at the time? 1t didn't
give him a license to insult me.
Didn't you think, Mr.. Law, that he
was abusing his hospitality when he
invited you in there and then insulted
you in that way? Why. certainly.
Didn't you think that the very fact
that he had invited you in there and
then made this proposition to you made
i doubIy your duty and your privilege
to denounce him? No, sir; no reason
why because he wasn't gentleman
that 1 should not be.
And that is the only explanation that
you can give Of this passage in your
speech, that you desire TO make or con
make of that speech? Yes, sir.
The only reason you can give to these
gentlemen why you did not then and
here denouuce this man? Yes, sir.
How long did you remain talking
With him after he made this
proposition to you? had bare
V got through speaking, with
lin. speaking to him, answer
ne that proposition when his son
anne in and told him that the carriage
vas waiting or something of that kind
md he rose to go.
.fr. Law? 1t must have been about IL
''clock.
About IL o'clock You had gone to
he restaurant about s? 1t may have
,een a little after s, think I stated
Did you say his son came in first?
Yes. sir.
Did his son come in there, before
Ionson did2 Yes, sir.
Didn't Monson come in first? No,
ir.
Mr.. McCune went away. left the room
nd the headquarters so far as you
now? Yes, sir
DIDN'T LEAVE HEADQUARTERS
And you hung around those head
uarters from that time until midnight,
idn't you? Mr.. Monsoon
Answer my question.
Until when2
Until midnight? No, sir; somewhere