The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-05-16
SENATOR v, A, CLARK
GOES OUT AND IN AGAIN
CONTINUED from page II

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man in the most INSCRIPTIONS manner
TO promote their own interests.
They were actively engaged in pre-
venting the revision of the infamous
election law by which they had been
enabled to cOerce every man in their
employ into casting his ballot to suit
their wishes.
They We're also deeply interested in
attempting the repeal of a law Fhat
has been established by a previous
legislature requiring safety cages to
be put into every mine, which law has
been a dead letter so far as they are
concerned, although all other cOmpa-
MES operating in the state of Mon
tana complied with its provisions.
Proceedings have been commenced
against the Anaconda company by the
state Inspector of mines to enforce a
compliance with the provisions of the
statute.
''Thela was other legislation invOlv-
ing the transfer of property which was
holly contested by cOntending parties
in Montana, in which the respondent
has no interest whatever. Hence, If it
should be shown that money was i'm
properly used during the session OF the
legislature there was scarcely even
presumption that il was chargeable to
the IGSDUUuEuL VI LIlEAuO WI Nib III
his interest.
I therefore submit, Mr.. President,
my belief that the conclusions of the
committee on the main proposition and
those of the majority on all PROPOSE
lions are inferentiaI, incorrect and are
not supported by the evidence"
Continues Attack on Daily.
Here Mr.. Clark took up in detail the
Frr1 Of Tho cr,
and elections, criticising many of them
sharply and at length. Speaking of
his campaign for congress in 1883, he
attributes his defeat to Mr.. DAILY, say
ing:
''Treacherous work was done every
where in the several counties where
DAILY had men employed, and the re-
suit was my defeat by several thou
sand majority. From this staggering
blow of treachery the party did not
recover for many years. There was
20 DrOVOCatiOn for this. There had
been no business difficulties and never
an unkind word had been spoken be
tween US. It was simply an envious
and diabOlical desire on his Epart to
forever destroy my political influence
in the state"
He then reiteratedith he went into
the contest of 1898 merely for the pur-
pose of breaking down Daily rule in
Montana and not for the purpose of
promoting his own political interests.
Announces His Resignation.
Senator Clark announced his resigna-
ton as follows:
Acting upon my own judgment and
holding no one responsible for the re-
suit, have concluded to place my res
ignatiOn in the hands Of the chief exc
cutiYe OF Montana, and I hereby sub
nit copy of a letter addressed to him
under date Of May II, and which is
now in his hands
The letter reviews the history Of the
case and then says:
Conscious of the rectitude of nv
own conduct and after critical exam
ination of all the evidence taken by
the committee; convinced that those
friends who We're so loyal to ne during
that bitter contest did not resort to
dishOnOrable OF corrupt means to in
fuenCe the action of the members of
the legislature in their choice of a SEN
atOr,. vet I am unwilling TO continue to
occupy a seat in the senate of the
United States under credentials which
its committee has declared rest for their
authority upon the action of a legisla-
ture which was not free and voluntary
in its choice of a senator. Self-reSDect
and due regard for the opinion of my
associates and a sense of duty TO the
people o. the state Of Montana demand
that l should return the credentials
under which I am acting as one of the
representatives in the senate of the
United States, leaving the state and
her people to take such action as viii
conserve and promote her best inter-
ests in the national council"
There is get some doubt as to what
viii be done with the resolution of the
committee on privileges and elections
in the Clark case. This committee will
hold a meeting to consider &, form of
procedure. Some of them think the
senate should take action on the reso-
buttons. but others say the resignation
leaves the seat vacant and no action is
necessary
Hale Talks on Imperialism.
Mr.. Ross Vt) then called up his
bin, regulating appointment TO and
removals from civil offices in outlying
dependencies of the United States"
and addressed the senate upon it, He
held that the appointments should be
non-partisan. and no office holder
should be removed without an oppor-
tunity 10 meet charges properly and
duly established.
Mr.. Hale AIe) said he did not share
in the expectations of Mr.. Ross as to
the carrying out of the perfect pro-
gramme marked out by him for our in
sular possessions.
'"The history Of colonial possessions"
said he, from the days of the Romans
10 the present time, is a history of
robbery, peculatiOR, extravaganza.
wroDg-doing in high quarters and cor
ruptiOn broad and large. I do not
think that the examples Of today are
going to show that the American peO-
pie are to be exempt from the mon
strous evils which have always attend
I'd a colonial policy.
The jaEuty way III which the Amer
lean people have embarked in the en-
terprise of colonial possessions has Ger
fainly received a rebuke in what has
s been seen to happen during the last
few suontbs. The senator from Yer
mont ard I Will be older than we are
now before the rule which has been
written down in all history is changed
nv the American republic"
MIR. Ross, having called for vote on
his bill. Senator Scott (Va-} moved to
POSTPONE the bill indefinitely. The mo-
ton was lost, 10 to 80
Tt was noted that in calling the roll
the clerk omitted the name of Mr.. Clark
OF montana. indicating that SO far as