The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-03-10


lehce The country. 1t IS a species of in
tmidation.
One of the Suspects.
Amid a storm of applause. lasting for
several minutes. General Grosvenor co..
( ni1.. Was nausen-tl the report. said that
TINS was pretty good specimen of the
READINESS with Wificn the newspapers of
the country and abe great body OF the
people grasp a. publication or a statement
mo assume evil where they might as
reading an editorial which referred to
| Speaker Cannon and Representative
fayne and Hill as having been taken
red handed. - out SDeakfDg seriously
ne said. IL was in accord with the views
81 % per cent Of the newspapers Of the
country The report was a Malicious libel
9a i5i members of the house and senate
SUBMIT ne said. that the inVestl-
sallon which the gentleman from Indiana
iisis dpOi0slzed for Is an outrage and a
VOCATION OF every principle of justice.
Ffolonged applause followed this state
meht. lie wanted to know by what right
me BristoW report had been published
before the action of any tribunal had
established the truth OF it. IN order to
STOW what be termed the infinite ras-
calIty OF the Bristow report. Mr. Gros-
seLor explained the cases IN which his
seat tomorrow" he said, pounding mis-
desk. II there is anything irregular or
improper in what J did.
Show of Indignation.
Then, showing the effects Of his indig-
Ilation' Mr.. Grosvenor pounded his desk
that sent that into this house. Can any
ssii-respectlng congressman ever enter
sne Office OF the man who will produce
sueh document as that?"
This report, he added would he printed
abroad and II would be said that in the
american congress there were 1gf -raS-
cdis II the postOffice department had
some official whose Judgment was so
uWarfed by the opinion of a congressman
the official had better be turned out ne
declared The Bristow report, he said
IN conclusion, was born in iniquity and
conceived in sin, and had Travelled its
course until it had struck the public of
She united states as a great attack on a
Douy OF men as free from wrongdOing.
corruption. crime and irregularity as an
earth"
Mr.. Lilley Comm. who was charged in
IHe report with being technical ViOlator
OF the law in leasing a building at Win
s ssesas. Conn, TO the government for post
oftlce purposes, explained that within I
twenty-fOur hours after his atfention had
been called to the statute I'm question ne I
naI made personal application at the
PostoIiee department. to have the lease
SSsstncelIed, First Assistant Postmaster !
General Wynne had asked him TO DELAY
me matter that he might take il up with
Ihe law department. He had baen in
formed by a written opinion from the
department two days later that his cleo
ZION lion 10 congress did not invaidate the
Butler Defends Himself.
Mr.. Butler CPa.). another accused mem
Der, said he never before understood the |
duties of representatives but he now
conceived them TO be of singular and
CONSPICUOUS Inactivity He differed. he
said, from General Bristow and he would /
9eIy anyone to close the doors of the
department to him. What nv constitu-
ents are entitled to-" he vigorously re-
marked they shall have" and sneerine-
ly added. "Bristow or no Bristov.' Who |
ever had assailed him, he said, was a /
coward.
Mr.. Hin Comm. likewise mentioned in
the Bristow report. denied that he had
done anything improper. He read from
me original papers and called attention to
the omission from the BristOw report of
certain endorsements therein. "Was il I
malice or was it ignorance or what was
ft?' he inquired. He had ne said. sub
mitted certain questions to General Bris-
tow, answers TO which had been refused |
am gong 10 vote for a resolution to in
TeSIIgate myself and TO Investigate the
fourth postmaster general" he said amid
a round OF applause. Holding up a copy
OF the report, Mr.. Hili vehemently de
ciared THAT document is the produc-
tion or a liar and a scoundrel."
Bristow Report Infamous.
Mr.. Thompson CAla.). also named in
the report. characterized the report as in
famous and having for its object the in
timidation of members in order 20 keep
them from insisting on their rights.
Mr.. Robinson (Ark.) demanded an in
Vestigation of The entire postoffice de-
partment, lit having confessed TO being
unable to conduct its affairs with a fair
degree of seeming prOpriety."
Mr.. Cooper NYis.) interrupted AIR Rob-
insOn and said he had been informed by
an old member of the house that General
Bristow, trembling from illness" told
that member that he CBristow) had never
seen the report as IL was now printed.
Therefore said Mr.. Cooper, II think
the abuse of him ought to stop 80
The naval appropriation bill was sent 20
the conference, the speaker appointing
Messrs. Foss, Dayton and Meyer con-
ferees on the part of the house, and at
o clock the house adjourned.