The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-21
Former Speaker Of
House Just Back
Hawaii.
THINKS SENATE DID \
IN SEATING APOSTI
Ohio Congressman Tai
tainingly on Varicus
-: of Interest.

non. D, warren keifer W.
held, Ohio, represeutat;
2resS. arrived in Salt Laka
on his return from Honolr
Hawaiian Islands, and rep;s
Knutsford.
General keifcr, although =,
enty-brst year, is a hale
well-preserved man, sofnev ~
lent but apparently as aler
twenty-five years ago when
he welded the gavel of Il
which he is now a men,
events of national import
place since the fourth of NEtEor
Since then two Presidents pslc'
assas5inated. And nearly al "a,
nent men of those days havD1|E]
Joined the list of the "nobI
gone. y
General Keifer talked
to a Tribune representati'
rooms at the Kuutsford,
and present conditions Of :
In 1885 he said he quit pul I;-'
voted himself to the prac. ~ %
but all the time kept in Go, .,.,l
party md worked IN its ps.'
1905, after an interval of t,z'n'
he was again returned 20 Crsi1li
Canal Will Be Bu, Il or
After Congress adjourn The
eral Keifer said, "I was ssie
Congressional committee III :.
pointed to visit the Isthmis ~ :"
investigate conditions then pes
did. The work on the big I'd Il
crossing and everything -,,ai
seems TO he going along '"S
hitch. That ditch will bEsg
some day. 4 Isl
"The Hawaiian Legislat,
an invitation TO me te visi' 4.
in connection with the = 'o'
committee appointed for { Y re-
which ] have Just done. T|ihs
to me grew out of some NJ,
/ in Congress in which I af ''v-'
strengthening of the ports "a
and Pearl harbor. My obj=M !
there was 10 see if these fai y
made impregnable. If so, PSI "
our Pacific coast was ASA lro 7
harbor can be made the l9,aI
the Pacific II is the best Piel
harbor TO be found anvwlH IA
narrow at its mouth, but lis
and is ample in area to ~ SIC
! tire Pacific fleet in abso'g % I
from any power on earth: 8Ht
not so easily protected. 1taEho
Soon as the plans are mad = d
be known to a certainty 2 NS,
money will be spent, these > Il
pecially Pearl, will he i1iiTrg
strengthened. Congress, LFce'
not hesitate 10 make libera
tions to carry out and ctt1Bt
necessary work,
owe all came to San ..m. wv.
pether and visited the ~ P,o
ley. There we scattered ~ ~
by way of the Yellow ! a. "
others went elsewhere, and
in Salt Lake alone. But ,s s-,o
I came this way. / had v wv
visit the State represented x,
Smoot in the United Statea IN
Great Mistake Ma-sor,
"My Judgment has alwa an
great mistake was maderh
ate in giving so much 3
to such an un-American zap
Mormonlsm by retaining Isap
seat. | think the Sci 'at
espoused the cause of ~ ! 10
that extent made mistak u'o1
"Who. in your judgme ala
TO be the Republican Z
President2 Will 1T beS
Foraker or Knox or + y ? ?
Hughes''' ,g. = -
FTaft and Foraker are ,se
Neither are the others. ~''
think they are, but they a
are a good deal in the saIcAsrsI
what YOU ,call the churcf Ia.
and Church Republicans ia r.
think they are Democratl,
leans, as the case NH i,
they are not. They are p sd
church wants them to be, y sr,
formed, and as we lawyert nj,
believe. When the Natif I,r
tion meets and they plot i .,
nomination for two or ; d
some fellow will get up a. ri
n man that will upset tn ) n
lows apple cart, and thai SnI
end of it,. OF course | nis.:'
YOU who that party IS. IL i
''Well. sir, 1 like Salt min
! ] have seen of it. 1t IS q
tive city. and | should tnsRis
;6ple place in which to hyertts
! is the most prosperous app Hs
/ have so far visited IN s,sj
From here | shall go SUBS /
except that l shall stop az n,
two in Nebraska and w =
,rbo l;ves in that State. q Il.