The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-09

who had spoken In favor or state con-
troll did not answer to the call. ,,, >"
"The other fellow fell -SN down addregsing 9h ysm
laughed Ex-Governor Pardee' aoul'e''s
the man from Montana.
Humorous Side Of Fight.
"1 vat. ave" the recalcitrant one
shouted, and the committee laughed.
The majority rcport-the one iagof,ndd ,aS and
federal conIrowasa sa,ssen,ins thsn Voice, the
two states control advocates not voiihg
In the course OF vigorous ana Willy ~
appIauded speech, Francis j. Hency Oh
:'There are some evidences that public
opinion In this country does not n't.e 49, :"
free chance TO operate l neea noe oa i,rm uou
Ninety per cent Of the people OF !he
United States werc opposed TO men pc
ing permitted TO make a profit by poisson51 som
law. and yet IT was locked up on tne
high shelf in congress for sixteen years,
VIII r oR WSa pmbc 'ne opnos
failed to do. the big stick accompIlsh1.ea;; q;
"If your representatives In the United
States-and use the word your hsuIh-
tiyely-and the representatives In the
United States senate from each state,
respectively, are in the interests OF sPe-
cially privileged classes Instead OF in inc
interest OF average. common man. 1t
will follow that the executive arm oi the
government will be Inefficient: and l
discovered that 1t Is Inefficient In the
mean In the greater part Of the west.
where the greater part Of the public
property Of the nation lies-the executive
arm OF the government Is and since the
civil war has been the greater part OF
the time. utterly inefficient 10 safeguard
the property of the people.
Where Corruption Lies.
But would be failing in my perform
ance Of this duty il l failed to tell you
why, 1t Is because. while we have en-,
nf he. T,tf fa1
States the appointing OF the United States
attorneys for the different districts
throughout the United States. rule has
grown UP In the senate of the, United
States which has In effect robbed the
executive OF any real power In that re-
spect and has placed the appointment OF
such officials In the hands OF the United
States senators from the respective
states.
What is the result? The result Is
that ii the lumber interests In particu-
lar district are strong and have already
succeeded In despoling the people OF
large part of their timber interests, those
lumber interests are apt TO dominate the
election OF d United States senator and
those lumber interests are also liable to
dictate through that senator the appoint
ment of United States officials whose
the United States against his benefactor
Speaking by the Card.
II would not dare to make such seri-
Gus charges IL l did not speak from alb
soute experience When l reached Ore
gon l found that situation existing in
Oregon-indeed, 7 found upon an inves-
tigatlon before the grand jury that the
United states attorney was protecting
men who belong to the higher-up class
from indictment. and that he had en-
tered Into a corrupt conspiracy with both
the United States senator's from that
stale by which they were TO have him re-
appointed United States attorney upon
condition these men should not be prose
cuted.
Moreover, / found that when the first
stealing of timber commenced in Ore
gon and men were arrested for It, when
a man representing big and influential
timber company had taken to the rail-
road train about twenty-five men at
Portland, and carried them up TO Salem
and had them file openly upon contiguous
timber claims. each one swearing falsely
that he was taking the timber for his
own use and when the matter was ex-
posed Immediately and the United States |
attorney took the matter before tho
grand jury and indicted these men. who |
had insugated those men to go up and |
MAKE the filings influential state officials
applied to the United States senators |
from oregon TO interfere. and appeals |
general land office and the secretary of
the interior "
instantly the indictments were dis
nlsseo Case after case of that kind |
came to my knowledge in Oregon. case
hlter case OF that kind has been brought !
W my attention in four or five other
states. All OF IT can be traced back 10
ne system under which we have been
-lccllng our United States senator's"