The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-07-03
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that part of the state will have TO bo
rearranged, and wool shortage may
result The buyers are considering the
question Of canceIing all the remaining
auction sale dates, Oregon wool grow
crs declare that the buyers arc trying
TO hold them up in combination TO
keep down prices, and that wool Is
worth more than is offered for it
They believe they should get more
than 10 cents pound for their prod
uct f"
Borah Called Down,
Senator Borah of Idaho the other
day made speech before the American
club Of Pittsburg on Ulysses ). Grant.
During the course of this address he
quoted General Robert Lee to the eff
feet that Grant was without superior
| in all history as a commander OF
armies. No sooner bad the newspaper
printed the story than old Confederate
soldiers from score of states SAID they
didn't believe Lee ever said 1T, They
said it did not sound like Lee. and thai
| if the great Confederate had given
vent TO such sentiment, it took tho
country mighty long time to find 1T
discreditcd the Senator s authority for
the quotation. 1t has now developed,
though that old Union soldiers are de-
nying that Lee ever gave such praise
to Grant A half hundred of them
have written to Senator Borah TO tell
him what they think about it. They |
say that Senator Borah just conceived
that idea himself in an effort to smooth
over the rumpus which Senator Hey |
burn. also of Idaho, stirred up over the
position of Lees statue IN Statuary !
hall One or two of the letter writers |
recalled that Senator Borah and Hey |
burn parted ways on the Lee issue, Now
the westerner has come to the con
clusion that when Civil war subjects
are being even calmly discussed that it
is impossible to please any of the peo
pie any Of the time.
Panama Canal Exposition.
Congress adjourns with the question |
unsettled as to whether or not the pell-
can or the grizzly shall have the privi-
lege of celebrating the joining of the
Atlantic and Pacific by the completion
Of the Panama canal. 1t would not be
Mt all surprising if when congress acts
on the question, which probably Will be
in December or early next January, IT
both expositious would bo sanctioned.
The advocates Of both are very con-
UuSuJ ana Inc cApoSl-
ton would he an easy way out. One
rather interesting feature of the dis
cussing Of this Panama canal celebIa,
tion in the committee on foreign az.
fairs. which reported both the New
Orleans and San Francisco bills to the
house, was the fact that Butler Ames
Of Massachusetts was the only Repub-
lican member of the committee vot.
ing with the Democrats to postpone
the whole matter till December Mr.,
Ames is the son of the reconstruction
governor of Mississippi and grand
son Of General Ben Butler, who did
not endear himself to the people Of the
Crescent City, when lie was in command
after the city was captured. In con
nection with the exposition PROPOSE
tiou there is good deal of comment
at the manner in which Congressman
Bennett of New York used 1T to bluff
Governor Gillett of California into driy-
ing the Jeffries- johnson fight out of
California. Mr.. Bennett is Presby-
terian elder and naturally holds prize
fighting in adherence. The way be
worked the fair against the fight was
regarded as "good work" by experts.