The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-16
HENEY STARTS
LIVELY ROW ON
THE FINAL DAY
Calls North Dakota Commit
teeman. a Liar and Reaches
for Hip Pocket When Lat
ter Makes a Rush.
FIGHT PREVENTED
BY QUICK ACTION
Contests All Decided and Taft
Secures 235 to 10 for Roose-
welt on Temporary Roll
of the Convention.
BY WILLIAM H. CULVER.

by International News Service
H1CAGO, June 15.-CarryinE ever,
pound Of steam her boilers woulc
stand, the steam roller made q
~ grand run today and n wonderful
finish little after o'clock to-
night.
lhe final lap was a hot one. II was
made with Francis j. Heney bowling
thieves" and crooks at the help In gen.
eral and liar at James Kennedy OF
North Dakota in particular, with ser
geants-at-arms clustered thiclsly about
MIN and watching every movement OF his
right hand toward his hip pocket
Regardless Of Mr.. Heneys colloaual
calculations. the steam roller help went
right along with their work
He did not even cause 1t to wnbble
from It's path
When tho national committee met at 9
o'clock in the morning, those who had
reposed faith in their friends there ex-
pected those friends to deliver TO Prcsi-
dent Taft fifty delegates for the tenn
porary call OF the national convention.
Sixty Two for Taft.
The national committee did that and
more 1t delivered TO President Taft
sfxty-two votes for that said temporary
roll or grand total Of 235 delegates to
the temporary roll out Of possible 254.
Colonel Roosevelt got for the temporary
roll today six delegates out OF sixty
eight cases passed on In the course OF
the day. Added 10 the thirteen pre-
Viously given him, that gave him grand
total Of nineteen out OF 25s.
Today was the liveIiest OF the seven
the national committee has sat hearing
The lonS list OF contests. And IL might
easily have been the deadliest There
were no fisticuffs. but Heney gave the
lie direct TO James Kennedy, the burIy
member from North Dakota, and every
one was afraid To guess what might have
happened II a dozen members and as |
many sergeants-at-arms had not Inter
rened and intervened quickly.
Lie Is Passed.
When he got the lie In his face. Ken
nedy started after Heney and seemed
In hurry. Heney did not move. but
stood steadily. repeating over and over.
You're liar; you're a liar!' as though
he meant TO set the phrase TO music
and sing it Whether or not he was
armed. according to his reputation. no
one, perhaps except the sergeants-at-
arms who got close In will know. But
his hand rested lightly where a revolver
butt ought to be when O rough and ready
coast citizen IS in full dress. And he
seemed to be waiting for something to
happen
Fortunately the two men were good
distance apart when Kennedy began his
rush. That fact gave Senator Penrose
an opportunity TO block the way with
his bulky forearm and by that time the
sergeants had cornered Kennedy.
Ruction Starts,
The ruction started at the opcniur of
the hearing OF the Washington contest.
There was a tentative overnight under
standing that the Washington cases {
contests for eight seats for the state at
large and for six district seats-could be |
consolidated. Senator Miles Poiudexter.
representing himself and the other Roose-
velt contestants, was willing to conson-
date. but he wanted all the time the
rules would have allowed for the cases
II they could go separately to be given
TO him for the consolidated cases, which
would have been an hour and a quarter.
Charles Dick agreed to be content with {
thirty minutes for his side. A. NJ Stew
enson moved that the usual time" for {
cases be given, namely
forty-five minutes to each side !
Heney had been hectoring the Taft men
sitting In the committee all day. call I