you to use your judgment in making known to others in authority with you, and the actual
facts of friendship and enmity. I very much coveted and so did Colonel Trumbo the ad-
mission of Utah to Statehood through a Republican Congress. Through our system of effort,
through the assembling of influences reaching into every State of the Union and almost
every neighborhood, reaching into the Churches, into business elements and corporations,
we succeeded in getting the bill through the House and in gaining practically a unani-
mous vote in the Senate, and were defeated only by the persistence of the Chairman of
the Territorial Committee, who, finding himself finally almost if not entirely alone in
his Committee in opposition to Utah, appealed to that thing called courtesy in the Senate
in order to defeat what had become practically the unanimous desire of the Senate, an
appeal in which he went so fare as to threaten to resign as Chairman if the majority of
the Committee should overrule him and favorably report the bill. We have never fully
ascertained, although we are satisfied that we know, the influences that acted upon him.
They came from Utah, from the Liberal party, whose leaders never abated any of their
efforts to defeat our endeavors, and who I am satisfied have never relinquished their
secret opposition up to the present hour. As you have already been informed, we went so
far and came so near success that through Senator Allison, who was Chairman of the Com-
mittee on Appropriations and who has been, I may say here, one of our most faithful and
powerful friends throughout the contest, as to succeed in getting the gate open on the
floor for Utah to be called in from the Committee at two different times in the Senate
during the absence of Mr. Platt. Colonel Trumbo and I had arranged with Senator Allison
in his committee room to go down and give the floor to Senator Carey. Each time the
Senator left us he said, "When I come back I will bring you the news that Utah is a
State." He did get the chance, but for some reason Senator Carey did not get in in time
and when the gap was opened other men jumped in and utilized the opportunity. I have
studied over this matter and investigated it a great deal, and I am satisfied finally
that Senator Carey erred in these matters only from lack of quickness of action. He is
a loyal man, and I am now satisfied has intended to be true to your people, and has
failed only where celerity of movement, quickness of brain and ale^r^tness of attention wer[e]

you to use your judgment in making known to others in authority with you, and the actual facts of friendship and enmity. I very much coveted and so did Colonel Trumbo the admission of Utah to Statehood through a Republican Congress. Through our system of effort, through the assembling of influences reaching into every State of the Union and almost every neighborhood, reaching into the Churches, into business elements and corporations, we succeeded in getting the bill through the House and in gaining practically a unanimous vote in the Senate, and were defeated only by the persistence of the Chairman of the Territorial Committee, who, finding himself finally almost if not entirely alone in his Committee in opposition to Utah, appealed to that thing called courtesy in the Senate in order to defeat what had become practically the unanimous desire of the Senate, an appeal in which he went so fare as to threaten to resign as Chairman if the majority of the Committee should overrule him and favorably report the bill. We have never fully ascertained, although we are satisfied that we know, the influences that acted upon him. They came from Utah, from the Liberal party, whose leaders never abated any of their efforts to defeat our endeavors, and who I am satisfied have never relinquished their secret opposition up to the present hour. As you have already been informed, we went so far and came so near success that through Senator Allison, who was Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations and who has been, I may say here, one of our most faithful and powerful friends throughout the contest, as to succeed in getting the gate open on the floor for Utah to be called in from the Committee at two different times in the Senate during the absence of Mr. Platt. Colonel Trumbo and I had arranged with Senator Allison in his committee room to go down and give the floor to Senator Carey. Each time the Senator left us he said, "When I come back I will bring you the news that Utah is a State." He did get the chance, but for some reason Senator Carey did not get in in time and when the gap was opened other men jumped in and utilized the opportunity. I have studied over this matter and investigated it a great deal, and I am satisfied finally that Senator Carey erred in these matters only from lack of quickness of action. He is a loyal man, and I am now satisfied has intended to be true to your people, and has failed only where celerity of movement, quickness of brain and alertness of attention were