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Show -35Montana, and any support for Kearns would of necessity have been financial basis, and not The such a deal of January took never political a on a one. 26, 1901 stated that emphatically, however, place: against the Mormon President is utterly false and There has been no bargain, or moneyed considera tion, or offer, or agreement, or hint, or suggestion of the kind that would lead to the idea that such an arrangement had The libel baseless. been entered into This denial a or was This denial reaches to here and elsewhere. mentioned. even committee and party every person, backed up statement from Senator Clark. politic an January 29 on when the News He had refuted the published charge in Butte, Montana, the previous da and had stated flatly that there had been negotiation on nor any of either Saltair purchase or no the Railroad to it part of the Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad, which Senator the Clark represented. On February 23, 1901 Herald that he Church. bought ever from the Mormon buy Saltair ranged, stated Salt Lake paid on March 7, Railroad a Thus all the exception large never sum parties of R. Kearns, a by Joseph F. Smith who was a the time the deal allegedly was ar- authorized Presidency at member of the First the offered to 20 The Deseret News, never or Senator Kearns denied to the New York 1905 that the San Pedro, Los Angeles and bonded the Saltair of money, to the or any sum pavillion, of money, and that it to the Church. alleged arrangement formally denied it with C. Kerens of ¥rlssouri. few years later, spoke of President Snow in the |
