The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-11-28
TE1s.LEGRA.P,HIC
ARTHUR,s ACr.
Talk About the PresIdenA's
Star RSute Removals.

| 10 IN In0 leLler OF Attorney General
| Brewster and District Attorney Bliss, as
sufficient csuse for the removal of Mar
shal Henry appeared in the Youngst
Mems Register on June 18th, and is as
follows:
'What is there in the statement made
| by Bliss that you had been subjected,
TO the influence of John w, Dorsey
and had made promises not to push Wig
| orously the star route cases agsins. him?"
Marshal Henly answered not even the
substance Of q shadow. [ understand
that Bliss says that while the jury was
being drawn IN the star routs cases Dor
| eey called at my Office and remained sew
eral hours, and that while there he ex-
| tracted from me- promise thSt I would
favor him and not use active measures in
assisting the prosecution. The only time
Dorsey was in my Office was one day
when he called and asked for match to
light cigar. The deputy in the room
that Dorsey entered handed the box to
him. Dorsey said, II guess I'll take
three or four" The deputy replied, You
csn have as many as you want" Dorsey
placed several in his pocket, handed the
box TO the deputy and passed out. Iwss
in an adjoining room and recognized
Doreey's voice talking to the deputy, but
he did net come into my room; hs neither
saw nor heard me nor made any inquiry
after me. That is all there is to this SEN
satinn that Bliss is trying to make. He
don't amount to much. He is too full of
downright meanness ever to amount to
anything. He is the follow whom
Horace Greeley suggested should be
branded as Lying Bliss" and the appel
lation suits him we'll. His efforts to over
ride the most common laws of desency
have been met by stern rebuke from
Judge Wylie each time he attempted to
carry on his bravado in court. Judge
Wylie is stern old Virginian, an incor-
F. ruptible justice, and hews to the line, no
matter where the chips fall When Bliss
intimste9 that the defendants in the star
route cases were in court through conniv-
ance OF their attorney Dob IngersoD,
one Of the counsel srose, and pointing
his dpger at Bliss, while his eye aparkled
with euppres ed passion, thoundered ont,
''That's lie, and you are liar" Bliss
covered down like dog, and had still
further cause to regret his inginuation
when Judge Wylls gave him most
singing reprimsnd. Any person whom
Bliss distrusts, and I have fsiled to find
one whom he does not, is liable st any
moment TO feel the venom of bis treach-
erouR tongue coBing from some uneus-
pected quarter. 1t is probable he even
suspects himself at times, az when he
carries his pocket book in his left pocket
his eyes are continually wanderisg
towards his left hand for fear it may give
him the slip and get hold Of the money
without his being aware ofthe fact Bliss
Is continually trying TO hedge and throw
distrust upon the administration of Presi-
dent Garfield Those who know Bliss
best pay but little attention 10 the pom
| pous fellow.
Chicago, 26.-The Times will say edi-
| toEially to morrow: While il is Do sible
there may be some important political
| significance in the Sudden executive en-
slaueht upon the stsr route gang, and
that il may be the initial act in a coming
series works meet for repentance, sug-
gested by the popular Judgment pre-
nounced some three weeks ego. the PROB
ability at this writing seems to be the
president has only yielded, perhaps re-
lurciantly-he has certainly yielded tar
! dily-to representations from the depart
ment Of justice, which he could
not afford to disregard, If compelled
to part company with the pressn
| attorney. general. Under ordinary cir
cumstances the grief Of Arthur might
| not be inconeolable, but to let thst
officer resign, for the notorious
reason that his efforts to bring gang Of
| public robbers TO justice, were opposed
and baffled by eonapirators holding Office
under government, would be, of course,
so scandalous that the most hardened
politician might hesitate to pursue it
The public will await further develop
ments before concluding that the re.
movals should be credited to the awaken
| ing of the executive conscience rather
than to the instinct Of self-pres eryation
Col. Ingersoll, of counsel in the stel
! route cases, said in sn interview to-pight
on the subject of Saturdays dismissal By
| President Arthur; II is an effort on tht
part Q! government to Trorize tbs
jury. 1 believe Marshal Henry is
! SIS honest man as ever lived
4 He never did the slightest favor to the
defendants. he simply did his duty,
no more, no Less. The reason .they'wan
him out is that they may put some one in
| who will do more than bis duty. They
want 10 get absolute control Of the jury
!
we're either friends or enemies Of the de-
PENDANTS. These men have been GU
down without hearing. Nothing more
upjust,a nothing Inore infamous hal
been done in the history Of the country
The idea that an officer cannot give hi:
opinion of the innocence of party beins
prosecuted by the government witheui
renewal is simply horrible. Their ides
is that every officer is a dog that can be
Kissed on any defendant by the 8ttorney
gen aral, doctrine too contemplate tx
| find Judgment in the brain Of any deceni
man. lhage not read the letters Of At,
torney General Brewster and Mr. Bliss
AID don't inteId to. know there is not
word of truth in them and I do moi
care to take up my time to read what is
not so. It had been talked that the
marshal would be removed and the
erybody who does not think Brewster
the most wonderful Of men would follow
him. l believe Ainger and Parker were
removed because they were such homes
men, The department of just:ce ha
grown desperate since its paid sgenu
were convicted Of trying to bIite TIN
jury. Ii the next jury scquits, and i
never will convict, l presume BrsWs
ter will want all the Jury
convicted Of COL piracy to scquit HI
wants 10 scare this one, that's all. Iknov
nothing about Spencer and Helm excep
that Spencer is 8 government witness. 1
is simply Infamous to remove men with
out hearing and put stain on them b,
expert letters.