The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-04-16

1AN0Oc oA 1uGSAASy N0OASA0a w - ~
tilate the records Of his Cffice and to
direct the evidence of guilt to be
kept from the files. But Mr.. Chase
1rgot to carry off the papers when
he went out of Office and they unex
pectedly turned up as Murray's &C
cusers. Like the ghost Of the muir
dered Banquo, they returned to
plague all who were concerned In
this nefarious business.
Your committee swallowed the
"intolerable deal or sack" ladled out
by this modern Falstaff, and graz
ciously accepted the mOdicum OF
explanation he veuchssfed about the
charges against him, as complete
Vindication. 1t was voted that you
would take no more testimony. The
mutilation of the records of the
Department of Juetice, the at
tempted suppression Of the proofs
of official misconduct, the abstraction
of an important piece of document
airy evidence after it had come into
the possession of your committee,
the political thin ble-riggipg by
which all these things were accom-
plishe|', are matters about which
you will not waste your valuable
time. Nero f1ddled while Rome
burned.
Murray placed the responsibility
for all the shortcomings of himself
npon a discharged deputy. The
copies of his enrolment returns in
your possession show that it was the
rule OF Marshal Murray to charge
the government greater mileage
than his deputies actually travelled,
and for guards in attendance on
prisoners when none were en-
ployed; to charge milssgSand guards
when arrests were not made, the &C.
cused persons having voluntarily
to defraud the Govern
ment by the fictitious accounts of
negro janitors, to pilfer by the means
of excessive stationary bills. These
and many other instances of official
this valoroEs and viz
tuous Gargantua Shuffies off upon
deputy who had not, and
could not have had, lot or part In
them. But your committee con-
sidered its time too valuabls to
waste in search for trivialities
like these! It will not summon the
witnesses indicated by q member of
the House of representatives, who
says they have personal knowledge
Of the facts and will prove the truth
of his charges!
This Gargautuan Governor of q tan
to himself the sacred char
scter of great moral reformer, and
would have the world believe that
he, like the Rabelian antelope, Is
because he has been
called to the faith of the Gospel
and convinced with the certainty of
evangelical truths" His organ in
Salt Like City, Mr.. Chairman,
turned you Jack-Mormon, what
ever that may mean, and his
nouth>pieces here proclaim that
Tou were bought by Norm On gold,
md, during recent visit to Utah,
into conspiracy with the
Mormon leaders to blacken and de-
anne his llly>white character. am |
OF being paid by the Nor
mons to send abroad defsmatory |
dispatches concerning the past of. |
lcial record of this cham pion Gen.
lie of morals in Salt Lake City,
With lofty Gargantuan rhetoric he
describes me as "a bird of Ill omen
With an se)lian attachment"
If your committee will exercise |
he legal "attachment" provided by
he House Of Representatives, and
ermit me to examine the witnesses,
will undertake to prove to your
ntire satisfaction that while Mar
hal of Kentucky Eli 81. Murray
Systematically defrauded the Cow
rnment by charging Illegal fees;
hat his emolument returns were
Invariably ''crooked." and that he
scsped merited disgrace and pun |
'hment nearly eight years ago by
'olical thimble-rlgging. l will I'M
ertake also to prove that he has
his position as Governor
f Utah to further the schemes of a
ing Of public plunderers; that he
nd the men whose subservlent tool
e is, exerted all their influence,
ffioial and otherwise, to bring
ne Edmunis law into disrepute,
nd to embsrrass the Commission
rs appointed TO carry into effect it's
I will further under
AXE to prove that his and their
was to make that law a
allure in order that they might
rocure the passage of an act Of
congress disfranchising the people
f Utah, and vesting in their hands
le entire machinery Of the Terri.
)ry SO that they mighs Cypress and
under at their sweet will. i will
rove beyond peradventure that he
ss lent the use of his name as
overnor to bolster almost every
escription of swindling corpora
ons organized for the purpose of
eecing the public and putting
honey in the pockets of the projec-
IFS. [ append hereto a list of
lese s'snide" companies organize!
| one county of Utah, in which
Iurray appeared az an officer and
lie holder OF stock at the time of
leir organic alton TO the amount of
.,120 03O.
[ will content myself with the
story of one Of these corporations,