Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-05-23
He DEMAEDs THEIR FE0OF.
s=dze Powers Esaya Lissie At.e"
fioy. 20 the Ogden FfSserald'"

At the opening of the First District
Court in Ogden yesterday morning, Judge
Powers made an address to the Grand
jury, from the tenor of which it may be
inferred that the abuse and SANDER which
have been heaped upon the courts and
Federal officials by the independent
papers of Utah since the Inauguration OF
the prosecutions against polygamy and
unlawful cohabitation will be summariiy
squelched, at least so far as his court Is
concerned. The following are Judge
Powers remarks"
Gc,,iIep,pn Of the Grand JUry:-My at
4ention has been called to paragraph IN 4
! public paper. which, 1t seems to me- MAKES
/ direct charge of corruption against UNITED
states officials in this Territory. 1t Is al
Iaoed in substance that a ring has been
formed among the Federal officers and an
agreament entered into by which they will
nool the money obtained III the prosecution
of offenders under wh2t Is known as the
.Edmunds Law Perhaps l had better read
the paragraph referred to.
Judge Powers then read the following
paragraph from the Ogden Herald OF
May 18th:
II is understood and the circumstances
now 90 TO prove that Mckay, Dickson, and
their favorite deputy marshals have made an
agreement to pool all the booty which they
can get out of the auti-Mormon crusade
business, and in coming to Ogden they are
only carving out q scheme of monOpollzlng
the polygamy and unlawful cohabltatlon
business in which they are engaged
He then proceeded:
Such charges are well calculated TO shake
the confidence of the community IN the IN
tepriiy and honor OF It's officials. II the
charge is true those engaged in such bust
ness should be removed from office and
punished. If the charge is untrue the
Federal officers in this Territory should no
longer rest under such Il cruel lmputatIon.
I therefore direct you to make searching
investigation into the charge. l desire you
TO 90 to the bottom of the whole matter,
and if there is any substance to 1t, bring 1T
to the light. We cannot allow such charges
to 90 unnoticed "a public Office is a public
trust And he who accepts such trust
should be above suspicion
1t may be that the paragraph was pre-
pared by the writer, without full apprec1a-
ton of the serious charge it contains. There
is considerable interest manifested IN this
Territory at the present time, and the
editors and reporters of the newspapers may
not be as careful as they should. / trust
that the charge has no foundation iii fact,
but l instruct you to give thorough eX-
and not cease your Investigations
until you are confident that no further light
can be obtained.
A subpoena was afterwards served upon
Charles w. Heminway, editor of the Og-
den Herald, directing him to appear forth
with before the Grand Jury.
The Court also stated, after the Grand
Jury had retired, that in an Ogden paper,
published the evening before, lie was re-
ported as saying to the Grand Jury yes
terday morning, after their report OF
indictments found under the Edmunds
law, that they had "done we'll" Follow
ing is the report referred to, rs it appeared.
lie the Ogden Daily Nems:
The Court then announced that true bills
had also been found against James Taylor,
Moroni Brown and Francis A. Brown, for
illegal cohabitation. and handed the papers
to the clerk. The Court said to the Grand
Jury: Gentlemen, you have done well. You
will now retire to your room and continue
your good work" The gentlemen, headed
by their foreman, General Kimball, retired.
The Court desired to state for the
benefit of the public that the report as
was incorrect, and he did not
wish to have it inferred that he was more
pleased with any one conviction than
another, or that he was here to make
crusade on the people. All men before
the Court are considered innocent until
they are proven guilty, and he wished to
be SO understood.