The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-04-11
THE GRAND JuRi's LABOR.
A Review of T.eir Exhaustive
Tolls for the Public Veal.


Whatever else the recent Grand Jury
may have done. it has certainly sue
ceeded in arousing a tempest ol
opinions on its report, all of which dc
not rebound to its glory with any great
degree of force. One astonishing respect
in which the inquisitorial body shows
its ignorance. is in thai portion of its
report reading as follows:
The private insane asylum. under
the charge of DR. 5. B. Young. con-
tains at present one private d. nfIeen
county patients, there beIn nine males
and seven females. all hqrmloss
We would suggest that steps be taken,
through the proper channel, for the
transfer of the county patients to the
Territorial Asylum"
Had the gentlemen of the Grand Jury
taken the pains to enquire, they would
have found that there Is a section in the
Territorial Insane Asylum Law Of ] $50
numbered IL. and reading as follows:
"No case of idiocy. imbecility, harm
less, chronic, mental unsound.ess or
delIrium tremens shall. be committed to
this asylum"
The Grand Jurors must also be held
TO account for their choice of so in
efficient clerk. whoever he NAV be. In
the list of fourteen cases be- cites as pub
lie nuisances. lie has not included the
premises of Hon. X n. BAskin. not
outstanding The fact that the commit
tee paid several visits TO the place. and
found that several manure piles existed
above the ditch which flowed into the
Ainafaanfh NarF afpH d. aa,b
washes down the refuse for the Nine
tenth Warder's palate. This state OF
things had long been q crying one, and
the committee reported the matter 10
the Grand Jury. Inc clerk has not in
cluded the case among the Others, and
be deserves censure. Of course
Mr.. Baskin's name was not al
lowed 10 drop by the general vote,
out o. regard for the inestimable public
services ne is supposed to be perform
ing without purse or scrip in Washing
ton. The icei is absurd; il was clearly
a blunder OF the clerk, and he should
suffer for it.
Anent the subject of the Graad Jury,
the mail brings US the following
epistles:
To the Editor of THE HERALD.
The smelling committee of the Grand
Jury visited the Salt Lake Brewery. and
a. they did not include that in their re
port, il is thought by the residents in
the vicinity that the beer they drank
must have affected their olfacfories TO
such an extent, that they could not de-
tect the abOminable odors arising from
the refuse drainage of that institution.
TENTH WARDER.
To the EDITOR Of The HERALD.
1t is somewhat surprising in view
of the fact that tie foreman of
the Grand Jury was who ne was.
that the attendance of tn NJ
sance committee should not have teen
directed TO the eesspoOl of the Walker
House. That receptacle has long been
described as simply horror. and the
deadly seepage from it. TO my mind, Is
responsible for much of the diphiheri
which has existed in the sonth western
part OF the city. Jury or no jury. re-
port or no report, the Walker House
people should be forced to have their
s.wei age run into q portable cesspool.
that could be carried OF and periodi-
cally cleansed. ESsIxEEp.
Its hardly necessary to point out
uOh the OlduO jury distinguished
itself by ignoring the theft of the Best
letter. and its publication in the journal
which neither members nor prosecutor
dared brave. Had the Grand Jury
st died for some method by which ii
could leave better impression in the
minds OF one class of the public that il
was only they for whom the Grad
Jury was created, it could scarcely
have been more successful than IL has
been IN this instance. Tine pitiful exhi-
bit on Of private spite, toe, which
marked the atreu pit TO indIct Post
master Browe for some little domestic
trouble which was vastly magnified by
rumor-an affair by the way which
was fully investigated by a special
agent and dismissed as too trivial for
notice does no. speak very loudly for
the high moral disinterestedness OF the
inouisiiion. Whether the attempt wss
made by Mr.. Dickson. to throw
Democratic nominee into contempt, or
by someone smarting under defeat,
does not appear. At any rate. the
attempt is said 10 have failed. and no
indictment was found.