Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1889-12-16

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J is with the management Of tn
DDS atmospheric conditions TO fave
by the country with plenty Of moi:
ed ture. No one but an idiot woul
ID. argue otherwise than that, had
at not been for n contingency owe
lis which the corporation had no con
ed trol-a two years drouth-whici
nd parched the country and dried III
Ie the streams-there would have beeI
l. no difficulty about water. Only FOL
i this unpreventible freak OF nature
nj the measures adopted by the city
d authorities 10 obtain water for the
!" people would have been n demon.
e strated success. We do not doubt
y that the future will yet generously
:, justify their actions In that respect,
IL by proofs that Will place their judg-
n ment beyond dispute.
- The assaults on Mayor Arm
l strong, a most energetic and capable
? officer, are paltry and disingenuous.
s Purchases of lumber, etc, were
made by the city from a corporation
= in which he holds stock, and insinu-
l atoms Of jobbery are launched at
him. The position taken in the re-
: port in this regard is, one would
naturally infer, that the corporation
! should not do business with a COM
pany in which one Of the leading
J municipal officers has an inter
est. While great care should
be exercised in that respect
in orier to avoid even the appear
auce Of self-seeking, there is not
necessarily anything otherwise than
perfectly straight. The limitations
regarding the Salt Lake Railway
Company obtaining certain fran
chises are Of the same character.
The grants We're in harmony with a
popular demand, and the public has
good reason TO be satisfied with
the excellent means Of transporta-
ton afforded by the firstclass ser
vice provided by the company.
After giving n detailed exhibit Of 4
expenditures for detective service in
the work Of attempting to enforce |
the ordinances against prostitution,
the report makes this unique and .
| rtsms rl,9blp statement.
I'VE think this method Of conduct
ing tho business Of this department
needs no comment from this jury; it
will appear at once to the minds Of
those who hear or see this statement
that he whose duty 1t is TO guard the
public funds with every possible care
and to account for their expenditure
with most jealous INSCRIPTIONS
ness. has. by advising aud sanctioning I
such a course, thrown wide the gates
and torn down every barrier which
should restrain those in whose hands !
the hard earned taxes Of thousands !
are placed, from wasteful and Will 3
ainous disbursement OF the public t
funds.
As the exhibit OF vouchers given -,
TO the public through the report in i
this connection shows that the de- 4
tcctive work was paid exclusively f
out Of the fines imposed upon per- c
sons found guilty Of breaking the !
ordinances, the burst OF enthusiastic a
woe in behalf Of the hapless tax t:
oayer falls somewhat fiat, because Il
If its incongruity with the subject J.
o which it refers. |,
The grand jury found n mares j,
lest containing this gigantic egg: :;
GENERAL EXPENSE VOUCHER NO. 3. Il
December Il, 1856. Receipt Of Pacific b
Express Company for SIS, charges on a
NO boxes Of seventy-five books 4
-alued at $3.50. Marked Hon. John T. I
'aine, NJ. C., Washington, D. c. "
'Signod) II. O. YouNG, Agent. a
Then follows this ponderous aues- u
ion: "Why should the city pay :
.xpress charges on books to John T. /,
Csine?" In answer to this mo- ii
nentous interrogatory il is only d
leedful to state a fact with " hich the :,
'olitical grand jury were familiar. d
o wit: The city presented seventy L
I've copies Of Tullidge's History
4 Salt Lake City to members .,
{ Congress. They were shipped to nj
IOn. John T.Caine, who Courteous b
agreed to deliver them to the l.
Gentlemen for whom they were in u,
ended. Iii is preSumabIe that the "
lry considered it the duty Of the FL
onorahle gentleman, in addition TO y
MS gratuitOus service, to relieve ~
he city from paying expressage OH m
lie books 10y defraying the expense h,
ut Of his own pocket. It is ap- U
ropriate to ask the defunct grand ~
Try why Mr.. Caine should be ex- Dc
ected to thus make himself a uI
nancial martyr in behalf Of n cold Oh
"a
We hope that Prince Leopold In
i'll never have the opportunity to esI
edited by an acquaintance with III
lie fact that the presentation to him az
the Salt Lake City corporation Of lin
book was made, by n an
and jury, a political point an
,ainst the government of the W. W.
unicipality. Such information loo
light { affect his health and fut
Iange his estimate Of American ms
urtesy and hospitality. Should ;iI' M
e report be translated into Ger fire.
an, let the Leopold incident he ex- ]
Inged. to
The report is SO stupendously S IN
lg-although elementany small at,
at it can only be limite1Iy dealt Of
tn in a reviewing article. th'
The Hydraulic Canal Company be
mes In Tor share Of abuse. The
cumentary statement, taken in sin
injection with a paper in the 10
nds of the City Council, exhibits ths
whole matter, but the diatribcs Of
d conclusions of the jury are tha
'nifestly unjust, rs the record and glv
facts abundantly show. The re- dir
IT says: Oh
The county made the deed to the .le
Y, and those connected with the ~,
ial company had the money; the cor
lnty gets nothing, and in our view
the matter was not entitled to any, sto
ng for the reason that it had moth VIII
; to convey the
According to this rea soning all of sew
five canals connected with the mn
rlan are in n pranar;,,,. -: I the