The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-04-08
ANOTHER INVESTIGATION.

1t is understood that general agent of
the department Of justice is in the CITY for
the purpose of investigating court Of
ncials. We wonder what has gore wrong
lately that suggests an inquiry. Can it be
tfat Marshal PARSONS is still retaliating
upon the gentlemen who have been making.
things interesting and expensive for him.
Or, IS this investigation one which has
come along IN the regular Greer, and there
lore means nothing more than the asking
oil set and formal questions and the glanc-
ing into a few Official records THE
HERALD hasn't the slightest intima-
ton US to what the agent proposes
10 inquire into, ncr as whether or not there
are suspicious which have induced his ccm-
ing: but for the sake of consistency and
IN the lame OF decency, we hope that if he
snail discover anything demanding the
censure or removal Of an Official, he viii see
TO IL that his Recommendations are acted
Upon before the next administration shall
nave run year. Another agent OF tic de-
partment came here three years ago on
such matter, and went into the do
lngs OF the judicial gentleman pretty thor
oughly. 1t was said at the time that h, had
uoearthed any amount of croolsednes Sc
andcorruption, and the street talk was
that his return to the canital
would be signalized by the decapitation
OF any number of officials, while some of
the deposed gentlemen would doubtless
do time" in the penitentiary. Expecta-
ton was on tiptoe for weeks, and as moth
ing was heard concerning the matter. peo-
pie concluded that there had been good
deal OF lying concerning the alleged dis
coveries, or that the agent hal changed
his mind after leaving Utah. A new ad
ministration was inaugurated and ran
along for more than yelr, in the
meantime appointing some of the very
men said to have been denounced bv the
agent; when suddenly one of the officials is
bounced and 1t comes to The surface that
the bouncing was based on the
special agents report. 1t also transpires
that the report has been on file
all these years, and had even been seen bv
the attorney general before he appointed
the man he has just removed from Office.
Now, if the investigation Just inaugur-
ated shall result in the discovery of doings
which ought not to have occurred. let ms
nope that the matter will be exposed and
acted upon before it shall have been for
gotten, and not be laid aside to be called mn
by somebody TO justify personal spite or in
retaliation for something done by the Off
cial in personal quarrel We regard the
FISHER inquiry, in the light of tie course
afterwards pursued, as good deal of n
farce. There was nothing in It that
was creditable to either Mr.. CLEyELANn,s
or General HARRIsoN's administration
and while the punishment now being i'm
posed may be merited and righteous. the
manner in which the business has been
done is all wrong. The impression is held
by everybody that nothing would have
been done If Marshal Parsons had NOT
goneto Washington ard dug up FISHERS
report to fire it at Assistant United States
Attorney MCKAY, although two attorneys
general must have been familiar with the
charges and proofs in that report. and one
OF them appointed MCKAY to the Office with
the report before him; hence, what
other conclusion can the public arrive
at than that the assistant attorneys re-
moval was made as personal favor to the
marshal rather than in the interest of
justice or because of anything contained in
the agents report, although the ancient
document was used as an excuse!
The present agent may be more infiuen-
tai than was Mr. FISHER, and we hope he
is. II he Shall find anything that will war
rant proceedings against any of the court