Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-12-10
Liberal, CRUOKEDNEsS.


the city accounts eliminated in q
report made by the finance commit.
tie At last nights session of the
/ Council. 1t stated that the amount
q shortage in Recorder Hyams'
accounts i Sl55l. The concluding
portion Of the report represents the
committee as welding the white.
wash brush and spreading a thin
cost upon Mr.. Hyams, but the
whiting was badly streaked with
SCOT. Here is the mixture with
which they daubei the defaulting
official.
"Your committee further report
the Recorder has done all in his power
10 assist this committee in their inves-
legations, and while we charge him
with gross carelessneSs in Office. we do
not believe he intended to defraud the
city in any mlnncr.-
Il seems that the committee, if it
made any com nent at all, must
either characterizs Mr.. Hyams as
an idiot or a rogue, and it seemed
to regard the form.r as the lesser Of
the two rather enormous evils when
Introduced into civil station OF i'm.
por.ant responsibility. Ii Is well TO
consider this transaction in the
light of logic.
There appears to ne no doubt as
to the fact that sI75i Of the public
money was missing. The defalca-
ton was in the recorders depart
meut. That amount of cash did not
taHe its fiigbt without the aid of n
piiferer. Its disappearance is at
tributel TO carelessness, and not
c-ininllity. That means, We sup
pos, that the sum was used per-
sonally By Recorder Hyams OF
somebody connected with his office
for his personal benefit, the expendi-
ture being INDUCED in while the
sPprcpriator of other peoples money
was in blissful ignorance that it was
not his own.
This is very thin. The shortage
amounts to about $40 4 month from
the time Mr.. Hyams assumed the
Rscoriership until the date OF dis
c5ve-y six weeks since. To accept
Of the theory Of the committee |
would be to accept of the correct
ness or a remarkable instance of |
Observation-Disclosures. If a tramp
should take an overcoat from n
store dummy and be caught at 1t
aud somebody put up plea to the
ELECT that the purloiner had no in
.ention Of doing wrong, but was
merely guilty of "gross careless
ness" the p.eader would be re-
ssried by the court as lunatic.
We 10 not assert that Mr.. Hyams
tole that Sl75l, no matter what we
nay think on the subject, but the
ON nittee point to him alone and
10 other. And IL he did not take 1t ,
Thy did he return it to the CITY
Ii he can clear himself
rOm the imputation that lies under e.
ne committees white-wash, why
oes be not do soe Why old he not
ppear in the Council las. night, and
ny did he resign? He refuses to
lake any explanation.
Tie Council was seized last night {
'ith spasm Of virtue, and . used
resolution that the Committee
lOIld continue their llbors, by ex- h
riing their investigations to all
her departments OF the municipal
1t is a good deal like =
ncing q railroad street crossing ],
ter somebody has been run over 5
III mangled. The danger Of such :
| occurrence was apparent from
e beginning. .
Mr. Hyams was given the record Il
snip rs n reward because Of his Il
rtisan work in the capacity Of ..
-istrar Tor the ssLiberal'' cause In ~
e campaign preceding the last c
lnicioal election. He was sus- 5.
cte;i Of having been one Of the
ief operators in the "Liberal,, n
uds that were then perpetrated. n
cur opinion a man who will
%aTt the popular will and ill.,
de by fraudulent practices the
red right of suffrage, is not to be pa
sted in other respects. Such q ~
son Is. according to Judge Zane, co
traitor TO his country If the IN
: recorder was engaged in that wi
ID Of work, and was rewarded for We
IS not the present event q natural no
alt OF the Transaction? pr
IS impossible to regarl the asl
ition of the chief morning
iberal" organ on this occurrence >,
other than inconsistent. 1t "a,
ssed over the "Liberal'' frauds Tor
imitted during the last munici- ke'
campaign, while forcei to admit grs
special trains were run out on ~.
r. G. w. to the COLORADO line bul