Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-03-15
A SERIOUS CHARGE,
Complaints Against US. Commission
CTS Filed in Court This RoFlIlg.
AN INVESTIGATION ASKED.
riny.Eight Commissioners IN tile Ter.
rilory.-Thought to be FOO Many by
Prosecuting Attorney iarian.

Soon after tho opening Of the su.
pTeme court this morning Prosecuting
Attorney &. ). varlan asked permits.
sion to read tue following petition
which was granted;
To tho Honorable Supreme Court Of Uah
Territory.
Tho undersigned members OF the har
respectfully show 10 the court that 10 is
commonly charged aud reported that
certain United Statoz commissioners app
pointed hy this court, to-wil' George w.
Meyer and G.. II. Maruu hlyo ON
dlvors occasions, directly aud indie
rOotly solicited numerous and different
persons, arms and corporations issue tuclr
accounts aud claims before them, thH said
commissioners, upon tue oNpic.- under
standing tina: unlcss they rendered Iudg-
mont thereon against tho defendant or
defendants aud collected TN COSTS, 40
claim for costs, charges or oN itnscs whai-
ever would be- made 10y said olmuisHou-
ors against tho plainiiili anu .hlt they
and each of them, Tho said c'Wuissiou-
ersl hayO done and suffered various
other wrongful and improper acts and
practices, both la civil ana criminal ctsos
and otherwise to tho mniicst dU'rimout
and pefyofsiOn OF Justice ana oppression
~ liigants Ia their costs, aud tending 10
bring Tho administration OF Justice into
contempt, aud burdoning the docket ~
the district court with appeals AID trivial
and groundloss casos.
WEor, fore your petitioner respectfully
suggest that the court HppDus com.
miIoo 10 investigate said charges and
reports, with power 10 summon
aud examine witnesses aud said cDWmiH-
siuncrs and their dockots; or to tnkU such
other and further steps ~ may Toe uccCY-
sary To fully investigate the same, or that
tho court otherwise investigate VI order
tho same to be investigated.
Respectfully,
=. q Sutherland,
Gins. Baldwin,
u. l.. Williams,
~. IS. Crltchlow,
q. Il. Putnam,
j. II. Hutd,
n. N. Tutlock,
Maldemar Van Colt
j. -. TimmOny,
Frank u. stevens las 10 Meyer.
James a. Williams,
Gustavo Kruger los TO Moyor,
A.. llowatt,
Frank plurce,
John NJ. Cannon,
Barlow Ferguson,
=. W. Darke,
n ID. Lewis,
Geo. a. Burgon,
Jno. w. Snoil, Jr.,
Jos. r. Richards,
X w. Young,
Oscar W. Moylo,
Geo. l.. Nyo,
n. -. Winters,
Anthony koonon.
The following affidavit was also
rcad by Mr.. Varlan:
TERRiroHY or UTAH,
salt Lake County.
George a. Burgon and Jos. w. Smell ,lr.,
being each first soyerally and duly sworn
each for himself saws, That ON January
9th, 1893, at our office In salt Lake city,
Utah, ono George n. Meyer, a United
States Commissioner IN a conversation
respecting change Of venue from G. II.
Martins court. In the case OF the Con-
sumor'H Trading Co. W. Marshall, where
| In tho aillnnt BurgOon stated that II was
| commonly reported thas Meyer had soil
| citod merchants accounts for collec ion
| with tho direct understanding or agree
mont that that they the said merchants
| from whom the same were obtained woro
TO pay Mother ices nor COSTS Of court eN-
cept tho same should DO collected on
| judgments against the defendants. Ilo,
| tho said Meyer, then aud there stated la
substance, ~ admit that have solicited
| from merchants thelr accounts for
collection, with tho understanding
that | would make no charge against
| them either for fees or costs unless the
same was collected from tho defendants,
| and then and there attempted to Justify
such n practice by stating in substance
that tho fact that a justice or commits
siouer understood that lac would get no
| fees unless Judgment were rendered
against tho defendant In cases brought