The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-07-06

Sheriff Hardy has informed the
county attorney that he must arrange
a fee bill for the office of the sheriff,
if the county court expects him to do
! any work. The selectmen have been
| cutting down the sheriff's Office every
/ opportunity and it is an impossibiiity
for him to keep going unless some ar
rangement is made. The sheriff has
been allowed $3.50 per month. He pays
office rent and lights and the salaries
of his deputies who are working on
the monthly wage plan. By the time
he has finished this, he has nothing
left, and were it not for the fact that
he gets a little outside business, he
would be in the hole each month. No
one knows this better than the select
men themselves, but they have their
friends to reward and enemies to
punish and. although the present oc-
cupant of the Sheriff's office is max
ing a good record. he is one of the
men who have been selected for re-
duction.
In this connection it may not be
out of place to say that one member
of the county court has been heard TO
say that The Herald was hurting
Hardy by championing his cause.
This paper has championed the cause
of no one in the Republican admins
tration; it has merely referred to the
many acts of injustice on the part of
the county court as a matter of in
formation for the many hundreds of
tax payers who are now vigorously
kicking themselves for making the
choice they did in electing the three
Ha for
ritoriaf record as mileage makers.
1t called attention a few days ago
to the cutting down of a bill for the
care of the insane. At that time
nothing was known regarding the de-
tails of the manner in which the &C
count was incurred. Since then d
reporter has called upon the sheriff
and asked him for the particulars
concerning the items. 1t is down.
right robbery to ask a man to do the
same work for less money than was
charged in these cases and any one
with common horse sense can see
this at a glance.
People who read the papers are
coming to the belief that no one save
the county attorney and the select
men can get a bill through without
having it reduced. This belief is
warranted by the circumstances in
the case. Whatever WhittemOre says
in relation to his accounts is accepted
as gospel and action is had accord
ingly. The same is true of the select
men themselves. They herd together
in their private room; are never
known to discuss a proposition in
public so their positions or ideas can
be correctly ascertained, and cOnsti-
tute q dark lantern convention nine
tenths of the time, and not county
court.
Thee are bills for services of wit
nesses in the county investigation
which have been in the private office
of the selectmen for weeks and weeks
under the pretense of being there for
audit AS a matter of good fair pre-
sumption they are there because the
selectmen knew if they were paid, the
people would make a great kick on
the expenses which are being in
CURED in chasing ignus fatuii.
Tyson, the man who was given the
contract for correcting the plats of
the collector and making them con-
form to those of the assessor. has
thrown up the job, just as The Her
aid said he would and Mont Fisher.
a competent man who wanted the
work in the first place, has been given
the work. But Tyson will get his pay
just the same. He had contract Tor
the job which provided the court
should furnish the plats and when the
assessor refused to turn them over
Tyson appealed to the seiectmen for
assistance which ne could not get.
Now the Job will be done by Fisher,
ne will get his pay; Tyson will file his
bill and it will have to be paid. Just
how long the taxpayers of this county
will stand this kind of monkeying re-
mains to be seen.