The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-30
lily submitted.
E. ]. EARDLEY.
+. s. FERNSTROM,
r. 7. HEWLETT.

BY vote OF six ayes and nine noes,
he council last evening rejected the
above resolution. Those who voted in
favor of it were r. H. Davis Eardley,
FernstrOm, Hewlett, Spence and Presi-
dent COttrell. The -councilmen who re-
fused to uphold the members of the
police and prison department in their
resolution were Arnold, Black, DaveIer,
A j. Davis, Robinson. Sharp, Thomas,
Tuddenham and Vigus.
The majority of the members of the
council were unprepared for the reso-
luton when ii was presented. 1t came
to them as a surprise, and they ac-
knowledged it on the floor of the cham
Der when they rose to speak for or
against the adoption of the same. Coun-
Gilman Fernstrom led the forces in
favor of the resolution, and Council
man DaVeler soon assumed the leader
ship of the opposition.
The debate lasted almost an hour and
was quite spirited at times. The posi-
ton taken by the members of the com
mittee. and their arraignment of the
newspapers of the citv- did not meet
with the approval Of several of the
couneilmen, who might have voted for
similar resolution had it been
couched in more conciliatory terms.
They considered it too much a vindi-
cation of Chief of Police Paul and his
1OICe. ana laying TOO HluCn Diane upon
the newspapers which have been agi-
tating a curtailment of the immoral
practices of the city and restriction of
the same
Fernstrom Is Rash.
After the resolution had been read,
Councilman Fernstrom took the floor
and spoke at length in favor of the
adoption of the resolution. He pref
aced his remarks with the unqualified
statement that almost all the holdups
which have been printed in the papers
during the past few weeks were lies
pure and simple. He did not imply that
the papers had Intentionally misrepre-
kented matters in that regard, bur that
>the men who had reported to the police
that they had been robbed lied to de-
ceiVe their wives and thereby account
for money which they had spent or
sduandered down town before they re-
turned home.
He said he was positive that the po-
lice force had been grossly imposed up
on. and that the newspapers had IN
Justly ana URwarrantedly said harsh
things about Chief Paul which they
should not have done
Commenting upon the mass meeting
of citizens to be held and the petition
being circulated asking the district
judges for grand jury investigation
OF the immortality of the city, he said
he cOurted an INQUIRY, as he felt GER
tain that the most rigid investigation
would result in the complete vindica-
ton of the police department and the
humiliation of the newspapers.
He said he stood ready to prove that
the statement that more than two let
tiers had been found in the Office of DR..
Payne. stating that he was in the habit
of performing criminal operations, was
false. The publication that a bushel
OF such epistles had been found. which
tend to incriminate the doctor in ques-
ton. was. in his, mind. an untruth and
did not reflect credit upon the morals
of the fair women of the state.
Speaks For Victoria Alley.
/ He also stands ready to prove, he as
serted, that the conditions in Victoria
alley are not as the papers have ex-
plotted them. He visited the alley sew
eral night ago, and ne did not see
school boys there. and doubted very
much if they were in the habit of visit
ing that section of the city or entering
the rooms of those creatures.
In conclusion, he asked his fellow
ccuncilmen to support the resolution
saying the alley is better today than il
has ever been. because the women are
now confined to the second floor. and
because the attacks made by the news
papers upon the police force are not
only an injustice TO the chief and his
men, but that they give false i'm
preston to the outside world as to the
morality of the city. He said that Salt
Lake City is more moral today thar
any other municipality Of its size in tho
world, as near as he can learn.
Councilman Eardley next received the
recognition of the president for a few
remarks on the adoption of the report
He conceded with every statement
made by Councilman Fernstrom. he
had little but blame for the newspaper.
for daring to print stories against the
iniquity of the city when they ought tc
know. as he does. that Salt Lake City
a beauty spot in the state from q
moral point of view.
Blames the Newspapers.
He took the papers to task for givins
the impression to the world at large
that II is not safe for people Will
money IN their pockets to walk hom,
at night for fear of being held up and
robbed. He took the stand that mos
OF the alleged rObberies were fakes
that the conditions in Victoria alley
are not as the papers have represented
them. and that the police force is Z
credit to the city and not as derelict a.
the papers would have the genera
public believe.