The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-10-13
AN IMBECILE DELEGATION.

The Tribune dispatch from Washing
ton yesterday morning represented Sen
ator Sutherland as making a protest TO
the Treasury Department against the
appointment, by the Comptroller OF the
Currency. Of Colorado man TO be Ma
tional Bank Examiner for Utah. The
action of the Comptroller in going out
side of the State TO select bank ex-
aminer for the State IS so unusual that
it is natural TO find a protest regis
tered against it. But this protest will
have no effect; the Department has evl-
IDENTITY determined upon It's course, and
will not yield. Ii IS understood that
the Utah delegation united in recon
mendirg Utah man for this position
perhaps it would be more correct 10
say that Apostle SmooG recommended
Utah man, and that Senator Sutherland
and Representative Elder Howell
obeyed his orders TO trail IN with their
endorsement. But the Utah delegation
was calmly set aside by the Comptroller,
and a man whom they knew nothing
about. a man from another State, gets
the place.
This is an illustration OF the lmbe-
cihty OF the Utah delegation IN Wash
ington. Not only is this delegation
originally and necessarily a negative
quantity, as being controlled and be-
smirched by Apostle Smoot, but the ap-
pointments which IL has secured IN
Utah are so utterly unworthy and dis
reputable that the National authorities
are beginning TO view with dlstaste all
the recomm enda tions of this delegation.
The appointment OF William Spry as
marshal, whose first official act was TO
interfere In the process or justice ny
pointing out 10 a Judge or the District
Court that he ought TO rule upon a Ger
tain motion pending before him IN a
way that would be advantageous TO
the Republican party, was one OF the
first made on the recommendation OF
this delegation Then came Mr.. Booth
for United States Attorney, who had
at once TO be superseded in the control
OF the important cases pending before
tie Federal Court. Then came the un-
speaksb!e appointment of a postmaster
at Ogden. All the while the imbecile
disregard for the public interests and
the utter lack of administrative abll-
ity shown in the postofice il this city
was constant thorn II the side of the
Postofice Department., until 1t culml-
mated in the vile immoraities which led
to the resignation of one postothce IN
spectoT and the peremptory discharge of
another. And the Utah delegation
made itself responsible for these ir-
regularities and for whatever vicious
ness and defiance of the public inter
ests that were involved, by loudly pro-
testing that there was nothing wrong
in the postofice in Salt Lake City, and
that the accusations made against 1t
and the food of complaints by patrons
were actuated by malice and personal
arimosities.
With a record like this TO the dis
credit of the Utah delegation, it is not
surprising that the Departments are
fighting shy of the recommendations
coming from that source. There can
in fact be no good, clean, honest SER
vice in the Federal affairs IN this State
until the obnoxious pets of the Utah
delegation are ousted from Office and
persons Jealous for the public welfare
and who are not mixed up with any
current improprieties, obloquies, and
vicious political sliminess, are substi-
tuted IN their place. The present Utah
delegation has made a frightful record
at the National capital, and the people
OF Utah need not be surprised if from
henceforth any recommendation from
that source shall be handicap rather
than benefit to the applicant Tor Fed
crn1 IN III. GAnNn