The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-20
is CHAMBERS
INELIGIBLE TO
HOLD OFFICE?
Statute Says Public Official
Convicted of a Felony, Is
Forever Barred.
SPRY'S CHOICE HAS
A CRIMINAL RECORD
PROSPECTIVE GAME COMMITS
sIoNER CONVICTED OF Eel
ONV IN OGDEN.

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| Fred W. Chambers. who was Yesterday
| appointed by Governor William Spry to
the office of state fish and game COM
missioner, may be forced to fight in court
for his office. II is the conviction of well
| Informed officers that Mr.. Chambers is
/ ineligible to hold the office to which he
has been appointed.
Mr.. Chambers came into public notice
| three years ago when as city councilman
/ in Ogden he was charged with voting
| himself money from the city treasury for
services he had not rendered. He was
charged with felony and prosecuted be-
fore the district court, Judge ]. a. Howell
/ presiding. He was found guilty by a
I jury and on the order of the court was
| dismissed from his office as city coun-
/ Gilman. The case was appealed by Cham
/ and that court affirmed the judgment OF
| the lower court. Chambers was dismissed
| from office and that was the extent of
/ his punishment at the time,
Text of Complaint.
| This action against Fred W Chambers
and other ogden councilmen was brought
| by J. D. Skeen, q lawyer of Ogden. In
his complaint against Chambers filed in
the district court February ., 1896. Attor-
ney Skeen charged that while serving as
city councilman Fred ". Chambers will
fully, corTuptiy and frsudulently present
ed to the city auditor of said Ogden City
a claim for the sum of $50, and caused
warrant No. 1885, to be issued by said
auditor to him, directing the city treas
urer of Ogden City to pay him the sum
| PENDANT willfully and corTuptly presented
said warrant Endorsed by him to the city
1 treasurer of Ogden City and demanded
from said treasurer and received the sum
/ of $50 out of the funds belonging to said
city
! The complaint goes on to show the re-
/ ceipt of 800 at another time for services
1 alleged to have been rendered as a MEM
I Der of the board of equalization; and on
still another occasion of receiving s10o-5o
| for services alleged to have been rendered
| on the board of equalization. On these
| charges the jury found Chambers guilty
: of charging and collecting illegal fees"
Judgment is Affirmed.
The decision Of the supreme court on
4 the appeal OF the case was written by
" rim
the facts the decision of the supreme
/ court was: I'VE find no reversible error.
| Judgment is affirmed The cost of this
/ appeal to be taxed against appellant
Fred W. Chambers figured prominently
! in municipal politics while William Glas-
| mann was mayor. Since his expulsion
1 from the city council he has been en-
/ plOyed by Glasmann as advertising solicit
| tor for his papers. Locally his appoint
ment is attributed to the political influence
/ of Glasmann-
Warm Fight Promised.
There promises to be a warm fight in
/ the executive session Of the senate today
over the confirmation Of Chambers APP
pointment. 1t was understood last even
| ing that enough senators had been
| pledged against Chambers to reject his
appointment. The senators, however, ad-
! mitted that even If they did reject the
appointment the governor would make a
| recess appointment and name him the
moment the legislature adjourned.
One reason given for Chambers appoint
| ment was the fact that four years ago
| when Spry was acting as state chairman
| of the Republican party the two became
close friends. 1t was at that time that
| Chambers was arrested and tried before
Judge Howell. Spry went with Major NJ.
! A Breeder. then attorney general, before
| Judge ]. A Howell of ogden and urged
him to withhold his decision in the case
until after election on the ground that a
| conviction of Chambers might injure the
chances of the Republican party for sue
cess in the campaign.
! President Gardner and Senator John 7.
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