The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-16

!. were fraudulcntly obtained from =
i- the government OF tnc Tni,sd Tnii,s9d !.
x States District Attorney 6p2In OF
!, Utah IS now hiking to washington :
X on IL limited train. What l9f :
- Well look at the court records
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Two weeks ago, amid a great flourish
of trumpeiS and several grandstand
plavs. it was given ont nj the federal
building i'm Salt Lake Clty that the
government had won great victory III
what were designated as the coal lands
fraud cases and number of bouquets
singly and in Job lots were thrown AT
the United States district attorney and
the special attorneys sent here to prose
cute the case 10 finish. But IL was
not vic;cry for the general govern.
mcnt. not 4 victory for the United
States attorney and special deputies
sent here To help him. Instead II was
shameful surrender upon the part OF
the department of justice. and great
Victory for the Utah Fuel company
which was the defendant in the case,
by which 1t paid 10 the government The
surl Il S-UG.000. turned over TO the
govcrnmeut 1910 acres of land for
which Tie col-paDy paid $40 per acre. or
$14 400. and for so doing ne United
States dismissed I'll proceedings af
rllrtsoev vcr kind against tho Utah Fuel
coinpauy. al,l thus practically agreed
10 give the T:,cl company absolute tltlc
20 lands wn.ch the government nad
Sought II recover aud which are worth
miilions upon millions of dnl'ars.
Preseni to Fuel Company.
To do this. 10 make This present TO
lfhc Utah J'uc' company, for 6hat is
yhat it is. cost the government of the
limited States about SJ,o59,o00. and
demonstrated that the work done by
Utah and the assistants sent 10 his aid
from Washington was nil. it was Il
complete setdown upon officials named,
.ns il was either accept i compromise or
lose out entire.
The call down upon the United States
attorneys came from Attorney General
Wichersham. 1t is understood that
prior TO the order of the attorney gen
eral there was IN agreement or stipu.
1ation made by the government aud The
Utah Fuel company by which the com.
promise was decided upon, and which
contained a clause that all Information
pertaining 10 the eases was 10 be given /
out by officials OF the government and |
the Utah Fuel company was to keep ST. |
lieut.; in other words. keep lis mouth |
shut. This is why so many big bouquets !
have been thrown at the federal officials |
by federal officials. On March ID there |
was sent from Washington letter
from the attorney general 10 the United |
States attorney for Utah. which letter |
IS now on file in the clerk s Office of |
the United States court for the dis |
ffIct OF Utah. This letter is rs fol !
lows:
Herc Is the Letter.
DEPARTMENT or JUSTICE.
4,
n. Il. Booth: Esq. United states Attor-
ney. Salt Lake City. Utah.
!. Sir--ln equity case No. %G2. wherein |
the. United states OF Amoyca is com |
plainant and the Utah Fuel company and |
Pleasant Vallc% Coal company are de- !
fendanis, hnd in equity cases Nos. S6T. |
States is complainant and the above |
named companies ana The Morton Trust |
COMPANY of New York York are defendants;
court for the district of Utah. you are |
authorized and directed To dismiss such |
suits. In The even, that there shall be |
them. with the clerk OF said court. TO the !
credit OF tho United States. in cash or |
the amount OF the fine imposed by the |
court in the case, No 1910 aggregate |
two hundred thousand (S-fp.00o) dollars;
each papty TO pay It's own costs. Respect /
GEORGE w. WiCKEPSHAM.
Attorney General
what suit lnTolVed
These suits which the attorney gen
ernl ordered dismissed involved many I
thousands of acres OF land, no part of !
which has been returned to the govern
Tent, hu. I'll Of which is presented to
the coal company.
b Tine letter Of Attorney General Week |
cr,sl,um cited above WAS filed on Marc /
20. and the same day there was H.. |
with the cierk Of the court this tela.
gram
Washington. d. c.. March IS. 1893
f. a. MHyDard Special Attorney. Care Z.
? United States Attorney. Salt Lake City. I
Utah.
Secretary of the interior and I think I
the tum TO be paid on settlement with /
tho fuel company should not be deposited Z
with clerk. but paid IN the manner SUE
Ecstcd by Schwartz. Pleas" he guided .
hccordin.ly. WICKERSHAM.
Attorney General
VIII. Schwartz Meant.
The suggestion Of Schwartz referred I
70 IN ihr telegram, is il understood. was
1p pay I've ,.cacy direct to the interior |
department. But that is another story.
& Here is what the government. through |
fhe United States attorney for Utah |
md the assistants sent from Washing
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