The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-01
Governor Forces Other Members
Of Land Board to Accept
Church Resignation.
LIKEWISE TO DISAV0W
AND DISAPPR0VE HIS ACTS
All Proceedings in the Matter
Are Held in Star-Chamber
Session.
BY G. e. ARNEY.

BOISE, Ida, April S0.-After heat
board meeting held behind closed
doors, the governor forced Attorney
General McDougall and Secretary Lans
don to join be- and Superintendent
Chamberlain in voting to accept the
resignation of Register Church and to
disavow and disapprove of his actions.
p. G, Gallett Of Pocatello, a clerk of
Bannock county, was offered and re-
fused the appointment.
Brady goes north tonight and this
appointment will be delayed until his
return next week.
Why the Star Chamber.
The four members of the Idaho state
land board will scarcely justify them.
selves for their attitude in precludinp
the representatives of the press from
admission TO their deliberations
In harmony with the two daily pa.
pers of Boise, The Salt Lake Tribune
had advised the people Of the west of
the resignation of Register Church, of
the sensational revelations OF Governor
Brady, not only duplicating Church in
attempted peculation, but, as well, his
associate members OF the state land
board in being personally interested
against public policy, at least in Carey
Act projects, over the destinies OF
which they must preside.
Morning after morning The Trib,
NM % rpndaro had hppp fold nf bn raya.
lations of the day affecting the situa-
tion. which looked worse the further in
TO the matter the inquiring public
went Among other things, it had
quoted the governor of the common
wealth with these lines. calculated to
inflame the public mind to pitch of
deep interest, TO say the least:
What Brady Said.
"Any person who assumes position
Of trust under the state government
should devote his time and ability for
the good of the state, and should in no
way directly or INDIRECTLY have any
interest IN any property or claim what
soever in which the state is interested.
No person can serve two masters at the
same time. They should either resign
from the position they occupy, or alb
solutely refrain from taking advau-
tages of the position that they occupy
for the purpose of personal gain.
have heretofore made this statement
in open meeting of our land board, and
this is simply rciteration of the state
ments that | have repeatedly and at all
times made
Was a Shoulder Blow.
These are choice sentences They
breathe of the atmosphere of deferred
Thn of "a
up and took notice when this pro-
nouncement was made by the governor.
They took ii as significant of deter
miuation TO do business, If this state
ment meant anything, it was shoulder
blow attack on the three associates of
Governor Brady, members of his state
land board, Secretary Lansdon, Attor-
ncy General Mcpougall and Superin-
tendent S. Belle Chamberlain, telling
them they should resign. No reason
able conclusion could be otherwise
formed from his chosen language, espe,
cially so when these three faulty as
sociate members rushed fhppantIy into
print and acknowledged themselves in,
tercsted in not one but many Of the
southern Idaho irrigation projects.
Their own published statements show
them all three AS having been inter
ested in several of tho Twin Falls
projects; the Medbury, the Idaho, the
Oakley, and in such towustes as Wen
dell, Gooding md Jerome.
Held Star Chamber Session.
This was the status OF affairs when
] sought admission in an orderly way,
for the purpose of telling A running
story of the upraveling Of the tangled
mess that thc public who read The Trib
une might know exactly the right of
la,r ,,-birh hn haH
based his extraordinary statement, and
upon which the three spcculatively in
clined members Of the Idaho state land
board had pleaded guilty to the eNecu
tive s indictment. In the name of en-
lightened reason, what moral or legal
right had these public servants to close
the door TO the ordinary channels OF
news which flows to the people of this |
state7 If wrongdong had been on
throued where Justice should stand, the
public was entitled TO know it through
the ordinary channels of news, If not, |
they had a right to know that the
governor had falsely accused them, No
reporter fit to associate with respectable |
would distort or warp the |
of state land board sit" |
ing on n matter where tho honor of |
men and of women were at issue
Deprived Of Details.
Today, however. the public is de.
orived of the details OF the hearing
IF yesterday, save as the proceedings
If this body OF usurpers of public
rust may see fit TO censor the cvi.
lence being taken by reporter as they
nay direct. and deal 1t out to suit
heir own convenience.
Whose business is this upon which
iovernor Brady, Secretary Lansdon,
ieneral McDougall and Superintendent
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