The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-14
Idaho Legislative Session Is to
Convene Within the Next
Sixty Days.
H0USE-CLEANING IS DUE
BEFORE ANY LEGISLATION
Pointed Attention Called TO the
Wrongdoing of Attorney
General McDougall.
BY G.. e. ARNEY.

BOISE, Ida, Nov 13-The Idaho
LEGISLATURE will convene here within
sixty days 1t will be Republican
legislature in both branches.
This session, for the first time In ten
years, will observe Democrat in the
executive chair. placed there by the
votes of more than six thousand of the
voters of the same party to which this
majority belongs.
This revolt in party sentiment did not
Just happen. There was reason for
1T; reason founded on manly and
womanly conviction; one which finds It's
initiative deep down in the hearts of
the voters who demand q respectable
order of official morality,
1t appears to be the duty, as it is the
privilege Of the Idaho correspondent of
The Salt Lake Tribune, to aid in baz-
ing the trail for higher order of civic
Righteousness in this '|Gem'' state,
Brady Warned.
Six months ago ! rode on railway
train through Fremont county and
called the attention of the governor to
the questionable acts of his associates
in office which were bound to react
on him with telling force ! assured
him of my belief in the spirit of the
people who were inclined to credit him
with the blessings, while holding him
acts of his associates in office, elective
or appointive.
Ii was less than a week thereafter
that the register of his state land board
was hauled on the carpet and CATER
secret hearing) through the culpabili-
ty of all three Of the governors asso-
ciates on the state land board, granted
to the state. In the hearing it devel-
oped that he was "'grafting' through
permission of the legal department of
Idaho, Attorney General D. c. Nc
Dougall, who (according to Witness
Davis) had told Church he might ''hold
up irrigation project promoters for
fees, under the guise of lawyer. while
serving as register.
In my conversation with Brady
told him of the connection with the
Medbury project of the attorney gen
eral S assistant, j. n. Peterson. He
agreed with me that his subordinate
position in the department of law of
the state was sorry reflection on his
admin stration and promised It's early
remedy. Later in his ofice-but five
days before the hearing on the Church
case-he asked for more time to ac~
complish the removal of Peterson.
All faith in Brady took flight when
he sat in secret, locked in his private
office, in examination of the peculating
register. There he betrayed the spirit
which was the occasion of his down
fall There he lost the confidence Of
the people. He presumed, as result
of this investigation, to set his oincial
seal of disapproval on the acts of his
associate members. A man Of parts,
one of bone, sinew, of character, would
have put these three 'grafters out of
business in short order. How7 By
serving notice on them-al three,
Cha mberlaln, McDougall and Lansdon-
that under no possible conditions should
nomination. for he proposed to ask, as
a patriotic citizen, that a grand jury
be called to investigate the legal pro
priety of their acquisition Of Carey act
land titles, through "inside informa
tion received by each of them in their
miscellaneous entry of lands in the
many tracts of Carey act lands opened
by his state land board.
This would have been the attitude of
brave man, Of an honest man, of one
imbued with high respect for the laws
OF his state, and for his official oath.
What did he dol Brady, the gov
ernor and chairman, within short
month thereafter went to the home
county of the attorney general, he who
jects on which he had fixed the price
of the water; TO Oneida county with
the attorney general, and through the
hope of political reward from Nor
mon constituency. returned 10 Boise and
gave to the readers of the Evening
Capital News most laudatory inter.
view as to the political popularity of
y ~
Dougall became Brady's candidate for
denomination and later for reelection.
And Joseph Fl, Peterson, whom Brady
! said should not remain in the service
of Idaho, remained and is still there.
Should Investigate McDougall.
The distinguished attention of the
members of the eleventh session of the
Idaho legislature is respectfully called
to the attorney general. He is In is
sue before you gentlemen. You will
have some business to perform with him
if YOU come to Boise this winter to per
form your duty to Idaho.
You come here under the guise Of en-
acting laws. Your Office gives you the
power-through your state affairs COM
mittee-to investigate the executive
branch of the government of Idaho and
report your findings to the deserving
people of this splendid commonwealth.
l tnlnkp gentlemen OF tpe senate ana
house, you will have no difficulty in
locating title in certain Carey act lands,
in the name of Mr.. D. c. McDougalL.
your attorney general, if you will call
on the register of the state land depart.
ment and ask him for an inspection of
the Goose Creek and Of the Medbury
Carey act projects, the price of water
TO each of which was fixed by the
Brady state land board, OF which he was
a member and the legal adviser,
| And before you pass too many laws:
before YOU burden yourselves with too
much attention to additional legislation,
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