The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-03-05
ASKS FOR PROBE
BY GRAND JURY
Paper Is Delivered to
County Attorney and
Commissioner Shear
man Is Made Aware of
Contents; Neither Will
Make Statement.

An investigation of the campaign ex-
penses of City Commissioner w. Ii.
Shearman is asked i'll communication
received yesterday by County Attorney
l. E. Wiley from the Salt Lake Fed
Grafton Of Labor. The request is in
the form of resolution adopted unani-
mously by the executive board of the
labor organization, following its pres
entation HI meeting of the fedora
tion on February 81 Attorney Wiley
is requested to cause the impaneling
of special grand jury for the hearing
of testimony and examination of wit
nesses,
Following conference held late yes
terday afternoon between the county
attorney and the accused commissioner,
the former announced that 1t was the
wish Of Mr.. Shearmun that the resolu-
tions filed by the federation be not
made public.
'Mr. Shearman does not think, nor
do l, that should give the newspapers
access to the resolutions, said Mr..
Wiley. ~ will tomorrow address
letter to the federation. Just what L
will say in that letter is still to be
determined. However, l am not the
official to call grand jury. That is
the duty Of the district attorney"
Makes No Statement.
Asked for a statement as to the
charges, Commissioner Shearman said
be desired TO make no statement at
this time lie added that later, if it
becomes apparent that many persons
are inclined to take tho charges seri
ously, he would probably have state
mcnt to make. He said he looked up
on the charges as Of no Importance.
The resolutions in question were pre-
sented at meeting of the federation
held last Friday night by Delegate
George Child. 1t is said that Mr., Child
had legal advice before presenting tho
document. Several delegates are al
legged to have spoken in favor of the
resolution, which was referred to the
executive board with power to act. The
executive body held several meetings
and decided unanimously to forward
the resolution to the county attorney.
A special meeting of the body was held
last night, ut which it was decided that
as the county attorney had
refused to give the newspapers access
to the charges the secretary Of the Or
ganizaton furnish copies to the papers
Set Forth.
Mr.. Shearman attested and filed his
statement of campaign expenses with
the city recorder on February 4. The
total expense, as set forth in the
WINS $4516.95, which is
SgI6 95 more than the commissioner will
receive in salary the first year of his
and which is more than
10 per cent OF the total salary he Will
receive during his entire term of office.
The largest single item OF expense was
he paw roll Of workers at the polls
n the primary and at the final cleo
ion. aggregating $2S46.70, more than
30 per cent Of the total expense. The
second largest item was salary paid to
;eorpe Wilson, campaign manager.
otal of $10lS, almost % per cent of
he total. Automobiles at cost OF
so ranked third in the items OF
In the list of contributions to make
~ the fund Mr., ShcaTman ranks first.
aving paid his manager salary sryyo or or
iO1S and in addition spending S239.45
imself, Harry P. Clark was the Sec
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