Show THIS REMINDS US prosecuting attorney varian of the U S court presented an important matter to the court of the territory last wednesday it is a matter that concerns t the 1 e people of this county in particular and may remind them of some experiences they have been passing through it would seem from froin tho the affidavit and petition which were then and there presented that other U I 1 S commissioners in other places have been acting somewhat as commissioners with whom we are better acquainted have acted when the supreme court acts on the request of the legal fraternity of salt like lake we feel confident that logan will be one commissioner lees leb at least people of tills this community are getting 0 weary of federal officials who work up civil cases against them thein and hail bail with delight the coming of the day of their decapitation following is the petition read by prosecutor variant varian to tile the Ilon honorable crable supreme court of 0 utah territory the signed members of 0 the bar respects respectfully ally show to the llie court that tha 1 it is 18 commonly ili li arged and reported that certain united states appointed by this court to wit it george IV mover and C 11 II martin have on oil divers occasions directly and indirectly y suli solicited cited numerous and different persons linns firms and corporations to sue their accounts and claims before them the said commissioners upon the express understanding that unless they rendered judgment thereon iti ereon against the defendant or defendants and collected the costs no claim for costs charges or expenses whatever N would be mide m ide by said commissioners against the and thai they and eacho each of gliem th the e said coin commissioners in iss loriers have done and suffered various other wrongful and improper acts and practices both in civil and criminal cases and otherwise to the manifest detriment and perversion of justice an and oppression 0 of litigants litigants in their co courts rt s and tending lending to ring bring the administer adminis tr d tion of justice into contempt and bur burdening ell ing the locket docket of the district court wit with I 1 I 1 appeals appe itla and trivial and groundless cases wherefore re your your petitioners petition ers respectfully suggest r that the alie court appoint a committee to investigate said charges and ic te ports with howerto power to summon and examine and said commissioners inners and their dockets or to take lake uch such other and further steps as may be necessary to full fully investigate the same or that the hie court otherwise investigates or order the same to be investigated signed by many names 8 the following affidavit alli davit was also read by mr varian territory OE UTAH I 1 salt lake count fountyf v ald yf george A bargon and jos W snell jr beine each first severally and duly sworn sor neach cacti for himself liim self says that on january 1893 1803 at our office in salt lake city utah one george IN mover a united states stales C commissioner om missioner in in I a conversation respecting a change of venue from C II 11 martins court in the case of the consumers trading co vs marshall marshal wherein the affiant burgeon stated that it was commonly reported that mover move r had solicited merchants accounts lor fr collection mth ith the direct understanding der or agreement tint they the alie said merchants from whom the same earne ft eie leie obtained were to pay neither fees nor costs of court except the same should be collected on judgments against tile the defendants lie them the said moyer then and there stated in vu astaire 1 61 I admit that I 1 have solicited from merchants their accounts forcelle for colle collection lion I 1 with th the understanding that I 1 would make ale no harges barges against them either for fees fee or costs unless the sanie same was as collected from the defendants and then and there attempted to justify such a practice by statin in substance that the ilie fact that a i justice altice or commissioner understood that he would get no fees unless judgment were nere rendered against alie defendant in cases brought before him could not in an any manner bias such justice or coin commissioner in missioner iss ioner or prejudice the defendants GEO A tons JOHN W SNELL JR JB subscribed and sworn sorn to before me this ath lay day of march 1893 JOHN it HURD notary public |