Show THE KKAM JlKr ULTOKT TOWAV wo present for tile iwnis nT our reaiers an elaborate elab-orate couijiaigu cuiucnt Its extreme ex-treme length and straining after 1It tails are evidences of its politics purpoee The IIIJIr fairly brWI wHhcvudeninatoryjuJgm uts pro uouueed on the bases of cz jxtrlc Iiy > oUi t < It la also a significant signifi-cant feet that tide elongated jwliti uil I report understood to have benin ben-in the hands of the chief Liberal organ several days before it was presented in court While om riuVd denunciation is hurled un f 4iut dlyat jiolitkal opponents the grand jury gives evidence having I Ijeeu exceedingly kind to its I t friends The management 01 uiepeuucn ttry Is made a conspicuous feature of the report tile f i t = Marshal Ix Jug bcJftOOrot over the backs of the iwr convicts That official is clmrged with extravagance border logon profligacy because it costs 33 cents per head daily to sustain the ioneix In consequence of this fearful squandering of government atoiiey K cents a day upon a jrrtfraner the grand jury exclaims ill awful economical ecstacy Wear We-ar of the opinion that many of the ura4s4Ie8 furnished were ciccstirctn tt and cxlraragaitt in pnee p Supplemental to this idea for pinching pinch-ing the report further says We are of the opinion that the fresh meat ham aud bacon furiibl < ed during this time wasas to quantity abut 5 per cent in excess of what a lieccssarj and a to price was S5ir cent too high I is i also arc that the price laid for flour O per hundred jiouiids was ex ctaatve A fair calculation of the views of the grandjury would grand JUI wold bring a reduction on the met of rucn C keeping a prisoner neatly fifty per ceit or JIU1 say 15 cents a day or sis cents a If ever the members of the defunct de-funct grand jury should L E unfortunate un-fortunate w e horo they never will us to be landed in the j < cuitentiary sara term there will L a trcmend oos revolution of opinion iu their caua with regard to this financial juctUou Tliey would no longer be advocates of the theory of skeleton izing convicts The tendency ol tho times among all civilized peoples I to treat prisoners a if they were human This plea for starving con I viclethows therefore that the late grand jury are in that particular Iteliiud the age which doe not favor the manufacture of striped IwdowR The species of generosity exhibited in the document reminds one of a story told by Col Ingersoll on theO the-O lon o his lecture In this city some years ago illustrative of the generosity of tome men toward their fpeustie A wife asked her welltodo hujbaad for a littlespemiingmoney when the response came in tones of I juanly thunder What did o do with that thirtyfive cents I cave you three weeks ago Some of tbo computations of tho jury are extraordinary to soy the least us wine this statemenu From his twelve oowj tie > marshal sappiie milk for lb table of the ttejuity warden and guards at the cx pensJ o tb government and sells from tt 70 to JaO worth of milk j5 wor mik per month mt to the prisoners or such of lbm as have money to buy i at the uniform price of twentyfive cents perK I per-K lkm This 1on Tis Industry furnishes a revenue to the marshal of rot less 1MB 9ifiO per inooth and at Ibo same time Iras solved a disputed question ooBwrning prison < li ipline izas to whether it is best to fnml h healthy 1 penMenliarr convicts with articles of i food other than the regular prison fare I even though it brings profit to tho officers in charge It is but on cre 111 justice t j the marshal I Hrhal to state In this connec lion that when juestkraeJ in M lueie regard t lotbH milk supply he answer tint j many o the convicts Wore old men I jnusii with poor teeth cud obliged to cat I It remains for a iwliUcal grand jury to solve such difficult numerical problems a the one here presented I may for aught we know te true that the Marshal wife from 1 to 50 worth of milk per mouth to prisoners able to purchase i but we beg to be excused from placing the utmost confidence in the assertion that he make out of this from 70 to SS0 a monthly revenue of 51 1 0 < Tire suggestion in reference to a certain elate prisoners having had greater liberties than others is not only ungenerous but vindictive The grand jury are aware o tho ream for Mich liberty loving teen l extended if it ha been accorded Some of Ute prisoners referred to have been utilized to jierfunn la rOD r-OD the prison grounds because lritn ground bcus they WHiM be letter l trusted than tin generality I gen-erality InrnateF n ono of them ever having attempted to escape I h their in p Through influence and example exam-ple the management of the peniten i tiary lias been rendered compara lively easy antI tiraple a the effect upon the other inmates has upn te oher lumatt been sihilary in every respect Thus they have relcved the government to no HBflll degree I Tho JIll of the compliments mil iu the report to the Marshal aral have heretofore been before the pub tic and rotate to the pb relt general Ienlrl manage rent of the Lxifims pertaining to his ofllce Tho affairs of Salt Lako County are given considerable attention The proceedings relative thereto are call an investigation but the way partial extracts have been made with a view 1 to wih conveying an im pression contrary to the pljin show ing of the full record and the drained and unjustifiable an unjulla loon trc lions that are put other upon oh jQrL are such as to render the report ut terly unreliable rpr The Grtt complaint is made concerning con-cerning road work which const tutos n large part of the countys cnsl business The allegation is offered that no bids were received for roadwork road-work but it I i not stated that the labor was performed by the agents of the county employed in such min nor that the profit which would have gone to the contractor cntmctor was taved by the county t t The report says that in a few instances in-stances the county road supervisor I i or county surveyor would approve I bills presented hut these instances j I I 1 are rare The county court had passed on most of the MIl direct t nut Ibis mode of pnceJurc h j I not satisfy tho jury But a hox1 I distance further along when bills wet found which were approved I by a selectman and then submitted ty and approved by the count court fault is found because the curt itself did not tko the supervision super-vision which in other instances Is I t cited a reprehensible Both method were pursued at different times by the court and each I condemned followed when tho other was being foluwe It iS admitted in the report that the seer selectmen presented b Ills t the court for services rendered for viewing roads and brlJgesand then it is said that the labor on the roads was rid for without tho wrItten writ-ten approval of any county official who chimed to have jicrsoual knowledge that DID ori charged for was actually aud properly done This Is on n par with the rest of the report The members of thccounty court personally examined the workman j j work-man official capacity and then 1 paid for I without Fecuring from I some one n written approval And for this the court I charged s with being grossly culpable The t o same line reasoning is adopted as I to other instances I The surplus canal i made an object ob-ject attack The record Is quoted I from and the assertion nude that the court refused to make any appropriation ap-propriation Then I l said that when 3Ir Fox made come payments t on his own authority the court approved them The record as t approI rr quoted in the report shows that no t refusal such as was claimed ever was made and tho statement regarding 3Ir Fox I proven to 0 untrue by subsequent language the report re-port relative to the final action of the county court upon the surplus canal the substance of which hottest of UieSI9SOO which the canal ct onethird was paid by the county onethird by the city and onethird by the Inhabitants along the line of the canal and that each party receives re-ceives about equal benefit there from The sulject of canals is also manipulated ma-nipulated In I way to deceive I I Is stated that the county funds WIt diverted and misappropriated to the building of these canals upon the pretense that it was a benefit to the county I there any i inc lean who is acquainted with the results of taking out the Jordan water who will not say that this benefit is no pretense but is a solid fact from I I which the county has received I i many times the amount expended t and the inhabitants hern benefited I to an enormous extent The subject of canal is I dismissed with a reference refer-ence to the hydraulic canal and the onesixth interest held by the county in tho dam and the Jordan Of this Ill Fid vo do not believe the county ever had the slightest shadow of I title to any waters of the Jordan Itiver and gives asn a reason that the wholb volume of the river was vested in individual appropriators long prior to the buildIng build-Ing of the socalled county O dam This is a misstatement and the fact must be known to tho jurors who have resided hcreany length of time I the water was appropriated long before the tam was built how Is l it that the canal companies get water at that dam under deed from the county Or how could tho water bo appropriated until the dam had hen I made to store it and bring it to a level where i could bo taken out mid Used Kcfcroncc is made to the fact tint George Cr mon as collector owed the county 2202401 which was charged to relief account But the report carefully conceals the fact that the great bulk of this was tin collected taxes which Mr Orlsmon was not In equity responsible for Kor does it refer to that which the grand jury a an arm of the district dis-trict court muSt have been aware of that the settlement with Mr Crismons bondsmen a lade by suit in the Third District Court with the present chief justice on the bench Wo find the defalcation of D Bockholt Into county clerk to b 51101560 That is all the report says on the matter Why I lent on tho point which is a matter of record in the Third District Court that MrBockhoIt was indicted and died before his casecould he 1 brought to trial The detective service of lie county coun-ty i made an object of disapproval The report factually fays that the county paid for one detective and the sheriff at various times paId for additional detective work What if he did Is becntle to umiewlmeu the public welfare in the suppression suppres-sion of crime requires more The county court has llld fees for employing extra attorney when I was considered that thin circumstances circum-stances made I necessary Tills Is made the ground of another objection objec-tion and the Vandercook habeas cvrjmt case Is cited with the remark mark that the record nowhere how that the county was a party to the suit The records show that Deputy Marshal Vandercook was arrested and iii the cise was brought under the law of the Territory i wrs thin countys duty to carry I Just a far al the county went This is shown by the record and the statute rs the jury ought to know kuoTle The manner In which the Jury treats tlie management of city affairs issomanifestly unJuSt thttlaetntel ligeiit reader can perceive tho animus ani-mus and misrepresentation at a glance if he has 1 taken pains to inform in-form himself at all upon the ul jed The efforts of the Mayor and Council to procure an adequate t water supply receive special attention atten-tion The arrangement entered into with farmers who had claims upon Iarlcys Creek to exchange t for irrigating water from than Jordan L and Salt lake Canal and thin Sl Lko Canl pur ihase of two mill sites are referred to as egregious blunders the er procuring curing of a deal for an additional I onesixth interest j its the Jordan il tJe Joran L dam and its storage capacity I t placed in the same category The report eayK S for tho canal tbo city once owned which conveyed onesixth of the water of the River Jordan and onl 515055 cash the city Is tho happy possessor pos-sessor o a dry ditch on Hut Bench and two mill properties which are hardly worth the powder necessary to blow them up with This i untrue and mIsrepresents tivc in several partlculan 5crl Irchm Instead of the mill properties being lue le if we have been correctly in formed thee city ha been oflered for them a larger price than that for which they were purchased mane count of the increased value of the laud attachments I is correct that the Parleys Creek canal was during a large l art of last season jmctl rally a dry ditch This was the I case for the eamc reason Uiat nearly n the streams which usually are ample for the needs of the people were practically dry throughout this entire mountain region including includ-ing not only Utah but Idaho I was beyond the llwe of the Mayor and Council to mako a contract with the management of the atmospheric conditions to favor the country witli plenty of moisture mois-ture > o one but an Idiot would argue otherwise than that had it not been for a contingency over which tile corporation land no control con-trol a two years drouth which parched the country and dried up thestreams there would havcliecu no difficulty about water Only for his unprevctitlble freak of nature the measures adopted by tho city uthorititH to obtain water for tho eople would have been 1 demon trated > success We do not doubt flint the future will yet generously justify their actions In that respect by proofs that will place their Judgment Judg-ment beyond dispute The assaults on Mayor Armstrong strong a most energetic and capable ofllcer are paltry and disingenuous Purchases of lumber etc were made by the city from a corporation in which ho holds stock and Insinuations Insinu-ations of jobbery are launched at him The position taken in the report re-port In this regard Is one would naturally infer that the corporation should not do business with a company com-pany in which one of the leading municipal officers has an inert iner-t While great care should be exercised in that respect In order to avoid even the appearance appear-ance of celfsccking there is not necessarily anything otherwise than perfectly straight The intimations regarding tile Salt Lake Railway Company obtaining certain fran clucs arc of the same character Thegrants were in harmony with a x > pular demand and tho public has good reason to b satisfied with the excellent means of transportation transporta-tion afforded by the fifetclass service ser-vice provided by the company After giving a detailed exhibit of expenditures detective service In the work of attempting to enforce ordinances against prostitution the report make this unique nnd markable statement Wo think tills method of conducting conduct-ing Ibo business of till deartnicnt needs no comment from this JUI I will npjoor at once to the minds c these who bear or see this statement f that lie whose duty it Ls to guard the public funds with every possible care I1 nnd lo account for their expenditure with a most zealous imscropalotis ness has by dlIln inad sanctioning such a course thrown wide tho pIe and torn down every turner which should restrain thee in who o hands the bard earned taxes of thousands are placed from 1 wasteful and villainous vill-ainous funds disbursement of lIes public As the exhibit of voucher given to the public through the report In this connection shows that the de trctlvowoik wns paiil exclusively out of the fines imposed upon persons per-sons found guilty of breaking the ordinances thu burst of enthusiastic woe in behalf of the haplcrs tax l er ail somewhat lat because of its Incongruity with the iilject to which I refers I Tho grand jury found a mares nest containing this trlirantir l 00 IEVEKA KxrENSK VOCCIICR mc3 December 111585 ReceIpt of Pacific Express Company for til charges on tw boxes of sovcntyfivo book valuednt3tO Marked lon John T Chine M C Washington DC Signed II O Youo Agent Then follows this jionderous question ques-tion Why should the city pay express charges on beets to John T Cilne In answer to this momentous mo-mentous interrogatory I i only needful tostatea fact with which the political grand jury were familiar to wit The city presented seventy five copies of Tullldges History of Salt Lake City to members of Concress They were shipped to Hon John TCainewho courteously courteous-ly agreed to deliver them to the gentlemen for whom they were Intended In-tended J i presumable that the jury considered i it the duty of the honorable gentleman in addition to this gratuitous service to relieve the city from ying expressage oil I the books by defraying the expense out of his own locket It is ap propriate to ask the defunct grand jury why Mr Calno should b expected ex-pected to thus make himself a financial martyr Iu behalf of a cold corporation We hope that Prince Leojiold will never have thu opportunity tub tu-b edified by an acquaintance with the fact that the presentation to him by the Salt Lake City corporation of aIxdollar book was made by I grand Jury I inlltical point against the government of tho I municipality Such information might I affect his health and change hi estimate of American courtesy and hospitality Should the report b translated into German Ger-man let the Leopold incident IK expunged punged The report I I 5 stupendously long although elementally small thai I can only b limItedly dealt with in a reviewing article The Hydraulic Canal Company comes iu fur n share of abuse The documentary statement taken in connection with a paper in the hands of the City Council exhibits the whole matter but tho diatribes and conclusions of the jury are manifestly unjust a tho record and Uie fuels abundantly show The report port says The county rte Ibo deed to the city and those connected with Ibo canal company had tho money the county get nothing and In our view of the nutter was not entitled to any thing for the reason that it hid nothing noth-ing to convey According to this reasoning all of the five canals connected with the Jordan are in a precarious condi ton each of them having obtained a deed from the county precisely similar to the one to which the jury referred I i further stated The transaction though appearing upon its tao as in come rpt fair and that the money was paid to men who had a rightful claim to it the facts us presented to us warrant the statement we now make viz that the bulk of that fund found its way Into the pockets of city antI county onicbls and the Mormon church Of course the Church had to L dragged into the matter notwithstanding notwith-standing that it has not now nor never did have the remotest con iiection with I For onesldedness absurdity and an utter lack of magnanimity this grandJury report stands unrivalled and triumphantly carries away the premium j |