Show OBJECTS AND RESULTS the ostensible Intent intention iou of the investigation vesti gation into the conduct of prank frank H dyer george S peters and parley L williams in their manipulation of a large amount of property taken from a church 11 is to preserve it for the alleged purpose for which the church was robbed of it the matter has become so complicated and comprehensive that the question art arises as to the potency of the means instituted to accomplish the object alleged to be in view for instance suppose it be presumed merely for the sake kofl argument of course that the inclination of the three persons now being hotly pursued by judge zane is ia in the direction of thickly lining their private pockets at the expense and to the unconscionable depletion of the I 1 large amount of property taken from a church this would lead to another point even should the investigation referred to an examiner and which has assumed so many fantastic shapes result in ii bur curtailing the efforts in the line of deriving personal profit made by the parties pursued how much would the object of the of the he property gain by it in a financial filancia fin ancia sense everybody connected with this investigation seems tremendously willing that the expenses of the inquiry shall be borne by the fund accumulated by the taking of abarge a large amount of property from a church and as there seems to be a general disposition to be exuberantly generous with ith other peoples peopled money it is a fair presumption that the expenses will aggregate a considerable sid erable sum in this connection the powers designated to the examiner may be noted among them is an authorization for the employment of stenographers ere federal or territorial officers as may be deemed necessary etc ate when the investigation comes to an end providing it is not an endless affair would it not be well to endeavor to reach a fair estimate of the financial result of the inquiry this could perhaps be done approximately by ascertaining how much dyer peters and williams William were by the investigation prevented from securing for their personal use from the large amount of property taken from a church then foot up the expenses of bf the inquiry subtract the one sum from the other and if nothing nemaia remains that will be the exact financial benefit that will accrue from these highly entertaining proceedings the the turkey has been taken out of the hands of those to whom it legally belongs it has been seized that it may be devoured As to who pulls it apart und polishes the bones is not a matter of so much moment to the original and proper owners as to th the confiscators the former can afford to look on at a spectacle that is far from being of an elevated character if the supreme court of the united states should in the very midst of the scramble declare the law under which the robbery is being perpetrated unconstitutional and void some parties will feel as if they had been struck by a pittsburg cyclone that such ought to be the result of the pending appeal the there re should not exist a vestige of doubt the statute under which the robbing process Is conducted being invasive of a natural and therefore ancon right that of holding property of which no citizen can be properly bereft by any other process than applies with equal potency to all other citizens we have learned since the foregoing was written that judge zane recedes and gives up the investigation the ground of his retreat being that the court in its order does not give him the scope he desires it now remains to be seen whether or not the court will take up the charges made by judge zane and investigate them as he appears to suggest |