Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1912-12-31 | Page 12 | Optimistic and Impertinent

V Optimistic and I Impertinent p t. t 1 V T TIre HE IrE comptroller of th time the currency is not a spy Y or eu- mi aim inquisitor Time The j place he occupies in th time the treasury department is definitely fixed by hy bylaw bylaw law and he lie may not add to or depart lepart from the time duties dutie with which he heis heis heis is especially charged lie He may not miot use the time information which whelm comes to 10 him liim through ugh official cial channels for private gain nor for transmission ion to others than titan his superiors in time the executive branch of the time government which include time the secretary of the treasury and the time President Consequently Conse time the demand of the time money motley trust investigating committee m ltee that thal th time the comptroller use the power of his office to secure information for the time committee is not Bot only emily a gral grai gratuitous impertinence hut but his compliance with it would be he unlawful Time The Democrats in tho the lower louver house of Congress s seem with a most robust optimism Invariable defeat whenever they tl try to coerce ce or frighten the time President has not miot taught them his character they seem to assume in each cach instance that their previous failure waS va due to a dearth of noise and bluster and amid each succeeding attempt is therefore accompanied with increased vociferousness and the and the usual result In Iii declining to order the tho comptroller of time the currency to do something which the Jaw law docs does not warrant wai Mr lr Taft is entirely correct as usual The Time suspicion that the money trust committee is in qu quest st of something more than information on is constantly growing V j oil 11 L 01 k 4 4 1 t n. n J 2 fJ V