Show 5 I I i = i EMS BROTHER r it j J A few days ago the dispatcjif told of the final report of t te SI c which bad bee Louis grand jury I S Investigating official and othe I i frauds and crookedness The repor 1 interesting paper andis a 1 j is an p companied by indictments of police t t commissioners and other official J for combining and con = liriJ1g to obi ob-i struct the administration of the f J j lawTith reference to gambling lotteries I t lot-teries and so on3 and to dictate and 4 control police appointments with r i E the view to carrying out their corrupt cor-rupt schemes The report declares that a combination of notorious persons I per-sons existed for the purpose of obstructing ob-structing the laws in regard to r gambling censures the Governor for granting pardons especially to 0 convicted gamblers and recommends recom-mends the withdrawal of the pardoning I i doning power of the Governor and I the appointment of a State Board of Pardons It farther recommends that the power of appointing the Board of Police Commissioners be 1 S j withdrawn from the Qoyernor and J that they be appointed either by the Mayor or circuit judges It als3 r 5 S severely censures the use of blank r resignations by the Governor The Governor in this case who l i has been abusing the pardoning I 1 power and appointing corrupt j 1 I men to office ia Crittenden S j the halfbrother of our own hana 1 J S some Murray It will be remembered 1 remem-bered that Crittenden thought the T V people of Utah extremely had anc > should be suppressed His plai I I was that of his kinsman Eli Per I V I haps the twain had it arranged thai t they would control the appointing I V IV S i power whenthey could fi1the offices jS of-fices with men who WGulOHje their V corrupt tools CHttenden seems tc S bave dene in St Louis While Crit > < I tenden in his abuse of the appointing V I appoint-ing power has managed to getS a get-S I dozen or more of his appoitee S t indicted he has kept himself oui l I V E of the clutches of the law |