Show TO THE PUBLIC AND ALLY THE MORMON PORTION OF iti liroi iTAN r mow w vs daxe yaxe s sis sin I 1 enclose herewith for publication a copy of tile the original draft of a report enado ont with wit tithe the intention oritS of its being presented to the city of this city over four years yeara since tince but which owing aang to the circumstances hereinafter explained was KU med and not read officially cudly to that honorable honorably honor ablo body tea original or ana draft lias has lccy ia my 1111 safe fa over since bince and bad it not nl been for the recent reelection re election electia n of acter clinton m alderman adrinn and dd justice of the prace pence it i t would doubtless have remained there still till and na neter mover leen been tho the licht even now believing as I 1 do that publio public exposure is is not always till the best or to effect reformation on the part of the offend uirl or most moat conducive to abe public good consideration foi flit ur clinton might have bale deterred me as ai it hitherto has ha done frona from pub bisbing this report were ihnot it not that the iho authorities of 1 I the ho church of jeus jesus christ of cf latter day saints havo have not only retained this man in office since liy ills pome somewhat what unique modo mode of disa VIA nas laido cnown to them but hao bale now dow had bad the temerity 0 to o reinstate him there in utter delis noo of the irith ca ot of both mormon and gentile Ge otile the following circumstances connected with tho the hilory of this remarkable instrument ment will mil not bo be devoid of interest on an I 1 arol tire necessary mcc to a proper under blinding of odthe the rasean a to exhibit ex bilat the molus oper oga the absolute the mormon priest hood it A power thit that honert hearted people to dayi day ignorant of what transpires behind the scenes sincere y to be akil directed lor for I 1 wish it distinctly understood that th t t it I 1 my lay antagonism to I 1 thia h is depolac cle de uncompromising that t at induces mo me to publish I 1 thu is report and not feelings of a personal character either cither against its it chief representative in the person of Bril them young on the one lined hand or the unfortunate delinquent in tile the person of the justice on tho the other ter the be conjar buco chow duly it become lj make the report was wad appod appointed anted by 1 y the city council tit in consequence i or of a motion doing mada for an appropriation for ca clintora Clinto aa services at justice of the pence it being alleged in support thereof that the legal ai 1 iowan va it such caws cases was not dot adequate compensation acid not dot because his integrity was suspected several days daja were spent in eliciting tho the facts contained in la ibis instruments and great caro care ww wit exercised not to overstate the results of tho the tion during dair ids tho the whole of tho the unpleasant task talc my fullow follow a cocia lt y mr air burton rendered most ellistene ellie tene aid andon and on one after noon mr burton and 1113 self bad a private interview with mr M r clinton at the be city ilaff ll i when id as in tho the report ro he did not deny one OD odoul charge charce contained ontA iDd therein and utterly filled failed to five the lout acut iii ideuye of h ahli possible pos in regard to the others instead of the report art when completed to the mayor and city council counci knowing that no action would bo be taken upon it ib until directed by brigham young I 1 was tie de poled buted to wait upon him and os certain ili la wishes concerning it lt before my interview with mr young loung I 1 made mr goo geo Q carno n acquainted acquaint od with the case who seem deemed ed indignantly indignant incensed armost the alderman Alder niaD an and evidently thought with me tint that he ba would be at once boce re a e d I 1 theo then lai ibid d the att miller ter before president young he bo after afier two to or three interviews on this subject anve me m a to understand that he though thought 1 had bd better d drop rp eth theat e Tair or leave it with maor wella and n 4 c ended ed by it tilling ailing me that ho 10 know jeter to to bo dishon cit long before I 1 did or bordi ardi to III aliis I 1 s I 1 coti clotem fesa staggered me not a little at and I 1 I 1 determined not to drop it but to lo lmh ho matter until i was per reedy convinced aa to whether euch conduct was winked at by tile highest church dignitaries and if ea ter lor what purpose par pose for such a courso couro was terr terribly ably damaging swaging to faith min in inca of this idea I 1 read the report to mayor welk who was also to yoong who won infested an determination do termination to BU stu iother other it and endeavored to exten nato the al dermand conduct to the iho full extent ot of his ability and I 1 then informed several of the members of thu the city lully fully iu in regard to iho he ma to t r which resulted to 10 addrisi atik to g a 86 private loiter letter to brigham young espres ing disapproval of mr a courne and reque his rout rino val was t requesting by stine I 1 loonry enry c V saintel W V richards it T lur bartoo toDi AL V 11 myself and joep 11 F idd end one or two oab it if ili too persons persona djuned did not it a majority of tho the city counell council cil IQ in thuy they certainly did in influence this letter WAS then delivered to 0 Brig baikham harn young in ia person by authol tind kind A ff lial it tigh to which however hu he did not deign a reply the same parties tile alien ob alil aind dd a tate interview Is ith mayor wells vell it as the city fiall the tl 1 nult of which wu was we were given I 1 understand that out our persistence in oking tho removal of the doctor vs L I 1 da 10 I 1 thing bing but pleasing anil and that bin bia lo in office in coo con nell of if hia but entil eminent aneas w was an a predetermined thing not bete bodag parti particularly A aly desirous of oan a madsion to alo maddt adiong abo pi utes ute australia or tb abo a sandwich islands gouni discretion suggested the propriety of tb a d ro the air bair ir I 1 n gly biltl y slivering eli vering t 0 mayor welk the report itself ilioof duly signed by tho the ric of the iho committee together with wilh the he statements of ces captain L sieburt burt and the three policemen no under h inn im with cser signature at tertod the original draft from which thit that report was copied JU as already stated aad then and la now in IDT to pm ision it is K D woolley jo io state in this connection that when made mada a what bad aruns aired ho he promptly kab of lo 10 k mr M r binlon to resign his position ponti cin as tho the bishops Coune clor which lich request wall waa at once complied with ath I 1 t iii pro kronor afef in I 1 4 enni lice lioci to ta the th fact that the lh police a cars ecra named in tho the report lepori in discharging their duty in the efficient manner indicated indi indle cited ted acted in a way that was highly creditable to 10 khem as men indeed tho the adoo indignation evinced d by the chef officers wn was ex expressed by all 11 II made acquainted with the flao showing I 1 that whilo while they felt bound to submit 16 tho the fiat of tho the church in III ra act taming aino an justice of tho the ilissoo such finch a 6 man no mr lr clinton it ic gloat have bavo becu at L the expense of their silent I 1 I 1 awl vm state la injustice justice to that the experiences I 1 here just relate d not dot only lie to my it bonfi an ce in I 1 the lie divinity or of a faith 1 had ia I 1 received it in my early yea years but ut tb they ey le led we to indulge in it A free freedom 0 of ILL thought on 9 h t which soon taught me that a system dependent for its ita support upon such props was wai unworthy inwardly Un of and calling it the dow of god dill did nub not JUB ins t alty if y that Is aich according to all accepted ethics of morality ro and justice is is deemed both slid rid corrupt signed wj 8 GODBE the is w abe report referred to to rt lie e jar olid nn 31 culters of ff flie city council gd gentlemen we your or committee ap point tea adon tie lh d a ot r u cn or ill a city ca minoll kill ill tive give this dots date locket for the purpose of to into tho the dociel book kni bourl co ua record 1 of jetor clinton A it of if the fourth municipal Muni cipul IV ia order I 1 that the be B brount of bi yearly jearly income in from lis bis onico as alderman Alde might in g chuu be b aron correctly ascertained submit the lol lowing report la in scour accordance nf ance with our wo we examined into the docket book court record etc before mentioned but bill hive have not been able to bertain n the amount ofin couto derived by tho aldor man from his office ow owing ing to I 1 the be extremely loose and manner in ID which his accounts ounla are kept cil but in ia carrr ciT Trying ying out our we re iret grot to my a birge number tan niter of discrepancies cica between the amounts by the alderman from parties as fines finca for various of fences and the amounts on en to in his bis docket docke tras as having been to and other matters of a more serious nature forced upon our notice some ot of which we vo feel it il to be a duty however painful to our selves sel resto to lay before bour honorable body wo we find that on oil tho the 3rd ard february alderman blinton paid a id into the city treasury the um sum ot of ono one thousand dollars for fines by him for the lie three months ending coding on that day we find from a examination of his own entries that he received for one OIK month the ono one pr c a of the one ti thousand lonan ed dol dollars 7 am for or fines of cot ani 4 fees leighthan eight hundred and nineteen ho doll dollars arsand and clity cents thi to say my the lent loola looks auspicious 1000 reported by the alderman as the lines fines collected for three months 50 ascertained by us ua to have been re by him la in ono ODO month of that time from february ad 1895 until march 2nd and is 6 7 the docket shows hows that he bo received hecei v ed from hum exal of cost end aws ilni U lie paid into inlo tile during that time as luji has receipt i NAM thus bowing a during a period of or f 13 3 m u THI bi own account 0 1 I 1 I ma aej bolido ra I 1 wann bo riis books wo we find that mr paid for fines finci and cost coin in that er alter after tho the month of august of w which jr no entry whatever is ia made during the investigation of these matters we nod had occasion to consult the police officers from whom we obtained valuable assistance capt andrew duff curt was or of special service to us as he has since january ast 1st kaptan account or of cues while have come before alderman clinton and acid on which fines have been by him imposed and collected accordine to this thin book k there were from ono one hundred to one hundred and fifty eases brought wore before the alderman from january y lit 6 to march on which fi lines c of various vinous amounts were assessed and US as a general thing collected of which no eat entry ry whatever is u made on his docket in order to acer tain the probable amount received by him hial from these ava we thought the way most likely to be approximately bitely cor car would bo be to take lake a florila r number of cases from the thado docket cLet lod ad strike ehnle ca an ave goo I 1 c fines nos im impound the cases M a gene central I 1 thing berg of the same character ter aad a aber fo probably pro a jy baring the mine me fines ties by t this 13 course we found the average fines on the fint t one hundred bundred casia tried to in 1806 to be b 2307 each by taking the lowest number of ewes cases omitted oli above say ray one hundred d wo find a further probable deficiency of 2307 again we have hato a lut list of cues from his bis docket where fines have been levied but no payment of tame same made mad to appear r thereon prom from thi the police wo we learned further that fines were paid to alderman lin linton toa by the following parties R VA yon it Is IT 20 P IS 6 IMI 1001 U 1 00 tow but tie no entries are made of them in his hia and according to the tao samo name testimony tho the police calles have bave fre occurred where fines have hare been beca p paid aid by parties whose names do n not lot t a appear on OD the aldermans Alder mans ans docket at of all 1 ono or two of which we deem worthy ol of special mention G name withheld who was ar arrested over a year ago oo on no balgo of attempting a rope rape on a woman or of cha facter wis was released hy by the alberma wit bout trial iril oa payment to him of as ai lush huab money again y who keeps it a saloon on main paid to the al dorwan linia fince for illegally ille eally bellog liquor amounting in 10 all to which be the Ald alderman Alder erwan roan oo on boing being interrogated by us ua reflecting re pectin it did not deny oto tho the record is alt all that sp arrears eari a it having h ivin been received from mr W closing bloing our report we havo have to add the following ili iho parties whose names aro are 1 attached b boad oy themselves answerable for their truth officer teaton that one of tho the firm of fl II if 9 gac anible to ID the iho Walli walker cir buil din pail baij to tile alderman as 8 a 6 bribe for par m it tibeca to unable gamble fur ono ODO buon month ili alij 1 more giorc tor for a continuance of the por per mission for ono one month further officer ww jimile flomo bowe time since adee arrested ono one U D for meauli with uh to kill kall ila gave an jw ai a pledge jhuge for his apper tuco I 1 the he following morning bording for trial but bul did not appear and the alderman told the officer that he ha had with baat annd D for 10 privately this he h did without knowing boy any of the ho facts la in abi ciao which wo we are ro assured were acry u t g ro officer ic e r D dewcy stated that S the iho manager of the billiard saloon on maio main street nod furnier formerly iti proprietor of tb 10 saloon I 1 told did liui w in ID reply to c cor r tain taia questions that he bo would not give EITO alderman Clin clinton tons a conduct or inn him lost neu ness with him having given tho the alderman his clodice of secrecy not to do so FO which rather the that violate LQ he would go co to arieon rivan conj ni eifler first f it t to it I by y officer dewey that iett S has hai noted acted at a in ciment lor for at al krajan clinton and saloon keeleric and od itani imi llera for the ot at effecting coul promises Toai isea your committee expect fully ally submit the from which it will be peen that thai the lle w is a some thousands thousand or dollers dolac rn du do fill ring a I pe r led of f jurn months it ignec Sigu 1 cd 1 it T 1 V X nitro lv S |