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Show STATE MULCTED mm bill Secretary Garfield Has His Room Rent Paid by the People of Utah. GOVERNOR CUTLER JS RESPONSIBLE FOR IT Executive Also Charges State $5 for Luncheon for Governor Gover-nor of Nebraska. 4- ' ' WHAT IT COST TO f ENTERTAIN GARFIELD T Knutsford hotol bill ? 11.00 .j. I- Carriage hlro .... 1.50 4- j- Luncheon at Alta club .... 94.35 Total ?10f..S5 -- Secrotar3' of the Interior James It. Garfield permitted tho' soyereign State of Utah to pa3' his hotel bill on tho occasion oc-casion of his recent, visit to Salt Lake. Governor John C. Outlor paid it out of his contingent fund, and tho State board of examiners approved tho pa3'-ment. pa3'-ment. Mr. Garfield didn't spond the night at the Knutsford. He loft his grips thero while ho was 'trotted out to Saltair, Salt-air, to tho Tabernacle to hear the pin drop, to the Alta club for a luncheon and to the Commercial club for a ro-coption, ro-coption, along with tho Governor's comic opera "stawff" and with a coterie co-terie of Mormons, polj'gamists and otherwise. oth-erwise. Tf ho had stayed over night, tho bill would probably havo been $22 instead of $11, and Cutler, to all appearances, ap-pearances, willingb' would have paid that sum out ot the State funds for tho privilege of koeping tho distinguished distin-guished guest nwa3' from defilement hy Gentile contact. Lavish With Utah's Money. Governor Cutler has boon so lavish with his hospitalit3' of late that an in-quisitivo in-quisitivo person wns prompted Thurs-dnj' Thurs-dnj' to examine tho records in tho State Auditor's office with a view to ascertaining ascer-taining whether or not tho toiling tax-pa3-ers of Utah were boing called upon to pay for the Governor's sociabilities. Tho suspicion that tho frugal Cutler would not "anto" out of his own pocket pock-et was more than justified, but, until investigation was mnde, there wns no idea that the Secretary of the Interior had had his hotel bill paid by tho poo-plo poo-plo of Utah. In entortaining the Secrotary of tho Tntorior as ho did, Governor Cutler was pulling chestnuts out of tho tiro for tho Mormon church. His Excellency Excel-lency was especially sot apart that day b3' Apostlo Reed Smqot to seo to it that no Gentilo cot a chance to talk in pri-vato pri-vato with tho distinguished visitor, and right faithfully did Outlor perform his mission; but tho record in the State Auditor's office shows that thero was no thought of pa3'ing tho bills for tho mission out of the church tithing fund. Instead thp State was grafted. Claim Assigned, to Dono. Probabb the most ludicrous foaturo of the whole porformanco was tho fact that Elder Done, private secretary to tho Governor, put in tho bill to tho State borad of examiners. On the face of the voucher it would look as though Dono himself had paid out tho mone3r, although it is an open secret in administration admin-istration circles that Dono daren't lot his namo appear on the Stato pa3'rolls. Alfred Cutler, the Governor's son, is carried on tho rolls as private sccre-tar3', sccre-tar3', aud draws the salary. Ho turns it over to Done. Tho Govornor, however, was apparently appar-ently unwilling to shoulder the respon-sibiiitj respon-sibiiitj of mulcting the State for doing do-ing his church's dirt' work. So he unloaded un-loaded it onto Done, who is willing tc do any scrvieo Cutler may demand, so long as ho is permitted to hold the job of privato secretary. That Sheldon Luncheon. In tho samo voucher with the bill for tho Garfield entertainment was included in-cluded a voucher of $5 for a luncheon which Governor Cutler gave Governor Sheldon of Nebraska at tho Alta club when tho Nebraska executive was horo with tho Omaha excursionists. This was in no senso a Stato affair, but tho Stato board of examiners, of which Cutler Cut-ler and Attorno3'-Goneral Breedcu aro a majority, allowed tho bill. The two Governors morely slipped off by themselves them-selves and hnd a little luncheon at the Alta club. Thero wero no invited guests; not oven tho Governor's "'stawtr" nor tho retinuo of Mormons which usually surround any guest of Cutler's wcro uBked to be present, but tho State has paid the bill Tn a fow days thc Govornor will no doubt present the bills for tho entertainment enter-tainment of the Washington correspondents correspon-dents who, against their will, were " ontertainod" bv Cutler and Done on Pioneer da3', and again the board, of examiners will pa' tho bill. |