Salt Lake Tribune | 1906-07-21 | Page 10 | Chambers Will Hold

CHAMBERS Willi HBlDJsj Protestants Against Z? Patrolman Fail to m a Case. 9 J NO PROOF IS OFFERED! SUBSTANTIATE' OH P Chief of Police Says Tjjbt cused Man Is EfficiEi Officer. Mj The potltlon filed with the dtLsX ell, asking that W. II. Chambe'HP moved from the police force waSi filed by tho Committee on PollUfM day evening, aftor tho commlB heard from several of tho slimJB petition who repeated sovcnnM charges which had been jnadUN Chambers In the potltlon. hut.r ablo to substantiate any of IhsSkfi mentB. Each of the speakers- i!Bn if tic could bring any proof toKtiL subtsantlate what he had statedS!; one of them could promlso to doHL point chiefly dwelt on by the Ing the charges against ChainM-i, that he -was not the chosen rJl ; tlve of the best class of colorM , In the city. "J?' This imputation was atronsim by as many more colored in who staled that the petition <Mr Chambers did not repreaont clans of colored people, and on S' hand, claimed that the couutftflp'' that had boen gotten tip HdUl the best clans of colored peoplK There wer two colored meW' who came to deny that tbey ttSv: the petition against ChambertBi their names appeared on It, mH5i that their names were put oiaE Hon without their authority. 'jAriR Chief of Police George A. .BE1 asked by members of the coliEfe! ho was satisfied with Chatabtpt was performing his duties acv Instructions given him and if ItSS crcd Chambers an efficient olHu Chief replied In the afnrmatlTeBpt these questions. IESt The commltteo then decIdediH petition and to take no actlHtfl matter, and informed Henry iSKlb: leader In the fight against CbKT present any further petitions tBL of Police. Br