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Show LIQHT TJPOlf THE QUARTETTES QUAR-TETTES DARKNESS. Tub third chapter of Uie novelleLLe wkicA pretend to be a ''geeud jury report," lea feeble attempt at an attack on the Halt 1-ake County ofDoera. Bummed up it amounts to , thla; Taw county clerk has akauged county orders far cash, 4ww mmi? j times he does not know- The aum i of $lo,i&4S aa paid during 1S74-6-6 In aid of the Utah and Halt Lake cejaal; $17,276.02 In aid of the Month Jordan oanal; and $:t01.W to parties through whose ;land the Utah Southern Railroad was buUt. I The quartette say that they "can-1 net find that the Treasurer ha bad n chance to handle any cash;" that I there was therefore an "opportunity "opportuni-ty for county officers to speculate in county orders. w And they bring all thla forth .with a great flourish of trumpets as though they had unearthed un-earthed aometiiing tliat ought iu startle the natives. .Let us examine ft a JIttfo. The County Clerk had the authority to pay the interest on money borrowed, borrow-ed, lie could not do this with orders. or-ders. He would naturally try to secure as much cash as was necessary neces-sary to make these payment, and, perhaps, hie own aaiary to which be was entitled In cash, All this could be easily explained, if explanations expla-nations were wanted. But It Is clear that this 1 not what is d (wired. If it had iwaNJ, the quartette would , have seen the Treasurer and found , - out whether thia disbursement wss , with his knowledge and conseut or , not. And they ueed not have re- , malned In that convenient atate of ( Ignorance which enabled them to say, that tliey could not find that the Treasurer had any chance to handle any cash. In giving the testimony of the County Clerk they purjxwely garble gar-ble his statements. He stated that he did not know whether the collectors col-lectors paid cash to the Treasurer. How could he know? The oil lees of Ihe Clerk and Treasurer are uot at the same place. Hut the quartette quar-tette twist his statement, in an-ewer an-ewer to their questions, that be did not know, luto the aiUrmallou that Tbe collectors have never, to my knowledge, paid any cash to the Treasurer." If no cash has been Kid to the Treasurer, who s Ikjtildated the dehta of the county f Doubtless. the clerk haa made disbursements fut the couuty, under authority from the Treasurer, aud Iheahaeuee of red tape lu Uie transaction gives the quartette a ohance to manufacture manufac-ture a suspicion that semelbiiis; h wrong, that would never have been uuear tiied but for their woudorful sunitenefls. The amounts advanced In aid of Large Irrigating canals have beeu ex .ended for a great public benefit, in makiug possible ttieoultivation of large areas of laud, that without the construction of these cauaU would have remained waste antf worthless, but which now a 17 or U many farmer and ialKrers the meaus of sustenance. And the money thus expended Is expected to be returned, in the future a tension ten-sion of these canals, by the parties who obtain the benefllw of their Inauguration. In-auguration. Whatever fault may be found with this proceeding, it cannot be construed Into "corrup tiun," but at the very worst aa an ener of Judgment, which, however, we by no meane ad a. It. The Utah HooUiem affair was simply this. When that road leached the five acre lots southeast south-east of till city. It was laid out to paae through a street which was likely to be used at some time for building purpose. The streets in those tots are ouly tour reds wide half the width of those In the city. Tho railroad company had the right of way by act of Congress, ami ti tndmwi them to pass In a lena objectionable place the land was rurcnesed for the road at reasonable gures, and the amount exinied reported to the Jeglsiature. This Is no news to many, but thequar leUe present the figures In such a fashion that an tmpreasien of fraud may be conveyed, arid that they may obtain credit for exposing it, when It has long been a matter of public record. And we would like to ask, In this connection, what Is tho difference in principle between appropriation to secure the beuefit of canals and railroads, and appro- filiations for the purpose of obtain-ag obtain-ag the estabuahmaut of a miutV I one "corruption" and the other "good policy," er is there a dn I motion mo-tion without a dUUreaosT The quartette also make a big point of the admission of the Couu-1 ty Cktrk that as much as two per eeoL had been paid by the County for interest. But they maliciously wppiwasad the fact that he said the amount ouoe paid was from oue and a half to two per cent., but that It had all beea reduced since to one pee cent. Buoh garbiiofrs, distortions and sjuppraaslene of facts induoed Uie majority of the grand jury to reject this quartette report, and leave their eroUstieal mass of fudge and u or liable eoUeotlon of oue-slded oue-slded statements, an unofficial, Illegal and worthless hotcb-otch of figure and fancies. t |