Show THAT IMPARTIAL GRAND JURY REPORT ONOE MORE RELYING upon the continued kind hind indulgence of our readers we once more say a few words concerning that remarkable grand jury report upon the city accounts in the eagerness of the committee to prefer something derogatory de rogato ry to the authorities of the mormon church a number of mistakes are made in the report to call them by no harsher term the report states that one half halt of the licence paid by young little amounting to on salt bait lake house account was refunded by the city we have previously shown that a percentage of the liquor licence which was highgas high was refunded to the salt lake house and other establishments on complaint cam plaint being made that it absorbed the profits of the business the mayor having power to remit licence but no licence was vl daid id by young and little for salt lake house business they had bad no licence for which to pay mr little litlie was the lessee of the house he had the licence paid for it and to him the per percentage was refunded if paid directly to mr young it was on the order of mr little and possibly on rent account so that uhe the money was really paid as due from mr little to mr young and not from the city council to mr young ifor if mr young received the money it was on mr littles account with the city and so far for mr little there are other inaccuracies of which the following is one it is stated that young and little for salt lake house are assessed on they are assessed on in regard to the billiard faloon business the facts are in this way mr W martin was running a billiard saloon and as the city council believed ina lna in a manner not tho the most reputable insomuch that it was felt to be desirable that the establishment go into other hands hauda so that it might be conducted more satisfactorily the best available way to effect this desirable consummation appeared to be by the city purchasing the establishment which was done though necessarily at a high figure to accommodate that portion of the public generally who desired an institution of that kind hind the city kept the billiard room open for a time finally it was waa concluded to close the establishment which was done and the tables etc were removed this occasioned the loss mentioned in several instances the report gives debits of accounts but says nothing of credits which is not exactly a fair way of exhibiting accounts A person doing business with any firm might be indebted to it a thousand dollars on the first of a month and by the loth or he might have placed to his credit sums of various amounts perhaps equal or nearly so to his debits and possibly exceeding them in quoting from an account current it ia Is positively unfair to the parties immediately concerned to take the transactions of a specified date or even the total debits or credits or the balance even whether debit or credit existing at that date and present pres exit the same for the purpose of injuring either party or making out a case against them especially should a grand jury be careful not mot to do any such thing much less to embody it in a public document to be presented an fn in court anel ani made public such conduct is exceedingly cee reprehensible and tends to degrade the office of tha the grand jury ury rho rhe iho report exhibits entries in 1865 to treasury for amount short 5 and to treasury for amount short in hands of recorder and then makes some disparaging comments upon the same previous to that time through inexperience it appears that the accounts of the city were not kept in the most per feet manner aud and and aud bome some errors errora and inaccuracies of entry were made on the present treasurer taking hold a new set of books was obtained and the old accounts neco acco unta put in the best beat shape possible for entry upon the new books the errors mentioned had to be adjusted some way the he above debits were included clu ciu ed in them these the impartial artial committee were keen been to ind end nind find and to present but they were not so ke keen en to nind find or if they were they failed to present another important fact in the same connection which was that the books also aho abo showed an offset credit of in gold dust and geld gold coin green backs being then at a large disco discount the debits were in greenbacks green backs and the credit was in bullion or metal this nearly counterbalancing and more palpable credit was entirely overlooked so far as the report was concerned what was wad the purpose of this was it to try to make out a case such buch pettifogging policy is altogether out of place in the report A of a gran grau grandeury grand djury jury whether the ju jury is cognizant of this fact or not 1 in ry regard to the statements concerning ex mayor wells as that gentleman is not now in the city us he be is abundantly able to answer for himself and as we ye believe he is capable of satisfactorily explaining every transaction to which he was a party we see no necessity for our entering into that part of the subject at all the animus of the whole report is pretty well understood and in some quarters where the report was greatly desired it was greedily swallowed as gospel truth in whole and iu lu part par tand taud and aud indecently boasted of as just the thing wished for with those characters there is no mincing of the matter but incendiary expressions like the following are freely indulged in not privately alone but publicly published to the world at large and given expressly to taxpayers as a piece of sapient advice we affirm that ally any property holder who shall henceforth pay one cent of taxes upon his property or the professional man or merchant who shall pay license upon his business will be guilty of compounding und n g with thieves and will jil prove 0 v himself a traitor to the public interest cut off the supplies there is nothing revolutionary in this thia 21 2 1 let every taxpayer pledge his yearly assessment of taxes to defray the ex expenses av anses of a test trial in the courts courty let our taxpayers shut u t off the supplies bearing in mind the old truth he that carries carriea I 1 the purse hath many forces at his back an empty back sack cannot stand upright this lawless talk Is in accordance with the old policy of a late immaculate chief justice who promulgated mu mul mui gated the curious and incendiary idea that he was here aa as a maissl missionary conary judge and the great case he nad had to try and for which he was specially specialty called and chosen and appointed and commissioned and sent the U S vs Theocracy or in other words the U a vs the mormon people rhe the same spirit of destructiveness animates the characters who law defying advice ilke like that quoted above their object and it is not disguised is to break up the city organization by hook or by crook by law or by defiance of law they are not particular which so that it be done they are reckless enough for anything and the grand jury that would pander to such a F spirit of unprincipled and unscrupulous 8 lawlessness inspires unqualified distrust and aud is worthy to be universally despised A document which is 80 mani featly unfair aad one sided and BO so full of errors and misrepresentations in details as we have shown this report of the grand jury to be cannot be considered worthy of acceptance cep tance and must be rejected entirely as utterly untrustworthy and concocted for ulterior and disreputable purposes assessment roll all parties interested te should read the notice of mr D bockholt Bock boek holt bolt county clerk relative to a meeting meeting of the county court to t be held at the county court house june 17 jtb for the examination of the assessment roll rolt for the current year and the hear isie IHK of complaints from taxpayers tax payers considering themselves erroneously assessed |