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Show UTAH MORTGAGED BY SPRY AND STATE MONEY The Examiner, the Spry apologist, admits that the Republican gislalure bonded Utah for over two mill tun dollars, but says all the londs have not been sold. That is true, but the bonds have been or-lered or-lered and it only requires a call from the eapilol commission to issue hem. The capitol commission has not started the building and it vould be worse than an outrage fur Spry to sell aU the bonds before I ven the firt stone of the capitol is laid, while the capitol commission has $750,000 in cash. Think of it. three quartf rs of a million in cash and one million, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars in bonds set aside b the Republican legislature two years ago for the capitol building and not even one cent of the cash used, and all this time two-thirds two-thirds of the $750,000. or just an even half million dollars, has been m Governor Spry's bank without a cent of interest to the state, though Governor Spry's bank has loaned the money at S per cent interest. in-terest. How much is 8 per cent on a half million dollars! Only $40,000 per year. Pretty nice sum, don't you think f Now comes the Ogden Examiner and says you ought to forgive the governor for all that because he did notcll the million dollars of bonds and put that money, too, in his bank. Wouldn't that jar you? Yes, the governor could have done worse than he did, but tiie capitol commission has a majority of members Uio do not belong to the "fed-era "fed-era I bunch and we are informed that they could not stand for the selling sell-ing of the bonds until the cash on hand was used. Do not think for a moment that the governor'sjjank would not have heen tickled to have had its grip on that million dollars, too. It is a shame for an intelligent man like the governor to have permitted per-mitted the state's money to be placed in his bank and then declare he did not know it. lie saw that the state treasurer had his office in the governor's bank, yet he never once said, "Dave, is any of the state's money in this bank?" Oh, no, the governor never once asked that. Why not! Why, Dave Mattson said, at a public meeting, that he fixed up a deal with the banks to go his bonds in return for the use of the state's money. It wasthegovernor's bank that was one party to the deal, and yet the governor said he did not know it until tlie Standard smoked out all parties to the deal. |