The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-02-05
February 4, 1880

by Congress to other territories. i
Council concurred in the memoirs
~ Councillor Thurber presented thr
~ petitions one from L. g. Lang al
ty "a others, one from George A. Hate
~ and IL otherg, and the third from
ty w. Young and 116 others, all citizens
% Piute County, praying for the remov
- of the county seat from Junction
~ Koosharum. Petition read and T
he teTred to committee on counties.
Id Councillor Cluf presented a bill Il
N az act amending an act providing Il
10 the establishment and support
=? district schools. This Is a documer
Il II which passed the Council last session
but failed in the House for want
time, and the councillor introducing
now, presented it as an original bill
1t was referred to the committee o
education, without reading.
A message was received from tn
House, containing the veto OF tn
Acting-Governor Of the act empower
ing railroad corporations ID deed AM
mOrtgsge their franchises and prop
erty, and confirming such convey
ances heretofore made, with hi
reasons, at length, for so doing. Th'
sole objection was section z, which
authorized railroad corporations t.
lease, purchase, hold, work and sell
coal lands and coal miner, in that il
permitted them 10 enter into compe-
tition with individual owners of GOA
mines, and their labor, which would
necessarily destroy the value Of the
latter. InSsuch a competition with
the power all on one side, and with
out any checks, he thought, these
reads might and would divest them.
selves Of their character as common
carriers, while invested with all the
advantages and power incident to a
public use. The business of railroad
ing is as distinct from that Of coal
mining as it is from that of banking,
manufacturing, farming, smelling, or
gold and silver mining. While, as
com non carriers, these railroads con-
fined to their legitimate functions, as
great public conVeniences, are in
harmony with all the other great in
terests OF the country; il they are per-
mitted to enter into competition with
these other great interests supported
mainly by private enterprise, the re-
suit OF the unequal contest will always
be ruinous to the latter. The prin.
ciple OF this provision of the bill will
tend to destroy the proper relation
which the business OF railroads ought
always to bear towards all the other
material interests Of the country
one Of mutual dependence and recip-
rocal benefits, and for that reason is
pernicious and ought not to be
adopted. In conclusion, the Acting
Governor said be would approve the
bill if the section referred to WAS
stricken out.
Councillor Harrington, from the
committee on elections, reported back
the bill for an act amending an act to
provide for special elections to fill
vacancies, with amendments. the
amendments were adopted and the
bill was read and amended, and it
passed it4 second reading. 1t was
then read the third time by its
title and so passed, and was directly
sent to the House Tor concurrence IN
the amendments.
The messenger from the House
brought in q communication stating
that that branch had passed a sub
stitute bill for the one vetoed, en-
towering railroad corporations to-
deed and mortgage etc. The bill was
then put, under a suspension of the
rules, upon its first. second and third
readings, was slightly amended, and
60 passed and sent to the House Tor
concurrence in the amendment.
Councillor Harrington, from the
committee on judiciary, reported back
the bill tor an act to amend section
~ of the Compiled Lava, with the
statement that this bill would work
hardship and unnecessary expense on
several counties, and recommended
that it do not pass. Report accepted
and recommendation adopted.
Councillor E. Snow, from the COM
mitlee on counties, returned the bill
for extending the boundaries of Davis
County, with a substitute therefor.
A message from the House was
received, announcing the concurrence
of that body in the Council amend.
ments to the railroad bill.
The report from the committee on
counties was then read, aud also the
substitute bill, which was entitled "a
bill for an act spportioning the waters
and islands OF the Great Salt Lake
to the counties bordering thereon,
and extending the northern bound
ary of Salt Lake County," and it
passed It's first reading.
Councillor E. Snow presented a
petition from Charles n. Smith and
lO4 others, residents of Kane County,
praying, in case the county seat is
removed from Tcqueiyille t. Kanab,
for new division OF the counties Of
Kane and Washington, so as to en-
brace in the last named certain settle
men:s of Kane County. Petition
read and referred to committee on
counties.
Councillor Harrington, from the
COMMITTEE on Judiciary, reported back
1.-THE bill amending the act defining
what may be tTespass and damage,
and recommended that it do not pass.
Report and recommendation adopted.
The bill apportioning the waters
snd islands Of the lake, ETC., was
taken up on It's second reading, when
Councillor Thurber moved, SIS the
act did not propose the making
or creating of new counties, lha'
the language of each section, sftel
the descriptions OF the boundaries Of
the Counties of Salt Lake, Davis
Weber, Box Elder and Tooele, which
read, sis hereby made and named, >
be changed to "shsll be known ant
designated" and his amendment wa
adopted, as was an amendmen
4 offered by Councillor Game, NOR
: clearly defining the northern bound
4 airy of Salt Lake County.
,sl Three communications from th
" House we're read, the first snnounc
ia ing the passage by that body, o
= Tuesday, of the bill to amend sectio
q 1888 of the Compiled Laws; the secor
{ Informing the Council of the passse
~ by the House of q bill amendir
chsuter 4, title IL Of the Compile