The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-03-01

LAAOCS~s tOPOA SCO vi Vic House OIL.
TO establish a board of police com
miSsiOners, recommending its reiec
ton. The bill was rejected. Also or
the House bill 10 amend section 1880
Compiled Laws, recommending its
rejection. Rejected. Also on the
House bill 10 provide committees tC
revise the laws, and TO amend Ger.
tain sections, and recommended
their passage.
Mr.. Peterson. from the commit
tee on highways, reported on the
petition asking for an appropriation
of $4,000 to build wagon road from
Iron County into San Juan County
recommending an appropriation for
that purpose of $4,000. Report and
petition referred to the committee
on appropriations also on the petit
ton of f. ID. Richards and 600
others asking for an appropriation
to build bridge across the Weber
River at Riverdale. The committee
recommended that So, 900 be appro-
priated for that purpose.
Mr.. Peery made "a speech favor
ing the appropriation and stated the
reasons for his support. He looked
upon it as matter of simple justice.
Mr.. PenrOSe made a few remarks
IN support of the appropriation, but
wanted it to go to the committee on
appropriations before it was appro-
'prlated, that the committee could
keep the expenditures somewhere
within the revenue of the territory.
Mr.. Hatch called the attention of
the House to the many apprOpria-
lions now asked for, and the
amounts likely to be asked fer, and
wkile he was in favor of this appro-
priation he wanted the House to
bear in mind the steady strain upon
the treasury.
Mr.. Farr stated that Weber
County had already built so many
bridges and roads, that she was
utterly unable to bear the expense
of putting in this new bridge. which
was on territorial road. and which
would be used for territorial pur-
poses. The bridge will cost $4,000
or $4,000, and the county wanted
the treasury to appropriate the
whole amount, but he and Mr..
Peery, thought that if the LegisIa-
ture would give $1,000 the county
could furnish the rest itself, and
that is all they asked. Mr.. Peery
had made similar argument, and
stated also that the county now had
to borrow money to keep MP its
heavy expenses. The county had
paid for years SIS 900 annually into
the Territory, and so far as he
knew it had not received a dollar
for years. Mr.. Farr also asked but
a reasonable SUN, but he did want
the appropriation committee to be
instructed to place the amount on
the appropriation bill.
The matter was referred to the
committee on appropriations with
out instructions.
Mr.. Snow, from the committee on
elections, reported back the bill ex-
tending the right of suffrage, with
an amendment and recommended
its passage.
Bills were introduced: By Mr..
Preston, frem the committee on
to establish a bureau of
Statistics; also a bill to encourage
the manufacture Of sugar.
BY Mr.. Hatch, to tax ore and bull
lion in the territory. Refe red to
the committee on mines and mining.
By Mr.. Dalton, relating to costs in
criminal cases. Referred to the
judiciary.
By Mr.. Francis, concerning the
duties of county clerks; referred to
the committee on judiciary.
By Mr.. Partridge, to enforce the
civil rights of the territory Re
ferred to the committee on judiciary.
By Mr.. Jaques, by request, to de-
fine and guard the sanctity of the
elective franchise. Referred TO the
committee on elections.
By Mr.. Jaques, providing means
to educate the poor.
Mr.. Booth called for the question
on the bill at once.
Mr.. Jaques said he had doubts as
to its passage but he thought it
would be a good idea to see whether
the legislature was kind to the poor
or not. The University asks for
100000 ; those identified with it ask
for $4,000 mere, $4,000 in all !:
$4,000 is asked for an insane aSy-
lum but this is the only bill asking
for the poor. The amount
for the University goes
to educate tbs well-tO-dO, yet this
money comes from the taxes Of the
poor as well as the rich. This is a.
territory where they have patri-
archial families-not two or three
but ten to thirty children,
and how can working man
pay to educate his children at dis
brict school, where the tuition is as
high as it is now, and he introduced
The bill to try and help those who |
were not well to do. In all our ap-
and from all our taxes
pot one dollar goes to help the poor !
md he wanted it to so forth that the
Legislature should show a DISPOSE !
ion to help the poor.
Mr.. Preston said the bill was not
very definite as to who are the poor.
In his town they got up a dinner
)nce for the poor, and made elabor-
lte preparations, but no one came,
there were no poor in the
and. They had also advertised in
lis district that those who were IN
ible to payto enter the district school !
could enter IN without paying tu-