The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-04-27

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Mr.. Tanner favored the name of
Utah. The matter of name does
not amount to a great deal; people
can honor a name though a name
may do no honor to a people. Our
pleasant associations have been with
our home in Utah. Congress did
not force a territorial government
upon US; we asked for a state gov
eminent under the name of Deseret
if we could get no other shape or
form of government.
The motion to change the name to
DeSeret was lost.
Mr.. Bryan moved to insert the
word "male" before the words sen
ator or representative" in section 6,
article 4. He was opposed to bring
ing the names of our wives, sisters
or daughters into common use by
hoodlums, drunkards and profess
sional politicians. The place where
our hottest remem brances of women
are is at home and not in the cess
pools of political life. One of old
said: "In woman's weakness lies
her strength" When woman loses
her own seeming weakness she loses
the strength she possesses. Very
few love Il masculine woman; we
love gentleness, mOdesty and retire
ment in women. There is room
in fine arts and kindred walks in
life for the aspirations of woman
where the home does not sat-
isfy all the cravings of the
few of the sex reaching out
after fresher and newer conquests.
Let us record in this constitution
that we do not sanction women as
Stunning the role of man, aDd that
we will avoid bringing them into
political turmoil and trouble. Let
us do what we can, in the face of
the history of politics, to keep the
hideOuS monster away from our fire
sides. We do not want to see wife
contending with husband on party
lines Of politics; we do not want
our fair daughters bidding for the
smiles Of political tricksters, and
the way to avoid this was for men
to do tie political work while
women were kept away from it.
Mrs. Kimball said, understanding
this filthy pool of politics which
our husbands, sons and brothers
have to dabble in, we desire for the
women to step in and help cleanse
this pool. In her experience she
found that every phase of life was
improved by the association of the
sexes, and there is no reason why
women should not have voice in
making the laws for this govern
ment as well as the men.
The motion to insert the word
''male'' was lost.
Mr.. Boyer moved to strike from
section Is of article 4 the words
"and publish them, except such as
require secrecy, as the same sec
tion demands that each house of
the legislature shall make it's own
rules, and they would doubtless
make such a rule on their business.
Mr.. Thurman opposed the mo-
ton, stating that he considered it
requisite necessity, to be enforced
upon the legislature, that the pro-
ceedings be published.
The motion was lost.
Mr.. Rawlins moved an additional
section to article 4, cat all elections
for representative, each qualified
eiector may cast as many votes for
one candidate as there are repreSen-
tatives to be elected in the county
or district, or may distribute the
same among any or all of the can
didates; and the candidates receiv-
ing the highest number of votes
shall be declared elected" This is
a provision for what is known as
representation. Each cleo
tor will be provided with the same
of tickets as there are rep
to elect in the district;
for instance, if Salt Lake has seven
re representatives., each elector has
seven ballots, he can cast the whole
seven for one candidate or divide
them according to his choice. 1t
would enable the minority, if it was
a respectable minority, to elect
representative, and the views of the
could be heard. In any
where there are only two
representatives the minority could
not elect q candidate unless the di-
vision is nearly equal. 1t is in the
interest of good government for all
sentiments and views to be heard.
The minority cannot control the
but it may offer sugges-
tons and cause more thoughtful
ness than if it were not present. In
every country where the majority
had unlimited and undisputed sway
errors in legislation have been per
petrated. We have a striking ex-
ample of this where republicans
have had undisputed sway for a /
long time. Opposite views and nee
slow movements in legisla-
ton bring about better results and
more perfect laws than where one
party or one interest have sole
sway. The vote was lost 21 ayes, Sc
noes.
Mr.. Dalton, Mr.. Graham, Mr..
Booth, Mr.. Stout, Mr.. Richard and |
Mr.. RaWlins supported amendments |
concerning the manner Of describing
the duties of the governor, but |
no motion with such effect was
carried.
Mr.. Rawlius moved an amend |
ment TO section = of Article 6, as
follows: