The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-07-16
WHO Is To BLAMR7

| The Utah Legislature has refused 70 mak'
/ any appropriate ms for the support OF tht
I Territorial courts, and the Territory Is al
ready indebted 10 the United States some
] SO 600 for the expenses of keeping the lega
1 machinery running. Sen-tor CullOm hai
/ introduced bill 70 provide for the pay
/ nent of this debt by the Territory of Utah
| II certainly Is q burden which the citizens
/ OF the United States should not be com
PEELED TO csrry.
The above is from the Free Pres, and
| Times, published az Burlington, VT.
Before the Press aud Times begins to
talk about the burdens the United
states ought not to carry, it would be
well foe its writers TO do little sound
thinking in relation to this Utah
bur3en.
In the first place, it was not the Utah
Legislature which refused to make
the needed appropriations for the
support Of the Territorial courts
and other Territorial institutions The
Legislature made the appropriations
necessary for the expenses of the Terri
tory, judicial, educational. and bene-
VIOLENT; but a handsome Kentucky Re-
publican governor, with more beauty
than sense, and more egotism than wis
dom, vetoed the bill. because he had
failed to make a legislature chosen by
the people bend to his autocratic will.
The Congress. unwisely. we hold, ana
in violation of the spirit of American
institutions, has siTen the governor of
this Territory absolute veto power,
which gives him power to render void
all the patient labor of the representa-
tives Of the people, and creates in our
great Republic a despotism as absolute
as any known in the old monarchies of
Europe. Ex-Governor Eli H. Murray,
hattered by a ring of political adven-
turers who have cursed Utah with their
presence, imagined be could commit no
outrage that would meet with a rebuke
so long as it was praciiced on a people
so unpopular as the Mormons, hence
he vetoed the appropriation bill pre-
sented to him by the Utah Legisla-
ture, though he knew at the
time 1t would stop all the
machinery Of the Territorial govern
ment. And for this impudent AFRO
gance-worthy only eff petty despot-
he lost his official head. And now
comes the Press aud Times and charges
the mischief done by Murray's madness
to the Utah Legislature. We don't hap
pen to have such legislatures as that in
Utah.
AS for the matter of Utah's indebted.
ness 70 the general government which
worries our Vermont friend, il arises
chiefly from the expense incurred in
keeping up the Penitentiary. When
that institution was in the hands OF the
and Us officers appointed bv
the Legislature, the Territory bore the
expenses arts ng in connection with II
When it was taken out Of the control of
The people. the Legislature very prom
srly refused to make appropriations for
/. The same with some OF the court
claims. II the United States are deter
mined to run all the courts in Utah,
.sking The whole criminal business ont
If the hands Of the people. let them paw
he expenses attached to those pro.
'eedings. The Territory stands ready
o relieve the United States of all the
burden of governing Utah when the M.
ion will allow Utah to govern herself