Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-03-11
THEY TALK OF THE VETO.
Opinions of the Legislators-How
Ii will Affect the Courts. the
Asylum and Other In.
tereStS.

bill yesterday produced widespread sen
4 sation, which had not died out to-day
!, Those who feel it most keenly are tn,
! courts and the Territorial Insane Asylum
/ and gentlemen interested in these two
! important premises were deeply affected
by the news of the Governors veto. The
Legislators themselves regarded the issue
as desperate crisis, and it will not be
the least surprising if there are a number
of resolutions introduced during the last
agonies OF the session that will in part re-
lieve the members of their pent-up wrath.
w. w. Ritter, Speaker of the House,
said to-day that he considered the Veto
ing of the appropriation bill crisis of
the most disastrous kind, and one which
would sadly clog the wheels of the local
government. There could be nothing
done, he said, to effect compromise
with the Governor, because his demands
involve procedure which is in direct
conflict with established law GIN nv
opinion" said he, there will be no effort
made towards reconciliation.
| Representative West regarded the
death of the appropriation bill as dire
calamity upon the community, and par
ticularly upon the courts. He took it for
granted that there would be no alterna-
tive but the rejection of all Territorial
cases by the courts, which could no longer
afford to prosecute criminals without
financial aid. This would result unavoid-
ably in the turning loose in society
of host of depraved and
dangerous criminals, whose place
would properly be in the penitentiary,
for the courts cannot do otherwise than
bail all such individuals out indefinitely.
in the absence of funds from which to
pay jurors and witness fees and other ex-
penses. AS for the Utah Asylum, 1 don't
see what they can do short of turning the |
patients, one and all, out into the streets, |
Tor besides the means necessary to con- |
duct the institution within the future, the |
10000, for past expenses, falls to the
ground with the general appropriation
bill. | can see nothing but distress for
these institutions
Judge Shurtliff, member of the Council
from Weber county, did not believe any,
thing would be done by the Council in
the matter of compromising with the
Governor by confirming his nominees for
Treasurer, Auditor, and Superintendent
of Public Schools. There was no meas
ure at present contemplated looking to
that end, so far as he was aware.
Judge Dusenherry, who is an active
member of the Asylum Board, could not
foretell what would be the extent of the
hazardous results to the Asylum as a
of the failure of the appro-
prlatlon bill to 60 through. There
was no recourse that he knew of by /
which the institution could be kept up, 1
but that is small consideration COM 1
pared with the untold ruin upon the coun- :
Try generally. Things are positively dis
and annihilated. ,
Mr.. Mclaughlin, the liberal member {
rom Park City, had just presented in the
House an appropriation bill that suited ,
lis notion. 1t would pay the officers and
what Justly belonged to
hem, for they are not responsible
Q any extent for the actions
u the Legislature, and are en-
tiled to remuneration for their services.
lie had reasons to believe that the bill
7ould receive the Governors approval. t
90, although he had no knowledge as to \
he result. q
All the members who were approached o
N the subject expressed similar senti- :,
tents to those given above, the feeling
mong all of them being that it was an j
mergency of the most serious character. E