The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-04-08

h0AhOC4 VI cC65AOAo NOACALld4 AAo tCd0 "a
1t is pretty definitely settled that the
Senate will
DO NOTHING FOR UTAH
this session, as the committee on Terri
tories has reported unanimously against
considering any bill having for its OBJ
ject the admission of Utah as State.
The stubborn character of the report
leaves no room for any doubt on the
question.
Senator Platt expects speedy consid-
Grafton of his bill to prohibit members
of Territorial legislatures from holding
office. Tnls Ii Is u result of the
committee on territories principally
from Arizona, in which charges were
almost directly made that governors
were in the habit of FIXING" the legis-
latnres SO that any measure in which
the governor was interested would go
through very speedily and satisfac-
toTily.
The President is not given to
UNDULY INTERFERING
in government business which he thinks
is being properly administered by those
who are charged with the duty, but
when things go wrong, he asserts his
privileges as quickly as anyone could
desire. In no instance was this more
marked than it that of Peter s. Barson,
who was recently pardoned by the
PRESIDENT. In commenting on the case,
the President said that the death of the
plural wife ended the polygamy, and he
(the President) would have been salts
ned II the sentence had been merely
nominal. The rebuke to the Utah
judiciary could hardly have been more
pointed, and the pardon was really ser
vice OF notice on the courts that thew
Will nave to move more carefully in
their prosecutions, or there may be
trouble.
OF all the ladies who have spoken at
the international Council of Women.
which was in session during the past
week, none were listened to with more
attention than
MRS. EMILY S. RICHARDS,
the delegate of the Women's Relief
Association for the Territory of Utah.
She was such a tastefully-dressed
pleasant lady that everyone liked her,
and her utteraEces were received with
many expressions of satisfaction, at the
work which the women of Utah are do
ing. At Tuesdays morning session.
Mrs. Richards talked of the Relief
Society, and g brief history Of its or
ganizauOn and its objects was recIted.
The audience was evidently amazed at
the marvellous manner in which the as
ISOLATION is conducted, and at the work
1t did. Mrs. Richards told with pride
OF the W0mGn'S Exponent, with its COM
pLete staff OF women, and elaborated OH
resolution will be adopted, and hat
would be another bre2ch in the wall of
secresy with which Senators sur
round themselves when they go into
executive session. Senator Edmunds is
in fact, aghsst a it. But that does not
bother Mr.. Riddleberger. On the con-
trar3, ii rlcEtes HIM greatly. He IS not
always fortunate in the corultion in
which he appears on the floor of the
Senate chamber. but be is always,
and very effectively, too, on the
right side OF public questions.
II looks as if the bill authorizing the
Secretary OF thel Treasury to use
SURPLUS MONEY
in the treasury for the purchase of
United States bonds, would, when it
gets back to that body, be something
more than the very simple measure that
it was when it started on its journey to
the north end of the Capitol. 1t is now
ia the hands of the Senate, and has al
ready been amended very materially.
The bill itself merely gave the Secretary
Of the Treasury an emphatic. power
which many think ealready has. TWAS
to considerable degree an extraneous
piece of legislation. But there is
nothing extraneous about it now. 1t
has opened up in the Senate the whole
subject of the nations finances, and
that forecasting topic is being talked
about from various standpoints. The
bill has become of importance by the
adoption of an amendment offered by
Senator Plumb, providing that when
ever the circulation of any national bank
or any portion thereof, shall be
surrendered. and is not taken
up by the other national banks,
within thirty days, the Secretary of the
Treasury shall issue an amount of
legal tender notes equal to
the amount of national bank
notes retired. This is an important
step towards preve3 ting any further
contraction of the currency. There is
another very radical amendment
which is. pending to the bill. 1t was
offered by Senator Stewart, Of Nevada,
and provides for the issue of gold and
silver certificates upon bullion deposited
by any one at United States mint Or
assay Office. This proposition has
many friends in the Senate, but it will
hardly be adopted. Other amend
ments to the House bill will doubtless
be offered. The bill as it was stated in
the House when it was up
for consideration was intended
simply to remove the Presidents
doubt" When it gets back to
that body, it will not only remove the
Presidents doubt, but will be found
providing for mum Der of things that
it's trainers meyer dreamed of putting
into it.
1t is fact, which nobody disputes,
that number Of public men ia Wash
Ington
MADE MONEY
put of the recent decision of the
Bell telephone case by the Su-
preme Court. They invested money
Ill l.