The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-12
WHAT 1T COSTS.

IN the SunurN CIVIL appropriation Dill
passed by the late Congress we find this
| item: For defraying the contingent eX-
! penses of the courts, including fees Of the
| United States district attorney and his as
stants, and fees and per diems of the
| United States commissioners and clerks of
/ the court, and the fees, per diems, and
travelling expenses of the United States
marshal for the territory of Utah, with the
! expenses of summoning jurors, subp9naing
witnesses, of arresting, guarding and
| Transporting prisoners, Of hiring and feed
| ing guards. and of supplying and caring
| for the penitentiary, to be paid under the
| direction and approval Of the attorney gen
eral, upon accounts duly verified and certi-
! fed, $4,000"
Another item in the same bill reads:
For completing additional wing to prison,
| 12O cells, with hospital, female prison,
and chapel attachment; for stOckade en-
trance, to consist of offices, warden's resi-
dence, guard-quarters, dining rooms and
armoly; and for wall with sentry to
inclose about two acres of land, $4,000"
In the legislative, executive and judicial
appropriation bill, we find appropriations
for this territory as follows:
For salary of0the governor: S2,e0l, chief
justice and three associate judges, at $1,000
| each; secretary, at S, S00-Sl6, 400.
For legislative expenses, per diem of
members, stationery, rent of halls, printing
bills, etc, 81, 900.
For contingent expenses, to be expended
by the governor, $500.
For salaries of the five Utah commission
ers, So, 900.
For travelling expenses, printing, clerk
hire, etc, of the commission, $500.
For compensation of the officers of cleo
ton, including contingent expenses, So, 900.
In the same bill there is an appropriation
for the salary and expenses of the sur
veyor-g general, amounting to $1,000.
In the deficiency appropriation bill there
is this item: For expenses of the Utah
commission, namely, for travelling eX
penses, printing, stationery, clerk hire, of
flee rent, gas, fuel, ianitor, postage stamps,
and other necessary expenses, being for
the service of the fiscal year 1899, 81, OOOn
And also this item: For expenses of ter
ritorial courts in Utah. being for de-
ficiencies on account of fiscal year, as fol
lows: 1888, s, 1865: 1887, Sl,O76; in all,
S. 422. 30"
1.-THE aggregate of these is nearly two
hundred thousand dollars, or about dollar
for every man, woman and child in the ter
ritory 1t is this showing which inclines
one to endure with a large degree of COM
placency the territorial system of govern
ment-a system which under the circum-
stances would be infamous and oppressive
beyond forbearance in a republic. With the
exception of some minor items, the ex-
penses enumerated above would all have to
be borne by the people if this were state,
and to bear them would necessitate the dou-
bling of the local taxes. We are not saying
that to escape the financial load is compensa-
ton for the evils which the people have to en-
dure in being deprived of local self-govern-
ment, and of citizenship, but we are saying
that it softens the oppression good deal
for the general government to relieve us of
the burden. We are also saying that the
federal government is paying handsomely
for the fun of administering affairs in this
territory.