The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-21

| corder, assessor, and superintendent of
district schools in and for each and all of
the counties of said territory"
There is such a wonderful sameness
of our governors suggestion and our ex-
| commissioners bill that with no great de-
gree of expansion of the imagination per-
son could bring himself to think that one
master mind had evolved from It's fertile
brain both the recommendation and the
bill. True, the Senator's bill has trans
posed the governors recommendation so
that the former can drop an or two, and
assessor" comes in for place in advance
| of superintendent of district schools
These great changes and traDspositions
meet with TIE HERALD's full and hearty
approval. Had PADDOCK enlarged upon
the governors recommendation and added
county treasurers and collectors, we could
then have given him credit for having an
original idea.
The very day that PADDOCK introduced
his bill to have the governor of Utah en-
powered to appoint to all of the county
offices that would be of any value for the
Liberal party to hold, he introduced one
Tor tue erection of public building in this
city, asking for 100000 appropriation.
rne trip of ARTHUR L. THOMAS, PADDoCK's
fellow commissioner, to Washington to
labor for 100000 public building, shows
plainly that PADDOCK was not as careful in
following the governors recommendations
for federal building as for the federal
agency to appoint county officers. 1t may
here be remarked that after THOMAS
reached Washington the Senator sent in
another bill which proposes to appropriate
half million dollars for building in Salt
Lake. This fact is mentioned merely as
another incident going to show how closely
together the minds of these two statesmen
run in all matters in any way relating to
Utah.
THE HERALD is a little surprised that in
asmuch as the probate judges and all Of
the jurors are in the hands of the Liberals,
the governor did not alse ask for the privil- |
ege of appointing county collectors and |
treasurers. l
There is nothing like going in for the |
whole hog' while you are about it, and
modesty has never been one of the charac-
teristics of the ordinary Republican Office
holder. ARTHUR T. THOMAS recommends |
ton proves that modesty and he have long |
since parted company and it is difficult for |
US to understand why the Two offices of |
collector and treasurer should not also have |
been asked for. Perhaps the governor
had the history of the Republic of |
Tooele' in his mind when he failed to ask |
for these Offices
1t is not so long ago that we have for
gotten the circumstance of the collection |
of taxes in the Republic" on transient
sheep herds and how the money thus
gathered failed to find its way
into the treasury; that is, so it appeared
to the grand jury. Theparty who collected
the taxes was indicted and his case was
put off time after time until years had
rolled around and the day had passed,
through the running of the statute of lin
itation, when an official could be indicted
for the offense; then in came the county
treasurer and swore that the party who
collected the taxes had settled with him in
full. This confession of fraud enabled the
indicted official to so scott free.
Our beloved governor may have had this
little bit of history in his mind when he
magnanimously concluded not to ask for
the appointment of collectors and treas
urers as well as the other officers
But then, when we stop to think of the
matter, these offices don't amount to much
anyway, and the governor can demonstrate
his unbounded love for the people by al
lowing them to retain these two oficials9 +
All the governor and his Liberal friends
want is the privilege of having the asses
sor's office, when they can make the taxes
Of the people as much as they please, and
the Judge, clerk and selectmen, so they can
spend these taxes as they please. In
the generosity of their souls they are
willing some one else should collect the
funds they are to expend, and as the gov
srnor and sureties perhaps lack confidence
IN the honesty Of the members of their
OWN party, they are willing the People
should furnish the county treasurer
Good, kind, generous souls!
They can, no doubt, exclaim, from the
governor down. 1--WE are no hogs we know
when we have got enough, so we will allow
you to collect the taxes for US to expend.n
There is absolutely no limit to the gen
srosity of some men, lone of whom our
governor am which, likewise Senator
PADDOCK.