The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-07-30

twice TO the printers was TORN 10 IlnQt
and was amended fully as much as when
first considered. When they will get
through at this rate it is impossible TO tell.
The report of the committee on manufac-
lures, agriculture and irrigation has been
through a committee of the whole and will
come up in convention soon. 1t is eliciting
great deal of discussion on the outside
and will probably be
DISCUSSED MORE THOROUGHLY
than ever before and be amended again
when it comes up in convention. As it
stands at present it does not seem entirely
to give the first appropriation an exclus..3e
right. 1t seems to favor the agriculturlst
| first, the miner next, and last OF all the
manufacturer. This is right enough so
far as the manufacturer is concerned,
for it is not probable the manufac-
turing interest of the territory will
amount to much during the next
| hundred years at least, but it is prob
able that during good part of that
time our people will be taxed by means of
| infamous tariffs to support institutions OF
that kind in the far east.
An effort was renewed on Saturday last
to give each county a senator. l would
have carried had Hayes and Pritchard of
Owyhee and Campbell of Boise sacrificed
| the interests of their constituents to that of
party. AS it was the party whip in the
hands of the members from the more pop
ulous counties had its effect and held the
gentleman spoken of in the most complete
subsection How their constituents will
| like it remains to be seen. 1t is fortunate
| for them that they have their lot cast
where the people seem to care so little
what their representatives do touching
their interests as in Idaho. Mr.. Mayburn
ENDEAvoRED TO AMEND
the legislative act by having one-half of the
senators hold for four years; the other half
for two, his idea being that it should be a
conservative body and not subject to sud
den changes. Itmay be this was his real rea
son and it may not have been. The gentle
man is a railroad attorney, and a full legis-
lature direct from the people is very often
inconvevient for corporations The question
had been before fully discussed in commit
tee of the whole, and the sequence seemed
to show that the members had fully made
up their minds. The convention decided
that all the sessions of the lower house and
the senate should be open and that even
executive sessions should not be held with
closed DOORS
There are very few reports that have
been entirely completed and referred to
the revision committee. There are
twenty-five reports in all. many of
which are long enough singly for consti-
IutlOu anu IuCu IdluCE
than contract them. Hon. John Gray of
Ada, remarked in convention on Saturday
last that there would be as much matter in
the constitution the convention were max
ing as in the bible. He was not far from
right. There is not an instrument of the
kind under the sun that will equal it for
proliXity. The Office of member of the leg
islature would be a sinecure under it ;Ithere
is so little left for that body to accomplish
hng mil nafa cd
that there is method in all this-that the
members of Congress being appalled, at its
length, would neglect to scan it scrutiniz
ingly, and therefore its Objectionable pro-
visions would slip through. Be that as it
may, these Objectionable features are by no
means few, and after the convention ad
iOurns the public will have them pointed
out on the stump and by the press. AS
the spectator is often more apt to
detect bad move or discern an opportunity
when a game of chess is in progress than
the players, so have the vulnerable points
in the proposed constitution been observed,
and will be exposed and laid bare to the
people in all
THEIR NAKED DEFORMITY
when the proper time arrives. We think
it cannot fail to be shown convincingly to
the people that a state organized under the
Legitimate mOnstrosity would become
pandemonium in a very short space of
time, and yet the so-called constitution is
not half made The following are all that
have thus far been reported to the revising
committee: Report on militia and military
affairs, on executive department, seat of
government, legislative department, cleo
ton and suffrage, and public and private
corporations. The reason why mat
tiers go so slow Is that the
august body is full of orators and
there are many among them who are look
ing wistfully towards the Senate chamber
at Washington. This hankering is COM
mon to all members who have a good
opinion of their own abilities and that
member is by no means small. There are
aspirants for the position whose portraits,
If well engraved on wood and printed in
some comic paper with a statement of their
aspirations accompanying, would make as
funny an exhibit as any such publication
might desire. This does not apply to Reid,
Ainslie or Magun upon the Democratic
side nor to Governor ShOup, Mayb or
Clagett upon the Republican, all of whom
are intellectual men in appearance as well
as in fact. Governor Shoup should have
been a Democrat-being liberal and
of that narrow mindednesS so
of so many of his party
wherever they may be found from Maine
to California. we observe that THE
HERALD still believes
DUBOIS HAS THE INSIDE TRACK
" the Senate. No one thinks so here save
mself aud a very few of his friends. His
chances are becoming less and less each
day. 1t is believed by many that there is
no use of this convention wiggling along
:. i IL Il. II -