The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-08-09
THE BOYS AT BOISE.
Arrangements Made to Pay the
Patriotic Delegates.
THE REPUBLICAN SLATE MADE UP.
4 shoup for Governor, Hepburn and Dubois for
= Senators and Sweet for Representative
Bear Lake Water.

BOISE CRY, Idaho, Aug. Especial cor
respondence of THE HERALD. Very few
of the members of the convention believed
until Saturday last that they would re-
ceive any pay for their services unless it
were upon the possible contingency of the
constitution being accepted first by the
people and next by Congress, and then
they had very indefinite idea as to how
such payment was to be brought about
On Saturday morning last Mr.. Mcconnell,
of the special finance committee, reported
to the convention that arrangements had
been completed with the First National
bank of this city whereby certificates of
mileage and attendance could be cashed at
u discount of 1875 per cent. The attend
ance has been much larger since this an
nOuncement and is more particularly no
ticeable among the wealthy members. The
per diem having been fixed at
So and the mileage 20 cents each
way while an economy arising er necesSitate
having been the general rule with most Of
the members, they will now be enabled to
take in many of the pleasures of this
, IOcality-obtainable only by the happy
NFD'S9SSA AN-D
ALL THE MORE WELCOME
10 some of the members because it was I'M
expected. The talk about caShing the GER
tificates was supposed to be trick to keep
the Democrats here until after the consti-
tuition was completed, and then by some
miserable subterfuge to put them off in
definitely, leaving them with no recOmpense
for their labor. A syndicate of wealthy
politicians have made this arrangement.
They have probably influence enOugh-or
think they have, to get the money out of
Congress, or failing in that, out of the ter
ritory. The most remarkable thing about
all this is that the Republicans have for
once told the truth, circumstance so I'M
usual as to astOnish, if not appall, their
opponents. We have
BULGARIAN MONK
in the city who wears a red cap and
breaches upon the street corners. 1t is
fairly possible he may have inculcated a
few principles of morality in the hearts of
the Republican sinners We can conceive
of no other possible reason for such IN
heard-cf conduct upon their part.
Last Sunday evening Republican eau
Gus was held in the capital building. . The
committee on schedule has heretofore re
5ported favorably to electing United States
Senators by a state legislature after the
constitution had been accepted by Con
gress. The Dubois element has been I'M
easy for number of days, and the caucus
last evening was for the purpose of repudi-
ating the report of the committee,
and holding a state election at the
time of the submission of the constitution.
Clagett and some of his friends did not at
tend. Their slate, as they have it made
up, is Col. Shoup for governor, Hepburn
and Dubois for United States Senators,
Willis Sweet for Congress while Standrod,
of Oneida, will take Sweets place as
United States district attorney. We feel
pretty certain that Governor Sheup
COULD NOT HAYE BEEN CONSULTED
in this arrangement. We have no idea that
ne would take the governorShip. His
place is in the Senate should the Repub-
liCans be so successful as to send anyone.
Neither is Clagett so easily to be gotten
rid of Hepburn is the attorney for the
Northern Pacific Railroad company and
OF course, will command the railroad in
iuence This is an influence Dubois can
not command, though he has done much for
them The officers of the Union Pacific
still remember acts of his in Bingham
county, three years ago, when he was
United States marshal, which were at the
time construed into unfriendliness. BY
joining forces with Hepburn, Dubois may
hope TO be all solid with the railroads.
The work of the convention proceeded
very slowly on Saturday last. There were
plenty of
SPEECHES, BUT LITTLE ELSE
was done but to hammer away before the
revenue and finance report We gave up
all idea of keeping track of the amend
ments. They were crowded before the
secretary in such numbers that he seemed
at times to have become bewildered. All
these were debated in good, bad and indif-
ferent English until it became immensely
tiresome When the hour for adjournment
ct evening came, but little seemed to have
been affected and the report remains to be
further considered.
All of Friday was consumed in consider
ing the report of the committee on names,
boundaries and county organizations Al
turas was dissatisfied, of course, and Mr..
Beattie told the convention there was but
$4,000 of taxable property in the county,
and it wanted more territory, and hoped
the next legislature would do justice and
give it Camas prairie; that the county
WOULD BE BANKRUPT
before the year was out. Mr. WhItt0n,
of Logan, replied. He said that when the
county of Alturas was divided at the last
session of the legislature and Elmore
and Logan cut off provision was
made for them to share their pro-
portion of Alturas debt and commissioners
had been appointed by both the former
counties to adjust the same as the law
directed. Alturas had refused to notice
the commission or acknowledge the law.
The report as originally drawn read two
thirds Of the voters of a county to effect a
change. This had been altered so as to
read a majority of the people upon the
territory to be set off or annexed. Idle
Alturas was not happy. She did not want
to see the time of the legislature taken up
ia
DISCUSSING PRIVATE BILLS
when so much general legislation would be
needed TO put in force the provisions of the
constitution. The claim that part of the
distress of Alturas arose from the fact that
she had made the sheriff larger than than
of all the county officers of either Ell
more or Logan and that the efforts of the
people of the dismembered county were
similar to that Of the boy who after muir
derlng both father and mother claimed
sympathy because he had been left an or
Dhan. The report as finally adopted left it
for the people of the territory proposed to
be annexed to decide, thus taking it out of
legislative control as it should be. These
county division matters have had the effect
of'corrupting Idaho legislatures more than
all other. cases combined.
The ditch to which the attention Of the
governor and the convention was directed
last week appears to be under the control
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