The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-01-09
All the business transacted in the
Council this afternoon consu ned

All the business transacted in the
Council this afternoon consu ned
ABOUT FIFTEEN MINUTES
when message was announced from
the Governor. The private secretary
then advanced with big bundle of re-
ports. They were those of the attor-
ney general superintendent of public
instruction and district attorneys of the
several counties. The president, Mr.
Clough, of Lemhi, suggested that they
would be dry reading but Judge s. 81.
Mayhem, acting chairman of the Judi
ciary committee, wanted to hear them,
and the poor clerks took turns in read
ing them until they were evidently tired
both in limb end lung. VIII, n the judge
moved an adjournment which was
voted with most emphatic aye.
This Legislature seemed to have
made an innovation in the lien law,
and one which looks to your CORE
spondent as calculated to create much
litigation and seriously EN- barrass our
ranchmen. We aliude to the Leu upon
crops. It affords too much of an OPP
portunity for Matchmaking and display
ing spirit of spitefuIness in case of
Ic0LuCAG D7i WeSu duu
employed. 1t is well enough in case of
house or mine, for it operates only as
mortgage, but on such property as q
crop 1t looks wrong to tie it up as pro-
posed. 1t is often thai dependence is
placed alone upon its sale to pay for
help. The oulY safety for the farmer
will be hereafter to stipulate that the
debt is not due until q sale of the pro-
duce can be effected. Our Governor
being farmer, as well as lawyer, Will
undoubtedly give his views on this
matter before 1T it becomes law.
GOOD DEMOCRAT.
There is one member of the Council
of whom the Democrats of Idaho may
well be proud. We allude to the Hon.
Alex H. Mayhem, of Shoshone. In
his young manhood he was county
Judge in Kansas, practiced law success,
fully in Colorado, came 10 Monts ma in
the infancy of that Territory and moved
from thence in the early days of the
C9ur d'Alene excitement to his pres ut
home. AS LAWYER he stands pre-em-
inent; as O legislator he understand DIS
parliamentary law in all its n inutent s
His knowledge is not of superficial
character, and Democrat as he is, tie
entire body Of the Council look upon
his dictum as decisive upon any point
of the kind in question. He was pre- 81
dent of the Council two years ago, and
made an excellent presiding Off er.
He is the leader in legislative affairs
here as he is of the party in the nor h
ern part of the Territory. There is
nothing in him of the office-seeker,
and he came here not of his own will
but because the position was fore d
upon HIM by the pt o lie of | is distric's
1t is a sacrifice to him at any time TO at
tend Legislature, for his law practice is
sufficient to engross all his attention.
A local paper in Shoshone County, tt @
Wardner Neus, gives him notice as
follows: Hon. Alex. II. Mayhem left
here las; Monday for Boise CITY, whel Q
he will remain during the session OF
the Legislature as JOINT councilman.
The judge had been suffering for
several days prior to his departure,
from a severe attack of neuralgia, but
had sufficiently recovered to under
take the journey. His many friends
wish him a pleasant sojourn at the
capital where he will prove shining
light among the solons of our Terri
tory
Our and is few, but true and tried, J"
and the manner in which our ops o1en's
are steering their ark is sure to drive
them to destruction.