The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-08-04

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business as fast as practicable. They in
tend to finish their work this week and HE
them away to their mountain homes, where
they can obtain relief from the oppressive
cares of state-where cooler breezes may
ease their careworn brows and their wives
and children and neighbors gather around,
while the narrator shall wonderful tales
unfold of
DEEDS OF NOBLE sTATEsMASsHIP.
1t has heretofore been asserted that there
We're many talented men in the conven-
tion-a proposition which it is not in
tended now to deny, but for all of that,
the august body is far from being desti-
tute of cranks. Perhaps the majority Of
men might become such if they allowed
themselves to bestow too much thought and
study on any one subject to the exclusion
singular rarity of the class alluded
so since the convention convened,
embracing anti Mormon, woman's
rights, corporation and anti-cOrp-
Grafton irrigation and mining works and
other descriptions too numerous to men
lion. All of these have endeavored TO i'm
print their own peculiar views upon the
constitution. In some cases they have sue
ceeded wholly, in others partially, while
some did not succeed at all. Nothing will
convince the wholly unsuccessful that man
kind has much advanced in the last score
of centuries, or that perfection in civiliza-
ton will ever be reached until their own
peculiar views shall have been adopted by
the great mass of mankind.
Every time the report on schools and
school lands comes up we have a fresh OK
hibition of hypocrisy. 1t is not from the
members who have an established reputa-
ton as Christian gentlemen, but from such
as lead irregular lives and whose shadows
SELDOM DARKEN CHURCH DOOR.
AS certain as the report is read some mem
Der leads off with motion that the Bible
be read in the public schools, and then from
lips that never prayed comes a panegyric
on the holy book If these exhibitions were
heartfelt they would be entitled to respect,
but to some of US who know they are not,
that they are made with no other motive
and object than for the purpose of making
the speaker solid with the religious portion
of the people of his county, they are tire
some. For the third time we had a show
of this kind on Tuesday of this week. We
hope to be spared a repetition.
The judiciary report came up on its inal
reading yesterday. The supreme court is
TO consist Of three judges, who receive a
salary of 8, 900 per year each, and hold four
sessions year. two at Lewiston and two
at Boise City; the district courts to consist
of five in number, two in
THE NORTH PART or THE STATE
above the Salmon river range, and tire
south of it. They also receive s, 900 each
per year. The present system of county
attorneys is to be abolished, and a district
attorney elected in each judicial district,
whose salary is fixed at s., 800. The pro |
&c .abn fIa
of estates and has civil jurisdiction to the
amount of $500. An attempt was made to
revive the old practice of courts of equity |
by the appointment of a master in chancery, |
empowered to grant temporary restraining
orders, etc, but it failed. The same is true !
of the fate of an amendment designed to |
limit the jurisdiction of a Justice of the |
peace to 500 instead of $500 as at present. |
The judiciary system, as it finally passed, !
is not a bad piece of work Attempts were
made to
LIMIT THE NUMBER OF JUDGES
to three, then four, but the universal opin-
ion of the attorneys in the convention was
that it would require tive to administer the
laws as they should be administered.
'Tbe report on public and private corpora
ton having been fixed for final reading on
Wednesday afternoon, was duly taken up
at that hour. 1t was originally unfavor-
able to corporations, and few such pro-
visions are still left, but their attorneys are
the most able men in the body, and the
clause heretofore published in THE HERALD
permitting private property to be taken for
public uses, was again discussed in con-
Vention yesterday and today. Speeches
were made against it, in which it was de-
sclared to be
AND UNPRECEDENTED,
but of no avail. The section as it passed a
few days since stood the test of all
the amendments that could be
brought against it to deprive it
of some of it's most Objectionable features |
When fully explained to the people il will
be found to be a dead weight to the adop-
in his home if by any chance railroad cor |
poration, ditch, or mining company should |
fancy they had use for it. 1t would be at !
once appraised and condemned. 1t passed |
its final reading during the forenoon of to |
day and was reported to the committee on |
revision to be adopted in the constitution !
The same action was taken on the seat of !
government and labor reports. The report
of the apportionment committee was made
this morning and is one of the most
UBIQUITOUS AND vILLAINoUs
instruments in writing that ever emanated |
from the hand of man in connection with |
public affairs We hold that the man who |
VIII cJnspire wilfully to smother the |
noise of the people in a government like |
ours Is not whit better than rebel, and |
is morally guilty of treason as any traitor |
whose head ever fell from the block 1t |
makes no difference what his political affili- |
ations are, the same moral turpitud5 at |
taches to the crime, for crime 1t is, and one !
which in its far-reaching effects may iniure |
any citizen in the state. Unfortunately it |
is one which no law can be made to reach, |
but the people should reach the perpetrators |
with .pprObrium and scOrn. They should |
refuse to be led by men
GUILTY OF SUCH CONDUCT,
and show by their votes in how much de- |
hesitation they hold the tricky knaves. The |
senate is to consist of eighteen members, |
mai and Latah, 1; Nez Perces and Idaho, |
l. Nez Perces and Latah, l.; Latah, |
1; Boise, l; Custer, |; Lemhi, l;
Logan, l; Bingham, /; Bear Lake and |
Bingham, /; Oneida and Cassia, /; Elmore /
and Owyhee, /; Alturas, l; Ada 3; Wash
ington, l. In the house of representatives
Ada has 3; Alturas 2; Ada and Elmore l;
Boise, 2; Bear Lake, l; Bingham. 3; Cas-
STA, l Custer, 2; Elmore, l Idaho, l :; Idaho |
and Nez Perez Il Oneida, l Owyhee, l;
Shoshone, 4; Washington, 2; bingham,
Logan and Alturas, l.; Latah =, Kootenai
and Latah, l. 1t would be very easy to
point out the injustice of the foregoing,
but the corporation attorneys with whom
it originated may not entirely succeed in
examining it
DOWN THE THRoATs
of the members. If it should prevail the
Democrats want no better campaign docu
ment with which to go before the peo-
pie. The latter are generally