The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-07-16
IT IS THE THIRD DAY.
But Nothing Of a Public Nature
Has Been Done.
THE CONVENTION AT BOISE CITY.
Provision Made for the Consideration o.
Almost Every Conceivable Interest
What of the Outcome?


nature has been transacted in the consti
tutional convention. On Wednesday las
the members met and heard the speeche
of Mrs. P. Kelton and Mrs. Hutchisol
upon the subjects of female suffrage an,
prohibition. They then adjourned unit
Friday, to allow their twenty five commit
tees an opportunity to work OF course
committee business is private, or presumed
to be so, though a great deal done leaks on
by some manner of means. This mornin.
the body convened again, and after hearing
applications for leave of absence from ;
few members, a motion for an adjournment
until Saturday morning at 10 o'clock was
made and carried. Whether they will
have committee work so far advanced a.
to transact any business
IN OPEN CONVENTION OR NOT
is question. The committees are too
cumbersome. Thus the committee on legis
lative apportionmentc consists of eighteen
the judiciary of sixteen; schools and edu-
cation nine while two or three of the
smallest are five in number. 1t will be
seen that where the number of members is
limited TO seventy, the most OF them must
be on many committees. 1t makes
1t very difficult to attend to thei1
committee duties, and il must take
considerable time for them to get a start.
Although the supreme courtroom. Judge
chambers, the usual committee rooms of the
legislature, speakers room and even the
library apartment has been utilized, still
the rooms at the Overland hotel is the
meeting place of several. The committee.
are as follows: Ways and means, execu-
tive department, legislative department.
judiciary, bill of rights, names of bounda
rles and organization, seat of government,
public institutions, buildings and grounds,
education, schools, school and university
lands, elections, rights of suffrage, revenue
and finance, legislative apportionment.
military affairs, public and private corpo.
rations, municipal affairs, federal relations.
labor, schedule, manufactures, agriculture
and irrigation, mines and mining, live
stock, printing and binding, revision and
enrolment, salarias, public Indebtedness
and subsidies. 1t will be observed that
ample provision is made for the considera-
ton of
ALMOST EVERY CONCEIVABLE INTEREST.
The committee on election and right of
suffrage is a study. 1t is composed of Jau1es
H. Beatty, o. j. Salisbury, WI Hey
burn, Charles H, Hays, George Ainslie, A
E. Mayhem and F. w. Bean. Ainsley and
Mayhem are well known opponents
of the test oath and Bean was the
same two years ago but NAV have
changed. Hepburn is a lawyer of CON
siderable ability from Shoshone county:
Beatty, an attorney of prominence from
Alturas; Hays, editor of paper in Owyhee
county; salisbury we know nothing about.
As many Republicans are fearful that if
the oath is embodied it will defeat or en-
danger the passage eff the proposed consti-
tuition either before the people or BY Con
gress, tits but fair to presume that one of
them at least will vote adversely to the in
sertion of the clause i'll the constitution.
But we do not like to speculate when facts
are so close at hand, and occupy the en-
barrassing position of false prophet after
they shall have been disclosed. 1t is
very likely that we. will not he
under the necessity of waiting but
three or four days at most before sometime
tangible will be disclosed in relation 10 the
action of the committee on this point,
When it arises the fun will begin. and no
one can foresea the result; but if the test
oath clause is pressed, the opinion of the
best informed is that there
WILL BE AN ABSOLUTE BOLT.
1t will not be, however. until there has been
a display of oratory, for this body is full
of that class of the genus homo and some
VI GuCHl VI HO 1ncou DrcU6QSlO0S.
The committee on sect of government.
public institutions, buildings and grounds
is composed of Frank P. Cavanaugh. ]. I.
Crutcher, H. B. kinport, P McMahol l.
John $. Gray, w. J. Mcconnell and n
Melder. Alturas county and few other
localities have been threatening when the
assembled to agitate the capital
question once more, and if possible remove
It from this city. Several county papers
have published very exciting articles on
the subject. From the constitution of the
those who have been threaten
ing have no room for hope They are nearly
all friends of this city.
The committee on names, boundaries and
is composed of J. w Reid. j.
". King, E. S. Quail, A. J. Crook aud Sol
Hasbrouck. This has always been very
exciting subject in Idaho, and when it has
become subject of action in the legisla-
ture, has created embittered feeling. The
act of Congress passed three years ago
limiting the powers of territorial legisla-
tors in this respect, has kept many locaIi- |
les in impatient restraint, but if it should |
happen that our goyernm mt were changed |
20 that of state, so that those limitations
If authority were no longer imposed, then |
he state legislature would
FIND ITSELF FULL
If business of a local character. 1t is prob |
Ible that but little pressure will be brought
o bear upon the committee now, but the |
fleet of its doings will be of much mo- !
nent should statehood prevail
The next interest of moment is the COM
nittee on public and private corporations.
IF this A. e. Mayhem is chairman He is
ar from being welded to corporation in
erests. H. B. Kinport follows, who is a
abroad man. Then comes A. S. CLANCY,
democrat, followed by A. D. Bivens, J. +
v. Ballentine, n. T. Andrews. w. H.
'avidge, p. p. Glinden and S. L. Pritci
I'd. Questions concerning railroads have
ONE up in our legislature from time to
two years ago last winter,
pom the issue of which it is alleged con
iderable money has been paid to members,
ut it is probable the roads will take but
tile interest in the pending action of the
invention, because such interest is too
emote. The committe seems to us to be
enerally of
AN ANTI-MoNOPoLY CHARACTER,
i'd as President Claggett knows his men
would seem to Indicate to US that he is !,
It so much bound up in the protection of
ecial interests as most of his party
During the past two days the members !
the convention have been so engrossed \
their work that they are seldom seen
on the streets. We feel almost certain
at their work will be in vain, but we I
mot but admire devotion to cause,
yever much we may feel disposed our
YES to oppose it. g
We have given the composition and ten c
ncies of the various committees upon {
estions " hich will excite the most inter n
when the convention gets into discus a
g their merits. 1t may be well for the p
tho subscribers of The HERALD to pre- e
we them. a
money has been raised from
ne source to pay the expenses of this
lvention. We saw several thousand dol !,
in oOl1 11TOn 20 VII +oh1o N Fo,,, >