The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-01-10

punishment WlIuOuL LTldl, lOT WHO Will
be so rash as to soy Acknowledgement
is not punishment? Is he thus de-
graded and disgraced because of a
crime he has committed? By 10 means,
but because another person or persons
belonging to a church where his con-
science leads him has done that which
is unpopular were it not for that clause
of Tragedy 3" bill wherein he pro-
vides that future Legislatures may re-
store to citizenship, how powerless such
bodies would be! 1t looks as il be is
iabored under The haliucination that
the acts of this assembly could govern
another to follow; that future LegisIa-
tive bodies have no power except such
as a farmer has conferred upon them,
and their scope of authority limit ed TO
subjects that have not before enero ssed
the
LEGISLATIVE MINDS OF IDAHO soLoNs.
It has become known to your readers
that an effort has been made to cut up
some of the counties. The people
west of the Sawtooth range in Alturas
ds sire to cut loose, and christsn the
newly made political division ElmoTe
COUNTY. At the last election. ''diVi-
sion ticket was nominated for council
ana assem- blymen, and received an al
| most unanimous vote. Many OF the
| Haley people, embracing hotsl keepers,
Office holders and saloon Keepers, are
opposed to the movement, Dotwith-
standing the fact that the county is as
| large as the State of New Jersey, and
has one-sixth of the representation in
the Legislature. Ada is the smallest
county In the Territory, but the peo-
pie along the line of the Oregon Short
Line pine for a county seat, and among
the piners is the man Kurtz. When the
| Legislature convened, Mr.. Bailey,
| from this county, was a candidate for
speaker in the Republican caucus
against Buckhart, of Alturas. the affix
Of whose name is often differently
given. When the vote was taken,
Kurtz absented himself, and caused his
colleagues defeat. The whole infue nee
of the Alturas Republican ring was
directed against Bailey, and in favor of
Buckhart. Now the bargain and sale
develops itself. On Sa urday morning
last Tragedy" introduced a dill which
| by its provisions, would cut off about
| twenty miles of western Altura9 and
annex it to Ada. By doing this he
proposes to
RUIN THE ELMoRE COUNTY BILL,
and pave the way for another to cut
Southern Ada off, and by annexing
part of Washington and Owyhu create
a new political division on the Oregon
Short Line Railroad. The Boise City
| people are universally opposed to this
| scheme, not only because it brings with
it part of the monstrous debt of AL
| turas County, but from the fact that it
| takes away all, or Eearly all, railroad
| taxable property together with three of
| its towns. There is little probability of
the success of this scheme. for
Tragedy" has lost whatever influence
| he may nave had in the assembly at
| the outsit, where he made his debut as
J Mormon. later. Blatherskites soon
lose their influence. They may catch
the popular breeze for little time and
| float upon the wave it creates, but the
thin man is soon measured at his
! real worth by those with whom he is
surrounded. 1t is an old Mexican
proverb that 1.-The stone fit for the wall
will not always lie in the road. The
| converse is also true that the stone un-
| fiji for the wall will eventually find its
place in macadamiZing the road. Mr..
and his finger has been in everybody's
pie. AS result. he has fallen like
| Lucifer, never to rise again." No doubt
| he will believe to his dying day that his
| splendid genius and superb oratory con-
tributed in no small degree to
HIS SLAUGHTER IN THE HOUSE
of his friends, and becoming their butt
for ridicuie.
CHANGING over the proceedings Of the
past four days, since the re-assembling
of the Legislature, we can find but little
aside from what is given that would
interest your readers either in Utah or
Idaho. A bill is pending to change
the time of meeting of future Legisla-
lures to the second Monday in January.
This is desirable, and will have the
effect of preventing another two weeks
recreation during the holiday season
at the peoples expense. Mr.. Badley's
bill to compel railroads to Tense where
running through cultivated lands has
not yet found its way out of commit
tee. The squirrel nuisance act, which
is very long, presents fruitful field
for facetious oratory if either OF the
| houses contain undeVeloped talent of
l
ments are in course of preparation, ex-
tending its provisions to "snakes and
other wild animals"
Hon. James H. Hawley. United
States attorney. goes from here to
Blackfoot on Monday to attend, as
counsel. the examination following the
Pocatella shooting affair about ten
days ago, resulting IN the death of
brakeman.
| Your correspondent went into the
assembly after adjournment one day
last week, and under orders from Burk-
hart, otherwise called the sargeant-at-
arms, requested him to retire. The
latter has the instincts of gentleman
and possesses considerable good sense.
| Lawyers are already here from dis
tant parts of the Territory. as we'll as
Utah, preparing caess for the Supreme
Court a5 the library rooms. The court
convenes on Monday.
| MAKE No MIsTAKE.-If you have
made up your mind to buy Hood Sarsa:
| parilla do not be induced to take any
other. Hoods Sarsaparilla is pecu-
liar medicine, possessing by virtue of