The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-01-14
GOVERNMENT BUILDING.-

Under the above heading we find the fol
lowing IN the annual report of the secre-
tary Of the chamber of commerce:
The need of a federal government building has
engaged the attention OF the chamber of com
merce the past year. as it did in 1888. A special
committee was appointed before the meeting of
the present Congress to prepare bills and get
them reported and placed at the head of the
lists. Governor THOMAS and Ex-Governor
WEST, of this committee, have been in Wash
ington and induced the supervising architect
and the secrei~ry of the interior to recommend
II. They have had bills introduced in both
Houses, and the proper committees are about 10
report them pack favorably. All this is well. 1t
would have cost much less for site last year
than this, it will cost much less this year than
next
In Governor THOMAS annual report we
find this recommendation: "Sonle federal
agency should be authorized to appoint
the following county officers: Selectmen,
clerks, recorders, superintendent of dis
trict schools and assessors
On the same day that the bill was intro
duced by Senator PADDOCK for the erection
of q government building, he also intro
duced one in harmony with the suggestion
of Governor THOMAS in regard to the filling
of the offices named above, and making the
governor the federal ageacy'' to appoint.
THE HERALD asks its readers to put this
and that and that together and see what the
result will be. Ne have maintained from
he day the Senator's bill arrived that he got
his inspiration to introduce the bill for
government building in this city, from the
party who wrote the suggestion for ''some
federal agency to appoint"
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of the chamber of commerce and one of the
governors near friends, that we were
right. PADDOCK got the bill for the ap-
pointing of the officers by the governor all
right, but ne made an error of $780, 900 in
the amount for the building, hence the
party who had him introduce the bill. viz:
THOMAS, had to trot down to Washington
to see that the bill was corrected, and the
sum increased to 100000 We are sur
prised, inasmuch as our beloved governor
has shown that he was better political
wire puler than WEST by asking that
the federal agency" do the ap-
pointing and by attacking General
MCCLERNAND in the dark, that he did not
have his man PADDOCK wait one day be-
fore he introduced the bill constituting him
the federal agency' after the bill for the
government building which he and WEST
chad introduced in both houses.n And
when the appointment bill came in we
would have thought that the governor
would have shown the education he had
gained while in Washington by having
PADDOCK leave off at least one of the offices
that he was seeking the power to appoint
even if the bill were afterwards amended.
THOMAS work to secure the removal of
General MCCLERNAND is in keeping with
his past record. What is the reason that
THOMAS is now working to get General
MCCLERNAND off the Utah commission
1t is that there will be no opposition from
that quarter in his little game to steal the
county officers from the people The gen
eral Is man who has not fallen in with the
carpet-bag crowd in this section, and that is
the reason there is no love for him in the
ranks of the rule-or-ruin crowd. Men with
moral courage to stand up for the right
are, as rule, hard to find, especially when
there is a majority on the opposite side.
The general is one of the number who
dares to beOright, and that is the reason
that a governor who is willing to rob the
people he is supposed to govern is on hand
to try and have him removed from office.
1t is a little amusing to see the gradual
development of the governors little
scheme. First, we are to have federal
agency to appoint the county officers
Then we are to have him made that
agency" As there is one man on the
Utah commission who viii not keep still
and see the people robbed with no word
said in their defense, we are to have him
removed. o, WE'LL let the little game of
robbery go on. We can stand the final
outcome much better than those who are
engaged in it. We prefer to be the victim
Of the steal, rather than the robber.