Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-03-21

approval of the Governor Of the laws
to be made and enacted by the Legs
laiive Assembly OF the Territory OF
Utah, under the provisions of section
OF the act of March ., 1852, but pro-
vidss that such laws shall be made
and enacted by said Assembly, subject
to approval by Congress; and, further,
that such objections as the Governor
has offered to the act now submitted TO
your honorable body are completely
answered by the bill itself
.Your memorialisis therefore re-
specifically ask that the said bill shall be
approved by your honorable body as
a measure that is necessary to the well
fare, protection and liberties Of the
people Of this Territory, and your me
morialists viii ever pray"
We understand the memorial
passed the Council without oppOsi-
ton. In the House it encountered
some very i'll feeling and much non
sense on the part of certain Lib
eral'' members. The memorial was
construed by them into ''an insult
to the Governor" 1.-THE gentlemen
who INDUCED in this sort of 'fargu-
ment' had not been so tired, and If
some Of them had not INDUCED in
other ways, they would not probably
have become so unreasonably ex-
cited.
The memorial contains nothing
personal. II is simple narration
Of facts which are indisputable. 1t
is a necessary adjunct TO the bill. II
the statement that the Governor
vetoed the bill is an insult TO
him, how much more Of an
insult must that veto have been TO
the Legislature and the people who
elected its members: There is
nothing insulting in the language,
purport or object Of this memorial.
The right Of petition is inalien-
able. The National Legisla-
ture requires any act passed
by the Utah Assembly or the fill
ing of elective offices TO be submit
ted to Congress. This bill would
have been sent, and Congress
would have been menlorallized
to approve it, even if it
had received the Governors sigma
ture. What insult then is offered to
the Governor by asking Congress TO
approve il now?
Certain "Liberals,'' during the
closing hours Of the Legislature
while the wearied members were
waiting on the action OF the Govern
or, reminded them when some Of
his actions were objected TO thai
''the Governor is King" Even if
that were true in effect, there is a
power above that kind OF n "King. /"
and the subjects have the right to
appeal TO it. II it is an insult to
such "ruler" to have the simp,e
fact stated to the higher power that
he had vetoed bill, people who are
not ahject serfs will think it nothing
but proper that he should be in that
manner insulted.
We scarcely believe that the Gov
erhor feels insulted by this men,
orial. We believe he has too much
good common sense for that. And
his ofiicious friends paid him very
poor compliment when they claimed
he was insulted by the clear cut
statement Of what he had done. 1t
was strong reflection upon that
act, and equivalent to saying that
telling the truth was an insult TO
the Governor. The fact is, nothing
could be pointed out in the memorial
that is incorrect, or contrary to law,
or Objectionable in language. There
fore some such subterfuge rs the
'.insult' nonsense had to be resorted
10 as an excuse on the part of those
''Liberal'' members who voted
against the memorial.
lfCongress can only be induced
to examine the bill carefully, and
weigh the fried froth that makes up
the Governors veto message, there
viii be strong ground for hope that
this needed legislation may become
law by an act which even Utah's al
legged "King" cannot veto.