The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-20
WILL NOT INTERFERE
The "Work" of the Utah Com
mission to Go On.
oBJEcToR HOLMAN CAPTURED
Colonel Godfrey and Governor Thomas Sue
cessfuIly Confer with the
Appropriations Committee.
HERALD BUREAU,
Cor. 18th and G Sts., n. W.,
WASHINGTON. d. C.. May 10

It's clever man who can make "Ob-
jector'' holman turn from an conomical
proposition to one involving the expendi-
ture of more money. But this is what
Colonel Godfrey of the Utah commission
did today, and in doing it he accomplished
. feat which but few men can boast. Per
haps l ought to. credit Governor Thomas
with part of this honor, for the two gentle
mea had
CONFERENCE WITH MR.. HOLMAN
and tour other members OF the House APP
preparations Committee, and as q result of
their eloquence it was decided not only to
continue the existence of the Utah commits
sion. but TO continue the yearly salary as
we'll
1t was a great victory, and the Salt
Lakers may well feel proud of it. The
conference was arranged by Representa-
tive Henderson of Iowa who is a lifelong
friend of Godfrey. The latter has been
greatly exercised about the efforts which
the Utah people have been making to
ABOLISH THE COMMISSION.
That is what brought him to Washington.
He discovered after he arrived here that
MIR. Holman proposed to reduce the pay of
the commissioners if he found it impossible
to abolish the board. 1t was Mr. Holman's
intention to give them per diem compeu-
sation for every day they were employed
in Utah, and nothing more. 1t was his de-
sire to nix the compensation at SO day,
Wslicn he had no hesitancy In saying was as
MUCH AS THEIR SERVICES WERE WORTH.
1t is difficult to say which of the two
propositions give Colonel Godfrey the
greacCT Ssncern, the total extinction of
the yearly salary, or the degradation of
having the pay fixed at So day "while &C
tually Employed
There were present at the conference
today, besides Mr.. Holman, Mr. Dockery
of Missouri, Mr.. Forney of Alabama, Mr..
Henderson Of Iowa, and MIR. Dingley of
Maine. 1t is the
TOUGHEST QUISTETTE OF ECONOMISTS
in the House. Fortunately, Godfrey and
Thomas were not aware of this fact. or
they certainly would not have had the
temerity 10 appear. But they didn't know,
and they went at their subject in a breezy,
businesslike fashion which ceptivated
every member OF the congressional aggre
cation. The conference was brief and in.
formal, and neither of the two visitors
made any attempt at a set speech. They
both eXtolled the high character of the
Utah commission, which they claimed to be
non-partisan body of gentlemen working
together in
PURELY JUDICIAL CAPACITY
1t was argued that nearly every member
of the commission from its inception haG
been lawyers, and that in accepting the
places on the board they had practically
lost their practice at home. Colonel God
frey claimed that the commission spent or
an average about six months of each 5eal
attending to the duties of their Office, anC
that TO reduce them to per diem com
pensation would be, under the circum
stances,
GROSS INJUSTICE.
They argued that the board had accom-.
plished many needy reforms during it.
continuance; that its work was not We
fnishsd, but that it would be, and that the
territory would soon be ready to receiy,
statehood, and that when Congress shall
take this action there will be no longer ;
necessity for the continuance of the com
mission.
The commission, it is claimed, had full,
met the expectations of the gentlemen
through whose influence it was called int,
being, and it ought not now to be
LEGIsLATED OUT OF EXISTENCE
at the closing hours of its long and usefu
career, when still much important worl
remains to be done by it. The two gentle
men also referred to the resolution re
Gently passed by the territorial legislator,
TO allow the Woman's Christian home a
Salt Lake TO be converted into deaf anc
dumb asylum for per cd of five years anC
then report TO the territory to be used as
soldiers home
After Messrs. Godfrey and Thomas haC
left the committee room it was decided no
to interfere with the commission in any
way whatsoever, but to allow it to remain
for the present atleast undisturbed. Their;
was some difference of opinion, however
regarding the conversion OF the Woman
Christian home into 3 soldiers home. Tn,
conclusion finally reached regarding tht
institution was that it be used for the pur
poses of q deaf and dumb asylum, hut tina
no further action be taken regarding it a
this session of Congress. l am assured
however, that whatever disposition ma,
ultimately be made of it, it viii not be con
verted into soldiers home.