The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-20
THE UTAH COMM SION.

1t has transpired why the members of
the Utah commission are gathering at
Washington at this particular period. The
gentlemen cannot find time to visit Utah
Their private affairs are of sufficient i'm
portance to keep them at home until the
excursion season sets in and the tempera-
ture of the lake suggests that salt water
bathing is delightful; then they can make
1t convenient to come from Arkansas and
Indiana and Iowa, taking advantage of the
outing time to put forth a pretense of
earning, by being on the ground
few days, the enormous salaries which
they draw from the federal treasury. just
now, however, they do not find that it in
terferes with their home duties TO gather
at the capital, and the explanation IS found
In the circumstance that the House Com
mittee on Appropriations contemplates
doing Utah and the nation real SER
vice by abolishing the expensive and
useless commission by a short ana direct
route, namely: cutting OF the appropria-
ton. Now I'VE all understand why Colonel
GODFREY and his associates who hate Utah
SO much that they never put 70 OF on its soil
when they can avoid doing So and never
inhale Utah air longer than they are com
PEELED to do it, are buttonholing Congress
men.
In this connection ii is noted that q char
acterless correspondent assails Delegate
GAME for inducing the committee to leave
the appropriation out OF the executive APP
preparation bill. The HERALD does not
know how much or how little Mr.. GAME has
had to do with this matter, but the more he
has done The better will he please all the
people of Utah, save the official gang and
the hangers-on who profit through the OPP
erations of the commission. The Liberal
! bosses, the Liberal newspapers, and the
fellows who manipulate elections by and
with the advice and consent of the commits
sion, will object, but if Mr.. GAME can
do anything to get rid of the odious, OBJ
noxious and partisan body he will earn the
gratitude Of Republicans and Democrats
and all the people who believe in republi-
can government. He win certainly please
the Democracy, for the party has put it in
its platforms that the commission should
be made to go, has demanded that it
should be abolished, has denounced the
board from the stump and through the
press, and has asked that if the Republican
majority in the Senate will not consent to
the adjustment then that the Democratic
majority of the House will nullify the act
creating the commission by cutting off the
cash. We hope Mr.. GAME has done some
thing he is credited with doing; we hope
he will succeed in making future visits by
the commission expensive to the gentle
men themselves rather than to the govern
ment
Chairman HOLMAN is represented as
saying that the appropriation will be lef
out of the bill, and that at most provision
will be made for pay for actual service a
the rate of SO per day and expenses. Mr.
HOLMAN should be made to understand
that even this will not do. The worl
which the commissioners perform can b.
better done by men here who will not asl
more that 80 or s. day, and there will b.
no charge for expenses. The expens
items in the commissioners accounts have
in the past, staggered government auditor
who are accustomed to high charges an,
official extravaganza. If our memory i
not at fault, when Senator PADDOCK him
self was a member of the board, there wa
very vigorous 'kick" in Washingto
over one of these expense accounts
when an investigation developed that tn
/ commissioners were not only indulging i
S the best that the land affords and payin
2 for it at the highest price, but were feein
r car porters and walters on the WANDERED
S and GOULD plan and charging it all to tn
government Four dollars day and n
expenses will be extravagant and if tn
matter can be brought to the attention
} Chairman HOLMAN we believe he will see
u in that light.
e But the question of salary and perquisite
s aside, there is absolutely no necessity fc
5 continuing the Utah commission. 1t is
useless body; mole than that, it stands
9 the way of Utah's progress, block to tt
= wheels of Utah's advancement material,
: socially and politically. Every body, wi;
. the insignificant exceptions noted abov
:. wants it abolished in the interest of peac
good order and good government. 1t woul
be better to destroy it outright by the r
peal of that portion of the law creating
- but If this cannot be done, let US hope tht
\ the House will accomplish the result /
a refusing the appropriation.