The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-06-08
ALL GOOD.
time.

The Democratic House of Representa-
tives did some splendid work on Monday.
1t is work which viii rebound to the credit
of the party, especially in the west, and it
will make the people of three territories
feel that at last one branch of congress is
under the control of party which con-
siders the cause of the oppressed.
The matters to which we refer are the
passage of the bills for the admission OF
New Mexico and Arizona to the Union as
free and sovereign states, and the passage
of the legislative, executive and judi
clal appropriation bill with the pro
vision abolishing the infamous Utah
commission. We are told that neither
of these bills will get through the Senate,
and this may be true, but we are going to
believe for little while at least that all
will pass the upper house and the relief
from servitude for which the unfortunate
people of the dependencies have so long
prayed will be granted. No good reason
can be urged against the admission OF
either Arizona or New Mexico. One is as
well qualified for carrying on state Fgcv-
eminent as either of the two states last
admitted, and in our opinion much better
prepared for the respon sible duties of
statehood than one OF the new states.
Arizona can take care of herself without
assistance from the federal government.
and the majority of her people being Demo
Gratis, you will never hear them appealing
across the continent to the White House
when trouble occurs between handful
of cattlemen and few settlers AS for New
Mexico it has long been a burning hame
that she was held in condition of terrific
rial bondage For fully ten years New
Mexico has been fully prepared for the
privileges, powers and duties of statehood,
and at no time during that period would
admission have been denied her if her people
had been Republican instead of Democratic
in politics. We don't want to believer the
majority Of the senators are SO cruel at
heart and 80 narrow in partisan sense,
that they will vote to longer keep these
territories out Of the Union. Senators
WARREN, CAREY, DUBOIS SHoUP and other
western Republicans who have lived in
territories and know what the serfdom
means. should be ready 10 join with the
Democratic senators in striking the letters
from the good people of Arizona and New
Mexico
AS for the Utah commission, those who
say the senate will not consent to it's aboli-
ton, speak from their wishes rather than
their Judgment. We believe the senate
will assent to the bill as it came from the
house. What excuse can be offered for
the retention of the commission! Nobody
win pretend to say that the body is of any
earthly use. Nobody will assume to say
that the two or three weeks work which
it does in year cannot be as well done by
the resident chief justice, governor and
secretary, all OF whom are federal sp-
pointees. Nobody, it seems to US, can have
the iudecency to argue that the government
should pay $50, 600 year for work which
the House says. and says truthfully, can
be performed for $1,000. We say we be-
lieve the bill will pass and the commission
will soon be thing of ugly memory only
We believe enough senators who do not
have personal friends on the commission
will vote with the Democrats to abolish
the board, and while saving much money
to the treasury, also free this territory
from an institution which has never pro-
fessed to be fair, and which delights in
acts that are fiagrantly partisan. The
commission will 60.