The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-13
moment before everything grew suddenly
quiet. The House had adjourned.


quiet. The House had adjourned.
TIE SESSION AT EARLY DAWN.
At 4:lO a. m. on Saturday the conference
committee reported that it recommended
the House to recede from the appropriation
for A. j. Burt, and that the s60,000 appro-
priated for the capitol building be reduced
to $40 900.
Arnett moved that the House should not
concur in the Burt appropriation.
The motion as lost.
The motion to appoint conference COM
mite passed
SARGENT MOVED TO ADJOURN
sine die. Lost
The chair appointed w. Fl. Irvine, Olson
and Sargent conference committee.
Irvine, ]. D., wanted the House to con-
cur in the amendment.
ADAMS OPPOSED
on the old old grounds and that the matter
had gone far enough. The motion not to
concur was lost.
The recommendation to adopt new ap
preparation bill for the
CRIMINAL PROSECUTION
cases came Up next. Irvine, j. D., moved
to concur Mackay opposed on the grounds
that the men had done their duty and de-
served the money, if the original bill
could not be coneurred in.
Nebeker offered as an amendment that
they SHOULD ceRcur so far as the claims
came direct from the county courts and not
the others.
| Sargent opposed the amendment as being
q line drawn too fine for his feeble eyes.
He favored paying all or none.
! Adams made another of his high kicks
and was followed by Mackey in strong
support of the appropriation.
Nebeker's amendment TO the motion to
amend was lost. The motion to concur,
| being voted upon, was lost.
| Marshall moved not to concur on the
capitol building appropriation.
W. H. Irvine opposed and said he could
not understand the impetus that lay behind
50 much tenacity.
Moritz said
1--WE WANT A CAPITOL
building want it now and want it bad"
The motion not to CONCUR was carried.
! Another season of iliUusterlng followed,
which w. H. Irvine tried to relieve by
moving for another conference committee.
j. d. Irvine moved to draft
NEW APPROPRIATION BILL
to include the criminal prosecution cases
and the capitol building appropria ton.
THE FOURTH CONFERENCE
committee reported that it had agreed tc
strike out the appropriation for crimina
prosecutions and to reduce the captte
building appropriation from S6O,O0o tt
$4,000. The minority, w. H. irvine, re
ported contrary.
The agricultural college appropriation
was recommended reduced to $4,000. Or
motion Of Irvine, w. H. the agricultural
college part was laid on the table.
Arnett moved that the other appropria
tions report be adopted. 1t was amended
to vote on them separately. The motor
to adopt the report concerning the Grimm
al prosecution of cases was carried and thu
items stricken out.
THE CAPITOL APPROPRIATION
was then taken up and the report to reduc
10 5000 was tied, II to IL, the speaker
vote being necessary to decide the question
He voted aye and the report was accepted
The whole bill IS amended was then pu
, to the vote and was passed by vote o
10 TO 4.
AT els AN.
the bending bill was brought up for coasid
Grafton. Broad daylight was shining Il
upon the deliberations of the festive PEN
beers who had already begun to pack u
their dead bills along with their hopes 0
seeing home.
MOTION TO STRIKE OUT.
Cotton moved that the sum of 800, 600 b
stricken out of the bill and the sum @
S450.O00 be inserted, as that as the SUI
necessary to make up the deficit for tn
, next two years.
, LAWRENCE ON FINANCE.
Lawrence said that it was well know
fact that there was large appropriate
and no funds on hand to nest it, and it wa
IL H. rE I1-xs
not less than s45O,G00, as there was nearl
, 500 600 10 be met this year.
The bin was tabled until 10 o'clock.
THE 10 O'CLOCK SESSION.
The committee on enrolment reporte
: that h F. 1884, an act to provide for gan
: eral appropriation had been forwarded (
the governor.
THE BONDING BILL.
I G. F.62, was the next order Of business
u Arnett moved TO amend section so as
= make the sum to be bonded not to excse
3 $3.50, 600.
The amendment was carried unanin
n ously.
Z SARGENT AS A FINANCIER.
II Sargent said that he begged the pardo
3 of his fellow associates fer differing wit
: them as to the manner in which the none
|
n NIT few facts and figures. I
"a said that he was bitterly oppose
: to bonding in times of peace and IL Ia
g been demonstrated in the iast SIX yea
thut it BODIES no good 10 Utah. Tbs liver
uy-sixth legislative session was the first
impose bends on the territory, and to-aa
there was a bend of $3.50, 003 hanging ov
" us and $3.50, 000 more TO De a2aed to tn
l. now. In 1880 there was lSek of mons
- TO maintain the territory of $500, 600, doub
- the amount placed upon the territory tv
y years previous. The th rtieth session w
st confronted with the same old deficit, no i
g. lief having been created by the bondir
:. system. The interest on this was 1920 90
: with S12, 500 more to be added, an accum1
!, lated burdan placed upon UtFh. His prop
I'd sition was, he said, to relieve che te
r ritory of this burden. The bondir
/ in each case had bean for a period
m no less than ten nor more than TWEEN
. years, creating burden of 1925, 900 int
+ est Sargent said that he thought tbs pc
If pie able TO exist without any such cumu
Iv tive burden - SG50000 in twenty yeGl
re- Some people said that they must hs
II money. The thief had said the same THU
when he broke into the till.
ID The people had said that they were houl
ID to have certain buildings, and he wanted
70 know what $525, GOO would not do in tx
va direction. The facts day are as follow
II The present appropriation bill recoc
IN $500, 600 that must be paid in two years, g
nd SIDES the cumulative burden of $4,000
is terest, making total of nearly S7l0,0(
a Hew was this going to
of paid when the revenue at
nj utmost would be s500,050, leaving ov
n 5000, COO to be raised.
a He wanted to make a proposition plac
be- upon the footing as the record he desir
to stand upon, to correct the calendar
n the twenty ninth session in cutting do'
Id the ad valorem.
a Three mills and half would ra
a all the revenues necessary and lea
a less interest to pay. Some say, don't IA
the taxes, but they stood at that figure.
on proposed to raise the means or to ask
en- people 10 Dear tns putoen vi Ihe SoFSl