The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-10-03
STRIPPED Or ALL
S]PERFLUITIES.
The Recommendations of the
Utah Commission.
THE COMING ELECTION.
They Asked That Congress Pass Upon
the Amnesty Question.
The Work Done During the Existence of
The Commission in Utah. They Think.
Has Resulted in a Great
Amount of Good.

sion WAS telegraphed The HERALD q few
days since, with the statement that the
commissioners were unanimous in the
recommendations made to the secretary
of the interior. There are some other
points in the report that perhaps should
be given more fully than the outline
which has already appeared. The report
is dated Salt Lake, September 10, and
opens as follows:
The Utah Commission, observing its
practice of reporting annually its pro-
ceedings for your information. hereby
respectfully submits its report for the
year ending September 1, 1893.
In the interest of clearDess and pre-
cision, its proceedings will be treated as
nearly as may be in the order of their oc-
currence.
Concomitantly some reflections will be
made by way OF calculation.
ELECTIONS.
An important change has transpired in
respect TO the time of the holding of the
elections in the territory.
Formerly, under the territorial act of
1853, as amended by subsequent acts, the
GC1CAelA C1CSbAO4c 4OI OuC us
trict, county aud precinct officers, were
held on the first Mondays of August. an
nually, and the municipal elections for
city and precinct officers were held anuu-
ally or biennially at varying intervals Of
time, ranging over most of the year.
Separate registration for these general
and municipal elections were necessary,
and at least two separate periods of regis
tration were required. The diversity of
the periods of election necessarily en-
tailed a considerable and needless ex-
pendisure of time and money, and was
burdensome both to the electors and to
the people at large. and devolved upon
the commission the further and delicate
duty of seeing that the electoral lists for
the general, municipal and special cleo
tons were made out and kept separately
that the ballots cast at each of said
elections were kept separate, and the
count and return thereof made and kept
separately. This particularly was rem
dered necessary in part by the fact that
the qualifications of electors for NUM-
cipal officers, and also from the fact that
the municipal precincts had Ia many in
stances different boundaries from those
designated for other Officers.
To induce legislation corrective OF this
evil, through its annual reports and also
by individual effort, the Utah commits
sion called public attention TO this con-
ditiOn OF affairs, and the burdens attend
ing SO complex system, and with good
results.
For the purpose of effecting q correction
of the evils pointed out, two acts of the
territorial assembly were passed affecting
ha - of he
the time and manner of holding the cleo
tions.
Both were approved March 10, 1892.
The first mentioned fixed one period for
the house to house registration OF cleo
tors, and the second provides that all
elections, general or municipal, includ-
ing elections for members of the terri
torial legislature and delegate to Con-
gress, should be held on one and the same
day, namely, on the Tuesday after the
first Monday in November, biennialIy.
The pending elections, both general and
municipal, viii be held answerably TO
to the requirement of these acts on the 7th
OF November next.
Thus a reform is already initiated. |
which is working material saving in
time and money to the electors and tax
payers, and which is already hailed with
public satisfaction.
THE INDUSTRIAL HOME.
Next in their report the commissioners
devote ten or more pages in type written
copy to the Industrial Christian Home.
including the correspondence between |
the commission and the secretary OF the |
interior, the secretary of the treasury and |
Mrs. Jeanette 81. Ferry, in reference to |
the transfer OF the home TO the commits |
sion. There are no facts in this CORES
pondence which have not hitherto been |
made public.
Speaking of the building, the commits
sioners report:
When the building was vacated it was |
found upon inspection to be considerably |
out of repair, so that some necessary i'm |
prcvements had to be made before the |
actual occupation did not take place unit |
about the 1st OF August.
The commission is now occupying so |
mach of 1t as IS necessary for its use. The |
present quarters are quite commodious
and comfortable. The building is large
and handsome one, as indicated hereto |
fore. has room enough to accommodate
all the government officers in the CITY of
Salt Lake, except the postof1ice and the
courts, and If thus used woul be the
means of saving several Thousand dollars
annually in the way of rents.
It is the only building in the city that
belongs to the government, and since the
purpose lOI WHICH, IL WAS erected mas been
abandoned IL should be utilized for some
public purpose, and none appears to be
more fitting than its occupation by those
officials for whose official quarters the
government has to provide and for which
it has to pay rent.
By the removal of some partitions. thus
throwing together larger areas, abundant
room could be made for the two houses of
the territorial assembly in addition to the
roonns for the Dublic Offices
The cost OF the grounds aud the erection
of the building has been about 500, 600.
and it would seem to be poor economy to
let a structure costing SO much money.
and SO well suited for the purpose, stand
unused and become the abode of bats and
owls. and at the same time pay high rents
for rooms situated in few squares of this
unoccupied but elegant structure.
1t is respectfully submitted that a
small appropriation should be made to
keep the building in repair.
The commission has employed janitor
to care for the building, causing his fam
ily TO take their quarters therein, who is
being paid cut of the appropriation made
Tor the contigent expenses of the commits
sion. but the limited amount of that fund
precludes the application of any portion
OF it towards the repairs necessary about
the building or necessary work about the
grounds. So elegant d building should
be we'll taken care OF and not permitted to
so 20 rnin for the swant of small sum of