The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-03-07
LeginIatire side Talk.

1t now remains with the House to
concur in the permission granted by
the Council to the University to ac-
cept requests. These requests may
range from $4,000 and less for COM
mon fellowship, to $4,000 to $4,000 for
a chair to be named by the generous
donor who parts with his money after
his death, This law is necessary, as
without is territorial institution
could not accept the gift of money
that is occasionally made in. the west,
following the example set by munifi
cent donors in the east.
There is war in the Salt Lake Re
publican camp, occasioned by the in
gratitude of House members who yes
terday voted against the men who
made them what they are-members
of the assembly. When The appro-
priation bill for extra compensation
for the chaplalns of the two houses
game up, Messrs. Varian, Allen and
Sears were awakened by sudden
ly stricken consciences and could
not violate the plain enactment
of Congress fixing the salary Of chap
lain. They forgot this when they
voted themselves postage stamps, a.
lapse of memory for which they are
profoundly sorry at this time, and
they may turn into the treasury the
money they have thus drawn-and
again they may not, for before their
revenue reaches that point there may
be a relapse
Mr.. Taylors' bill to permit counties
and municipalities to bond themselves
in aid of railroad building was sum
narily killed yesterday. "It is not SO
bad as it looks said the author, when
making an appeal to save it, The
fac.r, 1-,.
planting season of the boom was on.
and many had eaten the bitter fruit
when it ripened after the boom period
had passed. The bill received but one
vote. Mr.. Taylor staying with his
child
A bill passed the Council designed to
catch the man who economies by con-
Meeting his electric wires with cas-
pipes or cable. thus escaping the tell
tale metre. Some men have been
thrifty and have saved five to ten dol
lars a month by lodging the metre.
Now that this is a misdemeanor. thew
will probably, as good citizens, seek
tne agent OF the electric companies and
notify them that electricity will be in
troduced in our building by way Of
experiment"
Some years ago in a, certain legisla-
tive body a motion was made to an
prop1iate $50 for the use of a telephone
during the session. A member from
the coyote district hastily jumped to
his feet and protested: ''Mr. Speaker.
object to such a waste of money. IF
we get telephone we will have to
have two two or three men to attend
TO its wants. and we will have to buy
Iced for 1t. costing us $500 more Be
sides this we don't want to turn this
beautiful hall into a stable by filing il
I'D with telephones, for | tell YOU. NV
friends. they breed faster than flies.
and will soon crowd us OUT It seems
that the opposition to the bill defining
the powers of cities to provide for
sprinkling and extending sewers comes
from men to whom sewer pipes are
strangers. and who look upon sprink-
ling as a device of the devil for dis
couraging rain or the flow of water
But the bill passed the Council and will
probably pass the House, unless some
member gets on a stampede and kills
1t in the committee room.
Judge Powers did some good work
when he slid back into the House after
having passed through the Council the
Dill creating board of controls for the
police and fire departments. The Coun-
ell was acting upon the amendments
when Powers rushed back to the House
and STAYED off adjournment and sent
the bill to the enrolling committee. 1t
viii thus reach the governor twenty
four hours sooner than 1t would have
done had he let 1t take its course
Bills introduced sometimes wear
very innocent guise, and are intended
to cover particular cases If they can
but be discovered. Such bin as this
was the bill to permit druggists to sell
linuor under certain conditions. This
bill has been looked over time and