The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-08

ernor and Legislative Assembly of Utah.
1t rests with the Congress of the Unit
ed States. and that body has declined
several times to take action upon the
matter. The present Congress would
doubtless have taken a different course
concerning it to that of its predecessors,
but in view of immediate statehood for
Utah it was deemed unnecessary. The
admission of this territory into the
Union as state is imminent, and has
only been temporarily delayed, and
when that occurs the Commission will
die a natural death; therefore it is
thought needless to grind legislative
knife for the special purpose of killing
it just now.
The Commission was designed to
contain but three members of one po-
litical party. The rule was understood
to be, three Republicans and two Dem
ocrats under a Republican administers
ton. and the numbers reversed under a
Democratic administration. But while
it is argued that it was not to be a par
tisan badly, as matter of Fact it has
always been partisan For a long
time it was strictly a Liberal organi-
cation and carried out the Liberal pol
icy, if it was not dictated and controlled
by Liberal leaders. When the division
movement was inaugurated, it contin-
ued in the same lines so far
as the majority could keep it
there. And when the division
on party lines became complete
in this territory, although there
We're but two pronounced Republicans
on the Board. a member who figured
nominally as a Democrat, having been
accustomed to vote with them under
Liberal influences. remained in the
same sympathy and acted in the old
way, leaving actually but minority
on the Democratic side.
OF course extremely partisan Repub-
licans laud him for his course and call
him a dead straight man" That is
because he invariably favored their
side of amy question. The two Demo-
Gratis Of the Commission did not view
his conduct in that light, but called it
by some very harsh names, and one
of them used language to him person
ally, because of his Republican lean
ings, which would not do to reproduce
in the columns of The Sunday Herald.
It will aff1ict Republicans only when
he is a straight dead man officially, an
event that is likely to take place very
soon.
AS to the appointments which will
be made, they are entirely in the hands
of the President and Senate of the
United States. Anybody has the right
TO offer a recommendation to persons
fit for the Office and to make applica-
| ton to fill it. But as the whole power
of appointment is in proper hands,
| there need be no worrying over the
matter on either side. 1t is to be pre-
sumed that in view of the policy of
the party, announced in its platform as
to territorial appointments, all the new
incumbents will be bona fide residents
of Utah.
There need be no scrambling for the
office of Utah Commissioner, because
tho salary &c NON, I,,,t c,,ooI1 ,o,,,y,o 70
lively, and the prospect is not flatter-
ing for long incumbency. Utah will
soon be in the Union as a sovereign
State, and there will then be no more
Utah Commission or special laws of
Congress regulating the elections of
| this territory or the conduct of its peo-
pie. The Herald has no anxiety on
! the subject and we do not think the
people of Utah will lose any sleep over
the matter at this late date.