The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-03-13

NeCeSSarS.
Bleeding Kansas has long been
noted for the nonsensical legislatures
that meet within its borders and the
farcical and absurd nature of the laws
proposed and enacted but the laurel
wreath for having such bodies must
now be taken from her brow and given
unto Utah, for the first Republican
Legislature has well earned it From
the beginning there has been no high
political ability on the Republican side
and the members have been driven in
to voting for measures that are de-
signed TO catch benefits more elusive
than the will-o-the-wisp.
The end of the session was fitting.
No better climax for a series of comical
gyrations in the field of legislation
could have been invented than the ad-
journment that had been made The
poor character of the politicians who
engineered the proceedings cannot be
more strikingly shown than in this
most injurious act, in performing
which they threw aside all considera-
lions of the wrong they would do to
the public Institutions in order that the
Democratic Governor might be put il
a hole
The hasty adjournment means more
than appears on the surface. 1t means
that those who are going hungry and
unclad about our streets have been
defrauded by it of labor that could and
would have been given them. 1t means
that a proposition that was matured
whereby the appropriation would have
pen made for the capitol building, was
defeated. It means that there viii be
a deficiency 81 over $1,000 on the ap-
propriaNio that have been made and
that TERRITORIAL warrants will not sell
fer par. 1t means that the territorial
insdtutionSS must suffer because they
cannot draw 7~syen the meagre amounts
appropriated toNthem. More than that
81 means that the next Legislature Will
be confronted at the outset a big de-
felt
All these evil effects must follow be-
cause the pet scheme of a majority of
the Republicans 10 take away half a
mill from the school fund and put it
onto the general levy was not approved
by the Governor, and the Republicans
determined in caucus that they would
not do anything, and would try and
place the responsibility On ihe Cover
nor. The two ways Of meeting the
situation. either to raise the taxes or to
bond. were not considered.
The Democrats are willing to let the
responsibility rest where ii belongs.
3 In the proceedings yesterday several
of the Governors apooTtees We're con
firmeG. The most important business,
however. was the receipt and reading
of the many veto messages that came
In in which the Governor espresso his
views. in very forcible language, on
st,sne of the bills that were presented.
The report of the proceedings is as
follows:
The members of the Council contin-
ued to ''saunter" about all night and
to allow the upper house to remain in
session with only the astral bodies OF
the members TO people the dinlly light
ed hall at about $3.50 some of the
tired Councillors "sauntered'' hack again
and asked anXiously if anything had
been heard from the Governor. They
we're told that things were still at
standstiil and disposed themselves for
a wait Of any length. No quorum
turned UP until 1890, when Booth, of
Provo, moved to go into executive ses-
sion on the Governors nominations, in
order to fill the places of those who
had been turned down the night before.
The doors were closed, the reporters,
officers, audience and chaplain fired
Fout into the unsympathetic world, and
lthe nominations considered. In about
five minutes the doors were again
thrown open and the following confir-
nations given out:
COMBINATIONS
John B. Miner of Utah county, to
be a director of the insane asylum, in
lieu of Warren n. Dusenberry.
James Clark, Of the same county, to
be a trustee of the reform school, in
lieu Of John 3. Miner.
Samuel II. Allen, of the same coun-
X. TO be a member of the board of
medical examiners. in lieu Of Walter N.
Pike
o. W. Snow, of Box Elder county, to
be a member Of the board of dental
examiners, in lieu Of. E. E. German.
AS soon as the concurrent resolution
to adjourn passed the House, it was
whisked into the Council and read. The
members were all in their seats, and
President Breeder appeared 70 be some
what nervous and evidently anxious to
have the matter disposed of with as
little debate as possible. The Repuo-
licans at once moved that the resolu-
ton be adopted, but Hart headed this
off with an amendment that the matter
be referred to the committee on ways
and means for the purpose Of devising
means for meeting the deficiency
WILLIAMS FINE ibrt)R L.
jim support Of the amendment, Will
liams made "a telling speech. The APP
preparation bill as passed, said he,
amounted to $525,000, while the esti-
mated total revenue amounted to but
s400. 600, thus leaving a clear deficit Of
S125. 900, ard that. too, when the APP
preparations had been so parsimentous
for public educational institutions,
that some Of them would have to close
their doors He recited that Cne-half
of the appropriation was to be drawn
in 1894 and one half in 1895; that before
1t could reach the end of the school
year, in June next several thousand
dollars more than the total applopria-
ton subject to application TO this year
amounted to, would be required; that
in view of that it would necessitate
the closing Of its doors with the end
of this term, on the 3lst instant.