The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-10
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Ihere was no telling what was COM
ing. There were commonweal armies
and Dave Day and his Indians
Qaughter) 10 be guarded against.
Slower and Ryan said the provis-
ion was in line with the United States
regulations. The amendment was
killed.
An amendment by Evans. of Weber,
to include aliens who have taken out
their first papers was adopted.
An amendment by Kicks allowing
exemptions was adopted, and the. ar
ticle was passed.
The committee arose at u o'clock,
and the convention took a recess I'm
till 2 o'clock.
The President Flees Again.
The president called to order at 2
o'clock and asked Eichnor to take the
chair
Low, of Cache. moved to go into COM
mittee of the whole and Eldredge
called for the regular order. The mo-
ton to go into committee was voted
down.
The article on apportionment and
boundaries was taken up and Hart
moved to strike out the section requir-
ing a state census every ten years
beginning with 1905. He said the Uni
ted States census every decade would
answer all purposes, there being no
need to have a census every five years.
Ee made the motion for economys
sake.
Squires said there is now law re-
quiring a census every three years.
Maloney said a census will cost $780,,
900 each time. 1t will be both eXpen-
sive and unnecessary.
There was some further debate, in
which Squires stated that the last
census of Salt Lake county will prob
ably cost $1,000, but there were other
things included in the enumeration.
Harris motion was killed
Kicks moved that the word may"
be substituted for shall" giving the
legislature full option. Killed.
Hart moved that the legislature con-
sist of fifteen senators and thirty rep
resentatives, instead of eighteen sena-
tors and forty-five representatives.
The amendment was lost
Peters Objects Severely.
Peters, of Box Elder. moved that Box
Elder be placed with Cache and the
two counties be given two senators.
He said the uniting of Box Elder and
TooeIe was unjust. Good commun1ca-
ton is cut off by the great American
desert The population of Box Elder IS
in the last. There. Cache and BOX Eli
der are contiguous. Cache is not
properly represented under the appor-
tionment. Tooele could be placed with
Willard and Juab and the population
would be about $1,000, which is just
above the average on which the appor-
fionment is made Cache and Box Ell
der would have $4,000 population
Clark. of Tooele, said Tooele is very
friendly toward BOX Elder; their in
terests are very much alike. They are
contiguous for over a hundred miles.
Peters-But you will ADMIT we H d!3t
pass through Weber, Davis and Salt
ffa1[a before we can reach Tooele?
Clark-Yes; but railroad coIhlluillca-
ton is good 5000,
Peters-There is good railroad traVel
between Salt Lake and Juao.
Kicks said Tooele will never make
Poy elder come to it. He said Cacne
had full representation. II hau oIlly
one senator. but three representatives
which would bring it down TO the
basis which had been adopted
Unfair to Cache.
Hart said it was unfair to give Cache
only one senator with 5000 population
and give a senator to the Elgnth us
trict with only a little over S,OOO. Inc
m tier had gone far enough in the
~ oil
With AGA population had been given one
and Salt Lake only ten.
IF salt Lake would have the same
basis as San Juan it would have ia
He did not see where
cache had an advantage in representa-
tiyes. He went through the list and
showed how Cache had been dlscrlmln-
ated against all along the line. He
said the legislature would be too I'M
E }, state
going too far to give each county a
commemorative. The whole report was
unfair.
Snllires did not want to open up the
whole question, as il would consume as
r1uch time as the suffrage question.
he agreed that the large counties were
not being fairly dealt with when the
small counties were each being gwen
one representative. Population should
be the only basis of representation.
Hammond said San Juan had grown
since 1890 and now at least 1000 people
Van Horn-Do you include the In
dams. not taxed? Oaughter).
Hammond-No. If we did Salt Lake
would not be in it. We have 10000 of
them hanging on the border.
There was some further debate on
both sides and Peters motion was
voted down.
Varian Looks Forward.
Varian offered the following amend
ment to the subdivision on representa-
tive districts: provided that in any
new apportionment the legislature
shall apportion representatives and
senator's upon the basis of an enumera-
ton of the people according to the
ratios to be fixed by law"
Varian said he was willing to bow
-, i oil,
the apyortionment as reported to go
through without his protest. But he
did protest against binding the system
On the state until the constitution
should be amended All proper repre-
sentation should be based on people
To make arbitrary distinctions on
county lines is contrary to the prin-
,iples of republican government To
TO draw an analogy between
he counties and the. sovereign states is
lar fetched.
Peters said each state in the United
States is given representative though
[ might not be entitled to one were
hey distributed by population.
Greer said Wyoming has no less than
.wo representatives from each county.
Crane said the apportionment was
lot partisan. To give each county
representative was just Crane was
with a set speech when
yarian called him down and told him
% speak to the question. Crane con-
inued that the provision for county
representation was embodied in most
If the recent constitutions and in
many of the older ones.
Chidester said the system of giving
,ach county representation would be
n accordance with the idea underlying
he constitution of the United States.
y Based on a Wrong Idea.