The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-14

The constitutional convention met
prompetly at 10 o'clock yesterday
morning and at once plunged into the
bounty question, the discussion last.
\ ing until the hour of adjournment
when the members prepared for the
trip to Logan.
The Proceedings.
The prospect Of a trip to Logan
brought the members down early and
President Smith, who seemed to have
partly recovered from the fall of the
day before. called to order at 10
o'clock.
Bishop H. Hughes. delegate from
cache. was invited to offer prayer.
The Presidents Middle.
When the minutes were read it was
4found that during the presidents con-
fusion of mind during the day before,
Y fhe minute clerk had been unable to
I learn what his decision was. This
was entirely eXcusa bic. The conven-
Jon itself could hardly comprehend
evhat the president was deciding. The
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president decided the matter last as
two-thirds had not voted aye" Varian
corrected this and the minutes now
show the full absprdity of the presi-
dents position.
Suffrage Petitions.
4 communication addressed to John
Henry Smith, as president of the con-
Vention, was received from J. H. Ba-
con, chairman of the meeting held in
the exposition building recently, ask
Ing for separate submission The
writer stated that there were five hun
dred citizens present and that they
were unanimous in the protest against
having the equal suffrage article in
corporated III the constitution The
resolutions adopted at the meeting
also accompanied the communication.
Mr.. Bacon asked that a deaf ear be
not turned to them.
Petitions were received as follows on
the same question: Thurman, AZ; An
derson, 20; Gibbs, ~; Button, 81; Eich-
nor, So; Page, So; Page. 157; Cannon, 45.
Filed
The following documents favoring
woman suffrage:
Peters, OF Box Elder, $50 names, and
Cannon, of Salt Lake, a letter from
South Cottonwood, saying that at a
mass meeting held there four hundred
man suffrage should be placed in the
body of the constitution.
Special Orders.
At 1926 the president called special
Forders." and Variants amendment
scame up and was read by the clerk as
follows:
Sec. Sc. The legislature shall not
authorize the state nor any county,
town. township. district or other polit-
1aI he rrfc-i .,
Its credit or subscribe to stock or bonds
in aid of any railroad. telegraph or
other private individual or corporate
enterprise or undertaking.
President Smith had evidently had
his fill of presiding over deliberations
on bounty so hastily called Squires to
the chair and took seat with him on
the platform.
Varian said he wanted all fairness /
IN the matter. He desired full discus |
sion and fair vote.
Thurman Takes the Floor.
Thurman opened the discussion. He
said ne did rot know why men should /
consider this a partisan question. It |
was because of partiSanship that it was |
not viewed from a proper standpoint. /
Republican conventions have adopted |
such proposition. At least II of the 80 /
states having such a provision were (
Republican when the constitution was
drafted. He did not like partisan feel /
eng unless it was justified by the sub
Jeet- He admitted that the bounty
matter was partisan question. He did
not expect any Republican to vote for
Richards amendments. But he could
not conceive how members could think
all amendment proposed by Varian was
q partisan affair.
Credit of the State.
Men should look on the credit of the
state as they do on their own credit
The founder of Utah had his maxim.
Keep out of debt Pay as you CO."
Until a few years ago debts Were I'M
known here. 1t was not until the boom
period that men dared to speak in ia
vor of mourning Indebtedness. He be-
lieved in early days the line had been
drawn 100 closely. Some debt is neces-
sary for the building of public institu-
tons. But this is a different question.
A father sending his boy out in the
world could tell him to pay as he goes
so far as possible and. above all, not
to mortgage the home above his head.
Taxes are mortgage on all the prop
erty of the state.
If your neighbor. gentlemen. should :
ask you to endorse his note for some :
speculation and TO mortgage your
home. how many would do it? Not
one man in this convention would do
so. Then il he would not do it with
his own money is he honest and just
n doing it with the money of the state.
over which he is an express trustee.
The Republicans are honest in the be- !
LEI that they might use any surplus
money in the treasury to help along
some industry. In doing so they would
be following the principles of their
party. /
The Real Question.
But that is not the question. The
other proposition is more far-reaching {
han shat. It does not mean that sur s
0lus money shall be given away 1t
means that the state shall be mort I
ragged. not for its own debt. but for /
he debt of others. If the proposition ,
should be killed in the language of +
President Smith. 1T will return to +
hague YOU Years after. when the
people have been saddled with debt to :
he tune of millions of dollars, with