The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-22

as an indication of what is to come
the convention will finish the declara-
ton of rights in about five DAYS more.
Two days have already been spent
upon what is generally considered the
least provocative of debate and yet
only eight of its twenty-nine sections
have been disposed Of The greatest
question which has come up, that re-
garding taxing of church property,
the further question about binding the
legislature not to appropriate money
for secular institutions and the still
further one about the jury system
have been laid over for future con-
sideratiOn. In the meantime hours and
days are slipping away and with them
the $4,000 appropriation is fast fading
into nothingness. while looming up in
the background are the really great
questions which will confront the dele
gates.
The responsibility for this should bs
placed where it belongs. The Republi-
cans are to blame. They absolutely
wasted the first four days of the ses-
sion In putting a president into the
chair. He wasted another day in his
appointment of committees. He was
unfortunate. to say the least, in his
selection of chairmen of committees
Those whom he placed in power were
not well fitted by experience to draw
the work to a head immediately Com
IlEtteeS were not put in thorough work.
ing order at once. Valuable time,
which should have been spent in get
ting matter together, was spent il:
fooliShnesS. The committee on pre-
anhla and d6nla IF rio in,
stead of reporting on the fourteenth
day should have had a report In
great deal sooner and other COM
mittees should also have had articles
plhng in with prOmptness. By this
time most of the work should have
been placed before the convention and
the body should have settled down to
consideration Of what is before it,
with no consideration for committees.
The outlook now is not of the best.
The time for which the appropriation
will last is growing woefully short. It
is not likely that the convention will
stay in session for any length of time
after that is exhausted. Already three
articles, outside of the bill of rights,
are reported and others are now ABOUT
to come tardily upon the scene. Mean
while days are being spent on the
minor things of the bill of rights, 1t
does not seem possible to avoid a
disastrous jam within the next ten
days and a rush and hurry of propo-
sitions that should be given the most
careful consideration. Morning ses-
sions will be begun soon, and all con-
cede that they should be inaugurated
at once. These will shortly be succeed
ed by evening sessions. In these the
members will overWork themselves and
be in just the state to multiply onis-
sions and commissions until the peo-
oIa af TTfab fiIxolxy tn h.. Sa1
at the instrument which is presented
to them.
1t was in recognition of this that the
Democrats yesterday declined to make
the promised contest over the queer
ruling of Souires in committee of the
whole. From the first they have en-
deavored to make the convention eff
fective. They have been endeavering
to overcome the inertia, that seems to
have laid always with the Republican
majority. They have said action ac-
ton : . action :. !. and were willing to
waive what were their undoubted
rights in order to secure this. How
ever, their withdrawal of opposition
does not mean that they have con-
coded the point. Should occasion Of
fer they will again bring it up and
make the fight TO the finish. But they
hope there will be no occasion for the
of so much time.
p. Buncombe Coray, of Chicken
creek. registered another chapter in his
exciting little play yesterday, VIXEN he .
arose and said. that the minutes were
rather cumbersome in regard to his
withdrawal of his remark regarding
the letter of Mr.. Thatcher 1t has hap
pened that the minute clerk had taken
the stenogra phic report of his remarks
and of course these looked so lament
ablv weak that he was only too glad
TO have them stricken out. The in
cident was allowed to pass amid the
most absolute silence
Souires was again called to the chair
in the committee of the whole. Some
how or other, the president seems 10
have taken a peculiar liking Tor this
1uondam leader. Where the pecuhar
affinity comes in between them 1T IS
quite difficult to say
Snuires in the chair is living re-
hinder of an observation once made
py Golf. the celebrated inquisitor who
so heartily shook up the New York
,olice force. He said: 'sTake a butcher
how on the sidewalk and he is an in
offensive mortal Place him on his
wagon and he will drive over you
Take a policeman in ordinary dress
and he is a good fellow Put his uni
form on and give him club and ne
IS ready to tyranize over you" This
was simply another way OF stating that
! little brief authority sometimes turns
the heads of mortals who have not the
best balance wheels. Squires is
pretty good sort of a. fellow on the
floor. 1t is true he is rather garrulous,
bat that can be overlooked. When he
gets in the chair, however, he is at
lacked with enlargement of the head