The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-21

Turn-Business of the Senate Yes
terday.
To zoologically CLASSIFY the session
of the senate yesterday would be TO
call it a paroquet convention. There
was in the language of the noble red
man heap talk" The forenoon ses-
sion was all talk. Conversation reign
ed supreme. Debate assisted her in
reigning. Discussion filled the posi-
ton of prime minister.
The afternoon session wasn't much
of an improvement on the forenoon,
but then something was done, even
though not of the best. Because while
the fire and police law passed and the
revenue bill was completed; while
various and sundry measures were
rushed through, the senate passed a
bounty measure, against the protest
Of the Democrats, who voted to a
man against the same.
Silk has become an infant industry
in Utah. The festive worm who fills
himself on mulberry leaves will from
longer hours because there is a bounty
of two bits per pound on his product.
He will weave cocoons with the salts
faction of knowing that after he is
roasted and his handiwork unrolled
and wound on a spool, he has assisted
some person in getting his, or her,
hand in the treasury of the state.
The bill as passed carries with it an
appropriation of $4,000 OF this sum
$1,000 goes to bounty and $1,000 TO
educating the pupils in seri-culture
who desire to learn how to work the
combina ton. There will be a. board
of five commissioners to supervise the
scheme and, although they receive no
the thousand mentioned-as long as it
lasts.
Rev. W. K Beans of the First M.
E. church offered prayer.
EMPLOYEES WAGES.
Senate bill g. an act to provide for
the payment of wages of workingmen
employed in mines in the state in law
full money of the United States and to
protect them in the management and
control of their earnings came UP on
a majority report recommending its
rejection and a minority advising its
passage.
Mr.. Jones, making the opening
statement, declared that in Eureka
the Bullion-Beck and Centennial
Eureka mines, for instance, compelled
their employees to either board at the
company's boarding house or trade at
the company's store. He read a COM
mnication from a Methodist minister
at Provo urging the passage of the
measure.
Doesn't the gentleman know that
this same minister takes scrip in his
contribution box?" inquired Warner.
Il know nothing at all beyond this
letter l presume, however, that be-
ing in Provo he is glad to take any
thing he can get"
Continuing, Jones referred to- the
Provo wooden mills, (which sold goods
for cash, paid it's employees in goods
undersold them" The principle was
wrong and tended to deprive men of
their independence. "The institution
which cannot run and pay its en-
ployees in cash ought to go down.
SHOWS SOUND logic.
Senator Snow did not think the
eXigencies of the case called for any
Fourth of July pyrotechnics but
rather demanded facts. There was no
use in causing another evil in correct
ing a present fault. In the district
there were many institutions of this
character, wooden mills, tanneries
shoe shops, etc, employing about 800
men and women which could not exist
if the barter system was abolished
Hundreds of thousands of dollars of
business is done under this plan and
to abolish it would mean ruin Mr..
Jones and his Methodist friend are
young in this state and know nothing
of it's methods, although their inten-
tons may be. and no doubt are
strictly honorable.
Mr.. Cannon said he did not approve
of the policy of paying in goods, or of
mine compelling its employees to
board at company boarding houses.
Still there are two sides to the ques-
ton and in the light of all the evil
dence the bill should not pass.
Glen Miller admitted that the sys-
tenn OF barter was necessity in GER
tain cases but in such places people
are primitive. However, this bill, as
amended applies only to mines. 1t
did not apply to Proves wooden mills
or the mills of ST. George.
Allison said the purpose of the bill
was right. The system of company
stores was a vicious one. One mer-
chant in Park City became enormously
rich because mining company COM
PEELED the men to trade at his store
However, he did not care to vote for
this measure under present conditions
The senate then simultaneously re-
solved itself into committee of the
whole on the question, where are we
at?" 1t was discovered that the bill
xls Il
said something the members knew
nothing of.
The bill was read, after which Mr..
Cannon. scolded Mr.. Glen Miller and
Mr.. Miller chided Mr. Cannon and re-
buked Mr.. Snow.
An even $3.50 worth of the good
valuable time of the state was used
up in fixing matters which finally re-
suited in Jones offering to amend the
bill so as to exclude wooden mills and
the industries complained Of by
smelters.
Mr.. Cannon asked consent to permit
the minority to amend their report.
which was granted. and Booth. who
arrived at this point, argued in favor
of including everybody because omit
ting anyone would render the law I'M
constitutional.
Sutherland INDUCED in a few legal re-
marks, and was succeeded by Mr.. Can
non.
The bill was then killed. Ayes Con
motion to rejecD-Allison, Candland,
Evans, Mckay, Warner. Warrum,
Snow Zundel, Mr.. Presidential. Nays
Booth. Driscoll. Jones. Glen Miller, r.
G. Miller Sutherland-6
The senate having used up S6S.75 in
time belonging to the state, adjourned
for dinner
AFTERNOON SESSION