Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-03-20

seats this morning when the upper
brauch Of the Legislature met Later
four others ctme ln.
NERcuWs ELECTION.
The committee ou Judiciary reported
on 4. b. III, amending the law on in-
corporations, recommending IL pas
sagc. ruis IL the oil allowing mn.
registered voters 10 vote at Metouf's
election on Apfll "a.
EXEMPTIONS
The judiciary committee also fv.
ported In favor OF the passage Of =. B.
10, providing ior exemptions to heads
Of families owning no real estate.
WHISKY 10 INDIANS.
The judiciary committee made a
favorable report on II. Is. ljl, forbid.
ding The sale Of intoKicsnt- 10 Indians.
tWE ASD rJLiCE BILL.
Tue committee on counties and cor.
pofauous reported on =. b. S, tue ire
aud police bill, with House amen nd
mouts, commenting its passage with
iufIncr hmrudm,
MNIHs' WAUEH BILL.
g. y. Js, bil. for an acs to provide
'ot the payment Of wages Of w0fkmen
| employed he mines, m .l.s AMI smeiIuu
/ iu the stale oil u Hu IN lawful money
| OF tue United States, nud 90 protect
/ faId wutkmru in the management aud
1 of OIL.
| on the committee reports, the malJrty
! report Recommending tue rejection u
| the uill aud the minority recommends
| log its passuRe,
] Juuts attacked the majority report
l a. being iu behalf u an unfair system.
! lie declared that In nlutug camps
| men were compelled 20 either board at
tn,Ir employers boarding houses or 10
unttuuizg employers stofos, auI named
TO Bulhuu,BcgE anu Centennial
Eureka mining companies As being
guilty u impasing TINS slavery upon
trrif employee,
| Lsunou-Docs the Bullion. Beck
compel iis men 10 board At iIs boarding
hUus,2
Duscoil-It has no boarding house,
. but they must uattonlze It, stores.
Cannon 49, Arc married men CON-
puIItd 10 board At any company board.
lux houses At any mint2
DfiscOll- they are. The Centeu-
NAL Eureka Is one, Tor Instance, Am
HORNED.
CsuuOu-Afe the men compelled TO
paif0niEu company stOtcs2
Overwhelmingly. II isa part
OF ihuif contract,
Cnnnou-Aro they compelled to pay
higher prices than NJ other storey
Dr!sc1ll-t am cfodibly informed
that they are. IL IL common kn0wl-
edge,
Jones continued, dsuounclng tho
system as one which euslayed men.
These mining companies paid their
thousands Ia diyideuda, and robbed
their employees by tho company board
ing house and store system.
Jones then turned his AIton-
ION 10 Provo, assaillng the
mills there. lie read part OF
u letter from the Methodist ministrr
~ Provo, protesting against the mills
Hcfip, aud saying the employees fro
qurul y hAi 10 rell 10 NJ 6U cents on the
.Ul.ar 10 get money 10 pay taxes. He
said that the mills SUPERINTENDENT In
1880 and 1891, MT. Underwood, iu-
iufmUl him inst tbs Provo mills made
ptoht Of $50, 900 In those two years
ihe scrip system was a robbery, aud
mills VINO could not DO without IL
Z should stop. lie tutuud agaio ~ the
condition at Eureka. and eKcoriated
the companies when compelled min.
cts 10 patfonlEB them anu pay exofbiI-
aut prices.
, Snow said that the condition at Eu.
I reta mt y be fully as Dnd rs described,
, AMI therefore was great abuse. Bui
~ fat Us tue scrip system IA mills anu
factories we're concerned, those iustliu.
/ tons ia southern Cah could not
- proceed without II, The trading eye
ttm WAS the ouly means tue cJ'OpefA.
tive factories ia southern Utah hal 70
, carry on business, because they hal no
u currency ~ do otherwise. lhey traded
D with the people, because tho people
I had nothing else 20 exchange but lhrlt
u produce. As 10 Jones and others, they
y were new COMETS 10 UJan, ani knew
4 nothing VI the conditions Ia uuW
. country such A. II was in UtAh Ia the
Z smaller cities aud the country places;
, hence could not regulate them,
y Cannon sali tnat ne must recognise
u that the condition described NJ EufukA
wasAu outrage, Auu should DO stopped.
ButRsto mills and factories through
out the state, tue application OF the
proposed bill would DO u slill greater
II Outrage, us II wuult destroy them.
y Cannon could not agree with Jones's
v estimate Of manhood as one W On = few
dollars IN his Iocket. There we're men
who took tuelt pay In "ITuck" ~ II
was called, who were N perfect
, Tyres Of manhood rs any Of the
OturIs named, anu who had due bet
N ter than II they hal been required 10
Z, work az the reduced prices tuggeslud
I. uy JOnrs. AstU tue Ulll, Cam sHll
"a 10 b. G MD 10 made 10 reach the Eureka
anu similar abuses without DONG
T.. greater injury, he would favor H. Bui
I, 10 do ~ would uu class legislatiOui and
% 60 ILuiuIu tho whole would uea greater
evil ihRn 90 biiOw matters 20 on asInty
are. IL was "a question Oi which was
,hu Lesser evil. rue system viii he
y gradually regulated by the people.
DO There Ara Institutions In this cry thai
u could not operate without tnls sys'
I'd en- OF paying in trade, aud BY
winch their employee were ADle " live
com utlaby, when otherwise they
would not nave been. Cannon CLOSED
Ia by stating that tue assault upon the
Provo mills was seriously unjust Il
A. thRt Institution.
Glen Miller said that In new settle