The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-27

nuai expense of nearly s1100 exclusive
OF the clerks salary, the fees of whose
ONCE Will amount to at least S25, 900, it
is proposed here to make the county
pay the expense of this office and turn
the fees into the state treasury be-
cause, forsooth, the county of Garfield
with total revenue of S1,700, turns in
few Daltry hundreds into the State
treasury ana pays it's clerk not to ex-
ceed 1000. And so you would milk US
gentlemen, not because it is right, but
because you have the votes. l do not
desire to arraign any county official Of
any county of this state for any mis-
deeds of the past or accuse him of any
evll intentions in the future but, Mr.
Speaker, | do undertake to arraign
here and now any member Of This
house who can so far forget himself as
man, who can SO far forget the oath
taken by him at the opening of this
session, to serve The best interests of
the people of this state, and to advo-
cate this amendment l say he is doing
an injustice to the most populous coun-
ties OF this state and launching
boomerang which will return upon his
own head
will the gentlemen, I care not where
they come FROM impose such burdens
upon the people of the larger counties
that those people will be compelled in
taxes caused by the deprivation of the
revenue to which they are entitled, to
! hold up these self same gentlemen
when they come here to buy goods
| or dispose of the product of ranch or
! farm?
Mr.. Speaker, l do not hesitate to
! say that this proposed amendment is
not only wrong. but it is a clear and
unqualified, unprovoked and unjusti-
fable robbery.
Have we. gentlemen, speaking
for Salt Lake county, have we ever
refused to aid you in any measure for
the relief of your county? Have we
not given you our votes and all assist
ance in our power to annex that por-
ton of Arizona lying north of the
Colorado river, through which roam
lawless bands, in order that our courts,
supported by the state, might control
or suppress them so that people in
southern Utah can sleep at night with
out fear? Have we not sought to aid
San Juan county in its cry for relief
from the rowing bands of Indians? Did
we not vote for the snake bill of the
gentleman from Uintah in order to
suppress a crying evil there? Have
we ever refused you aid? And now
you turn around and seek to perpe-
trate this wrong upon us. Gentlemen
it is not right; it will gain you moth
ing, and some of these days when the
shoe is on the other foot, you will have
chance to see how it pinches, and
then. of course, you can change it; but
consider we'll now whether you are
ready to form what you certainly see
is most grievous wrong"
FERGUSON MOVES TO TABLE.
Mr.. Ferguson of Carbon moved to
table the resolution, the Alfalfa" being
triumphant by the following vote:
Ayes-Andrus. Beard, Bolitho, Bern
hisel, Clark, Egan, Ferguson of Car
bon, Gibbs, Gibson, Heiner, Howard,
Larsen, Lennon, Morrill,, Monson,
Maughan, Mansfield. Nebeker of Rich,
Robinson, Shafer, Seavy, Smoot, Sor-
enson. Total, 80
Nays-Condon, Critchlow, Cushing,
Cazier, Ferguson of Salt Lake, Har-
ris, Lewis, Morrison, Nebeker of Salt
Lake, Nye, Radditz, Stevens, Snedaker, |
Taylor, Thorn, Thompson of Willard, !
Wilson, Mr.. Speaker. Total, 49,
Absent, 4.
THE TIDE TURNS.
MT Robinson moved to adopt the !
nrst OF ms amendments to pay into
the state treasury the clerks fess.
Mr.. Thorn arose to say he supposed
he had been CHASED among the cal |
falfas." He wished to set himself
straight. He had met with the county
caucus at its first meeting and had
Favored the state bearing the exDense
OF criminal prosecutions. This he still
Geld to be proper, but he did not favor
the extreme measure now pending as
ne considered it unfair to the larger
The speaker asked what would ba
come of house bill 80, which had be-
come a law. This is the Condor bill
passed early in the session, prescrib-
lrg the treasury into which fees should
be paid.
Mr.. Thorn replied, Repeal it," Mr..
Critchlow adding. that the passage of
TINS bill would repeal 1T.
Mr.. Gibbs moved to amend the I,
to provide that one-half of
the fees of county clerks go into the
state treasury and one-half into the
county. With little discussion the
was lost.
Mr.. Harris rose to address the house.
He was opposed to the Robinson
amendments and favorsd the metro
pohtan's position. He said:
y Mr.. Speaker | cannot allow this
amendment to prevail without raising
my voice to protest against the pas
sage of such AN unjust measure. We
should not be guidsd by local inter
ests in these matters, but should con-
slider that we have sworn to perform
the duties of legislators to the besr
interests of the state as a whole No
member is justified in advancing a
for the benefit of his own
county that will be unjust to THE rest
Of the state. Much as L desire the well
rare OF Weber county, and much as l
would do to promote her interests, I
should vote against any measure that
would give her any advantage, if by
ioing 50 an injustice would be done to
Tie other counties of the state. {
Take the question that we have dis {
2ussed of compelling the state to pay
The expense of criminal prosecutions I
n the various counties. Every mem {
Der knows that l have favored such d
from the first, not because t
t would give any advantage to Weber !
county for as matter of fact the {
'urdan of such expense would fall on s
he counties of Salt Lake and Weber,
'ut | favored THE proposition because f
know that many of the smaller coun- I
les would become bankrupt in an at S
empt to prosecute their criminals if t
hsy had to pay the expense. We were c
I'll united on that question. Now, when t
We have made concessions to the small f
r counties in this regard, 1t certainly C
ONES with poor grace for these same I
ounties to meet in the country caucus n
II the Alfalfa. club or any other such c
ociety and bind themselves to support f
ny measure until they have had an h
rportunity to fully understand the r
anne. l understand that such is the 6
ase in this instance. Here we have a 6
lumber of country members represent :.
ne a ma jOritv of this house who have :,