The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-24

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boards of education and trustees OF
school districts to submit to the quail
fed electors the proposition to incur
Indebtedness in addition to the school
taxes for the current year.
The reasons of the governor are
given in the appended communication
The veto and the bill were referred tc
the committee on judiciary and it is
by no means improbable that a report
will be made suggesting the bill pass
notwithstanding the objections of the
executive. Members of the judiciary
committee claim that where an act
on the part of a municipal board is
prohibited by the constitution no legis-
lation can override it, and therefore
the reasons of the governor are purely
technical However, his suggestions viii
be carefully gone over and if they
are held to be good the bill may be
altered as suggested in his letter, in
troduced as a new bill and again
passed. The message touching upon
this subject is as follows:
State of Utah, Executive Office, Feb
%, 1897.
To the Senate:
1 have the honor to respectfully re-
turn senate bill No. II. entitled, IAN
act authorizing boards of education IN
cities of the first and second class and
school trustees of school districts to
submit to qualified electors the propo-
sition to incur Indebtedness in addi-
ton to the school taxes tor the cur
rent year." without my approval.
1 am in harmony with the object OF
the bill, but in its present form | be-
lieve it might be construed to author
ize boards of education and school
trustees to incur indebtedness beyond
the constitutional limitation
Section 4 of article IA of the consti-
tuition provides that No city, town,
school district or other municipal cor
poration shall become indebted to an
amount, including existing indebted
ness, exceeding 4 per centum of the
value of the taxable property there
in
Senate bill No. II authorizes boards
of education and school trustees Gf
voted favorably upon by the qualified
electors who have paid property tax,
etc) to incur and create additional in
debtedness in order TO maintain and
support their schools for the current
year or any part thereof.
Surprising a board of education or
school district had outstanding indebt-
edness to the amount of 4 per cent of
the value of the taxable property there
in, and yet necessity existed to Gre
ate additional Indebtedness in order
to maintain it's school for the current
year. To incur such additional indebt-
edness for any purpose. even by con-
sent of the taxpayers, would be an IN
fringement of-the constitution.
9 If a proVisO be added restricting such
indebtedness within the constitutional
limitation of 4 per cent of assessed
value of the taxable property in the
city or district I shall have pleasure
in approving the bill. Very respect
fully, HEBER NJ. WELLS,
Governor.
REFORM SCHOOL TRUSTEES
The governor filled the vacancies in
the state Industrial school board of
trustees yesterday, although no action
was taken thereon by the senate. They
will doubtless be acted upon today.
when more members are present. At
Yesterdays session, Evans, Smoot
Robson, and Johnson and Harbour
were absent. The message of appoint
ment was as appended:
State of Utah, Executive Office,
Feb. 10, 1897.
To the Senate:
/ have the honor to nominate the
following named and respectfully ask
your advice and consent to their ap-
pointment:
n. C. Flygare of Weber county to be
trustee of the state industrial school
for the unexpired term caused by the
resignation of Joseph S. Peery.
J. H. Mcmillan of Weber county, to
be trustee of the state industrial school
for the unexpired term caused by the
death of John 7. Rich.
Very respectfully.
HEBER NJ. WELLS,
Governor.
This matter was laid over to come
up in executive session, probably today.
CODE COMMISSION BILL.
The senate yesterday engaged in
military legislation, having under con-
sideraticn the military title in the code.
The chairman of the committee on
military affairs began his work by
making some changes in the portions of
the code determining the duties of the
adjutant- Hitherto that officer
has performed in time of peace the du-
ties of quartermaster, inspector and
commissary, giving these officers what
might be termed a picnic; making their
places sinecures, as it were, where all
the incumbents had to do was to wear
their uniforms on parade. In future
the acknowledgement will not perform
the duties of commissary and in
spector-general. that provision having
been stricken from the code.
In the old law there was a provision
which provided that the adjutant-
general shall inspect each organiza-
ton at it's home station once a year
and shall make such other inspections
of the troops as may be ordered by the
commander-in-chief."
Several senators stated that during
tho mast veaI. the adiutant- general had
not Inspected each organization at the
home stations thereof. and as the man
datory provision could not be enforced.
and further; that as the memlHrs of
the guard who do the drilling had
asked for its elimination, the same
should be stricken out.
Out it went
The senate had a little fun with the
salary of Acknowledgement John O.
Cannon. Mr. '+aker said he tried
this mater in committee and was de-
feated. but he wished to test the senate
feeling. so he would move the salary of
the Acknowledgement be fixed at $500
per annum instead of $500.
Mr. Game opposed the cutting down
of the salary. saying that General OF
finger claimed the stipend of this of
fee was much too low. The adjutant-
general has a great deal of clerical
work to do, and $500 per year is small
enough.
Mr.. Whitaker was armed with facts.
however, and declared when Ottinger
was Acknowledgement he was busy in
organizing the guard. but now the
work was done there didn't seem to be
much to do. Besides. he was reliably
informed that the officer detailed from
the United States army did all the
clerical work