The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-17
THE LEGISLATURE ADJoURNs.

The legislature has adjourned and its
record is now before the people for
their approval or condemnation. When
they have familiarized themselves with
it we believe it will be approved by
them
In the early part of the session the
senatorial contest consumed consider
able time, and for while it was feared
that it might seriously retard the other
work of the legislature, but it did not,
although it is true the session exceeded
/ its limit by several days. But when
the last days of session arrive there
is always a rush of business, and mat
tiers crowd each other so fast that all
seems confusion. This is inevitable
because all matters under considera-
ton finally come to the stopping place
and have to wait there until they can
be disposed of, and while they are
waiting they are more in evidence than
at any other time.
Early in the session the legislature
appropriated $4,000 to defray its ex-
penses. At the time many were doubt
full whether it would be sufficient for
that purpose. 1t has proven to be, the
total cost of the session having been
$24,954S5. This made the expense per
day $415.9O The cost of the session of
the first session, which was ninety
days, was 400, making the cost
$426.65 per day, difference of s10.75
per day in favor of the second legisla-
ture. This all speaks well for the pres
ent legislature. Nor when the appro
priation bill is gone over carefully is it
believed that it will be found extrava-
CANT. though the aggregate amount is
large.
The legislature which has just adj
journed is the first in Utah in which
women have sat as members. 1t would
be a difficult matter to point out
M1lcIClll lllCII 11IliuSnCC UPON lLC OOul sc
of legislation has been different from
that of the male members. 1t cannot
be said that their presence in the legis-
lature raised the standard of legisla-
ton, and it certainly cannot be said
that it lowered it. Debate upon any
question was as free as though the
legislature had been composed entirely
of men. And there was never any rea-
son in the world why this should not |
be so. AS the result of the presence of |
said: They are as we'll fitted as men |
to make laws, but no better; they have |
as strong political principles and pref |
udices as men, and they adhere to
them with as much tenacity; in fact |
the human nature wrapped up in wo-
man, when drawn out in legislative
halls, is found to be exceedingly like
the human nature wrapped up in men,
The relations existing between the
members of both houses and the pre-
siding officers were always cordial, and
both President Nebeker and Speaker
Perkins always endeavored to be fair
and impartial in their rulings, and sue
ceeded.
The legislature that has just ad-
journed was a Democratic one, and its
record is that by which the people
must judge of the fitness of the Demo-
cratic party to control the affairs of
the state. The record is a good one,
aiken as a whole, and one of which
he party may be proud; and the party
IAN go to the people again and ask
hem to repose confidence in it, feeling
hat it is fully justified in so doing. To
he members of the legislature The
Herald can say: well done, thou good
md faithful servant" 1t congratulates
hem upon their work.