The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-04-01
A CYNICAL VIEW.

lature has set and it is now sin the
cleaning, oh, my darling" and one
can calmly contemplate the magni-
tndinous undertaking which the I'M
dertakers undertook, he is inclined to
feel very lenient towards the errors
which crept in here and there. Just
realize the situation for n momentl
For two successive legislatures since
we became a state an inimical ele-
ment had been in control, which,
flushed with repeated victory, fell
into ways of extravaganza which
caused the people to moan over enor
nous and constantly increasing APP
preparations which must be met by
increased state taxes, until the yoke
was thrown of and an element of
reform walked in last fall, rolled up
their sleeves and prepared to attack
the evils which hampered the state
finances The panorama was beheld
Of state administration balance
sheet which showed that under Nc
Cornell the cost OF state government
had increased over 500, 900 over the
expenses of the Wiley rule. Many
measures, some meritorious and some
malodorous, we're at once leveed at
ho OF Of FRO
proposition to reduce state salaries
was passed and met veto, but the
appropriation bill accomplished some
thing in the way of slicing Off per
quisites. And a strange feature of
its operations is that every official
elected on ticket of retrenchment,
and who no doubt secured his nomi-
nation through years of patient
drumming on the retrenchment harp,
is squealing over his allowances for
clerk hire, sudries, ETC., and bewail-
ing the calamities to come to his de-
partment. Yea, verify, one is con-
WINGED that the correct method would
have been to have kept up the per-
quisites and cut down the salaries.
But since the salaries were not cut
and the perquisites trimming did not
effect sufficient saving something
more must be done, and happy
thought was born. The evils of past
extravaganza in state affairs should
be wiped out by '4knocking the pud-
ding" out of some of the officials of
the little counties, and a fee bill was
evolved. A resolution to submit
constitutional amendment providing
for salaries of county officers was
passed and was vetoed for, we are
authoritatively informed, the reason
that it was fatally defective in that
it did not provide for the manner
of fixing the salaries, which was too
bad, as the salary system is the only
way the subject can be equitably !
h"hNict Ii III OlIcldl Oh tulS /
county is only justified in receiving +
$1,000 instead of $1,000 Cor any other
figures that are proper, let his salary
be fixed at $1,000 You can never
reach the thing equitably by fee
system. You cannot make fee bill |
fit Ada county and Washington
county at the same time or course
under the burdensome taxes of the
present, it was perhaps necessary to
DO something and in the absence of
anything better an impossibility is
attempted. Something could posi-
bly, be evolved, if we were really about
to expire, that would serve for shift |
until the salary system could be Sc
cured. But it was unfortunate for
the present fec bill that every man with
= silly notion In his head was allowed
10 inject it into the measure. Where
t cats in one quarter it piles up in
mother For ipss zoe, it requires
II the costly fes books now in use to
e discarded and 3 new anil special