The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-16
The PIONEER JUBILEE
Meeting of the Commissioner
and House Committee.
INFORMALLY DISCUSS CUES
TON OF AN APPROPRIATION.
Amount of Money Needed to Make
1t a Success-Ten Thousand Not
Enough For the Legislature to
Appropriate For That Purpose.

The Pioneer Jubilee commission met
last evening with Governor Wells and
the house committee of the legislature
on the pioneer celebration, for the
purpose Of discussing in an informal
way the manner of the celebration,
and the appropriation which the leg
islature has been asked to make to-
wards the enterprise. Hon. r. w.
Sloan, chairman of the legislative COM
mittee. presided. and the other mem
bers of the committee present We're
MesSrs. ROmney, Reed, SmOot, O'Brien,
KimbaIl and Lennon
Judge COlborn, of the Jubilee COM
mission. said that in addition to the
$4,000 which the committee had asked
from the legislature, they expected to
raise $4,000 from the citizens, which
would not exactly be an easy matter,
but with hard work they expected to
do it
Secretary RognOn said he had re-
ceived about 300 letters from pioneers
of Al, and the writer's were all greatly
interested in the celebration. 1t was
the intention of the commission that
these pioneers be the guests of the oc-
casiOn, and that all their expenses, in
Guiding railroad fare and entertainment
while the jubilee lasted be betrayed by
the commission. The entry of the
pioneers into the valley and old scenes
connected Herewith would be a lead
ing feature of the celebration. This
branch of the jubilee would cost about
10000. and the whole celebration could
not be even moderately carried out
with less than $4,000. An event of so
great importance as what this was in
tended 20 commemorate. the COM
mencement of not only the opening up
of Utah, but of the whole intermount-
ain west, ought to be done on a grand
scale In the state of Indiana the
legislature had appropriated $1,OO0,OOO
to celebrate the admission of that state
into the Union. Ten thousand was q.
very small appropriation for the Utah
legislature to make for the jubilee.
Double that sum would not be too,
much sor such an occasion.
Mr.. Kimball spoke in the highest
terms of the worthiness of the under
taking, and hoped it would be carried
out in appropriate style. His father
was one of the original pioneers, so
was his father-in-law. and the younger
the circumstances under which their
forefathers entered these valleys and
founded the great state of Utah.
Mr.. Sloan, Mr. Romney, Mr.. Lennon
and Mr. Smoot expressed themselves
in similar terms to those of Mr.. Kim
ball, and the impression gathered was
that the Legislature, or at least the
members of the committee, were in
clined TO be liberal in this matter and
make an appropriation sufficient to
make a creditable showing
The committee of the house wantsdf
to be assured that the celebration
would not be entirely in the nature of
a circus but would be such a dis
play as would make known something
of the resources and wealth of the
state. They had the utmost faith in
the. commission and it's wisdom. but
didn't like the circus feature made
too prominent.
Judge Colborn. in reply, said to give
what was understood by sn exposition,
not even 100000 would begin TO be
enough,s and of necessity the celebra-
ton was very apt TO be to some extent
what had been described as a cir
Gus"
The house committee, having re-
ceived sufficient enlightenment on the
subject, the meeting adjourned.