The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-21
While Eight Received Executive Ap-
prevail Yesterday.
GOVERNOR GIVES REASONS
coNvICT-MADE GOODS BILL UNI
JUST 70 TAXPAYERS.
shepard's Bill Regulating Admis-
sions to Court Practice Had No
Repeating Clause--Why the Pub
lie Works Bill Is Vetoed-List Of
Eight Measures Approved.

Governor Wells yesterday transmitted
TO the secretary of state a batch oil
eleven bills passed by the recent legis.
iative assembly. Of these eight arr
approved by the chief executive, an6
three vetoed. The bills which received
the governors disapprovaJ were house.
bill No. lo3, by Shepard, relating to the
examination of applicants for admission
TO practice law; house bill No. 156, by
Cummings. relating to what shall con.
sntute public works; and house bill
NO. lao, by Stewart, to require the
branding as such of all convict-made
goods offered for sale
Following is list of the measures
approved:
House bill No. %, by Holmgren, pro-
V1ding fer a special winter course OF
studies at the Agricultural college.
House bill No. 81, by Lloyd. to permit
elective city officers to appoint their
own deputies.
House bin No. 104, by Shepard, chang
ing the terms of the supreme court to
commence on the second Mondays in
February, May and October.
House bill No. 112. by Mrs Horne, to
increase the number of free state nor
mai scholarships from 100 to 200, and
the period of their appointment from
two to four years
House bill No. 176. by Lloyd, requiring
county recorders to furnish county
Teasurers with certified records and
abstracts of tax sales.
Senate bill No. 3S, by Tanner, making
an appropriation for maps and plats
for the assessors office of Beaver coun-
ty.
Senate bill No. IS, by Evans relating
to easements for highways over state
lands.
Senate bill No. SO, by Rideout, pro-
Viding for holding Of primary elections
and the punishment of offenses at such
elections
The governors reasons for vetoing
three of the bills are contained in three
letters transmitted to the secretary of
state yesterday.
PUBLIC WORKS BILL.
The veto of the public works bill is
as follows:
To the Secretary of State:
Sir: 1 have the honor to file in your
office, without approval, house bill No
156, AN act declaring what shall be
public works L see no good purpose
to be subserved by the bill 1t under
takes to specify everything that shall
be know as public works 1t includes
roads, highways, bridges, water sys-
TENS, water canals, ditches reservoirs,
dams, fumes and appurtenances there
to, owned by or under the control Of
the state or any county or municipality
OF the state; also parks and prisons,
but it omits to include buildings, as for
instance. a capitol building, a court
house or a city hall. Certainly those
would be public works, but under the
weli-known rule Of law expressio unius
est eXclusio aiterius if this law goes
into effect, they could not be so re-
garded.
I am informed the object of the bill
is to permit the labor of convicts on
public works outside the prison
grounds. The constitution already Der-
mits such labor if the public works are
under the direct control of the state
This bin would not permit the labor of
convicts upon any public building out
side the prison grounds and instead of
proving helpful it would be restrictive.
] know of no provision Of law that pre-
vents the labor Of convicts in county
or city prisons on public works and
think it is a strained construction of
the constitution that has ceased the
operation Of chain. gangs on roads and
other public Improvements. The rem
edy, however, if any is needed, lies
rather in an amendment to the consti-
tuition than in a law declaring what
are public works. Very respectfully,
(Signed) HEBER NJ. WELLS.