The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-15

plaudits of an appreciatire constitu-
ency.
CHANGING THE ALLOWANCES
The house then took up the genera
appropriation bill, senate bill No. 81
as recommended for passage, with
amendments, by the committee on pre-.
liIninary conference.
The allowance of the state auditor
for clerical assistance was increased by
the house from IS. 900 to $500, and the
item of the states half of salaries fol
county attorneys, treasurers and asses
sors for the ensuing biennial period
was cut from $4,000 to $4,000.
Another amendment proposed by the
committee was accepted, reducing the
appropriation for the university's main
tenance from $4,000 to $55,o00- This
sum, added to the anticipated income
of SOS, 600 from the university land fund
will bring the institutions maintenance
fund for the ensuing two years up to
$4,000.
McQuarrie, on the plea that the bill
would have to be scaled down over
100000 to bring it within the million
dollar limit, moved to strike out the
item of $4,000 for extra teachers for
the special winter course at the agricul-
tural college, but the motion was lost.
The sum Of $4,000 to the national
guard of Utah was reduced to $4,000 by
! the contreres. Jackson moved to in
crease the allowance to $4,000, and in
support of his position declared that the
state should have properly maintain
ed militia or none at all. The motion
to increase was lost, as was also Jack
sons proposition to strike out the en-
tire appropriation.
By an application of the house prun-
! ing knife, the item of 81, 800 for procur-
ing the extension of government sur
veys over state lands was cut out. but
the proposition to eliminate the item
of $1,000 for sinking artesian wells on
state lands was defeated.
! When Fishers eye dropped on the
| item of $500 for maintenance of the
state board of health, he moved to
strike it out. The motion failed by a
narrow margin, Is in the negative and
| L in the affirmative
The senate passed $4,000 for the state
fair in October. 1899, and $4,000 for 1900
The conference committee decided on
to restore the sum OF $4,000 for next
years fair, and the motion prevailed.
The state horticultural boards trav-
cling expenses allowance was increased,
on McQUarrie's motion. from $1,000 to
81, 500.
The appropriated sum for half the
cost of assessors maps and DlatS for
a little less than 81, 900 to $1,000.
AGAINST THE SALT PALACE.
Johnson moved to strike out the item
Of $4,000 TO aid the Salt Palace.
Before that motion is put / have an
amendment to offer, appropriating
100000 TO Salt Lake county for reln-
burseme1t in prosecuting criminals.
This county, unlike the others, has
never asked anything for such a pur-
pose, nor for roads and bridges
Bennion said he taG voted for every
reasonable request from the outside
counties for roads and bridge favors
and for the needs of the state institu-
tons outside of Salt Lake, and now he
thought the Salt Palace project should
be aided by the appropriation asked for.
Such an act would be only fair, ana,
moreover, the benefits accruing from
the exposition in the palace would be
for the entire state.
''Oh, it's anything to down Salt Lake
City, no matter what benefits may
come to the entire state from any pub
lie ENTERPRISE located in the metropo-
lis" remarked Jackson. as he took his
seat, filed with disgust at what he
termed the selfishness Of the Alfalfa
club" members.
While admitting that Salt Lake coun-
ty pays 40 per cent of the states taxes,
n. ]. Harris opposed the appropriation
because he deemed the project a pri-
vate affair. LaDish, Murdoch and
johnson followed in the same strain.
Shepard remarked that the members
from the metropolis had warmly sup
ported every measure of local benefit
desired by the representatives from
the rural districts, and to now turn
down the modest anticipation of Salt
Lake, when nothing had been granted
nor asked heretofore, seemed unjustifi-
able.
Speaker Roylance stated that the gov
ernor had said he did not want to see
the appropriation for the Salt Palace
pass. This drove . nail into the coffin,
and Fisher clinched it by declaring the
people of Salt Lake City did not want
any appropriation for the Salt Palace
made.
The item of $4,000 was then stricken
OUTS ayes to 10 noes-only Cook,
Farr, Ivers, O'Neil and Wheeler voting
with the five Salt Lake members pres
eat.
REFORM SCHOOL IN DANGER.
The item of 1000 for the mainten-
ance of the state industrial school for
the years 1899 and 1900, was attacked
by Stewart, who moved to cut the al
lowaDce to $4,000.
johnson said that the constitution re-
quired that the reform school be main
tanned, and to do so it would cost
money.
In Mansfield's estimation, it surpass-
ed all understanding that it should cost
500 per caplua annually to educate a
boy or girl in the university or Agri-
cultural College, and $500 per year to
rnaintain each inmate of the reform
school
Better that cost than to pay thou
sands OF dollars for criminal expenses
annually in the future, because Of no
reformatory," was Smiths EXPRESSION
Maintain the state Industrial school,
said McQuarrie "or cut it off altogether
from the states bounty
Hansen said it would be cheaper to
keep the incorrigible youths at the
Knutsford with an annual trip to Eu-
rope than to keep up the reformatory,
which does not reform the inmates. fe-
male never and the boys only occasion
ally. Something was wrong, in his
opinion. and he would prefer to see the
institution abolished.
Trustee Wright was accorded the
privilege of the floor to explain that
the appropriation of $4,000 two years
ago was not enough, even under the
most rigid economy. Then there were
twenty-ene inmates, now there are thir-
weight To cut the maintenance al
lowance to SIS, 900 meant that the insti-
tuition might as well be closed. The
cost per capita yearly was not $500, but
$500. If a. manual training school in
connection with the institution were es-
tablished, the reformation work would
be more satisfactory in results. The
equipment is primitive, and sewerage,
bath room and fire escapes were sorely
needed. The trustees received no sal
airy, and served only because of their
love fer humanity
Richards moved to strike out the re-
form schools maintenance appropria-
ton entirely and Bennion amended to
make the allowance $4,000.
n L Harris asked why not abolish