The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-26

COUNTY SCHOOL
TAX.BILL Is LOST
Measure Fixing Minimum Is
Voted Down by House.
GOV. WELLS IS SUSTAINED
WHITMoRE STATE LAND BILLS
FAIL TO PASS OVER VETO.
GOV. WELLS is SUSTAINED

Governor Wells won, and the county
school tax bill lost, in the house yester-
day. That body voted overwhelmingly
20 sustain the executives veto of the
two Whitmore bills relating to the tax
alton of state lands bought under con-
tract. By a narrow majority it de-
feated The Done bill fixing 21a mill
minimum for county school tax. This
last action jeOpardizes the bill increas-
ing the city school limit, as the Salt
Lake county members outside the city
VIII fight it, now that the other meas
ure is defeated.
The city school tax bill came up first,
but Cahoon objected to its cOnsidera-
ton until the county bill had been acted
upon He said he would not vote for it
unless the other passed. House bill No.
80, pertaining to the county tax was
therefore taken up first The commit
tee on education and art reported in
favor Of making the minimum 21z
mills. CahOOn wanted it 2I2 mills, as
in the original bill. Stewart was against
any minimum.
I'm opposed to Capitalization of pow
err said Morris. "The legislature has
no right to take the power of fixing a
minimum tax out of the hands of the
county commissioners"
Chapman took the same ground
Hostile Toward Salt Lake
The committee report was rejected,
and Stewart moved that the enacting
clause be stricken from the bill. Col
ton defended the measure Fishburn
made a speech hostile to Salt Lake. He
declared, among other things, that the
salt LalSers did not want to pay the
county school tax because for every
dollar they paid out they receive only
ffc or1r ~ To-, 4
salt Lakers were unfair. MOlyneux, in
talking for the measure, again betrayed
rancor toward Salt Lake
I'm in favor of any measure that
VIII raise the standard of the schools"
said Mrs. Coulter
Mcfarland and Smith were for it. and
Spry against it. Spry thought mills
enough.
Done made the closing speech for the
proposed enactment. He denied that
salt Lake was opposed to paying the
county school tax, and scored the Salt
Lake county commissioners for levying
only 1-5-mill tax last year, when
requested urgently to make it more
I'd like to see the conditions in any
district where the average tax is less
than s212 mills" said he, and he cited
statistics to show that in only one
county-Davis-is the combined county
and district school tax as low as s
mills.
THE teachers are not paid enough,
he declared. THE average life of a
teacher in the school room is not over
fifteen years.
Barrett moved that the minimum be
mills. This was lost. Condor wanted
it made 2A mills, as recommended by
the committee, but this failed. The bill
was then put on its final passage, and
was lost by the following vote:
ton, Condor, Coulter, Done. Haslam,
Hawley, Luther Mcfarland McRae, |
Molyneux. Nash. Richards, Robson.
Smith. Wilson, Hull-19.
NOes-Adams, Austin. Barrett, Chip
man, Evans, Fishburn, Hall, ]. E. John
son, J. II. Johnson, Lee, McKinnon, I
Merrill, Norris. Peterson. Redd. Rob
erts, Spry. Stewart. StOker. Stone. Tiet-
jen, Watts, White-23-
Members Have Change of Heart.
The veto message of senate bills 3 and
4. by WhitmOre, eXempting from taxation
until title passed land bought from the
state under contract, were taken up.
Richards and Spry announced that they
had voted for the bills in the first place, /
but they had since become convinced /
that the governor was right and they |
were wrong. That others felt the same |
was shown by the final vote. On the /
passage of senate bill over the gov
ernorS head the vote was as follows:
Ayes-Hawlev Lee, Luther. Mcfarland |
McKinnon, McRae. Morris, Robson. !
Smith. StOker Watts. White. Wilson'S. |
Noes-Adams, anderson, Austin, Bar |
rett. CahOOn. Child, Chapman. Cotton, /
Condor, Coulter. Done. Evans, Fishburn |
Hall, Hamlin. Haslam, j. E Johnson, !
j. II. Johnson, Merrill. MOlyneux Nash. (
Peterson. Redd. Richards. Roberts. Spry,
Stewart. Tietjen Hull-Z9.
Absent and not vOtng-Brink. Metcalf !
and Stones.
The vote on the other bill was sub |
stantially the same. J. +. Johnson an !
nounced that he was buying land from 4
the state under contract. but believed it /
just that his equity should be taxed.
Irrigation Commission.
Watts sought to bring up again senate |
bill 6S. by Williams. providing for the
appointment of an irrigation fund COM
mission.
You are saying TO the governor" de-
clared he. " You shall appoint these
commissioners from three judicial dis
tricts, and you shall not appoint them
from any one Of the four others -
There was some discussion. Watts ac-
Cused those opposing reconsideration of
having selfish motives. The vote to re-
consider was p to 49, This was two short