Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-03-25
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of DR.. Hardy, and a Mr.. Homer, who is |
in charge of the machinery connected |
with the asylum.
The Cache Valley end of the coterie |
willing agents in the house, assisted |
by Kinney of Salt Lake, pushed hard |
and long the bill to change the state
board of equalization. Their desire for
the adoption of such a measure was
intense and excited much comment. |
Men quietly remarked that it was a
singular thing that this board, charged
with great responsibility, composed OF
men of standing should be selected as
one of the boards to be kicked around
like football to oblge the coterie and
the hot-headed representatives from
| Cache. 1t was the concenSus OF opln-
ion that to make this board partisan
and place all the responsibility for tax
alton and its attendant evils and com
plants upon the Republican party was
| all that was needed to complete the
DO .tical blunders they were working
| to have made. Fortunately, the level
| headed men of the house came to an
understanding how they were being
used and handled by the coterie, and
| their house agents, and enough refused
| to vote for the measure to Kill the
emergency clause, which practically
killed the bill. But, still, whatever the
! twenty-four coterie followers in the
house may have done, the fact re-
mains that the measure never had
ghost of a show in the senate. In that
body the coterie and its agents were
at a discount. After three days eff
fort. the sponsors of the measure could
only get barely enough votes to pass
the measure leaving no chance what
ever for the emergency clause. 1t was
sent to the senate, where 1t was quick
| " strangled. 1t is fortunate for Cache
that it had the able Senator Barber in
the senate Had he been as hot-head-
ed and destitute of tact as the Cache
house members, the Agricultural col
pege would have Jared much worse than
| it did.
The bill to change the land board had
hard time. The coterie struggled
hard. assisted by their street corner
agent. Fred Price, to have bill passed
such as they had drawn, and which
would accomplish the secret schemes
they had concocted but Senator Wal
ton had ideas of his own on this sub
iect. He introduced a bill, and in spite
| of the lamentations of the coterie, Sen
ator Walton prevailed. He pushed his
bill through The composition of the
land board as named after Senator
Walton won his victory was the sub
iect of much comment. This import.
ant board, handling large sums OF
money and having charge of the vast
land grants to the state, is solidly Nor
mon. 1t is claimed that there is some
thing more than accident in this selec
ton. In justice to Governor Cutler
| it may be said however that he has not
so far in his appointments shown that
he sees only one side of the Republi- |
can party.
The horticultural board was also torr
again with the coterie losing out on
the final wind-up, as usual, it being |
made non-partisan. At this writing
] am not certain whether any more
boards were Glanced or not and cannot |
find time to drop my work and go up |
stairs to find out. Suffice it to say that |
the chief ones have been noted. The |
sheep commission board was created |
to knock out Uncle Jesse, sheep in
spector. Uncle Jesse is long-headed |
and there may be a day of reckoning
for the coterie.
Around the building during the
whole sixty DAYS of the session it was |