The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-03-14
"ALFALFAS" LOAD
APPROPRIATIONS
Pile on Money For Highways and
Bridges.
BIG DEFICIT is A RESULT
TOTAL is FAR IN EXCESS OF ES-
TIMATEO REVENUES.

| therefore. when the bill, 100000 too
strong, came into the senate at
/ O'Clock yesterday afternoon the sena-
tors settled back and smiled as if
TO say: Watch us paste eri"
1 small jolts were administered here
| and there. but as the list rolled along
/ senators discovered various pet enter
/ prises that needed especial attention
with the result that when the bill
/ emerged from the senate's clutches the
| deficiency was S39, 200 greater than
when the measure came in.
| The horror OF the senators was
! equaled only by their disgust. Gov
ernor Cutler has given it out cold
that if the bill com mes to him with APP
| Preparations i'm excess of the estimated
revenue he will seize club, shut
both eyes and bang away at random
until he has hammered the apprOpria-
tons down TO the size of the revenue.
The thought of the governor and that
| club. besneared with the gore of some
: loved appropriation, has sent cold
chlllS down the sDines of more than
one senator Several of them refused
10 vote for the bill on it's final passage
yesterday. explaining that they would
| not support it until it was sized down
more.
The state auditors estimate of the
totaI revenue for the coming two years
Is $l,5SLS11, and the bill calls for al
most $1,000, 900.
County Members Protect Graft.
Toward the end Of the reading of the
Dill several senators began to realize
that 1t was gaining on them. Several
OF the metropolitan senators foregath-
cred and counseled for a time Then
they made united and vicious assault
on the dear old roads and bridges. With
Wild war whOOp the alfalfas rallied
at the sign of the cross roads and
SpIahS forth to meet the advancing
After passing himself off as a far
hler Tor two weeks. Pamberger drove
the IRON into the souls of the real far
Hlers by heartlessly moving to cut out
al appropriations for roads and
prloges- Country lungs beat city lungs
ana the motion was beaten. Lawrence
tried to cut out One-half of the total of
S44, $50. Down he went. Hollingsworth
proposed to make the appropriat ions
uniform at $500 for every county in
the state He was beaten. Loose
boosted it to $4,000 for each and that
lost.
Then Bamberger came to the fore
again, made willy by his recent defeat
He gently suggested that the appro-
priation for Salt Lake county be elm
mated. The farmers were on to him
ike flash. They Opined he intended
10 mValdate the whole appropriation
by leaving one county out and they
! peat his motion. Lawrence tried TO
| Chop Salt Lakes appropriation to S, 900
and he was sent to the mat for the
count again
Having shown the town fellers'' a
thing or two, the alfalfas rubbed it in
by lacking two additional appropria-
tons on. one of $1,000. unexpended ap-
preparation for Juab county. and an
other of $1,075.90, uneXpended appro-
priation for Summit county,.
The bari thus gained S2O75.90 in its
encounter with the city element.
The big additions to the list were SIS
GOO for a gymnasium at the university.
proposed by Love: $500 secured by
Johpson for the st. Louis commission
shortage, and $4,000 added to the asy-
lum list by Gardner. Other smaller
amounts brought the net increase up to
almost $40. 600
The chief cut was S12 900 on the wild
animal bounty appropriation and 81 500
on the grasshoPper bounty apprOpria-
ton.
The vote on the bill was as follows:
Ayes-Barber. BenniOn. Callister. Clegg,
Gardner. HOllingswOrth Johnson. Lar
sen, Loose. Love. Rasband. Walton.
McKay-13. Nays-Bamberger Law
renee. Park. Williams
Absent-Lewis, I.
Ogden Bills Are Put Through.
Ogden men railroaded through both
houses senate bill No. 155. 1t provides
that no city of less than 10000 inhab-
itants shall become a city of the first
class. Under the existing law the limit
Is 10000. Ogden is said to have passed
this mark and stands in imminent dan
ger of being declared a city of the first
class, with fifteen councilmen, "A board
of public works and other expensive
luXuries like that" as Hollingsworth
said in boosting for the bill. Ogden ap-
pears 10 be anxious to stay in the sec
ond class for time to save running
expenses and none appeared anxious to
block its wish.
Senator Park succeeded III resuscitat-
ing house bill No 20. by McCrea. only
to have the measure killed right before
his eyes. The bill increases the salary
of the adjuant general from $500 to
$1,000 and was killed by a senate COM
mittee a few days back Park ex-
planned the need of the raise and the
enacting clause was then stricken from
the bill
HUM said the general as he
glanced around. Polite lot these SEN
atOTs. huh2'
The special bounty committee came
in with n report carrying senate bill
No 156. instructing the state auditor
and the state board of examiners to in
vestigate outstanding bounty certifi-
Gates and to pay legitimates ones to
the amount of $25 900. which was ap-
propriated by the bill The bill was
taken up and passed unanimously.
Medical Bill Is Killed.
House bill No. 122. the medicine and
surgery measure. was killed by the
senate after Johnson had failed to in
clude clause providing that the act
should not apply 70 oste0paths. Only
nine senators voted for the bill.
The lineup was. Ayes-Bamberge
Bennion. Ciegg. HOlIingsworth. Law
renee, Park, Rasband, Walton, Love
=
Nays-Barber. Gardner. Johnson.
Larsen, Lewis, Loose, Mckay. VIII
iamS-S.
a bSent-CalliSter.
House bill no Ia. by Marks. creating
q capitol fund. was killed. several sem
ators explaining that they favored the
idea. but believed the condition of the
states finances did not justify an an
preparation at this time
The same explanation was given bv
the committee on appropriations for
killing senate bill No. So by Lawrence
providing for monument To soldiers
and sailors of the Spanish American