The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-07
THE BELATED WORK.

But three days remain of the legal
term Of the Utah Legislature, and yet
there is hardly anything settled of i'm
portancc, aside from the capitol The
appropriation bill is not even reported,
the Governor S appointments have not
been sent IN. the rcapportionmcnt of
the state has not been made. and the
liquor wrangle continues.
1t Will he quite impossible 80 finish
the work OF the Legislature within three
days. II has bcou customary IN Utah
Legislatures heretofore to prolon2 ia
definitely the session under the fiction
that rccesscs are taken from timo 20
time. and with the last legislative day
still alive. Needless TO say. under a
practice of thi5 kind the restriction of
the sessions to sixty days is vain. II
n session can be prolonged by Il week.
ten days, or st fortnight, through the
fiction tha. the last Gay siill remains,
then il can be expanded beyond any
Don being that the legislators draw
pay for but ono dav. though they might
remain in session Cor u month. This,
however. could be ohviatcd by the
Governor calling a special session To
begin at once on the expiration Of the
sixty Jays; and, indeed this has been
suggested. But, with the srring farm
work coming on as il is now on the
eve OF doing. il is douh ful whether
the Legislators would wish ia remain in
definitely in session: acd probably IN
der the old practice of considering The
last day OF the session still operative,
the members will worry along. rs
heretofore, II week TO ton days TO close
up the work
One objection 10 this fiction, how
ever, is that autagousm between the
two Houses is pretty sure to come of
the prolonEation Of the day. and then
che work is not done as well rs it
ought To be, nor is rhc candid consd
GRAFTON given to measures that they
deserve. Increasingly we shall sec
from now until the end of the session
impa;icnce and annoyance displayed.
iust as WAS seen on last SATURDAY
when, although admittedly good
were proposed 10 the
pending bill, those amendments were
all rejected, simply in order TO cxpe
dite the passage of the bill without
regard 10 the merits of The amend
mcnt proposed. Indeed. as to a number
&C i, al Iut hp
were meritorious and
should be adopted. Yet they were de
fcatcd. simply because of the haste
hat was required. More and more OF
This incautious haste, which will leave
-he measures acted upon in an incom
pletc or incomprchensible shape, may
be expected from now on. There is,
therefore, no doubt about the vicious
ness Of the postponcment until the last
few days of the real work OF the ses-
sion. The apportionmont bill, espe-
cially, might Just as well have been
passed inside of twenty days, as to be
ingering now mt the heels of the ses
'ion: and the appropriation bill should
lHNS tt'H i'lol t'h bCApIc HO", 9p lutI |
It's passage could he had through at
east one House prior 10 the sixtieth |
day of the session. The Governor s |
appointments, also, should have been
N for the past two weeks or more, so
as 10 give tho members of the Senate |
IN opportunity TO investigate them and
satisfy itself of the fitness of the
nominees for the places To which they |
may be named. We think that the
present session is as far behind in lis
real work as any that has ever as
sembled in Utah on its fifty-eighth !