Show i Never before in the history of Utah has there been such a struggle over or rather attempted as that which has marked the long drawn-out contest in the legislature over the liquor To call it a battle royal be to demean that it has heen rather an unseemly scramble between forces whose over-confidence on one side led them to look for slight opposition and being brought to a complete standstill by superior generalship if not greater Coming to look it all dispassionately and just as it the proposition seems to have been too revolutionary and sprung too short notice to find complete with those who prefer to engage in such work with is observed that nothing is herein said of that much animadverted It was suggested to an American friend the other day that now would be a good time for the American party to disband and get back into the elements out of which it it having encountered two consecutive defeats and conditions being such that it could step down and out The answer was of the explosive and stripped of superfluities and invective amounted to a statement that the American flag would not be furled until Joseph and the Others quit using meeting houses for hustings and pulpits for political and so Cannon once made the statement that he would rather be speaker of the House than and he gets his with tolerable With the legislature off his Governor Spry can now begin to size up his official poundings and renew acquaintance with his family and friends From his inauguration down to the present he has been on the qui as the French would Honesty and openness being such well known characteristics of Utah the announce ment of State Treasurer defalcation fell upon the entire community as a painful and wholly unprepared-for Every one that knew him was his friend and all join that the darkest side of the story was given to lis Those who are unable lo see fully how democratic a country this and need an object are cited to the example afforded by He went out of his great as his successor went without the slightest and as a private citizen he holds the post of honor just the It will be good news to a great many if the Republican at shall decide to keep coffee on the free Quite the reverse to almost everybody in inter-mountain region will come the announcement that the tariff on lead is to he cut to some extent or at There of and will continue to mixed opinions as to the righteousness or necessity of tariff imports at all but there is not very much divergence of opinion in the region named as to the propriety of maintaining a duty on The legislative and general political experiences which we have been undergoing in Utah have been duplicated in large part in our neighboring From center to every two they have a circus up there whose antics command attention from the country at hut for once the Gem state was not the whole The question is frequently raised as to the validity of acts of the legislative assembly performed after the constitutional time of its duration in As a mater of public policy such acts are generally not to uphold them would plunge the community affected into inextricable This is a more or less Machiavellian view to take of to he but as it has' been standing so it is idle to question it in a practical we 3 should say that the last day of a legislative whose official duration is limited by a higher lasts so long as it remains in continuous session with a quorum always on but with the quorum once or any kind of break in the sitting as an adjournment or even recess to some 1 sit er-time named this would end the body's official career and its acts thereafter would have no more validity than those of a To those who are commencing to agitate the subject of the next it is respectfully suggested that graver and more far-reaching questions have been settled in a very minute fraction of the time remaining between now and the latter part of next Some mention is being made re garding the man who will succeed Justice on the Supreme Court bench next This must not be taken for by an arrangement which obtains in no other so far as there is no election for a successor to the presiding the new incumbent going to the foot of the quorum and working his way the oldest in point of service going to the A chief justice who is re-elected goes through the same routine as though he had never been on the |