Show IT is the same old story the supreme court composed now by the magnanimity of country delegates to the republican convention of abree salt lake men has gone to work and appointed a clerk and a reporter from among salt lake residents if there were any way of pushing hon frank J cannon out of the senatorial contest which is hardly possible ahe capital donld also get the three representatives in congress there are some shar pers in salt lake who would like to see that accomplished if they could succeed about the first thing that ought to be done would be to change the name e utah to salt lako THE utah donnly legislature con tast is expected to be heard and decided within the next week A committee on contested seats may be appointed today to day by the speaker of the house and investigation of the facts will at once begin the Ee publican contestants want a thorough and they propose that the crookedness and frauds perpetrated pet rated in connection with the registration and election in which a number of republican ballots honestly cast were not counted and scores of illegal ballots cast for the democratic be fully shown UP THE deseret news with well grounded fears advises the legisla ture to beware of the fee system which it is proposed to place in a law providing for court stenographers A bill is DOW pending before the legislature let us have no more of those abominable fees which existed under territorial government let everything be a straight salary it will suit the people better been introduced in congress th president to ascertain ascer taia if great britain is increasing her military outposts on the children cry for F territory now ill dispute between british guiana and venezuela and if BO that he demaud the immediate withdrawal of the increased forces jost now while great britain is in hot water of the transvaal difficulty is a good time to push the venezuelan dispute recommend B the australian ballot system for the new state it is just what is needed with it should also be provided a nonpartisan non partisan state board of elections elec tiona to canvass the returns of the state and set in motion the registration etc THE salt lake city officers are the only favored municipal members who have the courtesy of the bar of the senate the excuse is that salt lake furnishes a fine building for the legislature to meet in but it looks like partiality UNDER OLF cumbersome territorial government it seemed impossible to get an law that did not conflict with some congressional enactment but now there is no excuse i the farmers are not provided with a good act oa that disturbing question legislators are very much in demand by the senatorial contestants abc the capital these days and not much opportunity will be given the solons to work until they get the senatorial contest off their bands THE great attention given utah by the press of the country or her final admission into the union ia goad advertisement and cannot fail of being a benefit to the state financially THE water rights of the state have beon causing great litigation lately and will likely be the cause of much more in the future if wise irrigation laws are not enacted |