THE appropriation BILL it f I 1 0 kofl of au an assumed power his excellency governor woods thought pr proper to refuse to officially sin sign a number of laws passed by the legi Levi dative dativo assembly during its late scission sc ision ile he refused to sign some bi bilis bills 6 incorporating or amending inthe charters of certain citie cities r tl the ie people desired these charters or amendments and the elected representatives of the people voted in favor of them and yet the gov ernon who wha Is id neither one ono of the people nion nor one of their representatives but blit a a stranger folsted foisted upon them must take lake upon himself the obstruct ional importance to thwart the thy wishes of the tile people and nullify the acts of their chosen representatives atiles it may be that tile the charters desired and tile the amending amandi n of other charters we were re not the best things of the kind that could be conceived of but what or of that if the representatives of the people voted for th theland the e naas mand the people desired and weme were we ro satisfied itis nned fled with them and they were constitutional why should they not become law Why should the vaulty vanity and tho the dictum of one man not tho the choice cholee of the people be thrust til rust rubt in the tile way to prevent the wishes 4 of the tile people from being complied compiled with if not intrinsically the best yet that which the tho people desire re elve eive appreciate and use as the best may mat prove the tho very best to them for example let us suppose that our worthy governor has a vire wire she may or may not bo be intrinsically the best beat wife in the tile world different men may have different opinions tipon lipon that point but if his excellency thinks she is the best and esteem lier her as the best beat ane actually is the very b best P st wiro wire in the world t to 0 hi him m although his lii iii officious friends may mayji mayal have havo ave been anxious to make a very different erent match for him just as lie thinks lie he would bouldi like to have ery vary v difre different dpn k la jasys wa enacted to those which tiie people popie and aud their representatives senta sonta tives may think the best in this tills instance it it the undoubted rigl rigi right rf oj the tho people veople to have their own way subject to tile tiie constitution and constitutional laws of the united states which point the tile governor can watch as carefully is as he plea piea please seg seq the tile governor refused to sign or consider the tho jury bill under the specious pretence predence pre tence of lack of time when lie well knew that many of the complaints forwarded by the cc ring to congress were professedly based b ased an on tho the alleged difficulty af of obtaining juries hisae his refusal fusa rusa therefore to take the jury b bill ill lii in 11 hand after having presumed to veto one bill of that kind previously will be taken by every candid person as a palpable playing into the hands of the ning ring an evidence of a determination mi nation to cr create eatto patto and perpetuate difficulty and ta bring about and maintain not only a conflict of jurisdiction but a dead lock if possible between the federal and the local authorities his excellency may y now consider it an honor to be a tool of the ring but the time may come when cewill will think differently ferent ly I his its excellency took upon himself to refuse to sign the territorial appropriation bill anad anu ana in the profusion pr 0 of his assumption to point out the items which ilia superlative wisdom could louid not riot permit him to approve of the legislature was as doubtless very mua mux much obi obliged lwell to him blai for his hia condescension and kindness kind nes nos manifested in his ex ireme readiness to dictate the spending or of the revenue of cheter the tor ter it is a pecullar peculiarity ltv ity of some people that thab they tiley would wound like to spend or direct the spending 0 of other peoples peopled money though such manifested desire is generally understood der stood to belong 0 to the things thinh coming under the term impudence here is ii a gentleman a christian gentleman the servant of tho the people how does lie he shoW the gentleman in his big bw own I 1 person how row does docs ho servel tho the people ho Ife takes upon himself the f elf assumed tower power to veto th half tiie the bills presented to him ilfin half hilf the bills passed b bythe bytho rth 0 representatives of the people c chosen h s en by y t the e people and thus to t thwart hw art t the 0 wishes of the people iu in the interest of the small and pitiful minority he vetoes the appropriation pria tion bill and thus does ail all lie he can to prevent the proper and timely disbursement of the revenue reven of the territory by tho the elected representatives presenta tives of the people back to and among the people he arrogantly ro iro antly sets set his single judgment 11 up above the combined judgment of the representatives ot of the people ople and the tile judgment of the people themselves in things which do not immediately concern him or his friends of tho ring any more individually nor so much in the aggregate as they immediately concern the people and their representative whose money is it the spending of wh which ieh leh the governor is so anxious to dictate Js it his hia own money 0 no does he contribute ten cents towards ir it possibly he does but this much may be taken for foi lg ranted granted that he does not contribute at the utmost more than the ratio of of the taxpayers of tho the territory yet this one man who is not one of the people takes upon himself liim self seif to dictate the disbursement ot of the taxes paid by the people and iii in opposition to their wishes definitely expressed by their chosen representatives in legislative council con it is not his money it is not mot the money of his immediate friends lt lui iti Is snot ilot the money of federal officials is not net the money of the ring whom he favors so much in the aggregate it is the peoples money contributed by them for their own use and pleasure not for his use and pleasure individually contributed to be spent in that manner which the elected representatives of the people may way deem most judicious and for the furtherance of the welfare pres prosperity and best interests of althe people at large we have taken pains to becu secure definite 11 figure agures as accurate and trustworthy y as are obtainable concerning the territorial revenue the total amount of the appropriations in the appropriation bill is deducting the denie denne ency bill previously paid 21 leaves as the th amount ap appropriated printed to bo be paid in 1874 and 1875 per contra t there was in hand dec 81 1873 as per treasurers Treasur ers report 47 paid int ints treasury since sinice that date sio 15 taxes due but yet uncollected estimated revenue for 1874 oooo estimated revenue for 1875 making a total of 62 take rake from this the amount appropriated and imol to be paid in 1874 and 1875 and a surplus la is left at the end of 1875 of 27 the above is considered i a fair and very reasonable estimate the figures for the estimated revenue for the years 1874 1871 and 1875 ar are certainly very zery moderate aul ani and it is believed that the allowance for the estimated increase of revenue in the two years over the tile figures of 1873 is much less than will be realized but there is something else to be considered in favor of Territory the ry in this connection sixty thousand dollars of the ODO appropriated printed is for part expenses incur incurred re d by the people through indian hos tili tl litle tiei the Terri torri territory tor v guaranteeing reimbursement of that amount but which congress should and proba a bly will make an appropriation for Z as is the wont of that body Insi insl milan cases this when appropriated by congress beteag covered into the territorial treasury and pla pia placed ced eed to the credit of the tho territory so that should cengr congress e ss act favorably upon this indian hostilities business before the next utah legislature sits two years hence hencer the territory it at the end of the two years would have more than funds in the treasurer aers hands more than double what it had in 1873 this may reasonably be e CD asid red ered a very favo favorable m ble ule showing owing sll sli and it manifests on the part of offlie t lie ile hoil honorable rabi e representatives representative of jhb people at on onee once ce a careful regard for economy m y in the disbursement of the peopled PI es money and for the advance ment of the interests of the tile territory and a commendable determination mi nation to confine the territorial expenditures within a fair estimation of tile the revenue of Territory the where then has the governor any reasonable ground for corn com plaint in regard to the tion bill disapproval of it for vetoing to in it we fail to see seo any and we t think link it is an entirely unjustifiable abreact net act on his part to refuse to sign it indicating a purpose to interfere in the business of the people beyond what his duty requires of him and a desire to te throw every obstacle in the way of tha peace harmony good order and prosperity of tho people and the territory his excellency may say that lis his its judgment could not approve of some of the items appropriated in the bill possibly so but that approval was not necessary he might have signed the bill aiwas as was his liia duty if lie he could not conscientiously approve in his judgment misjudgment of certain i items lie he could have officially approved roved the billand still reproved Ep have told t personal opinion of it f in n a message if lie he had wished to let them know then h he would have saved his conscience and still have done his official duty and not have haye used his influence to block the tile wheels of progress of the whole territory as his failure to sign the bill was plainly intended to do in this he must be consid dered entirely inexcusable there is rib lib necessity whatever that his judgment should be exactly suited in in every bill passed by the assembly and abid especially in the appropriation bill any more than that the judgment of any other taxpayer tax payer should be suited in the same matter the representatives of the people meet in a legislative capacity to legislate for the people and when they have done so the governors duty requires him to give effect to the legislative acts of the representatives of the people by ontie onnie officially lally signing those acts that is the passed bills not by refusing to sign them and thus doing all no he can to prevent the realization of the wishes of the people as those wishes are given form and expression by their chosen representatives in legislative capacity assembled ass enabled it is no strange thing that the governors judgment could not approve of every item in the appropriation pria tion bill it would have been far more strange if his judgment had approved approve dof of every one but conscientious personal approval by thea the judgment and official approval are two different things in his case and so far as his duty is concerned besides what two persons iii in the world can perfectly agree in their individual judgments upon the very best manner of spending a thousand dollars dolla ros rss if we were never to have llave an appropriation bill to go into effect until the governor an and go every member of ef the legislature to say nothing of every taxpayer were convinced in his judgment that every item in such bill was appropriated in the best possible manner we should see doomsday before we should seo see that appropriation bill become law and the taxes be spent in accordance therewith the fact is everybody thinks lie he can spend money to better advantage than anybody else can rii rip every ery one is is sure that unless he spends or dictates the spending of money it if will not be made the most of not shot spent in the most judicious manner not put where it will do the most good it is further a fact that every man thinks a little more money especially public money should be spent upon him and his f family amily and his friends and less upon other men and their fa milles families hud aud their friends this is the dilemma in which our worthy governor is placed though lie he may not ba have ve found it out yet this is one of bf the tile real reasons why lie refused to sign the territorial appropriation bill a reason which we consider entirely inadequate the legislative assembly represent and legislate for the people riot not for a clique and heaven be thanked nod not not for the ring 11