Show LAST IIOUKS OF THE LEUIS LATCR I < AGAIN have the wrong and injustice in-justice of the one man power as it exists and Is exercised in Utah received re-ceived ample h and striking illustra uu oui uuysix iiours iiiirtyslx men the lawmakers of a great commonwealth com-monwealth waited through the tedious days and the weary watches of the nights in continuous legislative legisla-tive session in orderthat tho third branch of the Legislature the Governor Gov-ernor might have an opportunity to do his share towards perfecting the Important legislation then pending only to dismissed by an imperious wave of the hand and sent horns f ter the meaner of a fe jdal lot d sending send-ing his tes to their quarters and to see nullified the work they had sa conscientiously and assiduously as-siduously labored perfect Three I Mils than which none of the session ses-sion were of more imporlince which had cost the Assembly a great amount of labor to perfect and which had passed both its branches p by overwhelming majorities were destroyed by an autocratic and ty rannical exercise of the one manpower man-power One of these bill thee was a bl amending I j the election lair where all n agreed that I should b amended and was In part a response to recommendations ommendations made by the Utah I Commission I merely sought to guard more perfectly theregistration lists and ballot boxes lit Olot and was an impartial measure as between thc i two political I rtle I was confi I t dently expected that tills bill would receive executive approval but it I was vetoed Another was a bill pr Tiding foran election code That it i should have become law is I a bcome proposition I propo-sition easily supported by logic prop bs i upon the fundamental principles oft of-t the American system of government i I govern-ment but as it would have abolished k f L that Utah imported Commission returning board the I a place upon which is worth 5300 a year and certain expenses there was faint hope that a Governor who had graduated from that same returning board would destroy his ama ma tee by signing a bill which would r I render sible Its further existence Impos The third bill which the Governor L s killed was one of urgent importance I related to the classification c IIcton and government of cities and a de sIgned to curotliwo ambiguities In v the present law which have already been Inc source of so much costly I Cl litigation In Ogden and this city and in consequence of whltti coneuenc whlco a r cloud hangs over both in respect to rep the validity of the government each I now under I wasnot a political measure In any sense nor degree i L11 and we believe not a party vote occurred curred respecting any feature of it I in either house About twentyfour hours after the Legislature should evening the Governor returned the bill t the Council his veto being based solely on the plea that be bad not bad time to duly consider It and stating that it ba ben l sent to him ou the Wednesday previous Councilor C CItichards called ittcntlon to the urgent necessity of having the bill bebcme a law and to Mis fact that the Governor hail I had it since Monday Instead of Wednesdayand movea the appoint mont of a committee to attend upon i His Excellency notify him that tho Assembly would wait while he considered the bill and to urge his approval of it That committee did its duty and through long hours sat with the Governor considering and advocating the bill The result W the preparation by the Governor of a substitute bill containing new matter and some provisions which the Assembly sembly had previously rejected among which was the veto power of mayors A Joint committee of the two houses had a long sitting upon the substitute the result being an unfavorable report upon f which both houses adopted The legal limit of the session had been ex ceeded by twentyfour hours before the Governor sent In his substitute which was virtually a new bill and I was impracticable to continue the session long enough to properly consider con-sider and mature f The failure of the city bill is a great misfortune True the Governor had had i in the exact for In which It passed the Assembly only five days but he had a printed copy of the bill a introduced as many j weeks and might easily have made himself famllar with it and the amendments made to it After the Assembly had long waited hisaction upon it a number of amendments offered by him verbally were adopted and tho bill to amended passed both houses and was engrossed engross-ed and again sent t the Executive A long wait terminated In his offering offer-ing the substitute The Governors course I open to the criticism of having been vacillating vacil-lating dilatory trifling and auto erotic He held the Legislature fiftysix hours or thereabouts lend log his use of the absolute veto power and then dismissed the disappointed dis-appointed members whose feelings are better imagined than described |