Show our slate lauds the liberal endowments of public ligudri conferred by the general government on the state f utah makes it en upon alie legislature to pass wise laws for the handling of those lands A bill copying the idaho statutes relating to public lands has been introduced trod and seema to be conservative in all ita details but it follows the plan of the state constitution in making state officers the board of control in this case the governor secretary of state and the attorney general will constitute the board that plan its not a wise one first because it is placing too much on the state officials secondly because alio highest degree of efficiency cannot thereby b secured people elect men to the state office because of their peculiar fitness for those tiene the governor for instance is not presumed to bo a farmer and know much about the quality and price of lands the attorney general is usually alono versed in legal lore and the secretary of state is usually more geraed in alia form of state papers than in state lands in the case of the present officers proposed forland commissioners secretary Hamnio ad ia probably the only ono who knows much about landa governor wells and attorney general bishop can net we believe boast of much such knowledge yet they under the proposed law would bo asked to the various qualities of publio lands aliat liat them and dispose of them taj better way it seeing to us would b not to pile additional duties on state already well burdened considering the economical aalam ici fixed by the state constitutions but to create an appointive commis eion and lot the governor men to serva thereon well veined in land matters then they be men from northern utah alone as would be the ciao if alie proposed law is enacted but men from all parts of the stata |