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Show MEMORIAL PLAN IS FLAYEDMERIS PRESIDENT OF COMMISSION DB CLARES ABANDONMENT OF PROJECT WILL NEVER DO. Speaker Richards Takes a Whack at Bill Designed to Make Legal Rate for the Newspapers of the State of Utah. Salt Lake City. A vigorous protest against abandoning the Mormon battalion bat-talion monument project, as advocated by Governor Simon Bamberger, and including the idea intended to be embodied em-bodied in the monument, in a memorial hall, which would also memorialize the part Utah has played in the war, and perhaps a few other things, was voiced to the Utah legislature by the Mormon battalion commission in a report, and by Brigham H. Roberts, president of tlie commission, in a vigorous speech at a joint session of the legislature on February 7. Tlie commission in its report said that an abandonment of the Mormon battalion project now would not only mean to break faith with those who had brought the plans to their present state of completion, but would imply that the two previous legislatures which had placed their approval on the plan did not know their own minds. The idea of a utilitarian monument was scouted with the argument that there were some things that could not be memorialized in a hall or other public building. Speaker Richards took a hand, on February 7, in a debate over tlie bills presented by Representative Masters, which were prepared by the executive committee of the Utnh State Press association. as-sociation. One of the bills debated designates des-ignates what newspapers are qualified to print legal advertising and fixes a maximum legal rate, $1 an inch and 60 cents for each subsequent insertion. Speaker Richards opposed the measure, meas-ure, which was finally recommitted for amendment. , |