Show SCHOOL LEGISLATION TJIREE voluminous bills have been introduced in the Legislature relative rela-tive t the district school Two of these were oflerred In the lon by Mr Allen and the other was a Council bill of which Mr Colktt was the author One of Mr Allens measures provided for a free school system in cities and the other was a code for the government of schools throughout the Territory Both were duly considered In the House and passed by il neither of them metIng met-ing with any serious opposition They at length wee placed in the hands of tho Council ofho committee on education and pending a report from them the Council spent considerable con-siderable time In the osnolhstin of Mr Colletts bill Thi was Coleis biL avery a-very long document and much fault was found with its verbal construction but not we believe with its Intent At length leng the Council committed Colletts bill to a special committee with instructions instruc-tions to prepare a substitute This was done and the new bill resultIng result-Ing was also made a sulctitutu for both of AHens measure Tho substitute is a long bill I divided into sixteen articles and in i evidently designed to be a complete school code sufficiently specific explicit ex-plicit and detailed In its provisions to coverall questions that can arise in connection with the district school and the powers and duties of officers and teachers I I also the apparent intention to s frame the bill that I wU bo easily understood under-stood and administered From such an examination a we have been able to give the sulelitute we have been led to bn e regard It as well and carefully drawn and on the whole commendable at least 8 far a Its mechanical construction con-struction Is concerned Its fiscal features will require to b considered consid-ered In connection with therevcnue bill now pendIng in the House One provision of the substitute school bill which has had in certain cer-tain quarters an ellect not unlike that of a red flag upon bunch of i bovines I the one In relation to elections We reproduce it a given I iu section 1 article Every male person of the age of twentyone years or over who has been a resident of the school district for thirty days immediately tbIy dyslmmctly preceding the day of election and who I the parent of a child of ecboolags pnt cid scool ago residing In the district or who paid a territorial or county school tax in any such district during the preceding year or I who has been assessed for any territorial territo-rial or county school tax in any such district for the year in which any such election I held shall bo snc to vote at any district school election Te fathers of children in the neighborhood and the men who pay the taxes are by thisjprovision given a voice In the management of the sol of the district in which they reside without regard to other qualifications respecting citizenship and the franchise The theory every where i that a school election i not a public Bectlon that it i an afljiir which concerns only a given and limited neighborhood but In which the public at large ha no Interest and that the qualifications of those who Tote at It may b dif ferent from those of voters for pub pb lie officers I There are ultra Americans of foreign birth In Utah who are shocked at the Idea of an alien being permitted to vote unless for their ticket and the thought that 1 I a man who at any time lived with more than one |