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Show SPECIALMESSAGE, By His Excellency, Governor Woods, presented to tho Legislature, ( Wednesday, January 21, 1874. j . Utah Territory, Executive Department, Ralt Lake City, Jan. 21, '74 Gentlemen of the Legislative Assembly: It is my duty to make such recommendations recom-mendations lo you, from time to time, as I may deem necessary. Pursuant to that requirement, your attention is called lo the fact that, in the absence of any luw prohibiting it, il is now the practice in this Territory lo elect caie person to more than one ullice at the same time. Il is a principle in our government too well understood to require argument, argu-ment, that the several departments 1 should he kept separate and distinct from each other. An inspection of the record of the Exccuuvu Department shows that i ;unong the members of the present Legislative Assembly, there are seven Probate Judges, three County Clerks, two Mayors of cities who are ex-ollicio Justices ol the Peace, and one Territorial Terri-torial Warden of. the Penitentiary, namely: Councilor Jesse N. Smith, County Clerk, I. on County, Councilor Arthur Stayuer, County Clerk, Davis County; Councilor A. 0. Smowt, Mayor, Provo City, and ex-omcio J. P., Utah County; Councilor L. E. I Harrington, Mayor, American Fork, and ex-omeia J, P., Utah County; Representative, John R. Murdock, Probate Judge, Beaver Co.; Representative, Repre-sentative, William Morrison, Probate Judge, Sevier Co.; Representative, Ueorge Peacock, Probate Judge, Sanpete San-pete Co.; Representative, Juo. Itow-oerry, Itow-oerry, Probate Judge, Tooele Co.; Representative, Abraham Hatch, Probate Judge, Wasatch Co.; Representative, Repre-sentative, P. D. Richards, Probate Judge, Weber Co.j Representative,! Edward Partridge, Probate Judge, Millard Co.; Representative, J. C. W right, County Clerk and Recorder, Box Elder Co.; Representative, A. P. Rock wood, Territorial Warden Penitentiary, Peni-tentiary, Salt Lake Co. The makers of the law should not, at the same time, be the administrators administra-tors of the law. It is not permitted in any other part of the Republic, and should not be continued iu Utah. And so of the County Clerks, whose ollicial duties are so intimately con nected with the courts; and so of the Mayors of cities, who are, by law, ex-othcio ex-othcio Justice of the Peace; and of the Territorial Warden of the Penitentiary, Peni-tentiary, whose official conduct may, at any time, be a subject for Legisla-i Legisla-i ve investigation. To remedy this, I recommend that a law be passed, at this session, disqualifying dis-qualifying any man from becoming a member of the Legislative Assembly who holds any other office at the lime of election; and I would prohibit any person from holding more than one othee, at the same time, of any kind. In this connection permit me to suggest that, in my judgment, some system should be devised by which the minority ol the people can secure a representation in the Legislative Assembly, and in the various municipal munici-pal organizations of the Territory. It is but just that all citizens should have a voice directly or indirectly, in the making of the laws for their government, gov-ernment, and in the management ot the public revenues. Where the majority rule obtains, ordiuanly, the minority, yielding to the power of numbers, are excluded troni all participation in the conduct con-duct of public affairs, and as L-Ileetually ignored, except in the payment of taxes, and bearing the burdens of govern in en t,ae though they did not exist. The correction of th's evil, by shielding shield-ing the weak against the domination of the strong, is absolutely necessary to the perfection of the government. The principle of minority representation, representa-tion, tried in several States of the Republic, Re-public, furnishes the needed remedy, and it is recommend that a law be enacted incorporating that doctrine into the laws of this Territory. Ceukge L. Woods, Governor of Utah. |