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Show What Judge Powers Has to Say Regarding Regard-ing a Proposed Congresa- ; ional Law, j THE RATIO NOW AS ONE TO Tl IHl Representation in the Legislature, ly the ) August Vote, Should bo as i One to Two. j The Herald this morning printed the following special dispatch, dated Washington, Wash-ington, yesterday: The new Mil tr 1 t nil liurodiii-od lijr Senator Kcliinuitls yratrrday s prluml t.slsy. II ulM'ilHhi-a the viIhIiiir ulisllnn itlsirh'tn ami itmrtt"iim'iit nt uiiMHln'i's of the l''ulUH ttsNt-mtily of t't.iti anil provlilpa also thnt as Mum hs thi- resiiii uf Ihr is-n.-us of thai li-rH-tu y fur isu) shall Iw maili" kniia n tha ifiiv-fiunr. ifiiv-fiunr. thi" an-ifUry ami ihn I'tah roiiinilsslon sliull n- ill-lrli'l Ihf U-mtury aud aiiirliiii i-piiisru1ativeH In the cuunitl ami Iiomm (if mJirpsiMitallvcs. mi as to iimvIi!i as nearly as may Is' fr an tspul n-irnneiitailiiu of lh mhi-ii. mhi-ii. whlcb uiiiMii'tliinini'nl shall onutlniie mil II riinifnws sluUI nthnrwlsr pnivhli. No Mrwuw ntle-r than rKIeus of tlix I nltist Slairs ami iitherw ! qiiaUllpil. shall l olillllisl In vol at iihy i-lwltim In sold ivrrttnry. Th olttis-s of triTttorlal auiUtnr ami tii'asurvr. isiiiunlNslon-ers isiiiunlNslon-ers io liH-atr inilviirslly tamls. pmtiat Jihlui's, iiiuuly I'li-rUs. sflwinii'ii. asKt-hsnrs. nsonli'rs ami iiipf rlnii-iiilinHH of illxirli t si hisils xrv. In 1 vaialrd. anil all alien uftlisni shall Iw aiolnt(n hy lh aniwmnr of salil IMTtlnry by anit with tha ad vlrc anil iHn-nt nf I lie t I ih roinnitssloii: hnl when any nffli er holds hl nftliK liy vlrtiu- of limn ilnlmsnl from lh inalilniit he shall ism-Ifnue ism-Ifnue tn offlin mull the exilrtlon of his term. The IMah iummliMiliiii iBaiilhiirtnisI In Uaills-t'rt'tlnu Uaills-t'rt'tlnu ti cause new retflslraltniiH of voters 10 lie made iiiKlead nf n'Vli-loiisof previous Itsla, as Dow riMiulreil hv the laws of t'lah. Said hoard Is alsii anlhortrad ami eniHiwered lo make and enlons' rules .ind reiiiilaiioas not ln. onili.lenl lih the laws of I he I'lilleil mates for the conduct uf rritii-ailiius ami uleclloiis in said terrlfury. The bin was referred tolhecomiulttee on tha Jtt-iii larv. As Keimlor Kdmuuds Is rhali nian of that ciimnilitee. II vli iually means refei rlnu the inrasiire tn himself. A repivaciitathe of TlIK TlMKK caiicd nn Judge I'owers and Hiked him to rend this dispatch and express his opinion on the points involved in the proposed law. 1'he judge, after reading read-ing the dispatch carefully, said: "A new apportionment of the territory terri-tory is much needed. Take lliu general election of last August for example, and what do you lind? The llgures ...".! tit uanllirt lltol it 111111 Will Of-ill llir uill III nn iiiitv n. " apportionment is needed. . At that election elec-tion tho Ocntiles polled about (I.VKI votes and elected H members of iho legislature, legisla-ture, while tho People's party polled nlMitit U.(XH voles and ebi led SH members. mem-bers. That is proportion as 5 to 8, or, in other words, while the ticntilcs elected elec-ted one member for every WH) votes polled, the People's partv elected one member for every flOO voU'S polled. "In Box Elder county, which constitutes consti-tutes legislative district No. 8. and it should lie remembered that each district dis-trict elects one nc'inlier, there were almtit 600 votes polled, w hile in Ogdeu city, which constitutes district No. 4, there were over 2000 votes polled. Iis-triet Iis-triet No. 5, which is made up of all of Weber comity, outside of the city of Ogdeu, elect one member with a pop-lilatleu pop-lilatleu of not one third of that of Og-den. Og-den. "In the eilies of Salt Lake, Ogden and Park City, there is a total population of ho.OOO or more, which is ahont one-third one-third the population of the territory. terri-tory. This population is represented in the legislature by eight members, mem-bers, while the other twti-lhlrds of (he population is reiiresoiited by twenty-eight members. The strength qf Ihe Gimtile vote lies iu the cities named, while that of the People's party is in the districts outside of the cities. "I think that a new registration of the territory is much needed. "The Utah commission already hnve power to make rules and regulations for the conduct of registration and elections, elec-tions, but heretofore it has never had tho power to enforce them. I think the provisions of this bill in this respect eminently p.'oper. "I urn somewhat surprised that Judge Edmunds should now be in favor of placing certain appointments iu the hands of the governor of the territory, when he opposed and defeated a similar provision in the Tucker-Edmunds Tucker-Edmunds law; but the governor at that time was a democrat, while the governor now Is a republican, and, as you know, polities governs in such matters. mat-ters. "The other provisions of tho bill nre about as the law now stands." |